Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from February 2009:
Sculpting skills come in handy.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... What does your job entail? There isn't a lot of infrastructure around puppetry, for instance administrative support, so I have to organise the shows, create and make the puppets. I'm also involved in developing scripts and content. I work closely with the director of the show, ...
Honing women leadership skills.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch Women business leaders will be given a space to grow personally and professionally when the Women in Leadership programme kicks off at the UCT Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) this month. Course director Marjolijn Dijksterhuis says the ...
Business writing skills a click away with UCT online course.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch Thanks to personal computers, e-mail and the internet, everyone needs to write a lot so professional business writing skills are more important today than ever before. "Not everyone is a confident writer," says Anton Kelly, a teacher for ...
SA motor vehicle dealers hone management skills.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Sarah-Jane Bosch South African motor vehicle dealers are fine-tuning their sales and management skills to keep ahead of the pack in the present difficult economic conditions. Warren Thorp recently completed an eight-month advanced dealership management ...
Research offers hope for a cure for the 'serial sickie'.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A caring catch-up chat may be all that is needed to cure the "serial sickie" and improve work attendance on a Monday and a Friday, an absenteeism monitoring company recommends. "A good place to start would be to institute a return to work policy whereby employees are always ...
New labour force faces fashion headache over what not to wear in the workplace.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch Not all that long ago, Ally McBeal turned the corporate fashion world upside down with her quirky dress sense. But in the real world, navigating workplace fashion is no easy task, and knowing whether to dress to impress or to dress conventionally is the ...
Take stock of skills when at career crossroads.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius, Chinese philosopher If you are faced with a crossroad in your career, consider carefully what your options are, and how full your basket of skills is. Hopefully it is overflowing! ...
Western Cape dentistry student awarded R30 000 study grant.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: staff writer Imaan Roomaney, a 21-year-old dentistry student from the University of the Western Cape, has been awarded the R30 000 Professional Provident Society (PPS) Chairman's Scholarship at a ceremony in Johannesburg. The award is given annually by PPS, ...
Pique season.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... The Cape Times of January 27 carried three articles directly related to tourism in the Western Cape and South Africa. The Chapman's Peak issue drags on and on and it appears that work has yet to start. One of the icons of the Western Cape has lain dormant for eight ...
Prices soften, but property in demand /in province.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL WHILE there has been a "softening" of property prices in the Western Cape in response to the economic downturn, many property groups report increased demand activity in the last quarter and a cautiously positive outlook for the property market this year. ...
R38m 'not enough' to replace city's ageing water pipes.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE City of Cape Town allocated more than R38 million in the 2007/2008 financial year to replace ageing water pipes. Mayoral committee member for utility services Clive Justus said many of the city's water pipes, made before 1985, were failing. The ...
colourful works in demand.(Life)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ROBYN COHEN IN THE fallout of the global credit crunch, artists are feeling the squeeze as collectors hold back on new acquisitions. Watercolourist Pamela Silver, who lives in Jerusalem, is not complaining. Her colourful works are in demand and selling. People ...
Collective Imagination.(Life)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Rus Nerwich and The Collective Imagination perform at The Waiting Room in Long Street every Monday. The band plays tracks from the album Under The Poetree. Shane Cooper, Bokani Dyer, Dave Leadbetter, Souljaz Pros, Lee Thompson, Ross Macdonald, Lindiwe Suttle, Khanyi and Jono Sweetman ...
CTCB dances off to the islands.(Life)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER CAPE TOWN City Ballet (CTCB) has been invited to participate in a cultural collaboration on the French island of Martinique in the Caribbean, arranged by the Paris-based Foundation Sphere. The invitation was initiated by Keith ...
Impromptu shenanigans in 'Butlers and Brandy'.(Life)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER BUTLERS and Brandy, a comedy by Justin Wilkinson, will show at the Artscape Theatre Complex from Tuesday to Saturday at 8.15pm. Featuring Daniel Barnett, Evelyn Ball, Sean Loots, Wilkinson and Siv Ngesi, the play takes the form of a murder mystery ...
Memorial Walk.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... The Philip Rabinowitz Memorial 10km Walk is part of a programme on Saturday which includes the Lion of Africa half marathon and a 5km fun run. Enter at www.enteronline.co.za or on race day at the venue, corner Firgrove and Spaanschemat roads, Constantia from 5am. E-mail elizabeth. ...
disciplinary hearing to begin.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH Noel Pietersen has failed in his urgent high court bid to overturn his provisional suspension as Oudtshoorn municipal manager and his disciplinary hearing on allegations of financial misconduct is to go ahead today. Cape High Court Acting ...
