Sunday Tribune (South Africa) back issues from February 2008:
Walk tall.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Poor posture not only |leads to a host of muscular and skeletal injuries - from arthritis to scoliosis - it doesn't look good either. With correct posture we carry ourselves with greater bearing and present a more dashing physique. Bad posture can be caused by several factors ....
A question of character.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... We live in a country where someone like her could win a prize for just about every book she writes, but her celebrity would still be restricted to her particular language group. This is the case with Ingrid Winterbach, who has picked up every Afrikaans literary prize available ...
Cliffriches.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Tell a rock climber that you're going to Railay in Thailand, and the reply will probably be "Wow". The dramatic limestone mountains that cut the peninsula off from the mainland make for some of the world's best climbing. More than 70 sport routes have been bolted, ...
How Barry tuned his way into China.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The distinctive Liverpool sound has spread across the world in the past five decades. But even so, the world of music may have been unprepared for Barry Cox, 30, a celebrated Chinese crooner. Inspired by a wish to do something different as a teenager, Cox decided to learn ...
Intelligent animals deserve rights too.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... COULD you be dumber than a chimp? That's not as daft a question as it once was. After all, science has proved that chimpanzees share 99% of our DNA. They can learn sign language. They can solve puzzles and even make tools. And now the most startling discovery of all. Researchers ...
Revenge is on the menu . . .(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Harry Bosch is back |where he belongs as a detective in LAPD homicide. But when a man's body is discovered murdered execution style, the FBI steps in and Harry gets the hump. The dead man has access to irradiated material. A lot of it, and it could be used to make a dirty bomb ...
The 'stacheexposed.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Yosemite Sam called and he wants his facial hair back. This season at the cinema, a who's who of recognisable marquee draws can be seen on-screen conspicuously sporting that yesteryear trapping of male vanity, the moustache. Ask Burt Reynolds, Magnum PI, or the biker in the ...
Just coasting.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Over the years I had |often heard Happy Wanderers mentioned, so when we saw the signpost at Kelso we decided to turn in and, yes, they had just one unit available for the night. Seeing a multitude of happy caravaners parked under the trees with groups of people chilling out, ...
Mixed signals from the Front.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... I read with interest Lucky Clifford Khanyile's letter, "Black people love Rajbansi and the MF" (Sunday Tribune, January 6). In his letter he praises the Minority Front (MF) for the charitable work it does among poor blacks. He claims, among other things, that the ...
Sweet valley views.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Driving through |kilometres of sugar cane in the Mid-Illovo area of KwaZulu-Natal doesn't prepare those who have made the journey for what lies at the end of the road. As we drove through Gwahumbe Game Reserve's entrance gate, the land to one side fell away dramatically. This ...
New hair, old roots.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... "I've always wanted to be Irish," says Jon Bon Jovi, explaining why Dublin is one of his favourite cities to play live. "Deep down I think that if I was born Irish, I could have been a real hard man." This seems quite an admission for the lead singer of a band whose ...
It's mind over matter.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... "I believe I can cure most psychological problems," Paul McKenna announces calmly from the plush and eerily perfect confines of his flat in Kensington, "and quite a number of medical ones". The British hypnotist and self-help author has something of the religious ...
Healthy happenings.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Pregnancy Education Workshop Netcare St Augustine's Hospital will be hosting a free workshop for expectant moms and dads as part of National Pregnancy Awareness Week which runs from February 10 to 16. The workshop takes place on February 15 from 9am to noon at the ...
Beasts, birds and bush.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The Okavango Delta is a paradise for birds, particularly in the plentiful wet season, with ample water and food on offer. Even the high grasses of summer cannot stop the show as birds fill the flood plains and pans, rest on trees, or stalk the grasses for prey. The ...
Paper plan to make dart through space.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... LONDON: For most people, it's enough to see their paper plane fly for a few metres. The Japanese, however, want to send one 380km . . . through space. They have revealed plans to launch a heat-resistant version from the international space station and track its ...
Bravo Lekota.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Hats off to the Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota for standing up, owning up and paying up. What a wonderful example to ...
Dubai no land of milk and honey.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... I would like to add to the "downsides" of living in Dubai, (Sunday Tribune, January 20), having worked and lived there for more than two years, and making the decision to return home as a result. The country is in implementation stages of introducing VAT (and shall therefore no ...
