Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from March 2009:
How to be a sponsorshipmarketing director.(Workplace)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Event experience is essential. There is nothing like being at the coal face of arranging events to prepare you for the demands of this job. Thinking on your feet and being able to make instant decisions are vital. You must enjoy socialising and interacting with people at all ...
Developing top talent is critical to Absa's goals.(Workplace)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: staff writer Despite the tough global economic environment, investment bank Absa Capital has doubled its graduate intake for 2009 compared to last year, says Nicole Ciolli, head of the bank's graduate programme. "Graduate recruitment is part of an overall ...
lease cancelled.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY RESIDENTS of the run-down Don Pepe block of flats in Muizenberg, where several arrests have been made for drug offences in recent months, face eviction and the electricity supply being cut off this week. The building became the centre of ...
Bid to end 'exile' for rural Western Cape homosexuals.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH GAY men and lesbians in Western Cape farming communities "almost live in exile" because they are without support structures or information about their sexuality, and they face conservative attitudes from family and friends, says a city NGO. The ...
Stabbings spark police crackdown at schools.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Staff Writer POLICE will this month begin a two-pronged approach to educate pupils about safety at schools. This follows the stabbing of two pupils at Kensington Secondary School last month. The first approach would include explaining at school ...
Owner of sunken yacht wins R9.9m payout battle.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH THE owner of a luxury South African charter yacht that sank off Mozambique four years ago has won a Cape High Court |battle for a R10 million insurance payout by UK insurance giant Lloyd's of London. Judge Roger Cleaver on Friday ruled in ...
No sense offending paying readers, but that doesn't mean censorship is the answer.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Murray Hunter Sjoe, such merry chaos around Sax Appeal! In the three years I worked on the magazine, we never dreamed of getting such publicity. And all it cost was having the mags taken off the shelves at Pick n Pay, which never generated much income in any case. ...
Meditation course offered.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Buddhist monk Gen Pagpa will present a half-day meditation course entitled Heart of Wisdom from 10am to 1pm on Sunday. All welcome. The cost is R100. Phone 021 685 3428. Wilmot James will speak to the CJSA Lifestylers on The Common Person as Leader and its problems for South ...
impersonators do fab four proud.(Life)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: TERRI DUNBAR-CURRAN THERE'S no doubt about it, the Fab Four knew how to whip the crowds into a frenzy. The screaming, fainting, ecstatic hordes helped rocket The Beatles to stardom and now fans can be transported back to the band's heyday with Showtime ...
Zaki Ibrahim confirmed for jazz fest.(Life)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER THE Cape Town International Jazz Festival will once again stage a mixed bag of fusion on their annual jazz bill on the weekend of April 3 and 4. Four stages will host a range of genres, such as Afro-pop, soul, funk, blues, Latin and hip-hop. ...
Homegrown folk.(Life)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Guitarist Gary Thomas will play at the Dorp Street Theatre, 59 Dorp Street in Stellenbosch on Tuesday at 8.30pm. The songer-songwriter's album will be on sale for R70. Tickets are R30 at the door. Call 021 886 6107. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its new identity, Artscape ...
Bait and switch.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... The oppressed, unrecognised traditional small-scale fishers have a long historical claim on the fisheries resources, not only because of their long tradition in fishing, but also local food security, cultural heritage, livelihoods and spiritual beliefs. Their fishing rights have ...
Rebuilding Zimbabwe.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... In her welcome address to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said: "Accordingly, as the international community, we must create an enabling environment for the Zimbabwean people to succeed by, ...
Cast adrift.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... After the irresponsibly late proclamation by the government of the general election date, I am one among thousands of travelling South Africans unable to cast a vote. Having booked and paid for a trip to New Zealand earlier this year, prior to the announcement, I made a ...
Make Mugabe pay.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Yet another bailout. This time it's Zimbabwe looking for a $2 billion (R20bn) loan. While this will surprise nobody, the word "loan" is a misnomer. Zimbabwe has defaulted on a $460 million (R4.6bn) debt to the African Development Bank, so what realistic chance does it have of ...
Sasol, Eskom blasted for carbon emissions.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING SASOL'S planned coal-to-liquid plant in Limpopo would crank up South Africa's already high carbon emissions and would "make a mockery" of the government's long-term strategy to curb carbon emissions. And Eskom's plans to build more coal-fired ...
sax appeal: there is almost no view that does not offend somebody.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: David Benatar The 2009 issue of Sax Appeal is but the latest of many instances of humour that have elicited public indignation. According to reports, at least two Christian groups have lodged formal complaints. UCT's response has been to offer multiple unreserved ...
