The Independent on Saturday (South Africa) back issues from July 2008:
Protect and serve? Three Durban people are crying police brutality.(News)
Jul 05, 2008 ... BYLINE: Fiona Gounden THREE cases of alleged police harassment, intimidation and assault in Durban have been reported to The Independent on Saturday, including a businesswoman who was allegedly assaulted and thrown into the back of a police van. A Chatsworth ...
Independent's most determined prizewinners.(News)
Jul 05, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi TWO readers have Independent Newspapers to thank for completely changing their lives. Some of their friends say that they are just lucky, but both Derek Atkinson from New Germany and Narend Singh from Stanger agree that luck and destiny has ...
KZN eyes Gauteng health 'smart card' pilot project.(News)
Jul 05, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN THE KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health is keeping an eager eye on the health smart-card pilot project in Gauteng, which, if successful, will be rolled out in KZN and could drastically improve service delivery in government hospitals and clinics. ...
RAF task team recovers R253 000.(News)
Jul 05, 2008 ... BYLINE: Fiona Gounden THE special unit to combat Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud in KwaZulu-Natal has recovered a total of R253 000 from false claimants, including doctors and lawyers. The task team, comprising local specialised investigators and members of the SAPS ...
Are you fully covered? Check insurance meets inflation.(News)
Jul 05, 2008 ... BYLINE: CARVIN GOLDSTONE SOUTH Africans are being urged to check that their insurance premiums are in line with rising inflation or they may find themselves under-insured when disaster strikes - especially because inflation rises rapidly. Short-term insurance ...
It's our right to feel safe on roads.(News)
Jul 05, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: JUNAID ESSOP Springfield MANY motorists have witnessed the "blue light menace" on our roads, but certain officials just deliberately ignore the public's concerns about this menace. Are we going to wait for ...
Trail of death, destruction in chase for trucking profits.(News)
Jul 05, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN Operating vehicles with paper-thin brake linings and loads up to 5 000kg over the limit, sleep-deprived and under-trained truck drivers are leaving behind them thousands of accidents and hundreds of deaths in the race to deliver their loads on time. ...
Hidden leak pushes water bill to R92 000.(News)
Jul 12, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi STAFF at a Durban non-governmental organisation (NGO) got the "shock of their lives" when they received a water bill for R92 000. The director of the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) Carol du Toit, ...
Disillusioned South African's lament.(News)
Jul 12, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: MAGENDRAN DEVANDRAN Newlands West Here is a poem I wrote for you: I would love to drape my South African flag and brag. Just like the footballers of Spain, With their Euro 2008 gain. Alas, all we have is affirmative ...
Shoplifting increases.(News)
Jul 12, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi AS the country's financial situation gets rapidly worse Africa's largest food retailers, Shoprite Group, have noticed a major shift in shoplifting patterns as the economy worsens. Spokeswoman for the group, which includes the Checkers ...
Mother waits for post mortem results.(News)(Financial report)
Jul 12, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi A traumatised teenage mother is anxiously awaiting the post mortem results after her day-old baby boy was exhumed. Mbali Nzama, 16, from KwaMakhutha, Durban, said she was certain that her baby did not die of natural causes as reports from ...
Challenge to Remant Alton.(News)
Jul 12, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: ALBERT STEPHENS Austerville I note with interest that the municipality intends buying the buses back from Remant Alton (The Independent on Saturday June 21). What intrigues me, though, is that the buses are then going to be handed back to Remant Alton to ...
ANC should put workers at ease about pensions.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: Cllr Brian Jayanathan Tongaat It seems that the workers in the clothing and textlile industries are in panic (The Independent on Saturday, July 5) over the proposal that the workers' hard-earned contributions towards their pension and provident funds will be ...
Birthday fuss is ridiculous.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: FRANK HARTRY Kingsburgh All this ridiculous fuss over one person's birthday. Surely at 90 Nelson Mandela only wants to have a quiet time with his family. Not so, according to the phone-in radio ...
New choice for women; Abortion clinic now offers irreversible sterilisation op.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi SOUTH Africa's largest private abortion service provider, Marie Stopes, has introduced free, irreversible sterilisation for women. The surgical contraception was introduced in January and is at present offered at their Durban, Soweto, ...
Suite clash of levies rages.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN A clash of levies and leases is raging between Circa Hospitality and the Coyote Super Suite at Absa Stadium ahead of the clash between Manchester United and Orlando Pirates on Tuesday night. The hospitality company wants to charge the suite ...
