The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from June 2007:
Mirror, mirror on the wall.(Life)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: LIFE REPORTER Does a teenager or young woman you know spend a lot of time and energy telling those around her that it is inner beauty that counts and not physical appearance? If so, she could be suffering from poor body image and the stress, anxiety and depression that ...
Jones back as detective.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... TOMMY Lee Jones, an Oscar-winner for his supporting role in The Fugitive, is soon to be back on screen, in detective mode again, in a new film adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel, In the Electric Mist With ...
Public servant has become chief whip.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... City Manager Mike Sutcliffe should get a red card. He has become the self-appointed chief spokesman for the ANC in the eThekwini Municipality. As an official paid by the ratepayers of Durban, he should not be debating anything, let alone street renaming. What does ...
Grace graduates.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... TOPHER Grace, star of television's That 70s Show and the films In Good Company and Spider-Man 3, is soon to be seen in Kids in America, a new comedy in which he will play a recent college graduate, Matt Franklin, Universal Pictures has announced. The film follows Matt, his twin ...
Chicks get set to rock.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Proving that sisters are definitely doing if for themselves, Chicks Rock is a salute to women's influence on the music industry. Presented by the Heritage Theatre in Hillcrest from May 30 to July 8, the show stars Angela Dodds, Jessey Boyle and Catherine Mace in a celebration of ...
Find The Murderer Of Diner Marc Joubert.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Just more than two years ago, my wife and I settled in New Zealand to be with our two daughters and five grandchildren. Recently we returned to be with our son's family, who are expecting a child soon, our eighth grandchild. The changes in the short time we have been ...
New Act will benefit consumers.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Lyse Comins The exploitation of consumers by unscrupulous money- lenders that have led many poor people into debt traps will become a criminal offence under the new National Credit Act, which comes into effect today. However, consumers have been warned by the ...
An evening of life and love.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CHARLOTTE FAIRFAX Cape Town-based singer, composer and performer Godfrey Johnson makes a welcome return to Durban's quaint Rhumbelow Theatre in Umbilo this month. He performs two sophisticated one-man shows of songs, intriguingly entitled Behind Every Man and ...
Grown-up Harry Potter stars stick it out for final two films.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson will reprise the roles they have made their own - teen wizards Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final two film adaptations of ...
Rock's 'update' seems dated.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: kevin crust Women don't come off terribly well in I Think I Love My Wife, writer-director Chris Rock's comedic "update" of the 1972 Eric Rohmer drama, Chloe in the Afternoon. It's not so much misogynistic as it resembles a fossil from another era. The film opens today. ...
The show's not over until grande dame Evita puts her foot in it.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... A shabby fellow carrying a bucket shuffles on to the stage and approaches a man in the front row. Soon, it becomes apparent that he is washing the man's feet and the first night capacity audience bursts into delighted applause. It's a great beginning to Pieter-Dirk Uys's new ...
Hitting the road with the Playhouse Company.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: William Charlton-Perkins Say the word "Playhouse" to most people who live in or visit Durban. Chances are the response you'll get will relate to the city's theatre complex in Smith Street, home to live entertainment such as big-stage musicals in the Playhouse Opera ...
Renaming debate not over.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... The article "Opposition outvoted on street renaming process" (The Mercury, May 30) refers. May I place on record the Democratic Alliance's rejection of the ANC's racial political rhetoric, with the contempt it deserves. It is a matter of extreme concern that the ...
New elements for Anthems.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Multi-award-winning duo Jacobus van Heerden and Liam Magner are back with their third instalment in the Neon Anthems trilogy, which comes to the Catalina Theatre this month. In keeping with their commitment to original material, the show is packed from beginning to end with ...
Please uphold ratepayers' rights.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... This is an open letter to eThekwini City Manager Michael Sutcliffe: There are a few questions I wish to pose to you, and hopefully you will give them some serious thought. What is a democracy? What is meant by human rights, democratic rights and constitutional rights? ...
MetroBeat proves city manager's bias.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Sutcliffe unbiased? Pull the other one! Come on, Mike! You claim that you're not biased towards the ANC and that you would like someone to show where you've rendered a service based on party political lines (The Mercury, May 30). The editor of your own propaganda ...
