Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from April 2009:
My golfing fantasy list before I kick the bucket ...(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... WHEN the final hole of life comes along, will you honestly be able to say you've got the most out of the game of golf? It's not just about meeting your golfing buddies on a Saturday morning. It's not even about those few great rounds, brilliant shots and lucky putts. It's about experiences ...
Finalists exhibit their art in Bellville.(Life)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER ARTWORKS by the finalists in the Absa L'Atelier competition are being exhibited at The Arts Association of Bellville in Carel van Aswegen Street. Absa L'Atelier competition entrants exhibited their work at galleries around the country, and of ...
Coyne-ing a new understanding.(Life)(Theater review)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: MARIANNE THAMM IT STARTED as a joke, says Fiona Coyne of her sixth stage play, Careful, soon debuting at the Absolut Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in May. It was all the irrepressible stage diva Diane Wilson's doing. Wilson had mentioned to veteran director Roy ...
Holy smoke and mirrors ... I can't wait for politics to become politics again.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Lebogang Mokwena I can't wait for April 22 to arrive. Not that I am waiting with bated breath for election day - in fact, the people who should really be holding their breath about voting are all the newly eligible voters like those born after 1987 whose ...
Captain Fowkes, a true sailor, efficient ship handler and a wonderful friend.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... I had thought, dear reader, to tell you that a new iron ore terminal - with an extensive stockpile area for ore, and a busy rail link passing through the Cape Flats - would be constructed in False Bay, near the "cemetery" surfing spot. Having hooked you, I would have reminded you of ...
Lama mania.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... So the hounds of political correctness are baying for Trevor Manuel's blood because he isn't mouthing the right platitudes. Although it is true that the ANC messed up the Dalai Lama visa matter, ANC ineptitude is not news. Far more interesting is what appears to be mass ...
Hit and myth.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Andrew Kenny (Business Report, March 27) runs the risk of unwittingly joining the ranks of conspiracy theorists by debunking a patently solid body of evidence garnered over decades as "a millennial religion of rich people in rich countries". Andrew Nash is closer to the truth ...
Cheap shot.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Trevor Manuel's Bambi comment ("To say anything against the Dalai Lama is in some quarters equivalent to trying to shoot Bambi", March 27) is a cheap shot. Where would we be now if the rest ...
Choral concerts.(Life)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The first Stellenbosch University International Choral Conducting Symposium - Voices of South Africa - will take place from today until Saturday in the Konservatorium in Stellenbosch. The Tygerberg Children's Choir, Stellenbosch Madrigal Singers, University of the Western Cape Choir and ...
Trail and error.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Climbing Mount Everest has a statistical death rate of about 1.6 percent. It defies human intelligence to embark on such a risky venture. Collectively, crime, wars and car accidents aren't nearly as risky. And yet anyone who forsakes their families and friends to climb Everest ...
Exams don't fly.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Western Cape Education Department has issued assessment management minute 0007/2009, dated March 17. This circular indicates that the Common Task Assessments (CTA) Section A in grade 9 must be done in May and June (the second term). To readers not familiar with these ...
Transformation can't succeed if it is driven by dishonesty.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... As worthy a cause as transformation is, it is becoming increasingly necessary for South Africans to engage in constructive, enlightened debate, not just on the merits or lack thereof, but also on the economic reasons for transformation. This approach may help us get a clear view ...
Root out terror.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in central Lahore earlier this month was a mighty blow to the sporting culture that unites the subcontinent. But Monday's assault by militants on a police station on the outskirts of the same city was just as bold in its ambition ....
Waste not, want not.(Life)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER WASTED, a multi-disciplinary installation developed by Two Brothers' Art, will be performed at the Artapart Gallery on April 8 and 9 at 7.30pm. The installation, the first collaboration by visual artist Gary Wentworth and his writer brother, ...
Blowby blow.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... It looks as if long-suffering consumers will have to tighten the belt yet another notch to cope with rising energy costs. The price of petrol went up at midnight yesterday by about 4.4 percent and that of diesel by about 6.5 percent. And new electricity tariff increases are on ...
City's imaginative answer to climate change lauded.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH INSPIRED by the success of Saturday's Earth Hour initiative, the City of Cape Town has come up with what a top international scientist has called "a cutting edge and world class solution to the problem of climate change" - household electricity supplies ...
Wylie 'looks good' in training, so Des Fountain has to wait.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED WYLIE HUMAN's eye-catching performance during training yesterday and his good positional play in what is expected to be greasy conditions are set to earn him a start at right wing for the Stormers in Saturday's Super 14 clash against the Waratahs in ...