There's no massaging away the persistent ache of racism.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Saliem Fakir's article, (February 27) refers to an issue that we all try to sweep under the carpet, explain away, or blame on a tiny minority of our country men and women each time it happens. There are still too many in our midst who seem to think that some of us just love ...
Fading away.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... In "Bigotry lives on, but we should not live with it" (February 27), Saliem Fakir fails to give credit to how far South Africa, and indeed the United States, has come in becoming a non-racial society, and in a surprisingly short time. Fifty years ago, had the woman he talks ...
East goes south.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... In the carefree years earlier this decade, the countries that cluster around the eastern frontiers of Europe - the likes of Poland, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia - were some of the brightest stars of the boom. But with the advent of the global banking crisis and the world economic downturn, ...
Mugabe takes the cake.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... WHEN ANGRY French citizens complained about the high price of staple foods in 1789, Queen Marie Antoinette is said to have remarked: "If they have no bread, let them eat cake." Robert Mugabe is of course not French. Nor, he says, is he a queen. But he went a step ...
Humility of truly great people shows the way to contentment.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Reading stories, as hyped as they may be, about people who overcome tremendous odds to achieve great personal goals has always fascinated me. These are people such as Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb to the top of Mount Everest; Heinrich Harrer, who was a member of ...
Secondary prey.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... This truth is notoriously difficult to escape: globalisation gives rise to shared fortunes on the economic front. The 1.8% contraction in South Africa's economic activity reported last week may well be shocking, but I imagine that, were it not for the World Cup and government ...
City accepts Joburg offer to write off R4.2m claim.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE City of Cape Town has accepted an offer from the City of Johannesburg to write off an amount of R4.2 million the city owes Johannesburg for a consultancy contract signed by former city manager Wallace Mgoqi. And the city has decided not to ...
Suspect to appear in court over woman's murder.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... A man is to appear in Oudtshoorn Magistrate's Court today charged with the murder of a woman who was kicked and beaten to death in a churchyard early on Saturday. Southern Cape police spokes-person Malcolm Pojie said the body of 24-year-old Delia Opperman was found in a ...
Guinea's military junta lifts political ban.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Guinea's military rulers announced on Saturday that they were lifting a ban on activities by political parties and unions, imposed since the junta seized power in a December 23 coup. The junta seized power only hours after the announcement of the death of Guinean President Lansana Conte, ...
Man arrested after bomb hoaxes grounded Comair flights.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER A PRETORIA man will appear in the Bellville Magistrate's Court next month after he was arrested for having allegedly made hoax bomb threats resulting in several Comair flights at the Cape Town International Airport being delayed and searched. He ...
Cleric demands Islamic courts in Pakistan region.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... A hardline cleric sent by Pakistan to talk to the Taliban has demanded that the government create Islamic courts in Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley by mid-March, a deadline that could undermine peace talks already alarming the West. Kremlin faces big test in local elections ...
Water week events will focus on leaks.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THE city's water week programme running until Saturday aims to educate the public on saving water by detecting leaks and installing water management devices. The water and sanitation department has encouraged residents to take part in events ...
Brave 16-year-old's attempt to sail into the record books.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: DEVIN HERMANUS Resuming his solo voyage around the world, a 16-year-old from England set sail yesterday from Cape Town after a month ashore. Michael Perham, of Hertfordshire, left Portsmouth on November 15 last year in an attempt to become the youngest person ...
Ertugral officiallygives up on title chase.(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Jonty Mark Johannesburg: Muhsin Ertugral has conceded defeat in his side's bid for the Premiership title, following the Amakhosi's 3-0 humbling at the hands of league leaders SuperSport United on Saturday night. Chiefs were so utterly overwhelmed by ...
Racketeer ordered to pay his R1m profit to the state.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH ONE of 11 men who were convicted last year of working for a syndicate that staged a series of hijackings of British American Tobacco SA (Batsa) cigarette trucks in 2003 has been ordered to pay the state R1 million, equalling his profits from the crimes ....
Sharks may move Sykes to flankas Downey replaces injured Deysel.(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY THE touring Sharks have called up homegrown Durban boy Justin Downey to replace injured flank Jean Deysel. The 22-year-old Northwood High old boy leaves for New Zealand this morning while Deysel will be travelling in the opposite direction. ...
Du Noon resident dies inshack fire, 100 left homeless.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY A RESIDENT of the Du Noon informal settlement died and more than 100 were left homeless as firefighters fought three separate shack fires over the weekend. They also continued tackling blazes in Somerset West. Teams of firefighters ...