Chill out with French flavours.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... CAFE le Fort at Fort Nottingham became something of an institution. Durbanites would head for the Midlands on a Sunday, sit under the trees, eat provincial French food, listen to Edith Piaf warbling away, drink too much wine and chill. Then Michael Smit and Johann Swiegelaar ...
Embracing diversity.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Sur Singar (meaning a decoration of melodies) is an exclusive rendition of original Indian compositions that will be presented by the Ustad Ravi Foundation for Indian Music at the Shree Swaminarayan Temple Hall, Manor Gardens, at 3pm on Sunday. The concert is sanctioned by the ...
Big Brother is back.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Jun 01, 2007 ... A reality television show which sparked a racist bullying row involving Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty was back on air for a new series in UK this week. But moments before the eighth series of Big Brother got under way, Britain's Channel 4 was forced to screen details of the ...
South Africa has misunderstood its role; The Security Council is, or should be, an instrument for helping people, and a seat on the council should not be used as an ideological prop, writes Peter Fabricius.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... In her budget speech in parliament this week, Foreign Minister Nkosa-zana Dlamini-Zuma made it clear she would persist with her government's often controversial performance in its first almost five months as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. As ...
Engineer's court struggle continues.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: TANIA BROUGHTON Civil engineer Shabir Paruk was back in the Durban High Court this week, launching a second application against the eThekwini Municipality in his quest to get officials to disclose which companies were getting council contracts. Paruk first ...
Warning of cheque deposit scam.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES People have been warned to be on the lookout for the latest scam to hit KwaZulu-Natal, this one using the name of Independent Newspapers to con people out of large amounts of money. In the scam, the fraudsters tell the victim that one of the ...
Pit latrine baby's alleged mother in court.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Ingrid Oellermann A WOMAN who allegedly gave birth to a baby boy who survived a cold night in a pit toilet this week, appeared briefly in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court yesterday in connection with charges of concealment of birth and attempted murder. ...
I'll bet the Boks won't win the second Test, unless they play cricket.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... WAS it a real rugby Test last weekend? It did not quite have the atmosphere. Why England should choose to send to South Africa a second-string side to give the Boks a wonderfully useful training match is one of those mysteries of life. Yet it was not bad rugby, belied by the score. ...
The Sole Solution.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Now and again scientific researchers demonstrate that they do not always restrict their efforts to weighty matters. The latest demonstration of this is in the findings of a study of female emotional reactions to clothing items. Shoes proved to be way ahead of everything else ....
Policeman testifies in gang-rape trial.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: INGRID OELLERMANN A MEMBER of the SAPS Dog Unit, Insp Ian Pitout, told the Pietermaritzburg High Court yesterday how he and his patrol dog had chased the men suspected of committing rape and robbery in the Oslo Beach area, on the South Coast, on the evening of June 30 ...
Artisans 'need affordable housing'.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Chris Jenkins SERIOUS attention had to be given to providing affordable housing for the emerging middle-class population in the growing Richards Bay/Empangeni area, especially for artisans moving to the city who found there was nowhere to live. Artisans were ...
Hounds baying for McClaren's blood.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... There is a dread feeling across England. Unusually, it has nothing to do with the lousy weather (wet and cold for early summer) but instead, a sense of impending doom concerning a major sporting figure. In some newspaper columns, the sporting obituary of England soccer manager ...
Record lamb prices reached at Royal Show.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: INGRID OELLERMANN WORLD record prices for lamb were achieved at the Royal Show carcass competition and auction held at the showgrounds on Wednesday night. General Manager Terry Strachan said the 2007 lamb champion was auctioned for "an astonishing" R3 000 per ...
Banking on Beckham.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: London As England's fortunes have gone from bad to worse during Steve McClaren's troubled reign, the beleaguered coach has increasingly resembled a gambler desperately trying to claw back his losses with one big bet. McClaren has already rolled the dice and ...
