Pretoria News (South Africa) back issues from July 2006:
Zimbabwean flyhalf aims to impress in SA.(Sports)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Kgomotso Sethusha Eersterus Rugby Club will unleash their new signing, Zimbabwean rugby international Victor Zimbawo, on the University of Pretoria in their Carlton League second leg clash this afternoon. The little-known, but highly-rated flyhalf will be ...
It is not the cut that counts.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... Every rose gardener knows that in July you have to prune the roses. It is tradition. But, rose authority Ludwig Taschner feels that many gardeners don't understand why they do what they do. "Roses that are not pruned will not die; they will still grow and flower, but they will ...
Medicinal herb garden.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... A medicinal herb garden can be the simplest of gardens with just a few of your favourite healing herbs. A garden like the one that caught my eye at the Herb and Natural Living festival at Garden World earlier this year was designed by herb hobbyist and landscaper, Jinx ...
Winter colour.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... There's always something new to learn in gardening and this week I learnt that violas do better than pansies in Pretoria. According to Eloise Maartens from BallStraathof, violas thrive in Pretoria's warmer winter and will flower for longer in spring because they can take the ...
Hurry up spring.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... This year's icy winter is sure to make spring even sweeter. To speed up the change of season, Garden World, in partnership with First National Bank, is holding their annual Spring Festival from July 28 to September 3. The 11 show gardens range from classic and ...
Making a plan is the old SA way.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... Sad to say, but the streets of funky Doringkloof have become decidedly mean - and rather inventively so. This thought struck me on chilly Tuesday morning when I was on a perambulation around the frozen climes. I don't quite know why, but looking at the grey skies it ...
Skinny Posh a 'thinspiration'.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... Victoria Beckham has been showing off her slender frame in tiny shorts and skin-tight T-shirts during the World Cup. But it is feared that the 31-year-old's ultra-slim figure is making her a "thinspiration" for anorexics. The mother of three and former Posh Spice is ...
Snap me baby one more time.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... A six-month pregnant Britney Spears has posed nude for the cover of the August issue of Harper's Bazaar magazine. The issue, which will feature a story and additional photographs inside the magazine, is much in the style of the famous 1991 Vanity Fair cover of a naked and ...
Madonna's hands give her age away.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... As the saying goes, you can never be too rich or too thin. But one look at Madonna and you know you can be too muscly. Her sleeveless top shows off her svelte shape, honed by hours of punishing exercise in the gym. It also shows off bulging shoulders, and ...
Kate's back with Burberry.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... Kate Moss has become the new face of British fashion house Burberry, nine months after its bosses axed her. The company had quickly distanced itself from the supermodel last year, after pictures were published showing her snorting cocaine. Moss has now been reunited ...
This brainy girl hails from a humble background.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... A 13, Winnie Magudulela has already been exposed to two lifestyle extremes. As a primary school student in Eikenhof, near Lenasia, she is the type of student who finishes her schoolwork before other children and to whom her classmates turn to for assistance. Back at home in ...
Rugby star sings for his supper.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... Blue Bulls flyhalf Kennedy Tsimba has used his injury time constructively and has entered the music world. The 32-year-old Zimbabwean, who has also played for the Cheetahs, launched his first music album Zimfluence this week and showed off his musical skills. "This ...
Five from city make it into Proteas team.(Sports)
Jul 01, 2006 ... The strong representation of students from Gauteng North in the Proteas team certainly surprised many of the other provinces. No fewer than five students from the capital city will represent South Africa in Finland in the 2006 WKF Senior World Karate Championships later this year. ...
Brothers feel long arm of the law.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Cornelia du Plooy Police have arrested two brothers who have been "terrorising" people during robberies in the northern reaches of Tshwane. Police spokesman Superintendent Junior Metsi said one of the brothers had been out on parole after being granted ...
Home Affairs insists it runs a successful operation.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sheena Adams The Department of Home Affairs insists it is functioning successfully. This is despite the fact that most of its offices are dirty and dilapidated, and that concerns - and complaints - over the services it delivers are mounting. The department's ...
There's no place like home - but where is it?(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Lumka Oliphant A group of young refugees agreed to take part in a Department of Home Affairs imbizo on their stay in South Africa, hoping to highlight their plight. Instead, they were taken to the Jeppe police station. Tuesday was a day they were supposed to ...