UN worried about rebels' return toeastern DRC.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Peter Fabricius United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern that the Hutu rebels recently driven from their strongholds in the eastern DRC could return now that Rwanda has withdrawn its forces. But Rwandan President Paul Kagame told Ban ...
SAA strike 'not affecting flights'.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... SOUTH African Airways (SAA) says the strike by some of its ground staff is not expected to cause any delays in flights this week. Spokesperson Robyn Chalmers said yesterday that the airline's "contingency plan", implemented as the strike began on February 20, had "ensured the ...
ajax and santos beaten.(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: JOHN GOLIATH AJAX CAPE TOWN coach Craig Rosslee blasted referee Peter Mabuza after he disallowed a second-half goal in their 1-0 defeat against Golden Arrows at the Athlone Stadium on Saturday night. But to be fair, the Urban Warriors will only have themselves ...
jean's demand ...(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED STORMERS captain Jean de Villiers has called on his teammates to "stand up and be counted" as they try to rescue their faltering Super 14 campaign against the Bulls at Loftus on Saturday. Poor handling, a spate of ineffectual box kicks and a ...
a step backward for the industry.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING THE Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) has released startling draft regulations about electricity generation which are likely to kill off any serious investment in renewable energy in South Africa. The deadline for pubic comment is today, ...
Malema slams apartheid agents, black middle class.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Barry Bateman ANC Youth League president Julius Malema called on the youth to purge "apartheid agents" from the Tshwane Metro Council. Malema addressed a crowd of about 2 000 supporters at an election rally at the Dube community hall, north of Pretoria ...
months of speculation end.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Caiphus Kgosana THE Congress of the People (Cope) confirmed yesterday that former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka had officially joined the party, ending months of speculation. News of Mlambo-Ngcuka's signing up came hard on the heels of businessman ...
Girl, 11, and rescuer drown in Great Brak.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... A YOUNG girl drowned and the man who tried to save her also lost his life in the Great Brak River in Suiderkruis on Saturday. Hylie Molondo, 11, was part of a Sunday school outing from Blanco, near George, on Saturday when she and a friend, Melanie-Anne Appolis, 12, got into ...
Pietersen puts the brakes on Cobras title bid.(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ZAAHIER ADAMS Charl Pietersen's four-wicket burst propelled the Eagles to an 80-run victory over the Cape Cobras at Newlands yesterday to keep the visitors' bid to retain their SuperSport Series title on track. The Eagles claimed 17.12 points for the victory, ...
Habana out of Loftus clash and Schalk may not make it.(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED BRYAN HABANA is out of the Bulls team, Stormers flank Schalk Burger could be out and Bulls captain Victor Matfield may be back. That was the latest on the injury front from both teams yesterday ahead of Saturday's huge Super 14 derby at Loftus ....
Rassie: We're still on the right track.(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED STORMERS coach Rassie Erasmus says that he "will resign" if he feels his players do not believe in his methods to achieve success. Erasmus said after the Stormers had lost 14-8 to the Blues at Newlands on Saturday night that he does feel that ...
Fishy tale with an unbelievable ring.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... LONDON: A businessman who lost his cellphone on a beach was amazed when it turned up - in the belly of a giant cod. Andrew Cheatle thought it had been swept out to sea after it slipped from his pocket. But a week later his girlfriend's cellphone rang and it was ...
Pact with Kagame's rebuilt Rwanda gives some hope to beleaguered DRC.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Sitting on the patio of the Hotel Des Mille Collines in Kigali, looking over a neat, orderly and peaceful city sparkling in the sun, it is hard to imagine the scene from here 15 years ago, come April. The brave and resourceful manager of this hotel turned it into a safe haven ...
Kallis uses ball to fell Aussies and set scene for nail-biting finish.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess JOHANNESBURG: In keeping with a season of gripping encounters, South Africa and Australia enter the final day of the first Castle Test at the Wanderers this morning with the outcome very much in the balance. South Africa ended the day on 178/2, ...
Soaring temperatures, thick vegetation hamper firefighters.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... most intense above Lourensford wine estate, Vergelegen wine estate and on Horse Shoe Bend in Sir Lowry's Pass. Pieter Smit at the Cape Town Fire Command and Control Centre said soaring temperatures and thick, dense vegetation were hampering firefighters' efforts. The ...
aussies favourites, but ...(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess JOHANNESBURG: The day began with Australia very much in the ascendancy, it ended with the game in the balance and recent memories of the seemingly impossible being achieved by South Africa. Australia remain the favourites and the more likelier of ...
