Sunday Tribune (South Africa) back issues from June 2007:
Stop your violets shrinking.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Lawn Lament Please tell me how to stop a lawn that is in the full winter sun from suffering burning from the sun? Terry Silver In winter you should not get that much burn, but because of the dryness, the lawns will look a little tired and there will be ...
Healthy happenings.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... OPERATIVE OPTIMISM Internationally accredited Yogacharya Brian Eriksson will be teaming with internationally acclaimed academic and doctor of philosophy, Dr Gita Surajnarayan, in presenting an interactive seminar on "Operative Optimism" at the Blue Waters Hotel on June 9 from ...
Bright golfing future.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: YUSUF MANJOO Indian golf fanatics are in seventh heaven as the country is busy with its first ever lucrative Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI). The new competition now offers 37 million rupees (about R6.5 million) in prize money. Indians began to realise ...
Mileage man to repay city.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: NOELENE BARBEAU A former Umkomaas town clerk has agreed to repay the eThekwini Municipality money he claimed under a car allowance scheme. Christiaan (Chris) Beyers was alleged to have inflated his car allowance claim and instructed seven other Umkomaas ...
Hindu organisations feel left out in cold.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Juggie Naran HINDU organisations have accused the provincial Department of Arts and Culture of discrimination and bias after the allocation of most of its grants-in-aid to African bodies in recent years. Hindu organisations claim they have been sidelined and ...
Tour de Farce.(Lifestyle)
Jun 03, 2007 ... FROM the top of Spain it is all downhill. At the bottom it is a series of endless uphills, one after the other, all endless. In the middle lies Madrid, where the food and wine are wonderful, and hills don't matter because cycles are put away for a grateful few days' grace for sore bums. ...
Millions keep rolling in for golden Cowell.(Entertainment)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: LUCRETIA MUNRO SIMON Cowell has doubled his already vast fortune after selling his latest television show around the world. Cowell, 47, the creator of the X-Factor, is now worth about [pounds sterling]200million (about R2.8 billion). Versions of his new hit, ...
Bindi Irwin on the trail of famous dad.(Entertainment)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Bindi Irwin wants her new TV show to continue the educational and conservation work of her father, the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin. "I'm proud to be showing kids that conservation and helping wildlife is a stack of fun," the 8-year-old Bindi said at the recent ...
The shark experience.(Entertainment)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Every so seldom, something truly defining happens in real time on television. The fascist attack on the World Trade Centre was one of these defining moments; so too was the physical attack on gay demonstrators in Moscow last week. As a man who prefers BBC World to all other news ...
Poker face reveals perfect hand.(Entertainment)
Jun 03, 2007 ... 8. What country star played the love interest of Woods's character in the 1992 film Straight Talk? A. Dolly Parton B. Reba McEntire C. Wynonna Judd D. Trisha Yearwood more WOODS TRIVIA o When asked, Woods lists Blade ...
Summer movies: what's that smell.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Summer movies are the big budget/adventure movies that are screened in, um, in summer in the USA and are coming our way soon. Here we tick off some of the telltale clues that you're in the wrong movie. 10 You can't see the screen because the light from ...
Spaced out and having a blast.(Lifestyle)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Strapped into a paragliding harness, I dangle two storeys above the ground. Then, like Spider-Man, grabbing bar after bar of a giant climbing frame, I slowly work my way back to ground level. When I let go, I zoom back up to the top of the Zero-Gravity Wall. The wall is used by ...
Zimmer fame for singing wrinklies.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Helen Brown "I hope I die before I get old" is one of the most powerful lines in the history of rock 'n roll. Sneered by the Who's Roger Daltrey back in 1965, it expressed the anger of young people who felt their parents didn't respect or understand their way of life. ...
Wizard producers promise magical film awards.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... I tried logging on to the official site of the movie Sivaji The Boss, but failed to get further than the home page despite my checking every setting of my internet connection. Scheduled for release on June 15, the movie has been in the news for a very long time, with the focus ...
Liquid gold.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Growing your own herbs makes real financial sense; the packaged ones cost a small fortune in the shops and they're environmentally unfriendly, too. I recommend buying well-established plants instead of the small pots because if, like me, you tend to use quite a lot, you will have stripped ...
Doing the Cancun.(Lifestyle)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The thing is, I'm a nervous traveller. It's not the flying; it's everything else. I always leave heaps of time to get to the airport before check-in, usually about a month, and I always overpack - I need two suitcases and a deluxe carry-all with trolley option just to get the morning ...