Apple aims to draw out pupils' artistic talent.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THE Western Cape Education Department has launched a project to give high school pupils the chance to express their musical and artistic talent while honing their computer skills using cutting-edge software. Pupils at the South Peninsula High in ...
Pet project.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Laura Anne Williams (March 31) writes of the expense of shopping for food and especially the difficulty in keeping multi-cat households happy. As Wendy Knowler stated (March 30), better rand and nutritional value may be obtained by buying pet mince, etc. Most of the locally ...
'Many horses will be at high risk if killer disease reaches province'.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH "LOTS" OF horses in the Western Cape are not vaccinated against African horse sickness, so a Department of Agriculture restriction on the entry of horses into the province is a necessary precaution, says an organisation that works to educate and warn ...
police officers burn midnight oil.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY EXHAUSTED police officers across the Western Cape worked into the early hours of this morning trying to accommodate the hundreds of gun owners who left applying for a new licence to the last minute. Officers at a number of stations worked from ...
Province blocks rental deals after whistleblower claims huge property scam.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE Western Cape government has rejected two lease applications submitted by the Department of Public Works for the rental of commercial property on suspicion that they are part of a R55-million property scam. And the Democratic Alliance has warned ...
Fourth former mines minister held in Guinea.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Guinea's ruling military junta has arrested Ahmed Kante, a former mines minister on embezzlement charges, a week after it detained three other ex-ministers for mines on the same grounds. Captain Moussa Dadis Camara vowed to fight corruption when he seized power in the world's biggest ...
Another 1 000 families move into N2 Gateway houses.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY YEARS of miserable living conditions ended yesterday for more than 1 000 families as they became beneficiaries of N2 Gateway houses built in Delft, New Rest and Joe Slovo. The handover has brought to 3 000 the number of houses allocated to ...
The incredible plot against Jacob Zuma.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Mervyn Bennun Jacob Zuma and his supporters repeatedly claim that the prosecution he is facing is the result of a politically motivated plot led by former president Thabo Mbeki to discredit Zuma so that he will not become president. An explanation of some law ...
Great to see Botha rewarded forhard work on 'doosra' and yorker.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... I WAS like a baby in a candy store last week. A self-confessed Twenty20 fan, all my Christmas presents had arrived as early as March with the news that the Indian Premier League would be coming to South Africa. These are exciting times in South African cricket, especially with ...
Trying to renew your gun licence can turn you into a crook.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... IN case you never noticed, yesterday was D-Day for the renewal of gun licences. I've never owned a firearm myself, and feel safer without one. Once I was presented with a sword-stick and even that made me nervous. The idea was that if I were out strolling and someone threatened ...
Court action over company's 'vitamin water'.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH A SUBSIDIARY of Coca-Cola has interdicted a local company from local manufacture and distribution of the beverage Vitamin Water, which it alleges is similar to one of its well-known, celebrity-endorsed international brands. Western Cape High ...
'French occupation' of Mayotte rejected.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Arab League leaders have rejected the "French occupation" |of the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, according to a final |statement from their annual summit which was made public |yesterday. Mayotte voted on Sunday to become part of France. Philippine troops and tanks advanced on ...
Premier takes Zille's comments /in her stride.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL PREMIER Lynne Brown has reacted with "surprise" to comments by mayor Helen Zille that she showed a "lack of leadership" in the recent taxi crisis. "The taxi issue is very complex and needs cool heads. I know we are in the middle of an election ...
Long Street road hogs targeted/in traffic crackdown.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL BUSINESSES in Long Street have welcomed the City of Cape Town's decision to clamp down on illegal parking in the city centre. The city's traffic services have been inundated with complaints of illegal parking and are to increase patrols in the ...
Parliamentary staff pledge/to blow the whistle on graft.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Political Bureau MORE than 100 parliamentary staff have signed a pledge to blow the whistle on colleagues involved in fraud and corruption, and committing them|to clean governance in the|institution. The anti-fraud and corruption campaign was launched by ...
Dalai Lama speaks out as Zuma defends SA ban.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: CARIEN DU PLESSIS and Sapa-AFP The Dalai Lama says the recent decision by the South African government to refuse him a visa to attend a peace conference of Nobel laureates was the result of Chinese diplomatic pressure, but said the decision had backfired by generating ...