Liquid gas still in short supply.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Harriet Knight Extremely cold weather has led to such an increase in demand for liquified petroleum gas (LPG) that it is hampering efforts by refineries to normalise the supply to inland areas. Industrial orders are up as the consumer market, which mainly uses ...
The woman whose face was torn off by her pet dog buys ... a new dog.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: PETER ALLENAfter having her face ripped apart by a labrador and undergoing the world's first face transplant, you might expect Isabelle Dinoire to be a little wary of dogs. But, astonishingly, the French woman was pictured walking a new pet last week. ...
Satellite tracking may lead to hijackings, robberies.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: ROY BARFORD Satellite tracking systems have led to a reduction in vehicle theft in the new millennium, but this may also be a reason why drivers are more likely to be hijacked, with criminals being unable to bypass systems without the owners' assistance. A ...
Local film to be introduced to school curriculum.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sheree Russouw A South African film may finally make its debut in the classroom, giving high school pupils the opportunity to learn about their own homegrown cinematic success stories. The Department of Education is considering Forgiveness, directed by Ian ...
'News vendor turns another page.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Bronwyn Seaborne Brenden Mashamba's days of selling the Pretoria News are over. He is swopping printer's ink for textbooks. Mashamba has stood at the intersection of Lynnwood and Brooklyn roads every day selling newspapers for about three years, but ...
Coke Cup is dealt a knock-out.(Sports)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Kgomotso Sethusha The popular Coca-Coca Cup knock-out competition has run out of gas. The tournament will once again be lost to the Premier Soccer League following agreement by the two parties not to renew their contract. The non-renewal, which will end a ...
July fever, jackpots and Jamaica.(Sports)
Jul 01, 2006 ... Today sees the running of the R2-million Vodacom Durban July, the seventh race carded to be run over 2 200m, at Greyville in Durban today where punters will be treated to a 12-race bonanza featuring four Grade 1s and one Grade2. The favourite is Eyeofthetiger at 6/1. This year's ...
Meyer 'freed' from coaching Bulls.(Sports)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Brenden Nel The Blue Bulls have announced that assistant coach Pote Human will take over the coaching duties with immediate effect, thus splitting the Super 14 and Currie Cup roles for the foreseeable future. Head coach Heyneke Meyer will now spend his time ...
Red faces in Jake's camp over Andre.(Sports)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Brenden Nel Springbok coach Jake White's medical squad face some serious questions about their monitoring of the progress of injured players over their handling of the Andre Pretorius and Bryan Habana this week. Meyer Bosman was called up to the Springbok ...
JSC finalises submission on disputed Bills.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal The Judicial Service Commission has finalised its submission on two judicial reform Bills that continue to be mired in controversy and will forward it to the government soon as Parliament is left to cool its heels on the issue. The JSC met this ...
Deaths in custody - no arrests yet.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Staff Reporters Almost three weeks after two witnesses linked to the multimillion-rand robbery of a police safe died in police custody, no arrests have been made in either case. The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), which is probing the deaths of ...
SA's grass greener for streaker.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: ROY BARFORD New Zealand bikini streaker Lisa Lewis will be visiting South Africa sometime in the next few months, as a guest of the Southern Spears Rugby Union. After achieving instant celebrity status when she ran on to the field during a Test match ...
Tougher tobacco laws, ban in pipeline.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA and TASH REDDY A draft law is set to ban the display of all tobacco products in shops - delivering another major blow to the multi-billion rand tobacco industry. The chairman of the National Assembly's portfolio committee on health James ...
Petrol prices will increase by 25c.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Staff Reporters Petrol prices are rising yet again. The Department of Minerals and Energy announced yesterday that petrol - already at its highest level ever - will rise by 25 cents a litre at midnight on Tuesday. Diesel with a sulphur content of ...
Cops strike blow to city heist gang.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken The sharp eyes of a Pretoria shop owner who "hates" crime has led to the capture of one of the most violent and heavily armed robbery gangs terrorising the capital in recent years. The gang, who made off with nearly R2-million in cash after a ...
Zuma's convoy in accident.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... A vehicle in an official convoy was involved in an accident in Parktown yesterday - sparking rumours that former president Nelson Mandela had been seriously injured. However, Mandela was at home and nowhere near the crash scene, his spokesman Zelda la Grange said. It ...
