Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from May 2009:
It's a lonely world for sufferers of acute apostrophe withdrawal syndrome.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kerry Rogers It takes me ages to read a book. If you were to watch me reading, you'd see my tongue poking out between my lips, my eye shifting slowly from side to side. Every couple of pages, you'd notice me stopping to look something up in a dictionary. And ...
New album is a testament to Nerwich's talent and originality.(Life)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: JASON CURTIS RUS NERWICH is no stranger to the local jazz circuit, but it's his 2009 Sama-nominated electronic experiment Under The Poetree that seems to be turning everyone on. Having just returned to The Waiting Room in Long Street for a Monday-night ...
Laughter Day.(Life)
May 01, 2009 ... Laughter for Africa and the Upliftment Programme will celebrate World Laughter Day at the V&A Waterfront on Sunday from 11.30am to 1pm. Every year around the world, the first Sunday of May sees people gathering in public venues to partake in the healing power of joy. See ...
Fraudsters, and money launderers target estate agents.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: QUINTON MTYALA ESTATE agents are susceptible to and are increasingly being targeted by money launderers, as other ways of banking ill-gotten wealth are being closed. This is according to an Institute of Security Studies (ISS) advisory on the measures required ...
Galileo - scientific saint versus the church.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Ian Glass This year, 2009, has been designated the International Year of Astronomy by the UN. We are commemorating the moment 400 years ago when Galileo first used what he called a perspicillum to look at the sky. Astronomy was never the same again. The ...
Take charge.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The Cape Times lead headline of April 29 pointed out that voting in the city is still very much split across racial lines. Analysts say the DA will have to radically reposition itself and its election campaign if it hopes to expand its support base. I say let the people watch ...
New brooms.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... In the aftermath of the general elections which resulted in an overall national victory for the ANC, and for the DA in the Western Cape, it is inevitable that certain national ministers and provincial MECs will face the axe, but DA leader Helen Zille is correct in that those ministers from ...
Tastebud experience at Bushmans Kloof.(Life)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER BUSHMANS Kloof Wilderness Reserve & Retreat is having a series of gourmet food and wine weekends. The mouthwatering cuisine and wine pairings, held in a luxurious wilderness environment, will be offered featuring Waterford Wines from May 22-24, ...
If we don't nip swine flu in the bud we face national disaster.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Are we really doing enough to protect South Africans from the Mexican swine flu virus? All it would take is for one infected person to step off a plane and spread it to his or her friends or family for the thing to take hold and infection would escalate in a society with so many ...
Set the tone.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Congratulations to Helen Zille and the DA for securing the Western Cape. I hope that over the next four years you will prove all your detractors wrong, by delivering on your election promises and uplifting the lives of the poor. I sincerely hope that as premier you will not now ...
Let it go.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... If Helen Zille and the DA want to obtain a larger share of the black vote they should lay off JZ, at least for a while. All they will achieve by attacking him will be greater sympathy for the man. The trick now is to let him get on with his job and not give him any ...
Getting started.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The outstanding open letter by Professor Tony Westwood (April 28) calls for commendation and support. There is unquestionably a long list of urgent tasks that need to be addressed and prioritised by premier-elect Helen Zille and her government. Westwood has made several ...
Real rainbow party.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The editorial of April 30 suggesting that the DA polarised the electorate in the recent elections implies that the message should have been more ANC-friendly. The DA was successful in the Western Cape because it had demonstrated how to run the city of Cape Town, exposed the poor ...
Bop to the timeless pop of Abba.(Life)
May 01, 2009 ... THE ABBA SHOW. Presented by Showtime Management Australia. Starring David, Sophie, Heidi and David C. At the Artscape Opera House. Until Sunday. MARIANNE THAMM reviews. Do you speak Abba? Well then you probably won't be able to communicate with millions across the globe, many of ...
Lives down the drain.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Children, even really bad ones, are different from adults. That basic truth is the foundation of our juvenile justice system, which seeks to protect society from violent youth while recognising that they haven't yet developed an adult's brainpower, resistance to peer pressure, judgment and ...
All this free stuff means we'll soon have to give ourselves away.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... LOS ANGELES: I'm not buying enough stuff. I know this partly because President Barack Obama keeps telling me so. Though, oddly, his method for getting me to shop is to give trillions of dollars to insurance and banking corporations. I'm not an economist, but I'm sure it's more ...
