Sunday Tribune (South Africa) back issues from April 2009:
Five ways to get a flat belly.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Belly fat isn't just ugly. It's also unhealthy. Underneath the love handles, the muffin belly and the inches you can pinch lies the nasty stuff: the fat deep inside the torso that wraps itself around the heart and liver and is known to raise the risk of heart disease, diabetes ...
War dead neglect.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... With the expected influx of foreign visitors in 2010, it is hoped that attention will be given to the neglected inscription on the Delville Wood cross in the grounds of our beautiful Cenotaph. ...
Growing up gorgeous.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Jamali first came to the public's notice six years ago when they entered the Coca Cola Pop Stars competition. Despite losing out to the all-boy group, Ghetto Lingo, they became ever more determined to make a success of themselves. And they have - and are doing a whole ...
Healthy happenings.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... COUPLES WORKSHOP The next Retrouville (to rediscover) programme starts on April 17|and 18 at the Glenmore Pastoral Centre. It is followed by 12 weekly sessions. This is a highly effective worldwide programme designed for marital relationships experiencing either ...
Sold on this one.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Colin Roopnarain Show: Little Shop of Horrors Venue: Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre Director: Steven Stead Cast: Bryan Hiles, Lisa Bobbert, Peter Court, Aaron MacIlroy Every single proverbial cylinder in this show's shiny, ...
Fast 'N fILLIng.(Life)(Recipe)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The main wow-factor advantages of real food are that it tastes better, nourishes and satisfies you better - in fact, you need less of it - and it's cheaper. The only advantage of commercial fast food is that it saves you time. But its main disadvantage is that too much of it can rob you of ...
Devotional singer to wow fans.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: DOREEN PREMDEV Shashika Mooruth was six years old when she first started singing. Years later, she has taken the world by storm. The Durban-born singing sensation will be back on home soil for a concert next month. Mooruth, of Mobeni Heights, who now lives in ...
Rhema's Earthly riches.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Your article "Good tithings and joy" (Sunday Tribune, March 22) refers. I regard myself as a thinker and am not a member of any particular church. As far as I'm concerned, the Rhema Church is simply a business, and your article reinforced my belief that founder Ray ...
UNLOCKING CASTLE'S PAST.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... A thin strip of tar dotted with vervet monkeys cuts through the indigenous forest that sweeps up to the stone steps of the once-grand entrance of Coedmore Castle in the Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve in Yellowwood Park. Not many people are aware that this 19th-century manor ...
A bad case of success.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... NOW I don't know how it is in your house, but in our house, the day after the start of any new Apprentice series I find I can talk only in "Apprentice-Speak". This year, the day started as normal; so much so that, at first, I thought I'd been spared and would not have to go ...
Ad brings pace in game.(Entertainment)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The scene opens with a beautiful woman licking her lips. Perhaps she's thirsty. A cut to left and there's a lemonade stand serving drinks in curiously shaped containers. The thirst continues. We see braai mechanics on the side of the road dishing up dop in animal horns. ...
PHOTOFIRST.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... A large block mounting on a wall in Matthew Willman's lounge is filled with hundreds of miniature photographs. Each is a record of an assignment which brought him into contact with foreign and local politicians, presidents and the likes of musician/activist Annie Lennox. The ...
3-D.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Reese Witherspoon's kids are at that age where they discover a movie they like and proceed to watch it "over and over again". Her 9-year-old daughter, Ava, and|5-year-old son, Deacon, don't get bored of their favourites and don't find themselves satisfied with a third viewing ....
Billy Joel's spirit... but This Is Sam's Life.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Anya Klaassen SHOW: The Entertainer VENUE: Upper Deck Theatre, Phantom Ship, uShaka STARRING: Sam Marais There was a time when the term entertainer meant someone of varied talents: someone who could dance, sing, act, play an instrument ...
Gopie's gamble.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: l Out of Bounds opens at the Hexagon from April 15. Tickets are R70, call 033 260 5537 Born and raised in durban, actor/playwright Rajesh Gopie is perhaps best known for his critically acclaimed plays, Out of Bounds (which runs at the Hexagon theatre in ...
Single 'til death I do part.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... 1 George Bernard Shaw Was Right - It was the great playwright who opined: "Marriage: When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that ...
Let's work towards making SA a success story.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... I am not a political activist, nor am I sure who I am going to vote for at this stage. I have returned to the country I love and am pleased with my move. It coincided with world economies crumbling and, so far, South Africa is holding up nicely. We are people who love life. Yes, ...
