The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from April 2007:
Rates Increases Will Be Felt Mostly By The Poorest Of The Poor.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... It beggars belief that the eThekwini Municipality can consider an increase of 10% for rates, 15% for water and, on top of that, a 10% additional surcharge on all business rates. Why are such increases necessary? Is it to pay for a few games of football in 2010, or perhaps a new ...
Two Oceans bigger and better.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: STEPHEN GRANGER THE ever-improving quality of the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon field is being underlined by the fact that all of the leading finishers last year will start in Saturday’s race. Eight men who finished in the top 10 in 2006 – ...
Doctors and patients take on medical schemes.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... When it comes to the crunch, can you be certain that your medical aid will cover you for potentially life-saving treatment? Not always. If you are simply relying on advice from a consultant at the scheme or on their annual road-show presentations, be aware that ...
We’ll be watching out for Shosholoza.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... WE often forget the extent to which our sport has been globalised and become big business. At present we have no fewer than three of our Durban staff members abroad, or soon about to depart, to cover overseas sporting events. This is quite apart from our group’s reporting ...
Report on mayor’s municipal account was misleading.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The article “Councillors owed city R100 000” (The Mercury, March 29) does not contextualise the notes taken from the municipality’s financial statements and, particularly in the case of Mayor Obed Mlaba, borders on being defamatory of some of our councillors – and ...
ANC motion regarding Zimbabwean situation was revealing.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The ANC support for Robert Mugabe and their antipathy to the MDC knows no bounds. On March 29, during the sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, veteran ANC politician George Sithole moved a motion,in Zulu, during which he said: “Mr Tsvangeri, leader of the ...
Farewell to Ruda Landman.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... By now most of you would have heard that Carte Blanche anchor Ruda Landman has left the show after an almost 19-year spell. It was contract renewal time at M-Net, and Landman who started work on Carte Blanche with fellow anchor Derek Watts in August 1988, decided she wanted a change of ...
Another burst of the blues.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... SOME of South Africa’s best purveyors of the blues, together with international acts, will make music in Durban from April 25-30 as part of the city’s third annual Blues Festival. The place to be is once again Wilson’s Wharf, where venues will have free musical ...
Bouquets for Goodlife writers.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... TWO popular Mercury columnists, television reviewer Terence Pillay and dance writer and choreographer Lliane Loots, were among those honoured at last night’s Fools Awards ceremony, held at the Playhouse’s Zulu Jazz Lounge. Now in their fifth year, these awards, ...
Research shows Herceptin helps.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in 2005 demonstrated an approximate 50% decrease in relapse and an improvement in survival for women with early HER-2/neu-positive (metastatic) breast cancer who received Herceptin, either with or after ...
How does trastuzumab work?(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... q Trastuzumab (Herceptin) specifically targets and binds to the HER2 (cancer) receptors on the tumour cell surface. q It may decrease the number of messages sent to the cell telling it to grow. ...
Different oncology benefits.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Tier levels of oncology benefits: q Prescribed minimum benefits tier. This was set to accommodate members paying the lowest possible premiums. It contains the most basic treatment protocols available in the majority of government hospitals. q The standard ...
I’ve Been Robbed Of My Due Rewards.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... I was a public service employee, working for the KZN Education Department as a teacher, at North Crest Primary, a former Model D school servicing pupils from KwaMashu and surrounding areas. It is an exemplary school in all facets. I resigned in December 2004. ...
Mbeki’s Challenge.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Politics, it is often said, is the art of the possible. Last week’s Southern African Development Community summit perhaps illustrated the art of the seemingly impossible – finding some way to persuade President Robert Mugabe that he must go. It has been clear for ...
DA walks out over contested budget.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: STEPHANIE SAVILLE THE Democratic Alliance walked out of a full council meeting of the Umgungundlovu District Municipality at which the 2007/08 budget was approved on Friday. The party stated that it did not support the budget in its present form. ...
R50 000 bail for heist accused.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: TANIA BROUGHTON ONE of a suspected gang of 26 accused of committing two cash-in-transit heists, in which a cash guard was shot dead in Umfolozi in October last year, has been granted bail of R50 000 by Durban High Court Judge Herbert Msimang. But the judge ...