This year's Durban July is wide open, say pundits.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: CHAD COOKE It's the final countdown to the country's premier horse race, the Vodacom Durban July. Punters, both knowledgeable and otherwise, will have read what the pundits have written, what office colleagues have had to say or might even have listened to ...
1 dead, 19 hurt in rail crash near city.(News)
Jul 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: BARRY BATEMAN and sapa One person was killed and 19 others injured when two Metrorail trains collided between Pinedene and Olifantsfontein stations, south of Irene, last night. An Ekurhuleni emergency services spokesman said the accident happened just after ...
Take matters into your own hands.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... How many litres of bottled water do you consume a day? According to author Michael Norton $22-billion a year is spent on bottled water. To get clean water to everyone on the planet would cost only $17-billion. How ironic is that? How easy is that? All you have to do ...
Death of the 9-day queen.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Lady Jane Grey was beheaded at the Tower of London on February 12 1554 at the age of 16, on the orders of Queen Mary Tudor, the oldest daughter of Henry VIII. She was the tragic victim of the power politics of the Tudor era and was a pawn in the schemes of her emulous and ...
One man's tale of a tragic conflict.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Peter Canavan This book is subtitled Inside story of a Rhodesian Special Branch Officer and tells the story of a policeman attached to the famous (or infamous, depending which side you were on) Selous Scouts. In about 1972 the bush war, which up to this time ...
Did Spoornet snub the capital?(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Has Pretoria, the capital city, been snubbed by Spoornet? This question stems from the State utility's decision to scale down the mainline service between Cape Town and Pretoria. After years of using Pretoria as its final destination, Spoornet has now moved this point to ...
Just say no to the US inquisition.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Cracking down on illegal drugs is easier said than done. Attempts to limit the supply of illegal drugs while demand remains constant only increase the profitability of drug trafficking. For addictive drugs like heroin, a spike in street prices leads desperate addicts ...
Dagga and heroin craze sweeps through townships.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: LESEGO MASEMOLA Nyaope, a mixture of dagga and heroin, is causing inestimable damage among Tshwane's township youth.Schoolchildren in Soshanguve, Mamelodi and Atteridgeville have taken to the drug to the dismay of parents, police and school authorities. The ...
Smokers and drinkers should pay - doctors.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Many hospital doctors believe smokers and drinkers should pay if they need surgery because of their habits, research shows. Some also think obese patients should not be given weight-loss drugs or joint surgery for free, a survey of hundreds of medics showed. As ...
Protection at last from ad pests.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Depending on which side of the business fence you sit on, the proposed new legislation is either cause for celebration, or utterly unworkable and an extreme infringement on free enterprise. Current consumer protection in South Africa sits in various bits of legislation, and ...
Airline to go up in smoke.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... A German businessman has founded an airline dedicated to smokers. Smintair, or "Smokers' International Airways", aims to cater for smoking passengers, particularly from Asia, who feel they have been squeezed out of the market. Its first aircraft are due to take off in ...
Can't buy you love - or happiness.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... A psychologist at Stony Brook University, collaborating with scientists at other institutions, has discovered what philosophers have long known: money doesn't make people happier. Yet the perception that it does continues to motivate people to want more and do more to get more. ...
Youth Commission makes fresh start.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sholain Govender A "fresh eyes and fresh approach" of the new 5-member National Youth Commission (NYC) will help it reach certain targets. Minister Essop Pahad introduced the new commissioners at the Union Buildings on Friday and said they would face ...
'England don't have the nerve when it comes to penalties'.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Reuters Berlin Germany midfielder Tim Borowski poured salt into England's wounds yesterday when he said they lack nerve in penalty shoot-outs after Portugal eliminated them from the World Cup on Saturday. "I think we're a little bit cooler than England in ...
Lions need more roar to get away from the bottom of the log.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen The Lions don't have the kind of experience the likes of the Blue Bulls can call on or the game-time together as a unit to be a force right now, but they're a team with plenty of potential and will, according to their coach, come good. ...
Amelie's ready for Ana.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Reuters London Amelie Mauresmo revisits one of her tennis nightmares tomorrow when the French world number one faces Serbian teenager Ana Ivanovic in the Wimbledon fourth round. Ivanovic wrecked Mauresmo's hopes of winning her home Grand Slam event last year ...