Ramgobin was not NIC president.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Kindly correct the letter published on May 28, titled "Tribute to George Sewpersadh", by Mewa Ramgobin. Mr Ramgobin's description of himself needs to be corrected. He was not, at any stage, president of the NIC. He was the chairman of the ad ...
Fears for 'ill' sacred tree.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... CONCERNS are mounting in India for the wellbeing of a sacred tree under which Lord Buddha first attained enlightenment more than 2 500 years ago. The "Bodhi tree" in Bihar state, eastern India, has been afflicted with a mysterious ailment, causing it to shed its leaves. ...
With these words.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Shocked - that's the only word to describe my reaction. After that huge brouhaha over whom could plight their troth unto whom and what they were allowed to call it, which we only settled by granting the superstitious exclusive use of their special magic words, I was hoping we could all ...
Words fail me.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... It doesn't take much to spoil a sunny morning. Shaving nicks, laddered tights, traffic wardens, tea spilt down a shirt front, children who refuse to dress, the unmistakable sensation of treading in dog mess - all cast a shadow over an otherwise promising day. To this list, those ...
Getting Googled.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... It has been less than a decade since a pair of impoverished students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founded Google, and yet the search engine has long since joined Hoover and Xerox in that elite group of trademarked names that have spawned verbs. But while "Googling" others is ...
It all adds up, really.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... IF YOU ask me, it is sad that maths teaching is in decline and that, at best, British kids are now only semi-numerate which, expressed as a fraction, is possibly 1/2 numerate. Still, let us not be too downhearted, as being 1/2 numerate is at least twice as good as being 1/4 numerate and ...
Not under the duvet.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... It seems that the technology for reading books electronically is getting better all the time and I don't think it will be too long before even we South Africans start heading in that direction. One unit I've heard about is the Sony Portable Reader, which is 12mm thick, weighs ...
BEES IS THE BUZZWORD.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... "Cortege" got demoted after the death of Princess Diana, when the media used the French-sounding word over and over to describe the funeral procession. These days, it's a softball word for the best of the 286 spellers gathering in Washington for the 80th annual ...
Swish or swagger.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... If you're wondering what it takes to be a man these days, check out Johnny Depp's wrist. As the unconstrained Capt Jack Sparrow in the newly released Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, he wears a wisp of white lace tied just above his left hand. A ...
Indo-Afro rhythms at Cato Manor.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... A SUR Singar, presented by top South African musician Ustad Ravi, will take place at the Shree Swami Narayan Temple Hall in Cato Manor next Sunday. The Sur Singar is a presentation of traditional music. It will also include Afro-centric sounds to embrace diversity in South ...
Harmony of hope.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Norwegian actress Mari Maurstad is a hell of a driver. She tackles Zululand's dirt roads like there's no tomorrow - rounding corners in a very similar fashion to Michael Schumacher. She drives this fast because every day is just too short, and she needs to visit at least another ...
Force to be reckoned with.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: THRUSHA MAHARAJ A STATUE of deity Narsimha Dev, a half-man, half-lion incarnation of Lord Krishna, takes pride of place in the prayer room of vedic astrologer Subadra Devi Dasa. Subadra says she looks to the statue for support and guidance when she engages in ...
Bid for ivory ban to save our giants.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... As more than 2 500 government representatives from 171 countries converge on The Hague in the Netherlands for the meeting of parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which runs from June 3 to 5, shocking statistics have been released. ...
Housing 'lure' ungodly.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The article "ANC in housing lure row" refers. Many thanks to Tribune Herald for exposing Visvin Reddy in his campaign of offering housing in return for ANC party membership. It is a disgrace. The ANC should get rid of Reddy before its reputation in Chatsworth is ...
Hope for the hairless.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jeremy Laurance, There is new hope for the follicly-challenged. Scientists have found a way to regenerate hair follicles which may lead to a cure for baldness - and a bonanza for its inventors. By reawakening genes once active only in developing embryos, they ...
Going loco at Coco Bongo.(Lifestyle)
Jun 03, 2007 ... competition on the beach a couple of years ago, where one kid had built a sand castle with a moat, one had built a castle with a little flag, and one had built an 11-storey hotel in a horseshoe shape with 448 rooms, a spa complex, three main pools and a nightclub. I imagine he won. ...