The top ten beast movies.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... 1 The Alien (Alien, 1979) The most extravagantly hair-raising beast ever to grace a cinema screen came from the same country as the cuckoo-clock. Taking inspiration from his own painting Necronom IV, Swiss "biomechanical" artist H R Giger, a noted sufferer of night terrors, ...
babe of the week.(Entertainment)
Feb 03, 2008 ... You'll probably remember her as the wacky blonde in Dharma & Greg, where she first charmed the socks off us. But, apart from a few forgettable films after the show ended, she seemingly vanished from our screens. Her new comedy, Courting Alex (Wednesdays on e.tv at 8pm), was ...
Big chill.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... At -5C, the cold is quite refreshing and a light hat and scarf are all that's required to keep warm. At -20C, the moisture in your nostrils freezes, and the cold air starts making it difficult not to cough. At -35C, the air will be cold enough to numb exposed skin quickly, making frostbite ...
The curse of the foreign oddballs.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... We have a saying in Louisville that goes something like this: "All of our foreigners suck." It's not that we don't like them, it's just that over the years the impact of foreign players on our team has been negligible. We don't recruit overseas players - we don't have any money ...
Nightclub patrons tell of 'savage attack'.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: NOELENE BARBEAU Five patrons of Raffles nightclub in Umhlanga Rocks have laid assault charges against the club's bouncers, accusing them of unprovoked, "savage beatings" in two incidents. One man was hospitalised with a haemorrhage behind his left eye and ...
Experts warn of new asbestos scare.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: CLAYTON BARNES Dozens of South Africans still die of asbestos-related |diseases every year, despite the shutdown of asbestos mines in the mid-1980s. The most recent victims, two men from Kuruman in the Northern Cape, aged 19 and 60, died of secondary pollution ...
Pushing the boundaries.(Entertainment)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Pushing Daisies is the new, impossible-to-ignore series on M-Net. For this dazed hack, his mind ruined by overexposure to Russia Today not to mention the febrile reporting of Al Jazeera, a re-engagement with undiluted entertainment has been long overdue. Hence my excitement, ...
Front-loader isn't tops in energy saving.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The suggested savings picture in the Sunday Tribune (January 27) have left me hot under the collar, without any use of electricity to generate this heat! Who decided that buying a front-loading washing machine would use less electricity and less water? For years I ...
Eskom fat cats get the cream.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... As expected there were many letters in last week's Sunday Tribune (January 27) relating to our Eskom deficiencies. However, the article on the front page, "Eskom fat cats' pay bonanza" tells a story of interest to all consumers. If the salaries and bonuses these top ...
Nothing up his nose except moisturiser.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Land Rovers are for working countrymen. Real men in other words, men in sturdy shoes, men who drink brown beer with twigs in it and eat pies, men who know that Range Rovers are for poofs. I pride myself on the fact I don't cry over films - apart from Educating Rita, obviously ....
Not Reddy for a Raj rigmarole.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The Sunday Tribune article "Raj, Reddy in row over family deaths" (January 27) refers. It is becoming a source of irritation, if not embarrassment, the manner in which these two men are conducting their vendetta against each other in trying to hang out their dirty laundry for ...
Stockings stir me.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jeremy Clarkson First we heard on Big Brother that today's young ladies have replaced their appealing thongs with pants the size of spinnakers, and now comes news that the sales of stockings are in free fall. According to The Sun's woman editor - as opposed to ...
Message of hope /for obesity sufferers.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: DOREEN PREMDEV Tormented by family and friends, life for obese Yusuf Rawat - who weighed 215kg - looked bleak. But after two suicide attempts, he has managed to turn his life around and has vowed to help others in a similar predicament. He holds ...
Effect of ADHD drugs questioned.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Doctors and parents have long been left to guess which children with a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, will go on|to become adults with significant attention problems. Or how well they will navigate the|challenges of adulthood and whether early recognition ...
on a.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... I remember sitting in my bedroom in an apartment on Durban's beachfront and sobbing my heart out at the injustice of the world. The year was 1994 and I had just learnt that Kurt Cobain had killed himself. A self inflicted gun shot to the head and a body pulsing with a heroin ...
A world of sound in just 26g.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Recently A Sansa Clip mp3 music player was sent to me for review. The most striking thing about the player was its tiny size (I've seen bigger postage stamps) and the fact that it offers a playing time of 15 hours from what must be a very tiny battery indeed. The ...
