Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from March 2008:
Safety first on building sites.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... What does your job entail? Architectural technologists are important links in the building construction chain, ensuring that designs meet all the necessary criteria so they can be turned into working buildings. The job entails a number of tasks such as: l Site analysis and ...
Become an architectural technologist.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... You need a flair for drawing and design, and you must be able to translate design concepts into workable drawings and models. The ability to visualise three-dimensional space is essential. You need an eye for detail, and an interest and aptitude for computer work. The current ...
Committed to improving recruitment standards.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: staff writer THE Association of Personnel Service Organisations (Apso) Western Cape hosted a member forum breakfast at the Atlantic Imbizo Conference Centre last month that generated much interest from members and non-members alike, says James Thompson, Apso Western ...
Beware the hurdles of a sports contract.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch World Cup-winning Springbok Bakkies Botha has been grabbing headlines for a contractual dispute with the Blue Bulls. Such disputes are increasingly common in a world where sport has become big business. The result is that natural ability ...
Customer service workshops aim to enhance business potential.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: staff writer THE 2010 soccer World Cup is just two years away and service in South Africa is often seen as lacking. To help businesses prepare for the event, customer service improvement company N'lighten is offering a series of workshops to provide staff ...
Britain introduces alternative school-leaving qualification.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Britain is to introduce a new school-leaving qualification as an alternative to A-levels. This week, the the first five subjects of the Cambridge Pre-U were accredited. But the exam, to be launched at the start of the new academic year in September, is in increasingly crowded ...
Learn when to zip lips - ears ever open.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius What goes on tour, stays on tour. Or so we hope. A popular expression that depicts discretion, essential as part of any professional's personal brand. Confidentiality and discretion mean ...
Sign-on bonus expectations cause concern.(Workplace)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch Last year almost every senior management professional placed in the financial services sector by executive headhunting firm Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters received a sign-on bonus. And hand in hand with that came a significant increase ...
it is 100% preventable, say experts.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Emile Joubert For those of us in the liquor industry, these are dynamic times. South Africa's "national" brewer, South African Breweries (SAB), has forced its way into the global market to become the second largest beer company in the world. ...
'Star Wars' enters computer-animated galaxy.(Life)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Geoff Boucher Los Angeles: First Indiana Jones, and now Star Wars - this is turning out to be the season of George Lucas. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a new stylised, computer-animated feature film, will set the stage for a tie-in television series with the ...
Kotaro Fukuma to give recital.(Life)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER International pianist, Kotaro Fukuma, will perform in the auditorium of the Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre on Saturday at 8pm. In 2003, at the age of 20, Fukuma came under the spotlight after winning the first prize in the Cleveland International ...
taking on Facebook culture.(Life)
Mar 03, 2008 ... FACE-IT. Directed by Alicia Price. With Anne Hirsch. At Kalk Bay Theatre until March 15. PETER TROMP reviews. It is not simple to deduce exactly what Face-IT is. Is it stand-up comedy? Partly. Is it a multi-media excursion enlivened by theatrical elements? In a way ....
Drag diva.(Life)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Odidiva, the "no lip-synching drag diva", will appear at Friendly Society every Saturday at 10pm. Friendly Society is at 125a Waterkant Street in De Waterkant Village. Call 021 4216969. The Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery is showing paintings by Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser, JH ...
CapeNature men back/at work after being cleared.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER TWO senior directors of CapeNature have returned to work after being cleared of allegations that they had abused their official credit cards. Kas Hamman and Fanie Bekker, along with Adnaan Abrahams, were charged in October following a forensic ...
Slabolepszy's par for course.(Life)(Theater review)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER Paul Slabolepszy's new play, Not The Big Easy, will show at Theatre On The Bay until March 15. It is directed by Bobby Heaney, and tells the untold saga of the "forgotten" Ernie - 50-year-old Ernie Evans. The character has reached a ...
Singer launches lawsuit after sex story publication.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER POPULAR Afrikaans singer Jurie Els claims the editors of You and Huisgenoot are in contempt of a court order and is appealing to the Cape High Court for them to be jailed for the alleged transgression. Els had been accused of sexual ...