Stripping for a spa.(Lifestyle)
Jun 03, 2007 ... From Page 2 Cindy Crawford was there. A US colleague asked me to swop seats so they could see what Cindy was having for breakfast. As for me, I didn't have time to sit and watch a supermodel digest. I wanted to check out Ciudad Cancun, or, for those of you who speak ...
Green conference cancelled.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Myrtle Ryan While World Environmental Week 2007 was launched this week amid fanfare at Durban's International Convention Centre, another environmental conference had to be canned because of lack of interest. Delegates from 15 other African countries - ...
Grassroots clubs doing it without luxuries.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peter Bills Opportunity for all. It's a recurring theme throughout South African rugby. As politicians rail against the perceived white bias within the Springboks set-up, and those in charge vehemently defend their stand and selections, what are the views of ...
Fancy dining, fowls and flora.(Lifestyle)
Jun 03, 2007 ... forests and over streams - "like the Otter Trail but without bridges", as Harvey encapsulated it. Effortless, marvellous. On the verges, spring flowers bloom: buttercups and bright yellow broom; pale purple flowers we could not identify; thistles with strong purple heads; blue ...
No pain, no spectacular Spain.(Lifestyle)
Jun 03, 2007 ... coin, add some olive oil, and it tastes like strawberries on toast. Exquisite. Each dish an oil painting. The Granny Smith apple which accompanied my "Smoked beef T-bone steak, morels salad, Granny Smith apple puree and ancient mustard" came as a foam. Strange. Weird even. ...
Whales reel in billions intourism.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... More than 10 million people go whale-watching each year in 90 countries and territories, generating R7 billion a year for coastal communities. Hermanus, in South Africa, is consistently voted as one of the prime spots in the world for land-based whale-viewing. New ...
Dangerous liaisons: when too much love can kill you.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: mike saneka sabelo zondo and Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala As a proud member of the "High-Five" club 17-year-old Pretty* will happily share details of how she came to be part of this exclusive sisterhood. Entry is based on one simple requirement: You need to have ...
Faithful sports stars score points for Jesus.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Rodney Hartman Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite belongs to Jesus. The Brazilian football star, who plays for AC Milan, told us as much last week when, in victory over Liverpool in the Uefa Champions League Final in Athens, the man known simply as Kaka partly disrobed to ...
Treading the path of the Prince.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Durban University of Technology French lecturer Glenn Flanagan developed the French Presence in Pietermaritzburg/KwaZulu-Natal: La Route du Prince Imperial, Louis Napoleon. This scenic cultural tourist route treads the path of the prince in KwaZulu-Natal and pays homage to the ...
Napoleon remembered.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The only son and heir of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie had joined the staff of Lord Chelmsford, commander of the British forces in Southern Africa, following the military disaster of Isandlwana. The prince, a gifted reconnaissance scout, set out from the military ...
Pushing Africa's cause.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... 'I had to come a few thousands miles for that," outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair quipped when Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla told him he had received effusive praise throughout his brief trip to South Africa this week. He was referring to the bad press he is ...
Fixing the rot in education.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... EDUCATION Minister Naledi Pandor this week uttered a good measure of truth that would have given hope to despairing parents with children at dysfunctional state schools. In one of the franker speeches in parliament, she decried mediocrity in South African education, telling MPs ...
Get it in writing.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... IT took no tarot cards or crystal ball to forecast that this was going to be a politically-charged year. Will Thabo Mbeki be asked to remain on as president of the ruling party? Will Jacob Zuma be charged with corruption? And will he make it as South Africa's next president? Who are the ...
The two faces of South Africa.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... THABO Mbeki has told repeatedly of two nations in South Africa. But this week the two faces of this beloved country popped sharply into focus. One is magnificent, the other grotesque. The beautiful emerged through the eyes of Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto ...
Golden road to lekker.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard (Seabrooke's Theatre, Durban High School, St Thomas Road) Directed by Greg King and produced by Steven Stead THERE is now no doubt . The Greg King/Steven Stead combination ...
Dan the man- and all that jazz.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Dan Sheldon is a bit of a musical oddity. Not only does he usually perform solo with only the occasional musical guest each Wednesday afternoon at Bean Bag Bohemia, but he's also the co-founder of three different bands. In between his two 45-minute sets last ...
