Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from September 2008:
The voice that wakes the city.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... What does your job entail? In a nutshell, my job is to wake up Cape Town between 6am and 9am and help Capetonians prepare for the day ahead. I use the three hours as a platform where people can be entertained and informed. The programme is a mix of music, news ...
How to become a radio presenter.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... you must have an outgoing personality and really be comfortable and relaxed when talking to people. You must always be vividly aware that you are talking to thousands of people and you must have something to offer them. The most successful radio presenters tend to be people who ...
Know what motivates your team players.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... "Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot." - Jim Rohn, motivational speaker Quality leaders need to motivate and build morale within their teams. It is essential to motivate the rightteam players who are put in ...
Blockman realises career dream.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sarah-Jane Bosch When Fish Hoek blockman Derek Dyers was featured in the Real Jobs, Real People column three years ago, he said his dream was to own his own butchery one day. Well, his dream came true recently when he took over as owner of Watson's Meat ...
Sit up and look after your backbone.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MALTE LENKEIT Most people's daily routines are increasing characterised by a lack of movement - we tend to sit down for most of the day, at meals, travelling to work, in the workplace and again at home in the evenings. Experts estimate that we spend 80 000 ...
Plea bargain for Zuma would undermine rule of law in the long term.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Milton Shain and David Benatar The recent suggestion by veteran anti-apartheid journalist Max du Preez that the possibility of offering Jacob Zuma a plea bargain should be seriously considered is only the latest in a series of suggestions by seasoned commentators for a ...
venezuelan president arrives in SA tomorrow.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is due to arrive in South Africa tomorrow. Hans Pienaar looks at the man and what he might mean for South Africans. There is a wonderful moment in the documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The film-making team accompanies the ...
Dance fusion.(Life)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Lynne's School of Modern Dancing and Chantel Kelly McLure's school will present Fusion at the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg from Thursday to Saturday at 7pm, with an extra show at 2.15pm on Saturday. The programme will include various styles of dance, from Spanish to modern. Call 021 794 ...
Musically engaging concert offered.(Life)
Sep 01, 2008 ... SYMPHONY CONCERT, Thursday, August 21, City Hall; CPO conducted by Theodore Kuchar, soloist Clara Wurtz; Dvorak: Symphonic Poem, The Golden Spinning Wheel Op 109; Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major; Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1 in D minor, Op 13. DEON IRISH reviews THIS was the ...
Ground-breaking theatre for deaf and hearing.(Life)
Sep 01, 2008 ... GUMBO. Directed by Tanya Surtees, with Rob Murray, Liezl de Kock, Lysander Barends and Marlon Snyders. At the Baxter until September 13. TERRI DUNBAR-CURRAN reviews. BE PREPARED to experience theatre as you have never seen, or heard, it before. Presented by From the Hip: ...
Judges to rule on legality of Erasmus Commission.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE City of Cape Town will know today whether the province's Erasmus Commission, set up to probe allegations of spying within the council, is deemed legal by the Cape High Court. KwaZulu-Natal High Court judges Chris Nicholson and Kevin Swain are ...
Learning curve.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The report by the SA Local Government Association (Salga) on the high levels of incompetence of local councillors (August 27) refers. Much of the lack of service delivery can be attributed to incompetence in government departments, public institutions and levels of governance. ...
Phosa's dream.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The address by Mathews Phosa, ANC treasurer-general (August 25), was an important and encouraging statement. His appeal to all South Africans, white and black, to contribute to the growth of our economy through creative partnerships to pull our country into the future - to reach ...
All at sea.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... To SAY patrol ships will replace the navy's aging minesweepers, mine hun-ters, strike craft and torpedo recovery vessels is grossly misleading ("Navy demands more ships", August 28). Mine countermeasures vessels have special hulls to reduce their magnetic signature and are very ...
Lesson in listening.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The meeting on August 20 between ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe and business people in Stellenbosch was positive, constructive and successful. It was clear that business people and politicians took the trouble to listen to each other and to develop an understanding of where others ...
Bungling leadership.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The revelation that a third of our councillors cannot read or write and don't seem to understand their role as councillors (August 27) is shocking. Does this also apply to those in the provincial and national legislatures? According to your leader article of August 28, "the ...