Pinto becomes the highest paid Indian actress.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... FREIDA PINTO, the star in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, has leaped ahead of her Indian rivals to become the highest paid actress in Bollywood. PREITY ZINTA has adopted 34 orphans, who are from the Mother Miracle School in Rishikesh. She said she was looking forward to ...
Comedy puts a cheerful smile on every face.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Playhouse is still able to pull quite a considerable crowd on a week night - or perhaps it was just all the talk about the mercurial stage talents of Kesaren Pillay and Sans Moonsamy that had |theatregoers eager to take a peek at their latest ...
Marriage possible as Mars weakens.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... I am 30 years old. I have been going out with someone for the past five years and we are planning to marry this year. But last December we went to India on holiday and met an astrologer who told me that I am manglik and it is not good to marry my boyfriend because it will shorten his life ...
Farewell, clever friend.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... There was a sad |announcement on the Microsoft website recently to the effect that the CD-ROM and web-based Microsoft Encarta encyclopaedia is being discontinued at the end of October. Encarta was a fantastic learning resource in the many years that it has been available, first ...
Fatbastards unite.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Two weeks ago, Sunday Times sports editor Simnikiwe Xabanisa wrote a column in which he made some rather good points about the heavy reliance on Afrikaans in Saru press conferences - which not only makes things difficult for international broadcasters in the Super 14, but also tends to ...
Parents key to addiction prevention.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Drug activity and addiction is becoming a serious problem in most communities, and parents are often left heartbroken and disillusioned. Experimentation with alcohol and drugs is most common during the teenage years and this, in turn, increases the probability of drug and ...
Will Bruce Willis turn me into a fatcat?(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... ONCE upon a time, when you had a cat, you fed it Kitekat and that was about it. Now, though, the choice is staggering: food for junior cats, adult cats and mature cats. Food for sensitive skin, sensitive digestion, weight control, hair-ball control and, most recently,|Go-Cat's ...
Jumuna is an opportunist.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Your headline story in the Tribune Herald ("It cannot be undone", March 29) made for interesting reading. I have vivid memories of meeting Narentuk Jumuna on a wintry July evening some 26 years ago when I was invited to his palatial Verulam home to discuss forming a support ...
ANC brings deep shame.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... We have sold our humanity and human rights for 30 pieces of Chinese silver. Our Judas has been none other than the erudite Finance Minister Trevor Manuel - along with the entire leadership of the ANC. I hang my head in deep shame. In a single stroke, the ANC has embroiled the ...
Chatsworth just didn't care.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... During Saturday night's symbolic "Earth Hour" I took a drive through Chatsworth to see how residents were responding to the global climate initiative by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) started in Sydney in 2007. Now in its third year, an estimated one billion people ...
Leon left us a lasting legacy.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... It is pleasing to see that former DA leader Tony Leon visited Phoenix last weekend. He is a talented politician and has always spoken the truth about ANC mismanagement and the consequences of the government's failed affirmative action policies. His legacy is positive, and in ...
Evidence on Papli case showed no brutality.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Rev Danny Chetty's letter of March 29 regarding the Gail Papli case refers: He needs to get his facts right. The evidence clearly reveals that there was no force used. Where does he get his information from? "Life was brutally taken at the hands of her lover," he says. ...
Lodging a dispute.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Consumers who have an adverse credit listing have a right to challenge or dispute information held by credit bureaux, which must take steps to resolve the dispute within 20 working days as regulated by the National Credit Act. If you want to lodge a dispute with the credit bureaux you need ...
Collateral damage.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Nicholas Ngema may have been able to square his debts but the 27-year- old could not erase their memory. A trip to a loan shark, which he hoped would lift him out of a financial ditch by providing cash to pay off arrear accounts, only clamped him tighter in the debt trap. It was ...
Rovers' win earns them title shot.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: MERVYN NAIDOO BEREA Rovers booked their place at this year's National Club Championship when they galloped to a 49-run victory over Pinetown in a Premier League 60-over match at the Kookaburra Oval last Sunday. Rovers (148.03 points) will attempt to become the ...
Currying favour.(Life)(Recipe)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Impulse By The Sea curry restaurant. Tinley Manor Beach. 032 554 4626 Lynton Hall restaurant and hotel, Umdoni Park, Pennington. 039 975 3122. An old mate of mine who shared my introduction to the amazing food of India's south-east coast years ...