BSA finally get new boss and new home.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Friday was a special day at Boxing South Africa (BSA). Not only did they move to new offices but they were finally joined by their new chief executive, Bongani Khumalo, who was appointed four months ago but has been unable to take up his position because of ill-health. The ...
Bright light.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The Oyster Box Hotel Grill Room, 2 Anchorage Road, Umhlanga Rocks. 031 561 2233. The only hotel in the world with its own lighthouse perched between pool and surf is closing - for just 18 months of rebuilding, thank goodness - and there are only 35 days of fine dining ...
Putting the 'Oooh' back into Boogie Woogie.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Captain Jack Sparrow is caught up in another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. Although the curse of the Black Pearl has been lifted and the dead man's chest recovered, the pirates of the Caribbean must now travel to the World's End. Davy Jones, ruler of the ocean depths, who captains ...
Lost youth turn to drugs.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... SITTING on the side of the road on a Monday morning, a 10-year-old boy who has shirked school chats with a group of older boys smoking dagga. The boy is in awe of his older friends and when offered a puff he happily accepts. Soon he is hooked and moves on to harder drugs, ...
SA needs to wake up.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: YUSUF MANJOO SOUTH Africa needs to unearth scores of new Bafana's. We already know the affectionate term for our national soccer team means The Boys. But they could soon be renamed the Grandfathers. That is exactly what South Africa's team could be if we are ...
Coppinger upsets seeds at Nationals.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Last time out I predicted that there would be a few upsets in this year's National championships which were played at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg last week ... unfortunately, I was one of them. The conditions were not made easy for us as the mercury dropped to -5C, there ...
Aids researchers put faith in ARV gel.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... KwaZulu-Natal women will be the first in the world to test a vaginal gel containing an anti-retroviral (ARV) drug which offers the hope of protecting them from HIV infection. After three painstaking years of planning, Durban scientists professors Salim and Quarraisha Abdool ...
Down the creek.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... THE Daily Telegraph changed the course of African history when it funded Henry Morton Stanley's voyage of discovery down the Congo River in the 1870s. In recent decades the Congo has regressed into the most dangerous, remote region in the world. I followed Stanley's ...
Call for action over threat to agriculture.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Myrtle Ryan Another potential casualty of climate change is Africa's sweeping grasslands, and as cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds, the threat of starvation to many African countries could worsen. Cereal derives from Ceres, the ...
Asian tennis has a new hero.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: YUSUF MANJOO LAST week Aravane Rezai announced her arrival as the new Asian tennis sensation. The young Iranian-born star knocked out both Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams in Istanbul, Turkey. Rezai first came to attention at the age of 14 when she won gold ...
SA soldiers hit the mark in Africa.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Hans Pienaar Trapped in a frenzied crowd in Kinshasa during Congo's elections last year, I made it to a makeshift police station in a discarded container. The commander asked me brusquely, "Which country are you from?" Only when my South African ...
South is the new North, says developer.(Property)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: property editor The shortage of affordable coastal residential building land is almost certain to give further spur to the current momentum of new developments in the upper to mid South Coast in the short to medium term. This has already been proved by a ...
Grand prices for top-end homes.(Property)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The price of houses in the luxury segment of the residential property market in South Africa has increased by 113% in total from R1.84 million in the first quarter of 2000 to a level of R3.92 million in the first quarter of 2007, according to Absa . This, the bank says, ...
Rajbansi in land dispute.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: JUGGIE NARAN Minority Front leader Amichand Rajbansi's daughter and the widow of one of the party's former leaders are fighting over a prime piece of Chatsworth land. And last month it emerged that Rajbansi has been putting pressure on the eThekwini council ...
No move expected on rates.(Property)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Absa expects the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates unchanged when it meets at its next Monetary Policy Committee meeting this month. This, in spite of April's consumer price inflation, excluding mortgage interest rates, breeching its 3-6% target band and jumping to 6.3%, and ...
Unsung heroes.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... All too often the leaders who quietly give their all to their communities for a noble cause are forgotten when victory is achieved. This seems to be the case with former Natal Indian Congress president George Sewpersadh who died recently, at the age of 71. Tributes to ...
Bring back the cinemas.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The recent closure of the multi-cinema complex in the Chatsworth Shopping Centre has left a major void in the recreational life of our community. The cinemas were well patronised, especially by our youth. Consequently, their boredom has presumably resulted ...