Armed robbers hold up supermarket staff.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: INGRID OELLERMANN EMPLOYEES of the Spar supermarket in the small Kwa-Zulu-Natal village of Wartburg were held up at gunpoint by three men, who escaped with a large sum of money, yesterday. A South African Police Service spokesman, Supt Joshua Gwala, said the ...
KZN players in SA squad.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Patrick Compton FOUR KwaZulu-Natal players have been included in the South African hockey squad to compete in the African Olympic Qualifier tournament in Nairobi, Kenya, from July 14-22. They are Geoff Abbott, Darryn Gallagher and Tommy Hammond of Midlands ...
English Premiership profits to boom.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... London: English Premier League profits could almost double to [pounds sterling]260 million (R3.66 billion) next season thanks to a new broadcasting deal. A report into soccer finance from business advisory firm Deloitte, which was released yesterday, said that the new television ...
Newspaper staff strike over wages.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... MEMBERS of the Chemical, Engineering, Printing and Publishing Workers' Union at The Witness newspaper in Pietermaritzburg embarked on an "indefinite" strike yesterday over wages. A union spokesman said workers were demanding a 9% wage hike, ...
Garrick and other edible fish are on the bite.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Anglers fishing along the Illovo flats and Umkomaas really got stuck into some excellent garrick last week. These fish seem to have entrenched themselves on the South Coast. They are taking small, live shad. Anglers who tried live mullet or blacktail did not even get as much as ...
Cabinet promises to limit strike disruption.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb The government will do its best to limit the disruption expected by today's massive public sector strike across the country, the cabinet pledged yesterday. "A number of government offices will put measures in place to make sure that some kind of ...
No date set for health minister's return to work.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... cape Town: No deadline has been set for Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's return to full duty, government spokesman Themba Maseko has said. "The minister of transport (Jeff Radebe) will continue to act as minister of health until the president is satisfied that (she) is ...
SAA board members hold 136 directorships.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Janine Stephen South African Airways' high-flying board members hold a total of 136 directorships between them, with Louisa Mojela, who boasts an impressive 46 directorships, right at the top of the heap. According to a list of directorships drawn up by the ...
'No plans for fewer provinces in SA'.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal CAPE TOWN: The cabinet-mandated review of the provincial and local government system was not aimed at gerrymandering, nor was there already a decision to reduce the number of provinces, President Thabo Mbeki told parliament yesterday. His ...
Man ordered to pay R840 000 for infecting woman with HIV.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: ZELDA VENTER PRETORIA: A Pretoria switchboard operator is to receive nearly R840 000 in damages from her former lover, who infected her with the Aids virus. Pretoria High Court Judge Bill Prinsloo ordered a 31-year-old man from the Western Cape to pay the sum ...
Boks still wary of England.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Kevin Mccallum While it is quite possibly more by accident than design, the Springboks have the best possible fixture list they could wish for in the run-up to the World Cup. The four teams they play in the next couple of months are teams they will meet, or ...
Cabinet okays alternative fuel plan.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: David Spett The cabinet has approved a plan to guide research into new, alternative fuel technologies that could reduce the world's dependency on oil. The plan, which was approved on Wednesday, encourages and directs research into hydrogen-based fuel cells ....
Make a noise, Bafana fans urged.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN THERE may only be 11 Bafana Bafana players running onto the field tomorrow when the team takes on Chad in an African Cup of Nations qualifier, but the thousands of supporters that are expected to fill the stadium stands will be the 12th "player" pushing ...
R85m seized in KZN tax bust.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES A HIGH-FLYING KwaZulu-Natal businessman took a knock yesterday when he, along with his company, had almost R85 million of its assets and cash seized in an intensive investigation into allegations of fraud and theft. The National Prosecuting ...
New twist in baby Jordan murder trial.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER CAPE TOWN: All eyes will be on the youngest of the hitmen hired to kill baby Jordan Leigh Norton when an advocate will ask the court on Monday to let her present an argument about the protection of children who commit crime. The argument ...
Transport Dept's media gag bid fails.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: ZELDA VENTER Transport Minister Jeff Radebe has failed in his attempt to gag the media on reporting on the security problems regarding the controversial new eNaTIS vehicle licensing system. Yesterday, Pretoria High Court judge Dion Basson dismissed with costs ...
