The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from September 2006:
Thom of the pops.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... SHE'S the 25-year-old who sings, to a low-fuss musical backdrop, about wishing she was a punk rocker with flowers in her hair. She's Sandi Thom and she scored big with that first single, I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker, which, in peaking at No 1 in the UK, ended the nine-week run at ...
Historic building a 'blot on the city'.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: STEPHANIE SAVILLE The status of the historic Colonial Building in the Church Street Mall came under discussion at a recent Msunduzi executive committee meeting. Msunduzi is to ask the Department of Public Works what its intentions are regarding the building, ...
Hunt for a serial killer.(Goodlife Television)
Sep 01, 2006 ... THE best film on the box tonight? An easy one to answer - Seven, with Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey, scheduled for SABC1 at 10 o'clock. It's a superbly directed and compelling thriller that was one of the finest films of 1996. A taut and shocking movie, it's about two homicide ...
On the road to ruin . . .(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... IN films, letting someone crash on the couch is usually step one on the ruinous road to loss of privacy, destruction of personal property, family strife and at least one fire. And the studiously by-the-book house-guest comedy You, Me and Dupree, opening countrywide today, leaves ...
Go green and win!(Life)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: BILLY SUTER IT WAS first drunk in China nearly 5 000 years ago, is calorie-free, contains powerful antioxidants called catechins - which are helpful in clearing the body of free radicals - and can help fight cancer, diabetes and heart disease. It's green tea, ...
No One Stopped To Help Stranded Hijack Victim.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... A friend of mine was hijacked on her way to work about 7.30am on Monday August 21, at the KwaMashu off-ramp from the N2 northbound. It was an extremely traumatic experience. The hijacker had incorrectly assumed she was holding her car keys, when they had actually fallen from the ...
Lucrative capital.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: STEPHANIE SAVILLE PIETERMARITZBURG has become a very lucrative market and should attract and encourage investment into the local and surrounding economies. This is according to the latest quarterly report on the area's economic performance by economist Clive ...
WIN a CD and DVD from the king of Queen.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... HE WAS born Farrokh Bulsara on the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were both Persian. In 1954, at the age of 8, he was shipped to St Peter's English boarding school in Panchgani, not far from Mumbai. It was there that his friends ...
Transport grouping willing to play ball on taxi plan.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Karishma Ganpath & Thamsanqa Ngubane THE KwaZulu-Natal Transport Alliance, which has strongly opposed the taxi recapitalisation process, said it was now willing to co-operate if its members were registered, received permits and if the government negotiated with ...
Concern over 'military training'.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: NATHI OLIFANT KWAZULU-NATAL MEC for Safety and Community Liaison Bheki Cele has instructed police to investigate allegations that an organisation purportedly aligned to the IFP is recruiting young people for military training, telling them they were to be integrated into ...
Outstanding performances in classic play.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... WHATEVER you do, don't miss Woza Albert! at the Catalina, where two 18- year-olds from Durban High School - Thabani Sibiya and Khayo Mthembu - are putting in fine performances of a professional standard in the classic South African piece written in 1979 by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and ...
Time for rhyme!(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... AN ORIGINAL production described as "a piece of poetic exploration", Rhyme Thru Time, runs at Durban's Catalina Theatre from September 13 to 17. The event will feature popular local artists Quincy Fynn (also known as "Q"), Nathan Redpath (alias "King B") and newcomer to the ...
Towering above the rest.(Life)
Sep 01, 2006 ... 'TASTE this," said Prince Sifiso Zulu, putting his martini glass in front of me. Pretty pink something with cherries and rose petals floating about, who could resist? Needless to say, the media launch of Suncoast Hotel and Towers, which took place in the Suncoast Casino ...
JOYS of SPRING.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... SPRING has sprung - and with it, the joy, for music-lovers, of another packed season of great symphony concerts by Durban's acclaimed KZN Philharmonic Orchestra. And even better news is that the orchestra is offering readers of The Mercury the chance to win one of two sets of ...
IFP is not alone in opposition to new legislation.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... It is misleading for the writer of the article "Traditional leadership in KZN is in for an overhaul" (The Mercury, August 24) to state: "This legislation which has been intensely opposed by amakhosi linked to the IFP . . ." Resolutions have been passed at meetings of the House ...
Have SA football administrators gone mad?(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Have we gone mad? Our new national football coach will earn more in a month than President Thabo Mbeki earns in a year (The Mercury, August 29). The assistant coach will earn more than R500 000 a month. ...