Switch to paperless.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... We have a cumbersome voting process in which millions of ballot papers have to be printed. Ballot boxes have to be sealed and delivered after voting. Then follows the endless counting of votes. Is it not time for electronic voting? Your vote is ...
Coping with crime.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... To judge by Mbhazima Shilowa's remarks in the Cape Times (January 26), an election victory by the Congress of the People would not do much to cut crime. South African politicians don't seem to understand the basic problems of fighting the crime wave. Providing better detection ...
Friend of Burundi.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... We, the Burundian community in Cape Town, would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Jan van Eck, who passed away on January 27. The Burundian community wishes strength and courage to the family in this difficult and trying moment. Our prayers are ...
Wheels coming off.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... The government's refusal to pay a R94 million subsidy to the Golden Arrow bus company is a disgrace. It has flouted an existing court order to do so and risks the destruction of Cape Town's public bus service. The government, never mind which department, said it would pay a ...
Still rising.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... NIC KOCH'S letter ("Check out - the facts", January 28), and in particular his final stab, "rather than make unsubstantiated accusations", refer. I have yet to find the major national supermarket that has made reductions in basic necessities. In fact, if I heard ...
South Africa is littered with opportunities to put people to work.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... I earned a double F for maths in matric, could not quite grasp logic during my year of philosophy at the University of Natal and have never studied anthropology nor social engineering, so I have no idea why there are so many jobs to be done and so many unemployed and hungry people not ...
Saga of the exploding Corsa rear windows continues.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... The "exploding Corsa Lite rear window" story keeps running. The short version is that General Motors South Africa confirmed in late 2007 that Opel Corsa Lite models made or sold between May 2005 and June 2007 had a fault in the design of their rear windows or "backlites": an ...
Many a slip between the hand and the hold.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Airlines don't consider compensating passengers at all if they pack "valuables" such as electronic items, jewellery or cash in their check-in baggage. Keep your valuables with you, is the golden rule, especially in South Africa. But what if you pack such valuables into your hand ...
Parliament missed the chance to shed 'rubberstamp' image in Pikoli hearings.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christi van der Westhuizen If ever there were a matter with which parliament could shrug off the epithet of "rubberstamp", it is the consideration of President Kgalema Motlanthe's recommendation that national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) Vusi Pikoli be fired - ...
hajaig episode should come as no surprise.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Milton Shain The recent alleged comments by South Africa's Deputy Foreign Minister, Fatima Hajaig, about Jewish money controlling America and most Western European countries throws into sharp relief the complicated nexus between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. ...
We reject racist call to boycott Jewish businesses in SA.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... We are members of the Muslim community of South Africa. It has come to our attention that an e-mail has been circulated that calls for a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in South Africa as a response to the Israeli attack on Gaza. We note that no representative Muslim ...
Mob beats man to death after woman shot dead.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER NYANGA residents yesterday beat a man to death as he tried to flee after he and two others allegedly shot and killed a pedestrian. The bullet hit a 48-year-old woman, from the Eastern Cape, in the head and she died on the scene early yesterday. ...
EIA delayed due to fears for Smuts family farmhouse.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE Final Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the new R5-billion cement factory in Riebeek West has been delayed by concerns that historical buildings belonging to the family of statesman and former South African prime minister Jan Smuts could be ...
'Wake-up call' for Claremont after robbery.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: DEVIN HERMANUS CLAREMONT residents say they need to become "more vigilant and proactive" after an elderly couple were robbed by criminals who broke into their Bishopscourt home through the roof while they were sleeping on Friday. It was the second time in the ...
Pedestrians warned after tourists' close shave with train.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER METRORAIL has warned the public not to walk along the railway line after three tourists from overseas were injured when a train hit one of them on the tracks near St James station on Saturday. On Saturday, Francis Naughton from England and Mary ...
Masters no more.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A WEEK ago it might have been possible to hope that the current financial crisis would not inevitably lead to a devastating global economic recession. But over the past week, one of the most intense and depressing of the World Economic Forum's 30 years of annual meetings of the world's ...
Trio in court after 28kg of khat found.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A SUITCASE containing about 28kg of the drug khat was confiscated and three Bellville residents arrested during a roadblock in Philadelphia at the weekend. The confiscated khat plants are worth about R33 000. Yesterday, police spokesperson Bernadine Steyn said police ...