SA should close book on arms deal and move on, says Malema.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christelle Terreblanche THE leader of the ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, has called for an end to persistent allegations of corruption in the government's multimillion-rand arms deal. Speaking during SAfm's After Eight debate yesterday, Malema said the ...
Three-day Villiersdorp search still fails to find girl, 7.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: DEVIN HERMANUS AS the third day of a search for a missing seven-year-old Villiersdorp girl drew to a close without results yesterday, her distraught father remained positive that "my child will be found". Tshepang Moleleki last saw his daughter Relebohile ...
AWB acts to halt civil rights groups' bid to stop pardons.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Political Bureau Six Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members who were jailed for the murder of a black man have launched a joint action to halt a legal challenge from civil rights groups who want to stop President Kgalema Motlanthe from granting pardons for ...
Buthelezi tries to force government to grant Dalai Lama a visa.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi will bring an urgent application in the Western Cape High Court tomorrow to compel the Department of Home Affairs to grant the Dalai Lama a visa to visit South Africa. A week after the Tibetan leader was denied ...
Proteas reward Parnell with SA contract.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: PATRICK COMPTON DURBAN: The contest between South Africa and Australia in this golden summer has taken on a remarkable symmetry. South Africa won the Test series Down Under by 2-1, lost the Pro20 series 2-0 and won the ODI series 4-1. Now, back on South ...
Tickets for/Indian cricket/spectacular on/sale from Friday.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ZAAHIER ADAMS Western Province Cricket announced yesterday that Indian Premier League tickets will go on sale from Friday at Newlands as well as at Computicket. Newlands Stadium manager Cyril Martin confirmed that there has been "major interest" from the ...
How many judges does /it take to judge a judge?(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: LOUISE FLANAGAN JOHANNESBURG: Those judicial conversations over a cup of tea have turned into a protracted year-long fight involving 16% of the country's judiciary. Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe's battle to keep his job has involved at least 32 of ...
ACDP rejects donation/from casino.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Political Bureau Gaming and leisure group Tsogo Sun has expressed surprise at the decision by the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) to hand back a R100 000 donation of election funds made by the company. The ACDP revealed yesterday that it had rejected ...
Electoral Court gives Winnie green light /for ANC list.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Political Bureau BLOEMFONTEIN: ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela Mandela has been given the green light by the Electoral Court to stand as a candidate for Parliament in the forthcoming elections, despite her conviction for fraud. The court dismissed an appeal by ...
IPL tickets available from Friday.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... "The IPL came to us with their own prices, and we then had to drive them down," Martin said. "Individual centres had to come up with prices which best suited their market, and as we (Newlands) would just have come off a one-day international a week before, we tried aggressively ...
City's switch off plan is 'incredible' - top scientist.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Monday that Earth Hour resulted in a 15 percent reduction in South Africa's lighting consumption. Outlining its plan in the statement, the City of Cape Town said it would dispatch teams from its utility services directorate to all parts of the city to find out which buildings ...
Ngcakani has a duty to probe if Mbeki was bugged - DA.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: CHRISTELLE TERREBLANCHE The DA has lashed out the inspector-general of intelligence, saying he has given "grossly inadequate" reasons for not launching a probe into purported tape recordings said to be central to Jacob Zuma's representations to prosecutors. ...
Zille has 4-point plan for economy.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Staff Writer THE Democratic Alliance has promised to create "thousands and thousands of new jobs" in poverty-stricken Atlantis, where the majority of residents are unemployed. That's if voters choose it to govern the Western Cape ahead of a "dithering" ANC ...
Sharks still hoping JP will be fit.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY DURBAN: Not that long ago, John Plumtree and Chris Boyd were in charge of Wellington, the New Zealand national provincial championship-incarnation of the Super 14 team currently in town to play the Sharks on Saturday (5pm). So when the duo ...
Man to appear in court after police find wildlife house of horrors in upscale Pretoria suburb.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken PRETORIA: An Asian man living in an upmarket suburb here has been arrested for slaughtering lions and rhinos at his home. Police made the discovery yesterday after city officials received a tip-off that wild animals were being killed and chopped ...
Parliamentary staff pledge to fight fraud.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Political Bureau MORE than 100 parliamentary staff have signed a pledge to blow the whistle on colleagues involved in fraud and corruption, and to commit themselves to clean governance. The campaign was launched by Deputy Speaker Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge ...
Jailed AWB men fight bid by rights groups to delay pardons.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Political Bureau Six Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members jailed over the death of a black man and an attack on others have launched a joint bid to halt a legal challenge from civil rights groups who want to stop President Kgalema Motlanthe from granting pardons for ...