Getting payment for services rendered to municipalities can be tricky business.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... While the street name-changing controversy in the eThekwini Municipality seems to just go on and on, people living in the countryside wage other wars with their respective councils. Take, for example, the goings-on in the Umziwabantu Municipality to the south of us, and the ...
Don't be tempted by catchy advertising.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: T Markandan Silverglen Free petrol, says the advertisement. In these times of rocketing fuel prices, who wouldn't be tempted by this catchy advert? The motor industry has been one of the worst affected by the fuel price hikes. Not long ago, it was ...
Where's the joke here? Factory teen flick is flimsy and unconvincing.(Entertainment)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Film: Drillbit Taylor Director: Steven Brill Cast: Owen Wilson; Leslie Mann; David Dorfman; Danny McBride; Josh Peck; Troy Gentile; Nate Hartley; Alex Frost Reviewer: Kirk Honeycutt Drillbit Taylor, the latest comedy from the Judd Apatow laugh ...
Social pressure can be too much for young girls.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Laura Clarke Girls are being psychologically damaged by the pressure to grow up too quickly, researchers say. Sexual images in adverts and teenage magazines are contributing to mental health problems such as eating disorders, panic attacks and self-harming, ...
Car owners revved up; KZN interpretation of law comes under attack.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN and CARVIN GOLDSTONE K waZulu-Natal's classic and vintage car collectors, and other "petrolheads", are up in arms with the local interpretation of transport legislation which is disallowing imported vehicle owners from selling and trading their cars, ...
Africa's bounty laid bare in Paris; Probe exposes political elite.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Private jets, Bugatti cars, a shark-filled aquarium and enough bank accounts to paper the new luxury yacht - the extraordinary capacity of some African leaders and their families for apparent self-enrichment has been laid bare in a French lawsuit. After an inquiry last year by ...
Hippo had to go, say officials.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: CARVIN GOLDSTONE THE decision to kill KwaZulu-Natal's wandering hippopotamus, Nkululeko, this week may have been condemned by many sectors of society, but for the eThekwini Municipality and Ezemvelo Wildlife KZN it was a decision that had to be taken because of the ...
Happy birthday, Madiba! The Nelson Mandela Foundation is now asking the public to afford him some well-earned rest and make fewer demands on his time.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kashiefa Ajam and Sheree Bega BUYI Sishuba sighs as she gestures at her desk. It's piled with towering stacks of requests to meet the world's most famous nonagenarian. "July is always really hectic," she smiles. Sishuba is the correspondence ...
Let's not motivate the opposition!(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: ALBERT STEPHENS Austerville WHY is it that the management of our sports teams manage to put pressure on themselves with the statements they make before an international match? The first rugby Test against the All Blacks and the first cricket Test ...
Deface cash to deter bombers.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: Erica Campbell Morningside YOUR article "Soft Underbelly" (July 12 ) refers. The banks seem helpless to prevent the ATM blasts. They say they have a plan, but it clearly doesn't work. Some time ago I suggested that they rig the ATMs so that the cash ...
Odds stacked against Sharks.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Craig Lewis As far as Absa Currie Cup encounters go, they don't get much bigger and better than this afternoon's clash between the top-of-the-log Sharks and the defending champions, the Cheetahs, at what is sure to be a festive Vodacom Park. When you consider ...
Expect an 'expansive game'; Dry conditions would be better suited for the style Boks want to play: De Villiers.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen Perth Rain, rain, please go away. That may well have been the prayer offered by Springbok coach Peter de Villiers last night, even if he didn't admit to it yesterday. It has been raining on and off pretty much all week here ahead of ...
Naidoo lashes out at Gold Circle.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN Peter Naidoo, the Racing Association director at the centre of an apparent "smear campaign" that accuses him of not paying his racing accounts, has lashed out at Gold Circle which, he alleges, requested the particular photo displayed on the defamatory ...
21 slain in insurance scam; Fears toll will rise as cops uncover murders for money.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN Police have cracked an insurance fraud syndicate and arrested three suspected serial killers for the murders of 21 people in KwaZulu-Natal. Police have confirmed the death toll, but it may be higher as investigations continue. ...
Mutilated bodies in bloody plot.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN Fraudulent insurance claims using unidentified or mutilated bodies are rapidly increasing in South Africa and fraudsters are even killing people to make claims. In some cases, nurses are also involved in assisting these criminals. ...
Extra prize money for record breakers.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... EVENT organisers of the 2009 Spec-Savers Ironman South Africa in Port Elizabeth on April 5, Triangle SA, have put up additional prize money in the form of bonuses of R10 000 for any record broken in either the 3.8km swim, 180km cycle or 42.2km run disciplines and an additional R20 000 for ...