Court overturns Egyptian editors' sentences.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Four independent Egyptian editors convicted of defaming the president and his close associates have had their year-long prison sentences overturned by an appeals court, state newspapers reported yesterday. A group of 260 mostly African would-be migrants landed in Malta ...
17 die as birthday fireworks set bar alight.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Seventeen people have died and 20 have been injured in a blaze that broke out in a bar in southeast China when a group celebrating a birthday lit fireworks that set the ceiling alight. UK may change law to expel peers for crimes British Justice Secretary Jack Straw ...
ANC mourns MP killed in crash near Wolseley.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY THE ANC in the Western Cape has conveyed its condolences to relatives and friends of 65-year-old John Schippers, an ANC MP who died in a car accident near Wolseley on Saturday morning. "He was a humble, hard working and much loved public ...
Assassins looks set for awards haul as Fleur Du Cap nominations list is released.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THE judges of South Africa's premier theatre awards, the Fleur Du Cap Theatre Awards, yesterday released the list of the finalists for the 2008 honours, with Assassins picking up six nominations, four of them for Fred Abrahamse, including a best director ...
Bonus blunder.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... We are not the first to register our disgust at Wall Street's decision to hand out $18.4 billion in employee bonuses in 2008, a year in which the financial industry's irresponsible decisions and crippling corporate losses helped precipitate a devastating economic downturn. On Thursday, ...
'SA NEEDS arms probe, scorpions'.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY THE Independent Democrats would boost police numbers to 200 000, recruit 5 000 social workers to help heal crime-ridden communities, position the country as a leader in renewable energy, and introduce a minimum social grant funded by taxing luxury goods, ...
over 40 000 spectators watch pocket power take first hat-trick win in race's history.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: MICHELLE JONES DESCRIBED by most as the best yet, this year's J&B Met broke all the rules - with the fashion being exceptional and the races thrilling. Kenilworth Race Course was packed on Saturday with racing enthusiasts and fashionistas braving the heat and ...
Cape swimmers don't flinch in icy Swiss lake.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... TWO Cape Town businessmen on Friday became the first people to swim significant distances in Switzerland's Lake Zurich, battling for more than a kilometre against freezing water and winter winds. Andrew Chin, 40, and Ram Barkai, 51, were pulled shivering into support boats at ...
US frigate sets sail today for exercises with SA Navy.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: BRIAN INGPEN INWARD from West Africa, the US frigate Robert G Bradley, named after a decorated hero killed in the World War 2 battle of Leyte in October 1944, berthed at the Waterfront on Thursday during her round-Africa training voyage. She is commanded by ...
Broad support for ANC manifesto at gala dinner.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: SIBUSISO NGALWA Businessmen, sportsmen, academics and traditional leaders came out to endorse the ANC's manifesto and pledge their support for the ruling party at a gala dinner addressed by party president Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg on Saturday night. Speaker ...
Sireli 'touch and go' for Sharks after rib injury.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED BIG Stormers wing Sireli Naqelevuki is a "touch and go" starter for his team's opening Super 14 clash against the Sharks at Newlands on February 14 after he sustained a rib injury in a warm-up game against Boland on Saturday. Stormers media ...
Zille says no to cronyism as she gets tough over DA candidate lists.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christelle Terreblanche DEMOCRATIC Alliance leader Helen Zille has put her foot down over party stalwarts squealing about their relatively low ranking on DA candidate lists, saying she won't tolerate crony systems in her party. Zille told the Cape Times at ...
Fichardt's 'short stick'on fire in Masters win.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... WILD COAST: Darren Fichardt sunk a 15-foot birdie putt yesterday to win the Nashua Masters by a single shot with a final-round 5-under 65 and a total of 17-under 263. "It felt like a 20-metre putt," he said after an 18-hole battle with defending champion Marc Cayeux of Zimbabwe, ...
Ajax still in the title race, but need strikers.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: JOHN GOLIATH ALL is not lost for Ajax Cape Town after their 0-0 draw against Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday left them three points adrift of SuperSport United, but the club might regret not making sufficient use of the transfer window that closes at 5pm today. ...
Jury-rigged rudder gets young race crew to Bahia.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ALEX PETERSEN SALVADOR, Bahia: The last of the South African racing class entries, the 30-foot Overproof, has crossed the finish in the Heineken Cape to Bahia race, using a jury-rigged rudder. Behind the race's youngest crew - average age 21 - lay a course ...