Workers'Day.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... WORKERS' Day today commemorates the start of a campaign, more than 120 years ago in the United States, for the right to an eight-hour working day. Six workers were shot dead and four trade union organisers were hanged as a result of a strike which has come to symbolise the ...
Jolly Smeraldo 2, Jolly Roger 0.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Somali pirates attacked the Italian merchant ship the Jolly Smeraldo yesterday for a second day in a row, but it managed to escape, the Italian coastguard said. "The ship was attacked twice, first at around 6am, and then again around two hours later." Almost 20 000 refugees have ...
Gunman kills 13 at Azerbaijan university.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Thirteen people were killed at a university in Azerbaijan yesterday when a gunman went from floor to floor firing at teachers and students after the bell rang for morning classes. The gunman, a Georgian citizen of Azeri origin described as a loner by local media, was among the dead. ...
It's about delivery.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Many critics have attributed the failure of the ANC to win the provincial elections to, inter-alia, race, the recall of Ebrahim Rasool and wrangling in the ANC, with Marias Fransman saying "members did not appreciate the party internal strife". He further asserts that we are ...
Crime 'requires a long sentence'.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: QUINTON MTYALA MORE than a decade after killing his former girlfriend, a Macassar man was yesterday sentenced to 24 years in jail. Niel Philips, 39, was convicted on Wednesday, and yesterday sat quietly in the dock as Judge Burton Fourie of the Western Cape ...
Amid all the service delivery mudslinging there is a chance to put things right.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... SOMETHING of a seismic shift has taken place in South African, and especially Western Cape politics. It is a shift that has been largely ignored amid all the hype about the coming Jacob Zuma presidency. And amid all the crowing about an ANC victory nationally, there are many ...
Barber who made politicians presentable to hang up razor.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: DEVIN HERMANUS WITH the buzz of an electric razor and the aroma of aftershave in the air, city barber Antonio Giovanni Papa cut his last client's hair yesterday in a career spanning over 60 years. Papa, or Giovanni as he prefers, leaves behind a political ...
Do refs have special affection for those Red Devils?(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... AFTER swearing and throwing pillows at the television set while watching Manchester United demolish Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford last Saturday, I decided to visit some blogs to find out if I was the only one who thought referees had a special affection for the dominant English club of ...
All Black 'trial' in Wellingtonas Naas is reinvented in Bloem.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... Weekend Predictions Today Wellington: Hurricanes v Blues (SS1/CSN, 9.35am): This game is shaping up as some sort of All Black trial considering all the top New Zealand players on show. The Hurricanes are red-hot at the moment and destroyed a tough Brumbies outfit by ...
NO EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: JENNY GROSS THERE was no evidence that Unabantu Mali, a one-year-old baby who died on his grandmother's back after visiting three public clinics, was turned away or refused treatment, according to an investigative report on the circumstances of Mali's death last month. ...
City harbour hit by drop in shipping and exports.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY THE economic meltdown has reduced the number of ships entering Cape Town harbour, particularly cargo vessels. Apart from ships that docked for refuelling, the harbour has been quiet recently. "Yes, definitely. The reduction is very ...
Sorry Sue and all the other fans, I'll try and find those extra three metres!(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... WHAT a game! What an advertisement for the IPL! It's just a pity that I couldn't get the boys over the line. Watching the replays on TV after the Kings XI Punjab game, I even saw my girlfriend Sue on the edge of her seat in that final over, so it definitely was a nailbiter! ...
Six men to be charged over house robberies.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... SIX MEN police detained early on Wednesday are to be charged with four cases of house robberies across the peninsula - and may be linked to more. The four cases - two of house robbery and two of housebreaking and theft - were in Camps Bay, Kirstenhof, Diep River and Fish Hoek. ...
CHIEFS HAVE 'INDIVIDUAL BRILLIANCE'.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED STORMERS stand-in captain Schalk Burger says his team wants to "sing again" tomorrow night by beating the Chiefs at Newlands. The Stormers have endured a miserable season, losing seven out of 10 games. Die-hard Stormers fans will go to Newlands ...
Capetonian prepares to take on Everest.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: DEVIN HERMANUS CAPETONIAN Gilad Stern will today attempt to ascend to the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas following several weeks of preparation on the slopes of the highest mountain in the world. Stern and 26 other climbers were due to make their bid ...
Chaaban no longer holds office as NPP representative.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... CONTROVERSIAL politician Badih Chaaban was informed by the city yesterday that he no longer held office as a proportional representative of the National People's Party. City Manager Achmat Ebrahim told Chaaban he could not hold office in one municipal area if he was registered ...