Ministers agree to pay murdered girl's mother R200 000.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER THE ministers of justice and of safety and security have agreed to pay an Ottery woman R200 000 in settlement of a claim she had lodged against them for allegedly ignoring her complaints about a man stalking her 13-year-old daughter. The man ended up ...
judge won't allow further delays.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER NAJWA PETERSEN has consulted with the advocate who secured an acquittal for a Pniel woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her husband. The Pniel woman, Petroleen de Wet, was found not guilty of the murder after the court found that the ...
White South Africans must be shocked out of their state of racist denial.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Gerald Shaw Good may yet come out of the appalling racial situation at the University of the Free State if it shocks white South Africans out of the state of denial and evasion which has enveloped the question of racism or racial prejudice since the breakthrough to ...
Sarkozy'svision.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... IT IS significant that French president Nicolas Sarkozy chose the occasion of a visit to Cape Town to announce a shift in French policy towards Africa. This underlines the importance Paris attaches to a partnership with South Africa. Addressing Parliament last week, ...
I need a most memorable mnemonic to get me through life.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... I think it's wonderful that, thanks to an American child, we can now use a convoluted sentence to remember the order in which the planets in the space above our heads and the space below our feet revolve; that is if we can remember the sentence. But, be that as it may, the ...
Rescue services called out.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: COURTNEY BROOKS IN A weekend of high drama four people died at sea, a man was rescued after spending three weeks on a wrecked ship with few provisions and two injured hikers had to be saved by Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR). Last night a 19-year-old ...
Manager wanted for District Six's R280m.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY THE Land Claims Commission has invited bidders to administer R280 million the government had set aside for developing District Six for former residents who have opted to return. The money will be spent on planning and infrastructure, among ...
Confront demons of intolerance - pandor.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: A'EYSHA KASSIEM THE University of the Free State is considering several options for the future of its notorious Reitz residence, including closing it down. This comes after four white students - two are no longer at the university - from the student hostel ...
role model dies, aged 104.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRIAN INDRELUNAS AVID walker Philip Rabinowitz, 104, followed his own advice and kept walking -- even up to the last week of his life. "Whoever he would meet, he would say, 'Keep walking. Just keep walking', and it was such a big part of his life," his ...
Give concerts a chance.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... What a pity Dieter Carlson (February 29) has deprived himself of so much enjoyment because of an intolerant and unappreciative mindset. My husband and I have attended many outdoor concerts, the last few being Elton John, Moonstruck on Clifton Beach and Joe Cocker at Kirstenbosch, and all ...
A belated apology to all 'maids' exploited by their 'madams'.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... With so much in the news about reconciliation, I ask myself what role I can play to help reconstruct a nation torn apart by misunderstanding and hurt. I cast my mind back over the years when I was a typical white liberal South African "madam". We lived in Constantia, and it is ...
Church expresses shock at death of moderator.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH THE SA Council of Churches and the council of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) have expressed their shock and sadness at the sudden death of the church's former moderator James Buys of Wynberg. Buys, hailed as ...
Kirstenbosch magic.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... I appreciate there were some disgruntled spectators at the Joe Cocker concert at Kirstenbosch, but I got the impression the majority were bowled over by the sheer power and vibrancy of his voice and the superb presentation. Singing in unison under a veil of sparkling showers can ...
Concert chaos.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... I suppose Duncan Heafield, sales director of Kusasa and organiser of the Celine Dion concerts, would say the events were successful (Two Minutes, February 28). He sold 38 000 tickets and had the stranglehold on food and drink sales, having had all spectators searched at the ...
Sausages and ... mud.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... It's that time of the year where the Maynardville Community Carnival comes and, sadly, goes too quickly. Some traditions always remain; large patches of mud are always to be found, no matter what weather we have. Some traditions are vanishing, however, and I refer to the ...
A fishy dilemma.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... I am grappling with a huge dilemma - Cape salmon is my favourite fish of choice, but it is now on the Orange list of endangered species. Thus, when offered this fish as a special or as the line fish on the menu at a restaurant, I should not order it. As I understand the ...
Cosatu and Zuma.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... I was relieved that Cosatu has decided to pull the reins on the ANC president's pro-business charm offensive. Before Polokwane, Jacob Zuma's empty campaign rhetoric included pro-labour and pro-poor statements that sought to convince the general populace that right was on his ...