Mom turns in fugitive son.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANNIE DORASAMY A n AWAITING-trial prisoner who has been on the run since early last month was turned in this week by his desperate mother. Denver Pillay, who was wanted in connection with crimes committed in Verulam and the greater Durban area, has evaded ...
Bravo, maestros, bravo!(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Astrologically, the sun's current position in Aries marks a time of rebirth and renewal. Musically, too, there has been a discernable tinge of newness in many of the concerts I've attended this past fortnight. Lykele Temmingh conducted the final concert of the summer season of ...
I enjoyed teaching /in Korea.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Ruwaida Hoosen's letter "Teaching in South Korea was a shocking ordeal" (Sunday Tribune, March 22) refers. My daughter has for the past year been teaching English in South Korea. Below are excerpts from her exit letter - she will be returning home on April 19 - which ...
Embryos are alive.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The letter "Science offers false liberty with stem cells" by JM Bell (Sunday Tribune, March 22) refers. I say three cheers for Bell. At last some sense. Let us remember that an embryo is how all humans start, and embryos are alive as soon as conception takes place. ...
Berger's bias.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Mike Berger's letter "So tired of reading Robert Fisk's biased analyses" (Sunday Tribune, March 29) suggests that he is biased and a victim of Israeli propaganda. The pro-Israeli website mentioned in his letter is clear evidence of this. The website portrays ...
Steyn's bad hair day.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... What a rugby spectacle: Sharks 35 Brumbies 14. And what an awesome atmosphere, having been there and watched the game. As the game wound down and tempers frayed on both sides, Francois Steyn got into yet another brawl with two Brumbies players, off the ball and off the camera. ...
Driving /me crazy.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... An open letter to all road hogs: first, I speak directly to our taxi drivers because I believe they do, in many circumstances, set the standard (or lack of it). To the average taxi driver: You might be an excellent driver in terms of your skill and ability, and you ...
Dutt poll bid blocked.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... India's Supreme Court has scuppered Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt's bid for political office. The court last week refused to suspend Dutt's conviction, ending his attempt to win a seat in upcoming general elections. Dutt, who is on bail after a weapons conviction, had ...
Sutcliffe ought to learn from Dumisa.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... It is not surprising that eThekwini city manager Mike Sutcliffe has lambasted former Durban Chamber of Commerce chief executive Bonke Dumisa and claimed "the man has not run a business" (It's an incredibly good budget, says Sutcliffe, Sunday Tribune, March 29). For the record, ...
A young black man without hope is more dangerous than Aids.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... 'I wish that ... brothers everywhere would reach down deep and summon the will to defy the inner hatred driving them to self-destruct. But everywhere I see them giving in ... some wonder if there is something innately wrong with black males." The poignant words of Nathan McCall, in his ...
Tribute to war horses and other animals.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Weston Farm and Weston Common were the site of Number 6 Remount Depot, in service from 1899 to 1913 and used during the South African War of 1899 to 1902. It also served during the 1906 Bhambatha Rebellion. Thousands of horses and mules are believed to have been buried on the ...
Joost's open tackle.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The ball is firmly back in Joost's court - or should we say in his own half - with the news that stripper Marilize van Emmenis has passed a polygraph test. Unless Van Emmenis has found a way to hoodwink |a respected polygraph specialist, it would seem she was not fantasising ...
Story of an African farm...(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... l During the African-Indian riots in 1949 more than 2 000 Indian men, women and children took refuge at Coedmore for two days. Because of the Stainbank family's long history in the area and because Dering Stainbank's wife, Ethel, had visited locals on horseback and assisted with ...
Robbing suffering ratepayers.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... IT is hard to see who will be the winners with the tabling of Durban's 2008/2009 budget. Assuredly those people who are stealing much of the city's water, almost 40 percent of what runs through our pipes. On past performance the ANC-led council will do little to curb this theft ...
Hard to ignore.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... WHEN Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu stands up to speak, he may not necessarily tell South Africans what he thinks they'd like to hear. He simply speaks his mind - telling them what he believes they ought to hear. Not everyone agrees with what he says. For some, his utterances ...
Tribalism is alive and well and living in a closet nearby.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... IT'S a subject generally discussed in hushed tones and only among trusted friends and family, lest one is accused of being a backward bigot. But talk of tribal influences in our politics will not just go away, despite the best efforts of those in the ruling party who wish it ...