'Blade Runner' out of Olympics.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Oscar Pistorius has been resigned to not making the cut for the 400m relay Olympics team for days, his agent said yesterday following news that the double-amputee sprinter would not be fulfiling his dream of participating in the Beijing games. "Obviously we're disappointed he ...
Slater's still hungry; Insatiable appetite for success sees him through.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Hungry. That's the word Kelly Slater carefully chose to describe himself when asked by the media to do so in one word soon after an emphatic round four victory at the Billabong Pro Jeffrey's Bay on Wednesday afternoon. "It has a dual meaning right now," joked Slater as he ...
The Boks passed the test with flying colours as worthy Cup winners.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... What better way to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday than to think of where we are and from whence we've come. In sport you just have to look at this weekend. Today in South Africa we live in a sort of sporting Utopia. Think about it. The athletes are just off ...
Shaik still sick.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik is still in hospital, according to his brother, Mo. He said Schabir was still receiving treatment in hospital, but he ...
Anger over jobs-for-sex adverts.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Fiona Gounden YOUNG Durban women who are desperate to find reputable employment are being lured into performing sexual duties at upmarket massage parlours after responding to adverts for "receptionists". Some of the advertisements placed in national and ...
Murder in suburbia.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Passers-by ducked for cover as a 25-year-old man shot his 27-year-old girlfriend dead and then turned the gun on himself in a busy Morningside street yesterday just before midday. He was rushed to Entabeni Hospital, but died last night. The man was walking down ...
Heartache for poor pet owners; Record numbers of animals are being given up as hard times bite.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Fiona Gounden THOUSANDS of Durban residents, who are battling to cope with the economic crisis, can't afford to keep their pets and have had to make the heart-wrenching decision to take them to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). ...
Three terrific races this weekend.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Hockenheim, Laguna Seca and Brno: three terrific race meetings in one weekend. While Troy Bayliss has a bit of breathing space in the SuperBike championships in the Czech Republic this weekend, the F1 and MotoGP titles are being hard-fought. Lewis Hamilton followed ...
Narandas family in the headlines - again.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Staff Reporter THE prominent Narandas family from Durban just can't stay out of the papers. Almost every member of the family has found themselves embroiled in controversy at one point or another. And if Rosanne Narandas didn't hog the limelight enough in ...
Neville happyto be back; United ready for 'tough' Chiefs.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ian Williams There were huge cheers for Manchester United when they arrived at Newlands for a training session yesterday afternoon, as their bus was mobbed by local fans keen to see their heroes in the flesh. The press conference was the expected scrum, with ...
Ronaldo's staying with us - Fergie.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ian Williams and Sapa-AFP Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson insisted Cristiano Ronaldo will still be playing with the English champions for the upcoming season. "I can say he'll be a Manchester United player next season. That's our stance - he won't ...
Sanzar opts for Super 14 facelift.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Peter Bills Perth They delivered their message courteously; the buzzword was "opportunity". And, publicly, they will deny such an inference can be drawn. But in reality, the Sanzar rugby countries' press conference in Perth yesterday amounted to a declaration ...
The ugly side of Manchester United - times 7.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi THE glamour boys of world football, Manchester United, have arrived in South Africa where they are to play a series of games against our glamour sides, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. However, ahead of United's clash with Pirates at Absa ...
MDC agrees to talks with Mugabe.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Fiona Forde and Angela Quintal Morgan Tsvangirai has agreed to enter power-sharing talks with Robert Mugabe, saying Zimbabweans have suffered enough and it is time for that country's crisis to come to an end. This was the upshot of yesterday's decision by ...
SA air space crisis looms; Controller shortage a danger.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey South Africa is facing a mass exodus of air traffic controllers, limiting air space and forcing airlines to suffer increased flight delays and extra fuel costs. Industry sources say since December at least 50 people have left Air Traffic ...
Paddlers line up for 46.6 km classic.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne SURFSKI paddlers, around 150 of them, are bracing themselves for tomorrow's annual Men's Health Scottburgh to Brighton Beach race organised by the Lifesaving Association KZN South. The premier event this year for this 46.6km classic is the ...
Anderson battles for Davis Cup win.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess Kevin Anderson had to fight his nerves, the great levels of expectation from friends and family, and his own poor serving before laying the foundation for what South Africa's Davis Cup captain, John-Laffnie de Jager later described as a great day at the ...