Stop harping on past injustices and move forward.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... I had the unfortunate pleasure of reading the article by Eric Miyeni "Pay-back time for the whites of SA" (The Mercury, August 29). What a narrow mind he has to write such a one-sided article. Did he do any research to back up his article? If he had done, he would not have ...
Pearls objectors in majority.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... It does not surprise me that the author of the letter "Those Umhlanga activists a small minority" (The Mercury, August 30) chooses to hide behind a nom de plume. The views he/she expresses are exactly those of the developers. No one is against development per se. But ...
Pool problems pop up again.(Life)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Following the publication of last week's Taking Issue column ("Pool hassles leave owners spluttering") reader Jeremy Alcock contacted me about his own pool problems. Alcock had been dealing with Penguin Pools in Durban managed by Rod Mullan. Alcock said he had decided to install ...
Vintage fleet still going after all this time.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Karishma Ganpath & Thamsanqa Ngubane LONG after many of their kind were muscled out by minibus taxis, a fleet of old Valiant and Datsun vehicles are still operating as public taxis in the Durban suburb of Clairwood. The Archery Road Clairwood Taxi Association ...
Host of fun events mark the arrival of spring.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: XOLISWA ZULU & TONY CARNIE THE first day of spring has arrived and, with it, news that the cold snap could be at an end with temperatures expected to soar to 26degC in Durban today. This means it is not only time to put away the winter woollies, but also to ...
Liberace race is on.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... GRINS, candelabra, schmaltzy music and flamboyant costumes - what do they have in common with Oscar-winning actors Nicolas Cage and Robin Williams? The answer is late, great pianist Liberace, who is reportedly to be portrayed on screen in separate projects by both Cage and ...
RealityBites.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... What food or drink couldn't you live without? Pizza. Any food or drink you detest? Spinach and mushrooms. Favourite local restaurant and dish there? Bangkok Wok's red curry Worst experience at a restaurant? ...
Covering most tastes.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... It's not often that you come across a good piece of fish outside up-market venues like Ile Maurice. Dorado and Cape salmon are the inevitable offerings in Durban these days. Thank you, but no thank you. I like fish that's white and flaky; not overtly fishy or frozen to oblivion ....
KILLER.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... GUARANTEED to blow your mind . . . that's the catchphrase for We Will Rock You, a glossy stage show which, notwithstanding the most cheesey and flimsy of storylines, is likely to prove every bit as popular in Durbs as did in other centres to which it has toured. This colourful ...
Sibaya auditions.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Sep 01, 2006 ... SIBAYA Casino near Umhlanga is seeking experienced male and female dancers for a festive season production. Dancers in contemporary, musical theatre and ...
A brewtiful prize package.(Life)
Sep 01, 2006 ... DID you know that one-third of the world's coffee is produced right here on the African continent? East Africa, the birthplace of coffee, is best known for its distinctive Arabica coffees, which are produced in Ethiopia, Burundi, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, ...
West is eyeing SA's new bedfellows; Some of our visiting friends have raised eyebrows and questions about birds of a feather, writes Peter Fabricius.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Western diplomatic eyebrows in Tshwatoria have been slightly more elevated than usual of late, observing some of our visiting friends and wondering if this is a case of flocking birds of a feather or just a coincidence. First there was Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ...
Windy Spring weather should put plenty of fish on the bite.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... This weekend sees the KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Angling Union conclude its postal calendar with the eighth round, and then only the annual meet to determine KZN's top club. At this stage, only a major disaster can prevent Benders from taking league honours as they are 14 points clear of ...
Welcome To Spring.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... The past few days have shown that the tail end of winter still carries a sting. But who cares? Today, September 1, as the calendar and the sweet scent of jasmine testify, is officially the first day of spring. It's a time when, as Tennyson observed, young men's fancy turns to ...
Boskak is a hoot.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... IF, LIKE me, you haven't taken in Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny, you might have been surprised to read this week that it had won an award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. You wouldn't have thought the Scots would find Greig Coetzee's play a hoot. But they do, mon. One Scottish ...
Crowd on rampage.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: INGRID OELLERMANN KRANSKOP in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands remained tense but calm yesterday in the wake of the disappearance of a teenager and the subsequent discovery of his body at La Mercy Beach this week, following an alleged assault at his workplace. ...