Olympic Games debrief.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... An Olympic Games debrief, "Solutions for South African Sport", takes place in the conference centre at the Sports Science Institute in Newlands today at 1pm. The speakers include Ross Tucker (UCT exercise physiologist), Tim Noakes (head of exercise science and sports medicine at UCT), and ...
First lesbian divorce finalised in Cape High Court.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER WHAT is believed to be the first lesbian divorce in South Africa since gay marriage, was legalised in 2006 was finalised in the Cape High Court on Friday. Elaine Burnett from Gordon's Bay and Esther Groenewald from Strand were divorced before ...
Youth who murdered woman in beach house to be sentenced today.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH A YOUNG man from Mfuleni is to be sentenced today for the murder of a Parow woman and the attempted murder of her boyfriend in their beach house in Pringle Bay in January 2005. Jeanette Peterson and Brian Greening were both stabbed by ...
Unarmed deterrent?(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Further to the topic of ships for the South African Navy, I noticed that the corvette pictured on the front page on August 28 did not appear to be equipped with any means of putting a shot across the bows of a poaching trawler. Perhaps the well-informed Helmut Heitman could ...
Nuclear power brings threat of radioactivity for thousands of years.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... We note the forthcoming parliamentary hearing on the proposed Radioactive Waste Management Agency Bill, which seeks to "privatise" nuclear waste disposal. I recently received a query from the Table View Ratepayers' Association on underground leaching from nuclear waste, and I ...
MacGyvering around the campfire is good for the sole.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... ONE of my most enduring memories is of sitting around a small fire at the edge of a forest on the Otter Trail, while my friend sat cursing as he painstakingly sewed a sole back on to his boot with a fork and a spare shoelace. Earlier that day while he was flapping along the ...
A fine line.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for US president, Barack Obama had to negotiate a fine line. The throng in Denver was eagerly awaiting the eloquence and idealism that propelled him to the pinnacle of national politics. He also had to counter the Republicans' caricature of ...
On thebrink.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... THE LATEST round of negotiations to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe once again ended inconclusively this weekend. The main point of disagreement, it appears, remains how to share executive powers between the president and the proposed new position of prime minister. ...
Pharmacy Week to focus on safe disposal of expired medicines.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... THE only way to safely dispose of unused and expired medicines is to return them to a pharmacy. National Pharmacy Week begins today and pharmacists around the country will help consumers safely get rid of unused medicine and potentially dangerous syringes and needles. ...
Museum pays first R2m of its ferry debt.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH THE Robben Island Museum council has paid R2 million of its outstanding debt to the company which manufactured its R26m ferry, Sikhululekile. The payment comes after the ferry was attached last Monday and represents only part of the island's ...
Darling Trust launches farm HIV drive.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... FARMWORKERS and farmers in the Darling area are the subject of an HIV/Aids awareness and HIV testing drive spearheaded by satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys's Darling Trust. Darling Trust operations manager Lara van Lelyveld said in a statement that 96 farms in and around Darling had been ...
decision to be made today.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY WITH about 600 foreign nationals already moved out of municipal halls and camps across the city, authorities say they will decide today if relocation of the displaced people should be suspended until the weather clears. City council and ...
Former SAB managing director Richard Goss dies aged 80.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER LEADING Cape Town businessman, Richard John "Dick" Goss, has died aged 80. Twice-named the Financial Mail Businessman of the Year as well as listed as one of the Sunday Times's top five businessmen of the year, Goss died at his home in Cape Town ...
Ex-guides accuse TMNP of racism, not marketing Hoerikwaggo Trail properly.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH THE Table Mountain National Park has been slammed by a group of former trail guides who claim TMNP is unwilling to negotiate with them and has failed to properly market its Hoerikwaggo Trail, which runs from Cape Town to Cape Point. Eleven ...
Deacon's conviction for assault overturned.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH A PIKETBERG farm manager has won his appeal in the Cape High Court against a conviction of indecent assault of a worker. The ruling disappointed a group of farm labourers who attended court with their union representatives on Friday. ...
Theewater breezes way to third consecutive Lipton win.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ALEX PETERSEN THEEWATER Sports Club's boat Daly's Insurance sailed to a superb win on the final day of the Lipton Cup Challenge on Friday, holding off a tenacious bid from Royal Natal's Orion Challenger to take the trophy back to Theewater for a third year in a row. ...
