Recently added articles from Sunday Tribune (South Africa):

Daddy knows best.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... HOW REASSURING it must have been for full-time mothers to read the latest British government-backed research stating that while just 42% of fathers read bedtime stories to their children, 76% of mothers could be found tucking up their offspring and turning the pages to Peter ...

Northernexposure.(Lifestyle)

Aug 24, 2008 ... The vehicle's Satnav (satellite navigation system), which had been burbling contentedly and directing us on our journey, suddenly grew silent and obviously confused. We were on a road, but as far as the GPS was concerned, we could have been floating in outer space. The screen ...

Talk to the hand - it may well understand.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... When people can only communicate with hand gestures, they speak a kind of "universal language", says a new study. To help settle a long-running dispute about whether language influences the way we think, psychologists tested 40 speakers of four different languages: 10 English, ...

Low-carb diets are actually good for you.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... A long-running comparison of three diet plans found that the low-carbohydrate Atkins regimen and a Mediterranean diet rich in fish and nuts produced slightly greater weight loss than a low-fat programme modelled on American Heart Association guidelines. The low-carb dieters, who ...

Dear Darcy.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... HE WAS SOAKING, BUT WHEN Colin Firth emerged from a lake as Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, women swooned. He has not been able to live it down - not even when Matthew Macfadyen took on the role in the 2005 film by Joe Wright. "I was hoping ...

Umbria's quiet gem.(Lifestyle)

Aug 24, 2008 ... Why go? As the capital of landlocked Umbria, there's something a little inward-looking about this perfectly preserved, historic hill town. It's as if once within its ancient walls you can happily forget the modern world below. Once an important Etruscan settlement, Perugia has ...

Monsoon swoon.(Lifestyle)

Aug 24, 2008 ... MONSOON - the word conjures visions of torrential rain, driving winds, flooding and other calamities. That can be the scenario. But choose your location and time in Thailand carefully and you will not only have some strikingly good weather, but also reap the benefits ...

You are what I am.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... Most brands start life without personality. Let's be honest, a brand by itself will never walk, talk and get photographed. By tying it to a celebrity, the name of a product or a company can take on instant glitz, glamour, charm, sex appeal and aspiration. It comes alive in three ...

Healthy happenings . . .(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... INNER CHILD Inspired by Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, Chrisna is hosting a 12-week course on how to reconnect with your inner child, through "morning pages" and "artist dates" with guidance. It takes place on September 11 at 10am and 6pm. Cost, R850 a person. Call ...

Insure that let home.(Property)

Aug 24, 2008 ... BYLINE: Property Reporter Buy-to-let property investors have been warned to take sufficient insurance out to make sure they are not left high and dry. Property insurance brokers Glenrand MIB warned that thousands of South Africans looking forward to a bonanza from ...

Muzzling media.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... The ANC, with its majority in parliament, is trying to pass the Protection of Information Bill to prevent the publication of stories about corruption in government. Not long ago the Nats muzzled the press, much to the chagrin of the torch-bearers of democracy. ...

Don't portray us so negatively.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... HOLLYWOOD continued to flirt with religious controversy in two recently released films, You Don't Mess with the Zohan and The Love Guru. But their creators said they never intended to offend anyone. You Don't Mess with the Zohan, now on the South African circuit, is the latest ...

No to Zondoville.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... Your article "Call to name Toti after Zondo" (Sunday Tribune, August 10) refers. Justification for Andrew Zondo's killings will flow from the likes of Julius Malema, Fawzia Peer, Mxolisi Kaunda, etc. I can hear Human Rights Commissioner Jody Kollapen, saying, "We ...

Gardens of desolation.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... Just as Beijing has put on its best face for the Olympic Games, so too will South Africa in 2010 when World Cup fans descend. Billions of rands are being spent on new stadiums and sprucing up host cities. SA Tourism has launched a multi-million-rand campaign and indications are ...

Born to bore.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... WELCOME everybody, to this: an introduction to the Non-Domestic Goddess Club's new magazine, Celebrity Baby!, which, each week, will contain more celebrity babies than you can shake a stick at, not that we would recommend shaking a stick at a celebrity baby. As we understand it, ...

Prose of passion.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an oversized book called Love Letters of Great Men, and entertains Mr Big with flowery passages from Byron and Bonaparte. It's a scene that had SATC fans rushing out to bookshops, only to ...

Historians rehabilitate tarnished image of Zulu War hero.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... IN THE film Zulu he was portrayed as a drunken malingerer who became a reluctant hero. But while Hollywood was right to show Pte Henry Hook as a hero, the rest of his screen depiction was fiction. In reality, Hook was a teetotal lay preacher who had been awarded good ...

mad, Bad man.(Entertainment)

Aug 24, 2008 ... Jon Hamm plays Don Draper a high-level advertising executive in the award-winning drama Mad Men, which screens on M-Net Series on various days and times (check your Dish magazine) and which brilliantly captures the excitement and ruthlessness of the advertising world in New York in the ...

A little song and dance.(Entertainment)

Aug 24, 2008 ... Allow me to unleash a tiny prejudice. I don't like the Haka. And I roll my patriotic eyes whenever national anthems begin rugger matches. Anthems are, well, how can I put this, hymns. Most of them invoke the aid of supernatural beings to achieve noble national goals, like freedom, unity in ...

Grand finale.(News)

Aug 24, 2008 ... The winners of Cafe Society were announced last Sunday at a noisy awards ceremony held at the Good Food & Wine Show at the Durban Exhibition Centre Finalists from the three regions, Durban/North Coast, Pietermaritzburg/Midlands and South Coast, gathered to hear if ...