KZN’s largest rural housing project launched.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MERCURY REPORTER EFFORTS to increase the provision of houses to rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal went into top gear yesterday when Housing, Local Government and Traditional Affairs MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu unveiled a multimillion-rand housing project at Ingwavuma, in ...
athletics.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... arthur cresswell memorial 52km ultra Bergville to Ladysmith Men: 1 S Hlongwane (Har) 3:21:31, 2 P Ngcobo (CH) 3:28:06, 3 J Zondi (CH) 3:30:05, 4 A Elliot (Bet) 3:37:09, 5 P Makhaza (Ber) 3:18:04. Team: Esc 35-39: 1 S Hlongwane (Har) 3:21:31, 2 P Ngcobo ...
The mane attraction.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... CRICKET throws up some colourful characters, not least among them Sri Lanka’s Lasith “Goldilocks” Malinga. When I watch him running in to bowl at our batsmen I mutter those lines from Kubla Khan: And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing ...
No more buzzwords, let’s get back to basics; People need to be taught the kind of skills that will make them employable, and help to make our economic policies work.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The South African government has done a lot and continues to do a lot in creating a very conducive environment for businesses to do better and prosper in South Africa. The Office of the National Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has been given the task of co-ordinating a ...
Win with The Mercury.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Cricket fans, want to win an official autographed Shaun Pollock World Cup cricket shirt? ...
Favourable rates and services budget tabled.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Chris Jenkins THE uMhlathuze Municipality, where the economy is said to be growing at about 10% a year, has outshone Durban and Pietermaritzburg by pegging its rates and service increases below inflation. Mayor Denny Moffatt released a R1.3 billion draft ...
Bunkers were common on Durban beaches.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Looking at the front page of The Mercury on March 28, I remembered many other bunkers on the beaches. I think they were called pillboxes. They were all the way up the beaches. One, in particular, was in front of Natal Command, where I played as a youngster. ...
World Cup Plans.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... We can only speculate about the threats South Africa and the world will face in 2010. But it is heartening to know that security plans for the World Cup – a tremendously important occasion for the country – have been under focus since 2004. Last week, for the first ...
Woman held after missing girl is returned to her home.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN A WOMAN has been arrested for kidnapping a 2-year-old girl who was reported to have gone missing in Pietermaritzburg last Wednesday. Alwande Xulu went missing from her Unit J home in the Imbali area of Plessislaer. She had been left in the ...
Hotel death plunge.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MERCURY REPORTER A NEWLANDS man booked a room on the 20th floor of a Durban beachfront hotel on Friday night, then jumped to his death soon afterwards. ER24 paramedic Neil Noble said Dean Balram had been found on hotel’s pool deck. ...
Sharks to face embattled Reds.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: ZAYN NABBI The Sharks will face a desperate Queensland Reds outfit bent on ending their seven- game losing streak in Brisbane on Saturday evening, when the sides collide at Suncorp Stadium in a round 10 Super 14 encounter. The home team are in the throes of ...
Revamped Shosholoza has new turn of speed.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sports Reporter Tensions are running high in Valencia, where Team Shosholoza – South Africa’s first ever entry in the America’s Cup – is gearing up for tomorrow’s start of the final and decisive racing season for the 2007 America’s ...
Samoa send SA packing.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY T he South African Sevens team have an unfortunate tradition of saving their worst for the biggest Sevens event on the planet. In 15 attempts at the Hong Kong Sevens title, South Africa have made just one final, in 1997 when Andre Venter, Chester Williams, ...
KwaZulu-Natal leads in stock theft, says minister.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb More than 13 000 cattle, 22 000 sheep and 8 000 goats were stolen across the country in the first three months of last year, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said last week. Responding to a written question from Democratic Alliance MP Manie van Dyk ...
Deadly union rivalry faces probe.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: CHRISTELLE TERREBLANCHE Alleged interunion rivalry that some believe may have led to the murder of five members of the Federation of Democratic Unions of SA (Fedusa) in the past two months, is to receive high-level police attention. Fedusa General-Secretary ...
League wants women in 50% of ANC’s leadership posts.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA The ANC Women’s League has embarked on a major drive to ensure that women occupy 50% of all leadership positions throughout the organisation. While it stopped short of calling for the country’s next president to be a woman, ...
Chamber ‘no’ to 10% levy proposal.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Carvin Goldstone THE Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry has criticised a controversial proposal by the eThekwini Municipality to levy a 10% surcharge on businesses’ electricity and rates accounts. Instead it has recommended the introduction of a new ...
‘Signs of criminal terrorism grip SA’.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MERCURY CORRESPONDENT Crime in South Africa was increasingly showing the signs of “criminal terrorism”, said Prof Michael Hough, Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Pretoria. In a new report published by the institute, Hough said ...