Harrishoping fora big onefrom Kallis.(Sports)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum Johannesburg: For the first time in the last nine games played in South Africa, a Test match will go into the fifth day. Not for the first time between South Africa and Australia, the result of the fifth day and outcome of the match is shrouded in ...
Boesak vows to run a principled campaign.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... was confident the DA would emerge as the biggest party in the province, but conceded it might have to enter into a coalition with other parties, Zille said. De Lille said the ID was open to forming coalition governments in provinces without an ANC majority. She said coalition ...
Tsvangirai Mutambara set for showdown with Mugabe.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Independent Foreign Service HARARE: After a week of contradictory statements on policy, the three principals in the country's fragile power-sharing government are to meet today for a showdown. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and deputy premier Arthur ...
Two drown, one missing after going swimming.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITERS POLICE divers were due to continue searching today for the body of a man who is thought to have drowned near Jeffrey's Bay. NSRI St Francis Bay station commander Bob Meikle said they had searched the Aston Bay Lagoon yesterday for the 25-year-old ...
Four April holidays worry industry, excite leisure businesses.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: COLLEEN DARDAGAN DURBAN: April this year is the closest South Africans will probably ever get to a month of Sundays. With four public holidays, an election and only 18 working days in the month, the prospect of manufactured long weekends poses a nightmare for ...
Marked slowdown in bank credit growth.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Evidence of slowing consumption continues to mount. The Reserve Bank says growth in bank credit to the private sector in the 12 months to January slowed to 11.85 percent. Kevin Lings, an economist at Stanlib, said credit card growth had slowed to 2.6 percent year ...
Fighting corruption to be a priority at all levels for ANC, Zuma tells rally.(News)
Mar 02, 2009 ... seizure at the rally and was also treated at the hospital, Maxon said. Speaking after order had been restored, Zuma, with a garland around his neck, said the ANC would ensure that those included in its election candidates lists would not be slackers. "We will fight ...
Course to jazz up skills of music reporters.(Life)
Mar 03, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER THE Cape Town International Jazz Festival will once again run a full-time short course for working and aspiring music journalists from March 28 to April 4. Trainers will include Gwen Ansell and Karen Williams. The programme draws ...
Russian festival of art at the Baxter.(Life)(Theater review)
Mar 03, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER THE first Festival of Russian Art arrives in Cape Town for a two-night showcase at the Baxter Theatre on March 11 and 12 at 7.30pm. The youthful Silver Voices of Russia (Dell Arte), which celebrates its 15th anniversary, will feature an ensemble of ...
Northern Cape in the running to host/world's largest radio telescope.(News)
Mar 03, 2009 ... BYLINE: Alan Bowen The Northern Cape could soon host the world's largest radio telescope: the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a collection of 4 000 antennae dishes spread over 1 million square metres of arid Karoo landscape. These dishes will be linked to a ...
Bloody Beetroots live at the Assembly.(Life)
Mar 03, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER THE Assembly and The End is Nigh will present Italian nu-dance duo The Bloody Beetroots live onstage at the Assembly at 61 Harrington Street on Friday March 6. DJ support on the night will be by DJ Grave Danger, Alex, Kitcsh Witsch, Battle Beyond ...
A little discipline helps avert online hazards.(News)
Mar 03, 2009 ... Last week I described how much popular Internet security suites imposed a heavy burden on a computer's resources. Often it is better to stick to good practices and common sense, with your own suite made of lean and efficient security tools to protect against relevant threats. ...
dubya does dallas, gets dissed.(News)
Mar 03, 2009 ... BYLINE: David Usborne How fast they fade. Poor George Bush decided that an unannounced visit to a Dallas hardware store would be a fun way to emerge from a month of post-presidential purdah and make a splash with his new neighbours. But the greeter who met him inside, a ...
Collective anxiety about where SA is going may lead to our Obama moment.(News)
Mar 03, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christine Qunta The NEW US attorney-general, Eric Holder, caused a stir when he called Americans "a nation of cowards" because, in his words, "Americans simply do not talk enough about race". There was outrage in rightwing circles at what they saw as an ...
Research confirms we are slowly moving out of the sexual dark ages.(News)
Mar 03, 2009 ... WHOSE nose cannot be moved to running like a tap by the poignant tale of the feisty Benoni teen (cute as a button spider) who set her palpitating ventricles on becoming a Hollywood starlet, entering a rehab, and recovering her suppressed memories of childhood abuse by a roiling nest of ...