Des Fountain geared for Kahui challenge.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED DYLAN DES FOUNTAIN says he will have to improve on his "concentration and defence" if he is to come out on top against All Black outside centre Richard Kahui in tomorrow night's Super 14 clash between the Stormers and Chiefs at Newlands. Des ...
UCT workers protest 'unacceptable' working conditions.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANA-MARIA UDRICA TO MARK Workers' Day the University of Cape Town (UCT) was yesterday presented with a petition signed by 3 847 members of the UCT community calling for better working conditions for campus workers. The petition was handed over after a march by ...
Award-winning physicist's community work dogged by eviction notices.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING AT 11am on April 1, physicist Frank Wygold of Cape Town was telephoned by the City of Cape Town to say he had won a medal of honour for his contribution to the community, through his environmental education of underprivileged schoolchildren and his ...
Land Claims Court turns down legal bid to increase list of claimants.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY THE LAND Claims Court has turned down 11 people's combined legal attempt to increase a list of 587 claimants of the Ndabeni land restitution. Mired in controversy, the decade-old claim has been the subject of squabbling among claimants and people ...
Man who shared dock with Zuma plans to apply for South African citizenship.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal WITH Jacob Zuma set to become the country's president, the man who once stood next to him in the dock representing French arms subsidiary Thint wants to become a South African citizen. Thint CEO Pierre Moynot - who under French law must retire ...
'REFUSAL WOULD CAUSE PROBLEMS'.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: CARIEN DU PLESSIS JOHANNESBURG: New divisions could be created in the ANC if President Kgalema Motlanthe refused to serve as deputy president in the new cabinet of president-electJacob Zuma, the president of the ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, warned yesterday. ...
ANCYL's deputy to head newyouth agency.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi THE government has announced that the board of the National Youth Development Agency is to be headed by ANC Youth League deputy president Andile Lungisa. Parliament fast-tracked legislation last year that allowed for the National Youth ...
Mother City prepares for MP invasion ahead of swearing-in ceremonies.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Vivian Warby Hundreds of MPs-in-waiting will start streaming into the Mother City this weekend in anticipation of being sworn in as members of the fourth democratic Parliament on Wednesday. MPs will stay in three Cape Town hotels as they set about finding ...
Dutch driver's actions 'were deliberate'.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... illness, police said. They would not give the driver's name. It was not clear how the car entered the parade area, which police had sealed off hours before. Police officers removed the injured driver - who was slumped against his seat with blood on his forehead - and put him ...
Debt 'doctor' to your rescue.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... What does your job entail? Debt counsellors help people in debt to negotiate with credi-tors to pay smaller instalments on the money they owe. A person earning R10 000 a month and paying R12 000 a month to creditors wouldn't have anything left for personal expenses. A debt ...
How to become a debt counsellor.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... There are close to 1 000 debt counsellors registered with the National Credit Regulator, but not all of them are practising at the moment. This is possibly because not all of them have the skills needed to succeed in this line of work. In addition to being a financial expert you ...
Time is money so make every minute count.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... "What may be done at any time will be done at no time." - Scottish proverb Now that the public holidays and half-weeks are history, it should be "back to work" with a vengeance for everyone. It has been interesting to note the reaction to the breaks. Salaried people ...
CV lies 'more likely when jobs are scarce'.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: staff writer In a country with an already high and steadily increasing unemployment rate, there is fierce competition among job applicants for a few scarce openings and this seems to bring out the creative liar in some of them, says Kirsten Halcrow, MD of background ...
Workplace dishonesty in tough times.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch CCMA statistics indicate a significant increase in referrals for dismissals based on misconduct. As economic conditions deteriorate, so the stress levels of employees will rise, leading to increases in acts of misconduct and dishonesty. ...
It's easier to reduce costs when both employers and staff show flexibility.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Susan Stelzner around the world employers are increasingly looking at options to cut costs yet save jobs. Saving jobs in this context, however, requires employees to accept changes if we are to survive the hard times. If not, employers (and the South ...
Virtual offices populated by new breed of mobile workers.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch As recession-battered companies look at ways of saving money on property costs, a growing number are equipping staff with Blackberrys and laptops and moving them out of the main office as a way of reducing expenses. The Regus Group, a ...
UCT course offers negotiation toolkit to help ease pain of recession.(Workplace)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch The nationwide truck driver strike that left shelves empty last month was a timely reminder that, as the economy is hit by a deepening recession, the need for businesses to be able to negotiate successfully has become ever more crucial. ...