Owners fear for their pets’ lives.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN Owners of pets in Waterfall fear for the safety of their charges after the mysterious deaths and disappearances of cats and dogs in the area in the past two months. Residents believe the animals are being poisoned. Since February, ...
Readers say Zuma has little chance of becoming president.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Raymond Silinga An overwhelming number of readers have voted against Jacob Zuma ultimately assuming the reins of power when President Thabo Mbeki steps down as the leader of the ANC, citing his lack of moral values and lifestyle as obstacles. In a recent ...
Drunk driver causes pileup on highway.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES SIX people were injured and one person was killed in accidents yesterday and on Saturday. The driver of a bakkie, who was later arrested for drunken driving, drove up an embankment and across the median on the N3 at Hammarsdale, colliding with ...
Peterson calls for spin rethink.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess Getting in some practice time here is proving to be nearly as challenging for the South African team as keeping out a Lasith Malinga yorker. A damp pitch and outfield at the Bourda Oval caused by continuous showers meant South Africa had to ...
Amateur Spaniard makes history in Portugal Open.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sapa-AFP-Reuters Spain’s Pablo Martin created golfing history here yesterday when he captured the Portugal Open to become the first amateur to win on the European Tour. The 20-year-old from Malaga, who was tied for third, two shots off the overnight ...
‘A day I will never forget’.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Gill Gifford JOHANNESBURG: Top detec-tive Supt Piet Byleveld was invited to a private audience of former president Nelson Mandela, who congratulated the humble police officer on his recent success in the Sheldean Human murder case. Byleveld, who works quietly ...
April 1 spawns host of fake reports.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES, SAPA-AFP & SAPA NEWSPAPERS and other media had a field day on April Fool’s Day yesterday, targeting the Gautrain, Britain’s Prince Harry and even your toilet. Internet search engine Google announced a novel way to access the ...
Proteas earn bonus.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Kingston: South Africa earned a $175 000-(R1.3 million) bonus yesterday for topping the ICC one-day international rankings at the annual cut-off date for the first time. Australia, in second place, will pocket $75 000 (R548 000) for being the runner-up. Australia remain on top ...
Woeful Swallows salvage point.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe Moroka Swallows (0) 1 Botes 51 Kaizer Chiefs (1) 1 Motaung 6-pen It says a lot about Moroka Swallows that, on the occasion to mark their 60th birthday, they were cheered at the end by their ...
Lotto winners ‘will be paid’.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: BONILE NGQIYAZA & CARVIN GOLDSTONE Lotto players will not lose their winnings, even though the National Lottery was suspended on Saturday. The draw on Saturday night was the last until the dispute surrounding the awarding of the sought-after licence is ...
Cape surfer outrides Palmboom.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sports Reporter Brandon Roberts went unbeaten through five rounds to secure his first title in the Pro Junior boys’ division of the Billabong Junior Series at Durban’s Bay of Plenty yesterday. The 19-year-old fourth seed from the Cape led ...
Olympic champion powers his way to another medal.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sapa-AFP Britain’s Olympic champion, Chris Hoy, won the gold medal in the kilometre on the final day of the World Track Cycling Championships here yesterday. Frenchman Francois Pervis finished nearly a second adrift to take the silver medal with another ...
Keane spot-on as penalty denies Reading.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sapa-AFP Robbie Keane took advantage of a controversial penalty decision to give Tottenham a 1-0 win against Reading yesterday. Keane struck from the spot just before half-time at White Hart Lane after referee Alan Wiley ruled that Greg Halford had ...
New poison test for Woolmer.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... In a new twist to the Bob Woolmer murder investigation, police have received a tip-off that the coach was poisoned by aconite, which is believed to be the perfect drug to mask a murder. This is contrary to an earlier statement in which “manual strangulation” was ...
Spate of weekend accidents.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES A CYCLIST was taken to hospital with spinal injuries when he was hit by a car in NMR Avenue yesterday. He was one of several people injured in accidents at the weekend. Also yesterday, 16 people were treated for injuries when a taxi ...
Journalist arrested as crackdown continues.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peta Thornycroft, Peter Fabricius & Sapa-AP The South African correspondent for Time magazine was arrested in Zimbabwe on Saturday and was still in custody last night, apparently for entering the country without official media accreditation. And several ...
Zandberg makes it a golden finish for South Africa.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: AFP-REUTERS Gerhard Zandberg claimed the men’s 50m backstroke title at the Fina World Championships yesterday to earn South Africa’s second gold medal at the swimming biennial showpiece. Zandberg, who had won silver in the event at Barcelona in ...