Sabha calls controversial author to account.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ANNIE DORASAMY The South African Hindu Dharma Sabha has lodged a complaint with Brazilian authorities and with a South African religious watchdog body over controversial Brazilian author and politician Marcelo Crivella's book, Mutis, Sangomas and Nyangas, which ...
Khan stays cool as Kareena cooks in bikini.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... EMRAAN HASHMI's marriage is on the rocks. The actor married long-time sweetheart, Praveen Shahani, about a year ago. They dated for five years before they tied the knot. But their marriage hit troubled waters when Shahani, a schoolteacher, got to know about Hashmi's close ...
Thanks for excellent coverage of Dusi race.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... I want to thank the Sunday Tribune for the outstanding coverage you gave to the Dusi Canoe Marathon this year. As the founder of the race, I can unequivocally state that its success has always been due to the excellent press support it has received over the years. ...
Six-year-old songbird strikes a sweet chord.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: KARISHMA GANPATH A six-year-old Durban girl's melodious voice has already brought her local fame and a large fan base. Grade 2 Avon Primary pupil Risa Moodley launched a four-track CD at a private ceremony at the Embizweni Convention Centre in Durban North ...
I have a mouse.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The internet has revolutionised the way we live our lives. Information, news and comment from around the world are available at the click of a mouse. If you want to find out something, it's the place to look. But with billions of pages to trawl through, homing in on exactly ...
Stationery story sensationalist.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... I write this letter in reference to the article "School papers over the cracks", Tribune Herald, January 27. The school has issued a similar stationery list for the past four years and the majority of parents have complied readily. One wonders whether the so-called ...
My force for change.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Last week I was burbling philosophically about uniforms and how you can spot the good ones. To recap briefly: if they represent people who'll drag you off to small rooms and interrogate you with associated fingernail-pulling, they're not the good ones. This brought up the 1980s, ...
Middle age is a dark age.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... London: The biggest lows of our lives are experienced in middle age, according to new research that concludes that people are at their most depressed at the age of 44. Scientists believe that although we are closer to death as pensioners and powerless in youth, it is the ...
Lego's Knudstorp is a brick.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jonathan Sibun At 1.58pm on Monday Jorgen Vig Knudstorp allowed himself a smile of satisfaction. The time marked the 50th anniversary of Lego's patent of its famous brick and Knudstorp knows more than most that it is a day many feared would never come. When ...
Energy efficiency is about attitude.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Gail Jennings So sometime soon all households will be rationed to using 10% less electricity. Even if that figure were 50% there'd still be no reason to panic. Using less electricity is as easy as doing nothing. Our household uses about eight ...
Pilgrims cherish holy beads.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Asherville mother Nisha Ramsookbhai and her 14-year-old daughter, Kajal, have travelled to some of the most remote and beautiful places in India on spiritual journeys. One of their most fulfilling and memorable trips was when they completed the Char Dham pilgrimage in August and ...
Festival of devotion and thanks.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The smell of freshly cut marigolds fills the morning air as devotees prepare chariots for the annual Thai Poosam Kavady. A colourful array of chariots lie close to a river bank, ready to be pulled to the nearest temple by devotees, some of whom are in a trance-like state, their ...
Former hookers adopt a missionary position.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Philip Sherwell Las Vegas used to be a lucrative haunt for Annie Lobert, a $500-a-day escort girl, and Heather Veitch, a highly paid stripper. Now the vivacious double act walk the city's neon-lit streets with a dramatically different mission - to save souls rather than ...
Lesser of two evils.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... ANC president Jacob Zuma dodged an awkward and potentially damaging evening with former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson this week. It seems good sense, and an ear which identified it as such prevailed as ANC colleagues dissuaded him from attending a gala dinner at ...
Government's nasty surprise.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... MUNICIPAL property tax rises are looming for ratepayers as conversions to rates based on market values are implemented. In many cases, the blow is going to be hefty. Now we learn of an attempt by central government to reduce the rates it pays on government buildings in our ...
More tools needed in the kit.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... THIS week's five-minute decision by the Reserve Bank's monetary |policy committee to hold interest rates was widely welcomed and augurs well for home owners and businesses. Although Governor Tito Mboweni maintained the stance that the bank's only job was to keep inflation below ...