Despots must own up to woes.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... The presence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at this past weekend's African Union summit in Banjul, The Gambia, was not encouraging for those who have the real interests of this continent at heart. The two loudmouths were obviously ...
Nepad rivalry hurting Africa.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Mortal combat seems to be taking place among African leaders over Nepad, the New Partnership for Africa's development, the continent's official development programme. Nepad was very much President Mbeki's brainchild, but although headquartered in SA, it is an African Union ...
Delay for ANC, Cosatu.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA More time for preparation was needed before the ANC and Cosatu met to discuss a controversial document on the way forward for the alliance, ANC spokesman Smuts Ngonyama said yesterday. He said today's scheduled meeting had been postponed ...
Saudis lash out at US.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Riyadh - The US has critically hurt the democracy and human rights agenda around the world through its treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees and its Middle East policy. The Human Rights Commission, set up by Jordan's King Abdullah last September, also said rights abuses by US soldiers in ...
Young teens play the fame game.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Helen Herimbi The braces era is upon us. Between the ages of 10 and 16, it is not uncommon to be greeted by mouths full of braces. SABC2 has taken being an adolescent to a whole new level, by introducing a reality TV show that involves five teenage girls being ...
Find yourself in a fix? Then Samm's your man.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Bongani Mdagane When days are dark friends are few, so goes a popular phrase. But not when the Let's Fix It crew are around. This 26-episode reality series, which entered its second season this year, is aimed at helping people in need. The show has ...
Kids get new (K) space to call their own.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Kim Clayton-Millar For almost two decades KTV, M-Net's children's entertainment component, has delighted pre-teen, teens and a lot of grateful parents who simply could not have done without this welcome diversion. And now, from today, KTV is not only getting ...
Ugliness in the beautiful game.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sally Scott Score, a co-production between SABC2 (Curious Pictures) and Swedish National Television, starts this Friday on SABC2. The new drama series tells of two teen soccer players who meet in Gottenburg at the annual world cup for young players held in the ...
Compensation fund in chaos, says LRC Workers get raw deal - claim.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sholain Govender Managerial chaos in the office of the Workmen's Compensation Fund Commissioner is resulting in the neglect of workers' rights. This is the opinion of Paula Howell of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC). Howell represents workers ...
What to do in case of injury.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... If you are injured at your workplace you must apply to the Worker's Compensation Commissioner for compensation. Report the injury to your employer as soon as possible. Tell your doctor that you were injured and ask him to complete the first medical report. He should ...
City call to arms to beat criminals.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken The time has come for Pretoria citizens to make a difference in the fight against crime. That's the call by Pretoria police area Commissioner Amon Mashigo and the city's Community Policing Forums (CPFs). Mashigo said: "Without you we are lost ....
Judge throws book at department over school.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: PATRICK HLAHLA An order has been granted against the Gauteng education department to improve conditions at the JW Luckhoff High School in Heidelberg. Conditions at the school - which caters for children removed from their parents and made wards of the State ...
Be alert, estate agents and homeowners warned.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Police are warning estate agents and homeowners to be alert when showing houses to prospective buyers. The warning comes after an attack on a Lyttelton family last Thursday night by three armed men who conned their way into the Hippo Street house. This was the third ...
Local lass wears the crown.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: TSABENG NTHITE Bubbly, full of life and a people's person, Cecile Brits impressed judges with her strong character, her love of the country ... and her beauty. These attributes led to the 15-year-old Grade 9 pupil from Crawford College clinching the Miss ...
Inquiry into train accident.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: HANTI OTTO Metrorail has instituted a board of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident between two trains on Friday night which left one commuter dead and at least 50 injured. The two trains were apparently travelling on the same line from Johannesburg ...
Shopping centres worth billions are in the pipeline.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox About 600 000 square metres of shopping centres, valued at billions of rands, is to be developed in the Midrand/Centurion/Modderfontein areas. Two huge tracts of open land - the Mia land in Midrand and the AECI land in Modderfontein - have recently ...
Court cases abound over Gautrain project.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox Despite initial construction work having started on the Gautrain, there are still at least four court cases which the Gauteng Province and Bombela (the preferred bidders) have to fight. Gautrain project leader Jack van der Merwe said these court ...