Phelps the world’s best.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Reuters A week of jaw-dropping performances from Michael Phelps at the world championships have emphatically confirmed him as owner of the moniker “world’s best swimmer”. The gangling American surpassed the great Ian Thorpe’s ...
Winners ‘will be paid’.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: BONILE NGQIYAZA & CARVIN GOLDSTONE Lotto players will not lose their winnings, even though the National Lottery was suspended on Saturday. The draw on Saturday night was the last until the dispute surrounding the awarding of the sought-after licence is ...
Sri Lanka condemn Windies to third defeat.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sapa-AP Sanath Jayasuriya clubbed a vintage hundred and Sri Lanka all but ended the West Indies' World Cup semi-final hopes with a 113-run Super Eights win yesterday. Jayasuriya’s 115 from 101 balls and his 183-run third-wicket partnership with skipper ...
Focusing on your forgotten muscles.(Life)
Apr 03, 2007 ... MOST of us pay so much attention to the frontal parts of our body that we often ignore other parts. The gate pose in yoga allows us to stretch the intercostals muscles that connect the ribs. When these muscles are tight the rib cage’s movement is restricted, ...
Not much gravy here; Although the public believes the contrary, it appears that being a public representative is no cheap ride. Lyse Comins reports.(News)
Apr 03, 2007 ... While the perception that all public officials are riding the gravy train is common, not so widely publicised are the huge emotional and financial pressures on these individuals, from local councillors to members of parliament, brought on by the demands of their jobs, their political ...
Go forward with faith and courage; The exodus has taught Jews not to take freedom for granted, writes the Chief Rabbi of SA, Warren Goldstein, ahead of Passover today.(News)
Apr 03, 2007 ... Freedom must be celebrated. We cannot afford to take liberty for granted. These are the teachings of the Holy Days of Passover, celebrated by Jews all around the world as the anniversary of the liberation of their ancestors from Egypt by G-d 3 319 years ago. Celebrating freedom ...
Events leading up to Sharpeville misrepresented.(News)
Apr 03, 2007 ... It is HARD to take Graham Bailey seriously after reading his description of the Sharpeville disaster on March 21 1960 (The Mercury, March 27). Bailey claims that the 69 dead and 200 wounded were “inhumanely shot down by police using vehicles mounted with ‘Gatling ...
Not all changes are for the better.(News)
Apr 03, 2007 ... I would like to take issue with Mayor Obed Mlaba’s statement in a recent advertisement in The Mercury. Surely not all change must be embraced. Has he forgotten the changes that were made in this country in 1948, 1949 and during subsequent years? Should we have embraced ...
Evidence Proves Life Did Not Happen By Chance.(News)
Apr 03, 2007 ... In his article “Science and Spirituality” (The Mercury, March 29) Nithaya Chetty discussed a wide range of subjects superficially. He should use his scientific background to look deeper into the probability of some scientific theories before accepting them as fact. ...
Racism is still a problem in SA.(News)
Apr 03, 2007 ... I would commend President Thabo Mbeki for his comments in the March 16 edition of ANC Today, which led to a debate on the critical and thorny issue of racism. Some sectors of our population deny that racism still exists, while others continue to feel the pain and effects of ...
Thanks for a magnificent show.(News)
Apr 03, 2007 ... We would like to thank Aaron Mcllroy and The Centrestage All Star Band from Port Elizabeth for a night of brilliant music and entertainment in The Magnificent Seven, at the Sneddon Theatre. ...
Easter Sunday meal for four to be won!(Life)
Apr 03, 2007 ... DURBAN’S Suncoast Hotel and Towers at Suncoast Casino is holding a special Easter Sunday lunch – and a reader and three guests will be there to enjoy the delicious spread at no charge! The Easter Sunday lunch buffet will offer a wide range of starter choices that ...
It is tough caddying for a pro.(Goodlife Golfer Supplement)
Apr 03, 2007 ... Ask me if I like caddying and for the most part, I would say “Yes!” However, in saying that there are occasions when I don't do well “looping” (a bit of tour jargon for you). Rain! I am not big on caddying in the rain. Primarily because there is so much ...
French Bean.(Life)
Apr 03, 2007 ... ROWAN Atkinson’s rubbery, ridiculous, klutzy and kid-like Mr Bean is a classic character from television. Sadly, however, his second film outing, which comes a full 10 years after Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, and which Atkinson has sworn will mark his last appearance ...