Computer crash leaves SA police with hands tied in fight against crime.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: QUINTON MTYALA A COMPUTER system crash at the weekend left police across the country unable to check serial numbers for suspected stolen goods, including firearms and vehicles. A mother, meanwhile, claims officers at a police station blamed the glitch with ...
Scores killed in Sudan clash.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Up to 69 armed nomads were killed in clashes with the former rebel group Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in a volatile north-south border area. A nomad spokesperson said their losses had totalled 37. Major General James Hoth, a senior SPLA commander, put the number of those killed ...
Ex-policeman surrenders after shooting of president.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Former policeman Amaro da Costa, alleged to have wounded East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta last month, has surrendered to police and is in custody, military officials say. Taliban militants, afraid that foreign soldiers are using cellphone signals to track insurgents and ...
Tribute to Annan.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... We pay tribute to former United Nations leader Kofi Annan, who stepped in to mediate in one of the world's most intractable disputes. Last week, he managed to secure a deal between the rival leaders of Kenya, a country in danger of tearing itself apart over the disputed election. ...
Some dodgy dealerships keep on squeezing old 'lemons'.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... If someone buys a car that turns out to be a dud and then, after months of fighting with the dealership, he or she finally gets to swop the problematic car for another one, what happens to the dud? Well, in the case of a certain blue 2003 Kia Sorento, it got put back on the ...
What happens to faulty vehicles that are traded-in?(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... When someone buys a "brand new car" and it goes horribly wrong, virtually from the outset, his or her disappointment and anger is understandable. The dealer/manufacturer has the right, in terms of the warranty, to fix the vehicle, which sounds fair, but in truth the process is ...
What to do.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... l Before buying a second-hand car, track down the previous owner and ask about the car. l If the new or second-hand car you've bought has numerous defects or one major one, which the dealer is seemingly unable to rectify after many attempts, and you no longer wish to keep the ...
Classrooms delivered to Strand school to ease overcrowding.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: EDUCATION WRITER TEACHING is finally under way at a troubled Strand primary school after the Western Cape Education Department delivered extra prefabricated classrooms to ease overcrowding last week. Gert Witbooi, spokesperson for Education MEC Cameron ...
Man to appear after murder of toddler.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Caryn Dolley A VALHALLA Park resident will appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate's Court today in connection with the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl. Randolene Fortune, who lived near the 30-year-old man in Lorna Street, Valhalla Park, died on ...
Horrific road accidents kill seven over the weekend.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH SIX people, including a child, died in a horror collision in Parklands on Saturday night, while a Stellenbosch man was killed in a freak road accident in the Boland town on Friday at noon. Makhaya Mani, spokesperson for Community Safety MEC ...
Legal occupants of Delft houses sympathise with evicted.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY FAMILIES who moved into Delft houses, illegally occupied until two weeks ago, say they sympathise with those who were evicted, but the N2 Gateway houses were allocated fairly. The 30 families were given keys to their new homes on Friday and had ...
stormers 'really learning'.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED THE make-up of the loose trio for Saturday's first tour match against the Reds in Brisbane will be one of the decisions facing Stormers coach Rassie Erasmus as he tries to save his team's Super 14 campaign. Having lost all three matches in the ...
bill will be processed this year.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal Cabinet is poised to approve a draft law this week that will crack down on illicit spooking - information peddling and unauthorised intelligence gathering - deemed to threaten state security. The Promotion of Information Bill piloted by the ...
SACP urges police to probe possible perjury in Modise's 'donation' saga.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb Johannesburg: The SACP's central committee says it has failed to find any evidence of a R500 000 contribution from businessman Charles Modise and has called on police to investigate a possible charge of perjury against him and party member Willie Madisha. ...
New Zealanders areplaying game unknownto SA Super 14 teams.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Can South African rugby fool itself over a weekend of such comprehensive defeats and humiliations in the Super 14? Only if it wishes. Can it deny the reality of defeats for the Stormers, the Cheetahs, the Blue Bulls and the Lions? Can it excuse these setbacks as mere appendages ...
'Isidingo's' Callie Ashley gets posthumous award as Mzansi's star actress.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... JOHANNESBURG: Generations actor Menzi Ngubane proved to be the best of the best at the inaugural Stars of Mzansi Awards. Bryan Habana showed he could still run off with another accolade while the late Ashley Callie's star continued to shine brightly. Ngubane was voted ...