Man drowns on crayfishing trip.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER A MORNING spent crayfishing cost a man his life off Kommetjie beach yesterday. Ashwin Carlese, from Ocean View, 24, had been crayfishing with friends when he fell off his paddle ski and drowned. Friends Petro Flatwell, Edmund Fortune ...
'Everyone was screaming, many with their bodies on fire'.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... explosion, but police said the cause remained under investigation. Similar blasts are common in Nigeria where people tap gas pipelines to pilfer fuel for cooking or resale on the black market. In 2006, 200 people died in a fuel blast in Nigeria. "Poverty is pushing ...
Bell tolls for Madagascar as Foreign Affairs looks other way as 100 lose their lives.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... JOHN DONNE'S famous Meditation XVII instructed us that "no man is an island entire of itself" and therefore, we should not "send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee". And yet, not far off the southern African shore, there is an island ringing alarm bells and no ...
Ontong spins Cobrasstraight to Pro20 win.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Zaahier Adams The much-maligned Cape Cobras senior players answered their critics in emphatic fashion with a 16-run victory over the Titans in their Pro20 game at Newlands yesterday. Skipper Justin Ontong spearheaded the charge with a brilliant all-round ...
Zuma calls for tolerance as ANC MP, two women wounded after Zululand rally.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: SIPHO KHUMALO, Political Bureau and SAPA AN ANC MP and two other people have been wounded in an apparent ambush following a rally at which IFP and ANC supporters clashed, leading to the calling in of the defence force, in northern Zululand. The ANC and the ...
Hikers rescued after slipping.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Somerset West Wilderness Search and Rescue was kept busy yesterday as they rescued two men within a few hours of each other. In the first rescue, Michael van der Waldt, 79, was airlifted from the Helderberg Nature Reserve after ...
Boesak warns against jostling for positions in Cope.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Caiphus Kgosana CHANTS of "Boesak for premier" reverberated around the Rocklands Civic Centre hall in Mitchells Plain as anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak returned to the venue where the United Democratic Front was formed more than 25 year ago - this time to a greatly ...
Azapo and APC launch manifestoes.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christelle Terreblanche BLACK Consciousness offshoots Azapo and the African People's Convention have launched their party manifestoes, offering voters socialist democratic alternatives with increased state intervention in the economy and a strong Africanist flavour. ...
Hlophe being sidelined by minister for political reasons says supporter.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... said. "(Hlophe) can't return (to work) on his own terms." In September, the Johannesburg High Court found that the Constitutional Court judges had violated Hlophe's constitutional rights when they released a media statement about their complaint of gross misconduct against him ....
Manuel slams West's response to crash.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Protectionism, the retreat of "very significant amounts of investment" and what amounted to the closing of capital markets for a "number of countries" threatened Africa after the economic crash, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Manuel ...
Hikers rescued after slipping.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Somerset West Wilderness Search and Rescue teams rescued two men within a few hours of each other. Michael van der Waldt, 79, was airlifted from the Helderberg Nature Reserve after slipping and breaking his ankle. ...
Hlophe being sidelined by minister for political reasons says supporter.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... said. "(Hlophe) can't return (to work) on his own terms." In September, the Johannesburg High Court found that the Constitutional Court judges had violated Hlophe's constitutional rights by releasing, without first giving him a hearing, a media statement after submitting their ...
US frigate sets sail today for exercises with SA Navy.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: BRIAN INGPEN INWARD from West Africa, the US frigate Robert G Bradley, named after a decorated hero killed in the World War 2 battle of Leyte in October 1944, berthed at the Waterfront on Thursday during her round-Africa training voyage. She is commanded by ...
Prices soften, but property in demand in province.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL WHILE there has been a "softening" in property prices in the Western Cape in response to the economic downturn, many property groups report an increase in demand in the last quarter of last year and a cautiously positive outlook for this year. ...
Zuma calls for tolerance as ANC MP, two women wounded after Zululand rally.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: SIPHO KHUMALO, Political Bureau and SAPA AN ANC MP and two other people have been wounded in an apparent ambush following a rally at which IFP and ANC supporters clashed, leading to the calling in of the defence force, in northern Zululand. Major ANC and IFP ...
civil servants must step up or move on.(News)
Feb 03, 2009 ... BYLINE: Paul Hoffman What do a multi-billion rand bill to pay for "police misconduct", unpaid social security grants, overcrowded prisons, the crumbling schools system and the slow delivery of state-sponsored housing for the millions of shack dwellers in the metropolitan areas ...