Cavendish on the Mark ... again.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... Mark Cavendish took his fourth win on the Tour de France's 13th stage, a 182km ride from Narbonne to Nimes, as the race enjoyed a scandal-free day. The roads were lined with thousands of people cheering the riders despite the doping scandals that erupted this week. ...
Angry Hunter hits out at Tour drug cheats.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum Robbie Hunter is an angry man. The Barloworld team captain, who finished 11th on the 13th stage of the Tour de France yesterday, has lashed out at the trio caught for doping at this year's Tour, including his team-mate Moises Duenas. Barloworld ...
Steyn, Morkelrip intoEngland.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: PATRICK COMPTON Leeds: Graeme Smith this week described his last Test at Headingley as an "emotional match" during which he didn't get much sleep. Yesterday it was easy to understand what he meant after an extraordinary opening day to this second Test in ...
The Norman magic; Old warhorse wows the crowds at British Open.(Sports)
Jul 19, 2008 ... BYLINE: Grant Winter Southport Tiger Woods isn't here but nobody seems to care because Greg Norman is. And Birkdale went ballistic yesterday as the remarkable Great White Shark, 53 years old and still going strong, took the 36-hole lead - for a few hours at least - in the 137th ...
Andrew Zondo school renaming put on hold.(News)
Jul 19, 2008 ... The controversial process of renaming places and streets in eThekwini took a dramatic turn yesterday, the SABC reported. The KwaZulu-Natal government stopped the renaming of a school after convicted Amanzimtoti bomber, Andrew Zondo. Education MEC Ina Cronje left the ...
Poor man's fish has had its chips.(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: T Markandan Silverglen Where have all our hake gone? Gone to Europe to feed the hungry nations there. Having depleted their stocks of cod, herring and other fish through over-fishing and faced with strict fishing quotas imposed by the European ...
Walking, the Sutcliffe way.(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: CLEM VERNON Westville Your photograph of Michael Sutcliffe reversing out of his parking gives a lie to his statement that he walks to ...
Pension applications at SASSABy Nondumiso Mbuyazi.(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... Applications for old-age pensions must be lodged at offices of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), and not at the Department of Home Affairs, the Department of Social Development has announced. The department has clarified the matter after several senior citizens ...
What would you do if a dodgy someone offered to share R90 million with you?(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... If your surname is Ndebele and you are prepared to work with what sounds like a dodgy Malaysian attorney . . . well, he's offering to share around R90 million with you - but only if you're ready to put your honesty on hold. Here is what he e-mailed a local government employee, ...
We should try the Kibbutz way of life.(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: Kevin Stone Gillitts We must be mindful as a society that there is an entire generation of people that have been brought up without the benefit of a family unit to teach them right from wrong. These people are generally unskilled and are forgotten about. ...
Zero tolerance system is flawed.(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... BYLINE: From: ZERO TOLERANCE FOR STUPIDITY Durban While I am fully in agreement with zero tolerance of drunk driving and non-roadworthy vehicles and roadblocks in general, I am pretty perplexed as to Metro Police's logic on the roadblock on the Southern Freeway south-bound on ...
ALL BOOKED UP.(Entertainment)
Jul 26, 2008 ... BYLINE: PETA LEE Like most avid readers, I love book shops. Particularly those small, intimate outlets with eclectic collections of the old and new, the rare and the popular. They're even more appealing to me if I find long-sought-after gems. Last week, I ...
W MEN only.(Entertainment)
Jul 26, 2008 ... If you haven't done so already, book now for the the 12th South African Women's Arts Festival (SAWAF), happening at The Playhouse from Tuesday (July 29) until Sunday August 16. This annual showcase of the impact women make on the lives of South Africans enjoys a national profile ...
BE AT BIGWOOD 2.(Entertainment)
Jul 26, 2008 ... The first Bigwood exhibition was held at Manna in Durban recently, at which a crop of the city's most inspired and talented artists came together to create something unique, fresh and memorable. There were lumberjacks painted on tree stumps, plush forest critters, Biro birds on school ...
Manto under fire again; Minister 'dragging her feet' over nursing shortage.(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi THE Democratic Alliance has accused Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang of dragging her feet over the accreditation of new training institutions for nurses. DA health spokesman Mike Waters has now asked President Thabo Mbeki to ...
Health care groups import nurses to boost numbers.(News)
Jul 26, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nondumiso Mbuyazi THE shortage of skilled medical staff in South Africa has resulted in three of the country's major health care companies all now recruiting nurses from India. The health care companies are Medi-Clinic, Life Group and Netcare. They have ...