'We're not worst off for crime'.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: NATHI OLIFANT SOUTH Africa was nowhere near the top of the world's ranking for crime, Community Safety and Liaison MEC Bheki Cele said yesterday. Addressing media and business representatives in Durban in a drive to foster better understanding and ...
This Day in History.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... 1715 King Louis XIV of France dies. 1969 Military officers overthrow Libyan government, and the Libyan Arab Republic is proclaimed under Col Muammar ...
Drug lord dies in hail of bullets in suspected hit.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: mercury reporter OVERPORT drug lord Yunus Sathar Essa died in a hail of bullets outside Overport City yesterday in what police suspect may have been a hit. According to a police source, Essa, 51, a well-known drug merchant in the Sparks Road area, had been ...
Allegations over killer girl being probed.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: INGRID OELLERMANN THE attorney acting for a young Pietermaritzburg girl who gained notoriety as South Africa's youngest convicted murderess said yesterday he was investigating allegations that his client had breached some of the conditions imposed on her in terms of her ...
Scorpions swoop on council.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: STEPHANIE SAVILLE THE SCORPIONS' sting was felt in Pietermaritzburg yesterday when a large-scale raid was carried out and laptops, computer hard drives, software and documents were removed from the Msunduzi Municipality offices. The raid came while the ...
Brothers linked to other cases.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: TONY CARNIE THE Bronkhorstspruit brothers arrested for slaughtering rhinos in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park are being kept in police custody after investigators linked them to nearly 10 other rhino horn poaching cases elsewhere in the country. Some of the horns ...
Lions' season in the balance; They've reached the stage where defeat will kill off semifinal hopes.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen Today, 7pm Johannesburg The Lions put their feet up last week and watched the Sharks open up a nine-point gap on them in fifth place in the Currie Cup. So if Eugene Eloff and his charges are to stand any chance ...
Govt departments fingered for poor management.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb Heads could roll following a damning Public Service Commission report into the lack of effective management in his department, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana. But an angry Mdladlana also blasted the commission for lack of support and for ...
Former Nat Roelf Meyer joins ANC.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal & Sapa CAPE TOWN: The African National Congress has given the thumbs up to "Comrade" Roelf Meyer, another former National Party cabinet minister, who has joined its ranks. He joins former colleagues Pik Botha and Piet Koorhof, among others, as ...
Zuma to address teachers' congress after 'gag' removed.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu), the second biggest Cosatu-affiliated union, has forced the ANC to allow Jacob Zuma, who was apparently gagged, to address its congress. Zuma is expected to address the Sadtu congress in ...
For the record.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... With reference to the report "Municipal housing project faces legal action" (The Mercury, August 31), Errol Hicks of the Westville Community Forum says he told our reporter that, while he believed that the council had acted ultra vires its powers, his body would consider "taking legal ...
India wants limits on umpires.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: New Delhi India would support any moves to dilute umpires' powers following the forfeited Test between England and Pakistan, an official said yesterday. "For the sake of spectators, television viewers and the game's sponsors, no match should be called off and ...
Learn about HIV, advises activist.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: KARISHMA GANPATH COMMUNICATION and transport technology had brought people around the world closer, enabling them to work together to combat the spread of HIV/Aids. This was the message from American Aids activist Phill Wilson to Durban University of ...
Darrell can always let his hair down with us, say Aussies.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Sydney: Cricket Australia's umpire selection chairman is reportedly prepared to offer Darrell Hair a career lifeline if he is dropped from cricket's elite umpires' panel over the Pakistan Test forfeit row. The Sydney Morning Herald said Mel Johnson could offer Hair a place on ...
McClaren's boys must not think opening match will be a cinch.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... It's a blob in the middle of the Pyrenees mountain range, a snowy wilderness in winter and a sweltering tourist trap in summer. Its 71 201 citizens, who pay no income tax, crammed into a total land area of just 468km2, enjoy the highest average life expectancy in the world at ...
Crime Figures.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... The causes of this country's serious crime problem are many and complex, including historical factors, unemployment, deprivation and especially the unfortunate lack of moral values in many homes. Media reporting is certainly not a cause. We say this because some people in ...
R35m 20-20 match called off.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: PATRICK COMPTON THE lucrative Stanford 20-20 match between South Africa and a Caribbean all-star team scheduled for November 10 in Antigua has been cancelled. Proteas coach Mickey Arthur said the match - with $5 million (R35 million) winner-takes-all prize ...