Tutu lauds specialists' 'spirit of ubuntu'.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY ANGLICAN Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has told anaesthesiologists gathered for their 14th World Congress in Cape Town that they demonstrate "the spirit of ubuntu". The congress, held in Africa for the first time and attended by thousands of ...
Supreme court delivers a low blow to Italian crotch-grabbers.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... ROME: The Italian supreme court has outlawed men from touching their genitals in public. Crotch-grabbing is believed to ward off the evil eye. The court found a man of 42 had broken the law by "ostentatiously touching his ...
swallows beat celtic.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe Johannesburg: They say the measure of a champion is the ability to get results even in poor form and, in drawing a match they should have lost at the weekend, Ajax Cape Town showed that they are serious title contenders. The Urban Warriors not ...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't - but Sarkozy opens a new door.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Damned if you do and damned if you don't. That was the gist of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's understanding of France's relations with Africa in a speech to the South African Parliament on Thursday. "We find ourselves in a situation in which our political, military and ...
Muir says 'outstanding' Sharks bench played huge role in victory at Loftus.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY Durban: Older Sharks fans will recall that unfortunate Sharks tendency a few years ago to fade as the second half progressed after having dominated the first half, but that trend has well and truly been bucked by Dick Muir's super bench. At ...
Cracked driver can't stop Murless from lifting glass trophy.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... UMHLANGA: The final round of the Mount Edgecombe Trophy yesterday was a little more work than he expected, but the result was the one Mark Murless had been dreaming of all summer. After so many near-misses, he finally left the post-tournament celebrations with a gleaming glass ...
Flying reptile 'had a mouth like a hairbrush'.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... The third co-author of the paper, Luis Chiappe, of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, said this finding was interesting "because until now most people thought these flying reptiles would be more like modern birds, which grow very quickly and become mature ...
UCT scientist uncovers secrets of flying reptile with 1 000 teeth.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: JO-ANNE SMETHERHAM A UNIVERSITY of Cape Town scientist is part of an international team playing detective in the case of one of the most bizarre-looking creatures ever known, with 1 000 narrow teeth giving it a mouth like a hairbrush. The prehistoric ...
Waves could help power SA - experts.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: JO-ANNE SMETHERHAM WAVES along the southern coast could produce between 8 000MW and 10 000MW of power - one quarter of Eskom's maximum output at any time, researchers say. The energy would be obtained from Cape Point to St Helena Bay in the west and Port ...
Call to step up security as gang targets guesthouses.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH AUTHORITIES have called on the owners of guesthouses, bed and breakfasts and holiday flats in Camps Bay to improve their security and give their guests safety tips as several establishments have been struck in the past two months by a gang of robbers ...
milestone for ntini.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: IQBAL KHAN CHITTAGONG: Dale Steyn has had a phenomenal Test career to date and continues to torment opposing batsmen with sheer pace, grit and aggression on any given surface around the world. Steyn and Makhaya Ntini, who went past fellow South African Allan ...
Commissioner warns on competition laws.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ann Crotty Cape Town While it was necessary to ensure that top-level corporate executives took responsibility for anti-competitive activity within their companies, Shan Ramburuth, the competition commissioner, cautioned against criminalising existing competition ...
Nel, Engels cited after Bulls defeat.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: VATA NGOBENI PRETORIA: Bulls centre JP Nel and prop Jaco Engels were cited yesterday after they were singled out for foul play in Saturday's 29-15 defeat to the Sharks at Loftus Versfeld. Both players will hear their fate today when they appear before a ...
No kidding ... Billy loves Lilly.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... LONDON: A boxer dog called Billy has become an unlikely surrogate father to a kid goat at an animal centre in Devon. Big-hearted Billy formed a strong bond with abandoned kid Lilly at Pennywell Farm, near Buckfastleigh, where they have become a popular attraction. As the runt of ...
Six perish in horror collision on West Coast road.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH SIX people, including a child, died in a horror collision in Parklands and a motorist was killed and two others injured near Grassy Park in another crash this weekend. In Stellenbosch on Friday a resident was also killed in a freak road ...
Mandoza 'traumatised' by death crash.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Solly Maphumulo JOHANNESBURG: Mandoza's health took priority at the scene of the accident in which two people died and no breathalyser test was performed, according to Metro Police spokesperson Edna Mamonyane. She said kwaito star Mandoza, whose real name is ...