Deaf to their own warnings.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... IN THE headlong rush of deadlines that is the lot of journalists, nuances are missed and mistakes made. Seasoned newspaper people check and recheck, but eyes sometimes falter in the wash of words on our pages each week. So it was last Sunday, on the pages focusing on the power ...
Into the wild.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Little Vumbura Little Vumbura is a big departure from DumaTau in its physical location. Here, water is the dominant element, the camp is situated on an island and guests are ferried by speedboat on arrival and for activities. There is a feeling of space about Little ...
City slams Chats disaster strategy.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ANNIE DORASAMY A bold move by top stakeholders in the South Durban area to map out a strategy for any further disasters in the region has been slammed by the municipality. In what is seen as a pilot project, representatives of the South African and Metro ...
Exotic petal of the desert.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... bringing them on to the holiday market. How much was an old kasbah? "Best not to ask 'how much'," said Abdou, a guide for my destination, the Dar Ahlam. "Ask 'how many owners'." After centuries in the same family, getting clear title was tough. The car turned off on to a mud ...
World's biggest bank villain is a hero.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: John Lichfield The five billion euro man, Jerome Kerviel, emerged last week as an unlikely and unwitting hero for the global age: the man who accidentally saved the world from recession. He was also arrested. Kerviel, 31, was taken into custody by police in ...
Light relief.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... So the wheel of art has started to turn again, with new exhibitions opening all over town. It's exciting stuff, and a welcome break from the iconography of the festive season. One of the most sophisticated and dynamic offerings on the local front is the Light Show exhibition, ...
Exotic Egypt.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... CAIRO AND BEYOND FROM R4 550 A PERSON SHARING Valid until March 19 The package includes: Return economy class airfare on the services of Egypt Air from Johannesburg to Cairo. Assistance from tour representative on arrival at the airport and the hotel. ...
It doesn't have to be all doom and gloom . . .(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... With our current energy crisis and all the gnashing of teeth it has invoked, I would like to suggest some "light" relief. These pictures (above) portray an alternative I could never hope to explain in a thousand words. Let me explain. To start with, the pictures were taken in ...
A thaw point.(Lifestyle)
Feb 03, 2008 ... "At the time, people thought it was amazingly cruel to keep people in exile like that," says Vladimir Fyodorov, the editor of Gazeta Yakutia, the main regional newspaper. "But of course, after the horrors of Stalinism and the Gulag, it all seemed very humane." The region is rich ...
Tech architecture exhibition.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The annual exhibition of work by students of the Department of Architectural Technology and Interior Design at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) opens on Wednesday at 5pm. It will run at the art gallery on the Steve Biko campus until February 21. Luyanda ...
A packed programme.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Durban's seven-month summer is nice and all of that, but around now is when it gets to be too much. As December's oppressively hot days become weeks in January, we grimly remind ourselves, "we've still got to get through February". Still, the month we love to hate has a few things to ...
Straight As for New Academics.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Every so often you attend a music gig that works on all levels, as was the case at Burn last Saturday night when Habit To and the New Academics took to the stage. Local band Habit To includes former members of pop punk group Synapsis, with the vocal acrobatics of Michelle Stent ....
Wetland park is transformed.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... The Western Shores of Lake St Lucia, long closed to the public, will now be open to visitors to the iSimangaliso Wetland Park - and the spin-offs are considerable. The CEO of the iSimangaliso Wetland Authority, Andrew Zaloumis, spoke about what was in the pipeline for the park, ...
King of romance wins /hearts with classy show.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... What true romantic would dream of ignoring the emotional overtures of the love planets, Venus and Mars, in Cupid's month? When this star-struck duo team up each February, unique love symphonies unfold. This becomes even more melodic when it happens under the African night sky ...
Drop the circus acts.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... Photographs of devotees participating in a Kavady ceremony appear without fail in newspapers every year. In most instances, the newspapers publicise the grotesque features of the ceremony, largely to create the impression that Hindus are devil worshippers. If many Hindus ...
Move over Gandhi, we want iPods.(News)
Feb 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Juggie Naran Respect for world peace icon, Mahatma Gandhi, as the "Father of the Nation" in India is rapidly |disappearing with the sub-continent's rising economic and |military power. Prominent South Africans who recently visited India said they had ...