City's switch off plan is 'incredible' - top scientist.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Monday that Earth Hour resulted in a 15 percent reduction in South Africa's lighting consumption. Outlining its plan in the statement, the City of Cape Town said it would dispatch teams from its utility services directorate to all parts of the city to find out which buildings ...
Long Street road hogs targeted in traffic crackdown.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL BUSINESSES in Long Street have welcomed the City of Cape Town's decision to clamp down on illegal parking in the city centre. The city's traffic services have been inundated with complaints of illegal parking and are to increase patrols in the ...
How many judges does it take to judge a judge?(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: LOUISE FLANAGAN JOHANNESBURG: Those judicial conversations over a cup of tea have turned into a protracted year-long fight involving 16% of the country's judiciary. Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe's battle to keep his job has involved at least 32 of ...
Tickets for Indian cricket spectacular on sale from Friday.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ZAAHIER ADAMS Western Province Cricket announced yesterday that Indian Premier League tickets would go on sale from Friday at Newlands as well as at Computicket. Newlands Stadium manager Cyril Martin confirmed that there has been "major interest" from the ...
City's imaginative answer to climate change lauded.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH INSPIRED by the success of Saturday's Earth Hour initiative, the City of Cape Town has come up with what a top international scientist has called "a cutting edge and world-class solution to the problem of climate change" - household electricity supplies ...
Adcock and Liberty spread African wings.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Two South African companies yesterday disclosed plans to spread their footprints across the African continent, joining an increasing number of local companies heading north. According to Zen Negatu, a managing partner at Ernst & Young Ethiopia, this is the best time to seek ...
'French occupation' of Mayotte rejected.(News)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Arab League leaders have rejected the "French occupation" of the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, according to a final statement from their annual summit which was made public yesterday. Mayotte voted on Sunday to become part of France. Philippine troops and tanks advanced on a ...
COLD COMFORT As CONFEDERATIONS CUP LOOMS.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NKARENG MATSHE LAUSANNE, Switzerland: The result of last night's friendly international at the Olympic Stadium would hardly have sent shockwaves through world soccer, but Bafana Bafana's meek 2-0 surrender to Portugal left too many questions at a time South Africans ...
Potter and puppet master make magic.(Life)
Apr 02, 2009 ... Exhibition: JUDY WOODBORNE and WIEBKE VON BISMARCK at The Cape Gallery until Saturday. MELVYN MINNAAR reviews. Perhaps it wasn't planned, but Von Bismarck's elegant, austerely cool pots and vases offer a perfect adjunct and deepen the meditative ambience that Woodborne clearly ...
Understated British humour amuses.(Life)
Apr 02, 2009 ... NO SEX PLEASE - WE'RE BRITISH. Two-act farce by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot. Directed by Aubrey Hindle. Presented by the Fish Hoek Dramatic Society. At the Masque Theatre until Saturday. SHEILA CHISHOLM reviews. AFTER its opening in London's West End in 1971, No Sex ...
Cascade of blunders exposes ANC's arrogance in believing it will rule forever.(News)
Apr 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Allister Sparks Seldom in any modern democracy can a ruling party have stumbled through such a thicket of blunders in the run-up to an election as the ANC has these past few weeks and months. This penchant for self-inflicted injury is not new. It began during ...
Local science journalists vital to keep us abreast of projects in our country.(News)
Apr 02, 2009 ... The model of science journalism is the New York Times's Tuesday edition. Four pages of the best science journalism, usually accompanied by more topically directed health coverage. The quality is superb, because the journalists have science degrees and know what they are writing about. ...
Zille's bid to tap into Khayelitsha vote plumbs new depths.(News)
Apr 02, 2009 ... Helen Zille's trip with her entourage into Enkanini in Khayelitsha on March 29, as reported in the Cape Times of March 30, and the comments she and some in her entourage made about service delivery, myself and the ANC certainly cannot go unchallenged. The article reported on ...
Elections a test of nation's decency and dignity.(News)
Apr 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Courtney Sampson On April 22, South Africans will once again go to the polls to make the mark that, more than any other, signifies their constitutional right to participate in the shaping of this country's destiny. At the same time it will remind us of the ...
Grand cause.(News)
Apr 02, 2009 ... Thanks to the Cape Times for the coverage on the challenges facing grandparents (March 31). The issues affecting the elderly are enormous, as revealed in the article, and we are grateful that they are now beginning to receive media attention. This will hopefully galvanise ...