Brownedoff by anIdols judge.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... REMEMBER those bad old |days when race determined every aspect of one's life in South Africa? Apartheid ruled from cradle to the grave, with race determining where you lived, which school you attended, who you could have sex with (let alone marry) and where you would be finally ...
Toying with men.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... NOTHING evokes lost childhood as vividly as glimpses of its toys. More than half a century ago, like most boys of my time, I spent hours with my nose pressed against the windows of toy shops, gazing dreamily at ranks of brilliantly painted, infinitely glamorous and desirable little ...
Set For Take-off.(News)(Theater review)
Apr 05, 2009 ... choreographer Iqraam Rahim is to stage his latest production in Durban later this month. Naach - My Diary of Dance fuses rock 'n' roll, jazz, kathak and hip hop dance within a Bollywood framework. The storyline, based on the life of a dancer, draws on Rahim's experiences. Dance sequences ...
New device making waves in fish studies.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... New technology is allowing researchers and conservationists to observe large groups of fish as they gather into shoals, similar to the sardine run off the KwaZulu-Natal coast, and later split up. Focusing on Atlantic herring, scientists say they were, for the first time, able to ...
Prompt action restores granny's faith in police.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANNIE DORASAMY Faith in the men in blue has been restored after the swift arrest of three suspects who allegedly terrorised a Durban grandmother and toddler before making off with |valuables. Last week five men entered a Reservoir Hills home and stole ...
Farrah Fawcett's cancer cure gamble.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... PALE and hunched over in a wheelchair, her face hidden by dark glasses and a red woolly hat, she was unrecognisable as the pin-up girl who shot to stardom in the Seventies TV series Charlie's Angels. Despite putting on a brave face, Farrah Fawcett looked as if she was in pain as ...
Maths plus science study equals cool.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: CHARMEL BOWMAN Pietermaritzburg teen Tenielle Salik has shown that science and mathematics can be cool. The Grade 10 pupil was one of only 14 youngsters, and the only one from KwaZulu-Natal, selected from more than 400 applicants nationwide to be a 2009 ...
Lendel does not depend on Indian vote.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: MASOOD BOOMGAARD HE ENJOYS a large Indian following and is hailed by many of his fans as the "Great Indian Hope" for the coveted Idols crown, but Durban contestant Lendel Moonsamy does not want to be labelled as an "Indian" contestant. Responding to claims ...
Fashion flair takes designer to Milan.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: MASOOD BOOMGAARD A Durban fashion designer has won an international award. Nirma Madhoo-Chipps beat contestants from 80 countries to scoop first prize in the C'N'C Plug Generation Design Contest, an online competition organised by Costume National an ...
Dolphins cricketer signs Lions contract.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... THE Nashua Dolphins will be without the services of paceman Ugasen Govender when franchise cricket reconvenes for the 2009/10 season. The 25-year-old Verulam resident has signed a two-year contract with the Gauteng-based Highveld Lions, starting from next season, after rejecting ...
Time for Oprah to clean up.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Janet Smith Oprah didn't appear to be in any rush to get back to South Africa to take care of dirty business at her private girls' academy this week. She released a statement. "I'm disappointed that several of our students chose to disregard the school's ...
Party, party, party.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... It's the night when schoolgirls transform into beautiful princesses and schoolboys into dashing gentlemen. The matric dance is the highlight of many pupils' high school career, with parents spending large amounts of money to ensure the night is memorable. Tighter ...
Spies, lies and democracy's death knell.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Imagine a country where the police intercept and record confidential conversations between the president and the head of the office of public prosecutions. Imagine that the police then pass the tapes on to someone facing criminal charges. And imagine further that the tapes reveal the ...
End of an era looms for hapless Rangers.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Mervyn Naidoo RANGERS' slender chance of jumping into the top position of the Vodacom League-KZN Stream, ahead of the current leaders Newcastle Sicillians, were reduced drastically after playing to a 1-1 draw at Maritzburg City in their final fixture of the season. ...
Pupils look to splash out on matric dance.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: CHARMEL BOWMAN Though many parents are battling to make ends meet financially, Grade 12 pupils gearing up for their matric dance are unforgiving about budget constraints and expect their parents to spare no expense to make their night unforgettable. The ...
Zuma's slap in the face.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... ANC president Jacob Zuma's statement that Afrikaners are the only true white South Africans, carrying as they do only one passport, is a slap in the face to the English-speaking whites who have paid taxes all their lives and always only owned one passport too. What about those ...