Govt will abide by court rulings.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA Appeals against court decisions would not be used as a stumbling block to frustrate access to ARVs and other forms of treatment, the government pledged yesterday. In a statement to clarify its position on the role of the judiciary amid ...
Death fall probe.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... INVESTIGATIONS into the death of 66-year-old Norman Patterson, who fell into the Kloof Gorge on Wednesday, are continuing. Police Insp Thulani Mkhize confirmed yesterday that an inquest docket had been opened. ...
Public service strike called off.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA South Africa's main entry points will be manned by immigration officers as usual today after the Public Servants' Association called off its planned strike. Deputy General Manager Manie de Clercq said the union had reached an 11th-hour ...
Airport name change condemned.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb Opposition parties from the left to the right were united yesterday in condemning the government's decision to rename Johannesburg International Airport after the late ANC leader Oliver Tambo, saying it was a blow to national reconciliation. "The ...
Two die in first-floor fire.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: KARISHMA GANPATH POLICE are investigating the death of two people who died in a fire at business premises on Umbilo Road in Durban yesterday. It is suspected that the two women had been locked in a room during a pay-day robbery and could not escape when the ...
Payback time for France as World Cup finalists go head to head againZidane head-butt could have fallout in France-Italy Euro clash.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... London: Two months after Italy played France in the World Cup final, they're squaring up to face each other again. This time on the road to Euro 2008. Tomorrow, when the Italians host Lithuania in Naples and France go to Tbilisi to face Georgia, the Group B games will seem like ...
Homeless man's story of Kebble death 'doesn't fit'.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan & Alex Eliseev JOHANNESBURG: The forensic pathologist who examined Brett Kebble's body has dismissed a homeless man's account of how the mining magnate was slain. "It doesn't fit in with the forensics," Prof Hendrik Scholtz said yesterday. ...
No mercy for Andorra - Gerrard.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Manchester - Steven Gerrard insists England must show no mercy against European whipping boys Andorra in Steve McClaren's first competitive game in charge of the national side. McClaren's team launch their European Championship qualifying campaign tomorrow at Old Trafford ...
Ban and fine for Man City's Thatcher.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Manchester: Ben Thatcher has received a four-match ban and been fined four weeks' wages by Manchester City for elbowing Portsmouth midfielder Pedro Mendes last week. The Wales defender also has a fine for an extra two weeks' wages and a further two-match ban, suspended pending ...
Argentina coach gives Brazil short shrift.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Buenos Aires: Argentina's new coach, Alfio Basile, said he would settle for a 4-0 win over Brazil in his first match in charge on Sunday. "I would like us to score four goals and them to score none," the gravel-voiced coach told reporters yesterday after being asked what he ...
Juventus may drop appeal.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Rome: Juventus, who were relegated to Serie B and given a 17-point penalty for the start of the forthcoming season for match-fixing, are considering cancelling their civil court action if the Italian Football Federation reduces their punishment. The Turin club were ready to take ...
Yorke 'Keane' on Sunderland move.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Sydney: Australia's Sydney Football Club said yesterday that talks were under way with English Championship outfit Sunderland that could see Dwight Yorke reunited with former Manchester United teammate Roy Keane. Thirty-four-year-old Yorke is contracted to the A-League champions ...
New opponent for Mlungisi Dlamini.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Mlungisi Dlamini, KZN's hottest boxing prospect, will face Zimbabwe lightweight Mishack Kondwani and not Frenchman Frederic Gosset at Sibaya Casino next Friday night. Gosset was injured last weekend. ...
RCYC Greenlight takes first victory in Lipton Cup.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sports Reporter Sparkling sunshine and a steady eight to10-knot westerly breeze set the stage for a perfect start-to-finish victory for defending champions Royal Cape Yacht Club's RCYC Greenlight, on the penultimate day of racing in the country's premier sailing event - ...
Editors voice concerns over Bill.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb Editors met the government yesterday to discuss censorship concerns ahead of today's planned tabling of the Film and Publications Amendment Bill in parliament. Among other things, the Bill seeks to strip newspapers of the exemptions they previously ...
Three shot in bakery robbery.(News)
Sep 01, 2006 ... THREE men robbed a bakery, shot three employees and took two people hostage in Pinetown yesterday. Police Capt Debbie O'Brien said the men had fired shots in the manager's office at Best Bread bakery in Westgate Industrial Park. Three employees had been wounded. ...