All-out war must be waged to stop tikking bomb destroying families.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christo van der Rheede The programme Dik Getik, which highlights drug abuse in the Western Cape and was shown on SABC3, is very disturbing, to say the least. One's heart goes out to the many youngsters, girls and boys, hopelessly trying to escape the grip of tik ...
Remix contest lets you reinterpret Depeche Mode's 'Peace'.(Life)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER WANNABE remixers on the lookout for electronic experimentation can take part in Depeche Mode's remix contest until May 26. Budding DJs and aspiring producers can try their hand at remixing the band's single, Peace, which is housed on their new album, Sounds ...
Matric setwork takes to stage.(Life)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: TERRI DUNBAR-CURRAN FIGHTING your way through the obligatory school setwork can often be a drag, unless you're the sort of learner who reads them the same day your teacher hands them out. For all of those who usually just read the dust cover or scour the ...
Etching classes.(Life)
May 04, 2009 ... An eight-week etching class with Judy Woodborne will start on Friday at Spencer St Studio in Salt River. E-mail judy@spencerstreetstudio. com. Artscape Arena will present Jon Marans' Old Wicked Songs from Friday until May 16. The show is directed by Brenda Gray with musical ...
Environmental Affairs questions ISS report on illegal fishing.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING THE Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has said that an Institute of Security Studies (ISS) report showing high levels of illegal fishing in South Africa may be "a distortion of the facts" and it intends to get experts to verify the content. ...
Friends of Liesbeek AGM.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... The Friends of the Liesbeek will hold their (short) AGM tomorrow at 5.30pm for 6pm in the Environment Centre in the grounds of Valkenberg and meet the new Liesbeek maintenance project manager. Kevin Winter will speak on water and river projects in Cape Town. Refreshments will be served ....
Clothing and textile industry needs to adapt to ever-changing market demands.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: JENNY GROSS COMPETITIVENESS in the clothing and textile industry will remain sluggish even if the macroeconomic issues were remedied because companies have not adapted to changing industrial demands, according to Rob Stewart, a clothing and textile operations industry ...
Altruistic physicist won't lose his premises, says DA.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER FRANK Wygold, the physicist who has won several awards for his voluntary environmental and science education of underprivileged schoolchildren, will not be evicted from the provincial government premises where he runs the projects. On Friday, ...
City mulls rates surcharge for baboon management.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING THE city council may add a surcharge onto rates to help pay for baboon management on the Cape Peninsula. This comes as some residents in the southern peninsula say they feel "under siege" in their homes, and are calling for the big male ...
Lira makes her markat music awards.(Life)(Awards list)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER THE annual MTN South African Music Awards (Sama) - held at the Sun City Super Bowl on Saturday - featured a celebrity guest list and crowds of enthusiastic fans. Lira's Soul In Mind take the coveted Album of the Year award, while the award for ...
Put Pascoe in power.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... Close to 150 000 people in Mitchells Plain voted for the DA in the recent elections. That is among the highest number of votes delivered for the party by any community in the Western Cape. This community has the potential to change governing parties in our city and our province. ...
DA has done more to tackle drug menace than ANC ever did.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... I would like to respond to the letter from Roscoe Jacobs, an ANC imbongi from Hout Bay, who was also an IEC official administering the elections. Jacobs tries to suggest in his patronising letter that Helen Zille and the DA need to start working on fighting drugs. The truth is ...
Insult to teachers.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... I want to add my voice to that of Gavin Calf (letters, 29 April) in saluting and thanking the teaching profession in this country. All thinking and concerned citizens need to become activists for and on behalf of a beleaguered and neglected profession that serves our children ...
The right medicine.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... THe outbreak of swine flu has provoked some alarming predictions from medical scientists about the toll a pandemic could take on human life. Some feel that the tone of these predictions has been hyperbolic and unhelpful. We should certainly resist the urge to mindless panic. But ...
Search for the nothing.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... At a time like this, to write an open letter to Helen Zille (April 28) is to scream to be heard above the political din. But if one tries to see what the fuss is about, one finds: "Resist the temptation to sweep out all the old ... I recommend generosity of spirit ... take to heart one of ...
Nine killed, 26 hurt in accidents on 'quiet' roads.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: MICHELLE JONES NINE people have been killed and 26 injured across Cape Town in a spate of accidents over the long weekend - although traffic officials said the roads were quiet. Heavy mist and poor visibility were blamed for a head-on collision in which six ...