Villagers to be tested after nuclear leak.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... A week after a leak from a nearby nuclear facility, residents of Lambusart village near the Belgian town of Fleurus were told yesterday they would be given medical tests, starting with children and pregnant women. Tens of thousands of people are expected to rally across Georgia ...
Nigeria denies killing of troops by rebels.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Nigerian military denied claims that a militant group had killed 29 soldiers in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it had killed the soldiers in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states in three attacks in reprisal for the killing of ...
Differences at ANC meeting to be 'sorted out' this week.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY OBJECTIONS raised at the ANC's Boland conference at the weekend will be addressed this week to help ensure the region's leadership election is beyond reproach, party provincial spokesperson Garth Strachan said yesterday. Saturday's conference was ...
Boks 'definitely available' to boost WP for trip to Bloemfontein.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED WESTERN PROVINCE are set to unleash a powerful side on the Free State Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on Saturday as all their Springboks are available for this vital Currie Cup clash. WP coach Allister Coetzee told the Cape Times yesterday that he had ...
Anglican Church throws weight behind environmental awareness.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: DEVIN HERMANUS ANGLICAN Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has announced the church's support for raising awareness of ecological dangers threatening the planet. The Anglican Church, with the Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute, invited the public ...
Nzimaupstages thefavourites.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Stephen Granger FINANCE student Sibusiso Nzima upset the favourites by winning the South Africa 10km Championships at a wet Stellenbosch over the weekend. It was Nzima's first major road win. Nzima, 21, clocked 28:52 to win by four seconds ahead of two of the ...
If only Spies, Smith and senior Boks had come good earlier ...(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen Johannesburg: What a pity Peter de Villiers's World Cup stars took nine Tests to finally strike top form. While certain individuals performed consistently well throughout the season, too many players, especially those who were part ...
Jongi: I need toplay manymore Tests.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen Johannesburg: He scored a record-breaking four tries on Saturday, but Jongi Nokwe is a reluctant hero. "I'm still inexperienced at this level of the game and need to play many more Tests before I can think of those things," said the ...
Soweto giants crash and burn in PSL openers.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe JOHANNESBURG: Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are having a blue Monday today after a bruising weekend from which they received further evidence that the Premiership remains as difficult as ever. Both Soweto giants lost their opening matches of ...
Zikalala believed to behind move.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi LESS than two weeks after returning from suspension, SABC news head Snuki Zikalala is accused of removing two political reporters from covering Jacob Zuma because of their apparent allegiance to the ANC president. The two political ...
Eight tries, but Boks can't be happy with wooden spoon.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen JOHANNESBURG: It ended on a high, with a 53-8 victory over a team that just a week earlier had comfortably beaten them 27-15. What a turn-around for the Springboks and under-fire coach Peter de Villiers. The resounding victory, just ...
Effectiveness of aid hard to assess if recipients don't improve public finance management systems.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid in boosting the development of poor countries is probably interminable. There are so many variables and, perhaps more important, so much high emotion, involved. But when you examine efforts to analyse aid effectiveness fairly ...
Rough seas will persist today, warn forecasters.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... In the Witzenberg Municipality, the Theron's Berg pass and Gydo Pass to Ceres were closed due to heavy snowfalls and a section of the Koue Bokkeveld was cut off. Earlier yesterday, an Intercape bus transporting 44 passengers from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town overturned on the N2 ...
Crafty flies born to evade the swatter.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... CHICAGO: The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, US researchers said last week. At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the opposite direction, ensuring a clean getaway, they said in a finding that helps explain why flies so ...
Wrangling over BEE not favouring banks.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... SA banks, insurance companies, Cosatu and the SA Communist Party failed to find common ground on the direct ownership in the financial services sector and missed the August 31 deadline set by the Department of Trade and Industry. Their failure ...
ANC to meet on infighting, Motlanthe-youth league spat.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi TODAY'S ANC meeting will be dominated by the infighting which is tearing the organisation apart and threatening its performance in next year's elections. The infighting will distract the ANC's national working committee (NWC) - the party's ...
ANC to discuss request to fire Free State premier.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... unmandated attacks on the ANC Youth League. The ANC has a president and a spokesperson, who are able to and should represent organisational resolutions and positions in the media," league spokesperson Floyd Shivambu on Friday said. A youth league leader, speaking on condition of ...
kallis fails once again.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: PATRICK COMPTON LONDON: Kevin Pietersen lit the touchpaper and then Andrew Flintoff finished off what had effectively become a Twenty20 match at a gloomy, dank Lord's yesterday. On a dismal, rain-interrupted day, the home crowd were finally rewarded for their ...
Fire-fighting pilot and nine others die as KZN blazes get out of control.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Own Correspondents and Sapa DURBAN: Ten people were reportedly killed in fires in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend. Among the dead is an elderly couple. The man, 85, and wife, 58, died when fire engulfed their home in Madesheni, near Nkandla. Police ...
Infighting to dominate NWC meeting.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi TODAY'S meeting of the ANC's national working committee (NWC) will be dominated by the infighting that is tearing the organisation apart and threatening its performance in next year's elections. The NWC will have to deal with party deputy ...
Runaway fires claim the lives of 10 people in KwaZulu-Natal.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Own Correspondents and Sapa DURBAN: Ten people were reportedly killed in fires in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend. Among the dead was an elderly couple. The man, 85, and wife, 58, died when fire engulfed their home in Madesheni, near Nkandla. ...
Rough seas will persist today, warn forecasters.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... In the Witzenberg Municipality, the Theron's Berg pass and Gydo Pass to Ceres were closed due to heavy snowfalls and a section of the Koue Bokkeveld was cut off. Earlier yesterday, an Intercape bus transporting 44 passengers from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town overturned on the N2 ...
Notable drop in prices of maize, wheat and rice.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Imported inflation is a major problem - for example, international prices of sunflower oil directly affect local prices because South Africa is a net importer. The report also has some good news. Price increases for maize products slowed down significantly and even declined in ...
Judges to rule on legality of Erasmus Commission.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE City of Cape Town will know today whether the province's Erasmus Commission, set up to investigate allegations of spying within the council, is deemed legal by the Cape High Court. KwaZulu-Natal High Court judges Chris Nicholson and Kevin Swain ...
High food prices threaten food security of the poor.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lyse Comins and David Canning DURBAN: Rising food prices are threatening the household "food security of the poor" - and leaving many more people hungry. This emerges from surveys showing shocking food price trends, the worst being in rural areas. ...
Villagers to be tested after nuclear leak.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... A week after a leak from a nearby nuclear facility, residents of Lambusart village near the Belgian town of Fleurus were told yesterday they would be given medical tests, starting with children and pregnant women. Tens of thousands of people are expected to rally across Georgia ...
food security doesn't have to be compromised.(News)
Sep 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Emile van Zyl Renewable bioenergy, particularly biofuels, isn't a concept new to Africa. It has played a pivotal role in the past, and could help address the need for future energy expansion. Capitalising on Sub-Saharan Africa's biomass potential, bringing ...
Maths to instruct the search engines.(News)
Sep 02, 2008 ... Last week I started explaining how to improve Google searches to remove extraneous information using a pre-search analysis. This week I'm continuing with an introduction to "search engine maths" which will help you to instruct search engines such as Google effectively. When ...
Market for motion-sensing devices grows, boosts sales.(News)
Sep 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Baker Li TAIPEI: Chip makers are convinced of the potential for motion-sensing chips in portable gadgets, thanks to the success of Nintendo's Wii game consoles and Apple's iPhones. The market for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices, which detect ...
Has technology made it impossible to have an affair?(News)
Sep 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nick Harding london: What could be more family-friendly than a Nintendo Wii, a games console replete with motion-sensing technology and gleaming white purity? Just look at the marketing; the families bounding around the living room, gurning with unbridled joy as they ...
Politicians who look so bad on posters they're bound to scare up a few votes.(News)
Sep 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kerry rogers Is it just me or does Helen Zille look a lot like Anne Robinson in the new Democratic Alliance election poster? Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, would it? Imagine a government that worked like The Weakest Link. Instead of being asked ...
From adoring mothers to JEALOUS LOVERS.(Life)
Sep 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Terri Dunbar-Curran "Marriages and relationships are all so similar," says musician Alistair Izobell, as he explains the idea behind his latest offering, Where the Boys Are, which will show at On Broadway from September 2 to October 11. Izobell will be joined ...
gay, married in the platteland.(News)
Sep 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH AT 7.30pm on a Thursday, the bar adjoining Riversdale's Wawiel Restaurant is nearly empty. Some men are hunched over the bar, drinking beers or brandy and Cokes, talking in low murmurs. What sounds like a sokkie treffers album is playing quietly in the ...