I will score, promises on-form Zuma.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jonty Mark Sibusiso Zuma will hope for another happy homecoming when Bafana Bafana take on Chad in tomorrow's African Nations Cup qualifier in Durban. The former African Wanderers star was sensational at the Absa Stadium in October 2005, when South Africa ...
Strike is on today after talks fail.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: MERCURY CORRESPONDENTS, SIBUSISO MBOTO & XOLISWA ZULU The biggest public service strike in more than a decade is set to hit South Africa today, as 700 000 workers vent their anger at being offered a 6% pay raise. There was no eleventh-hour wage settlement last ...
Films Amendment Bill modified to rumbles of discontent.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Janine Stephen The controversial Bill that media experts were afraid could severely threaten press freedom was adopted by the National Assembly's home affairs committee yesterday. The Films and Publications Amendment Bill's adoption raised, if not roars of ...
Mandela says thanks to 'youngster' Blair.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Linda Mbongwa JOHANNESBURG: "Hello Tony, are you alright? Why are you getting younger every day?" That was how former president Nelson Mandela greeted British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie Booth. With the aid of his wife, Graca ...
Mbeki mediates in Scorpions-SAPS tiff.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare, Jovial Rantao, Angela Quintal & Beauregard Tromp President Thabo Mbeki has intervened in another potentially dangerous stand-off between the Scorpions and the National Police Commissioner, Jackie Selebi. Mbeki was brought in after National ...
Blatter re-elected.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2007 ... ZURICH: Sepp Blatter was re-elected as Fifa president for another four-year term yesterday. He was unopposed. The 71-year-old Blatter will remain in charge of world soccer's governing body until 2011. - Sapa-AP MANCHESTER: England midfielder Owen Hargreaves would join ...
Employee chases armed robbers, alerts police.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: NTOKOZO MFUSI A COURAGEOUS employee in Cato Ridge chased a gang of armed robbers who had robbed the factory he works in. As a result, police captured five of the men. Ashok Persad, of Blaze Braai Products in Cato Ridge, pursued two armed robbers ...
Mbeki 'unaware' of divisions in Zanu-PF.(News)
Jun 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal The South African government had no information about divisions within Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party or that there were internal party concerns about President Robert Mugabe's candidacy next year, President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday. ...
Pupils await classrooms after legal body takes up the cause.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... BYLINE: AMELIA NAIDOO Pupils at Landulwazi Primary School in Msinga who have been learning under trees will soon have classrooms after the Legal Resource Centre pressured the Education Department to provide proper facilities. The school reported recent-ly that the ...
Unreliable buses affect jobs.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... All efforts are being made to empower South Africans to find jobs. But in Durban they risk losing these jobs because the powers that be chose to sell the bus service to a profit-making company. There must be many employees from Umlazi who are about to lose their ...
Staying left is easier for motorists.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... I fully concur with Mr Dunton about the new fast lane (The Mercury, May 28). I have been using this method for many years now. No one seems to ...
Double leg amputee sets his sights on Comrades.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... BYLINE: STEPHANIE SAVILLE PIETERMARITZBURG: Tottenham Hotspur supporter Richard Whitehead, of the United Kingdom, is looking forward to taking part in his first Comrades Marathon this year. He has previously run the New York Marathon, the London Marathon, the ...
Gay agenda is opposed to godly standards.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... One wonders whether, if 500 Christians signed a petition against the sanctioning of sexual perversion, this would receive the same front-page media attention that was given to the wolves in sheep's clothing who are undermining Biblical moral standards and sowing division in the church. ...
Simple solution to names row.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... Most elegant and simple solutions are usually staring us right in the face. In all the pictures of the street signs I see on streets that have already been renamed, the old name is still there, with the new name hung underneath. ...
Woods's criticism of other political parties is unbalanced.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... The opinion piece from Nadeco member of parliament Dr Gavin Woods certainly made for entertaining reading (The Mercury, May 30). Regrettably, it does create the rather unfortunate impression that Woods is somewhat lost in the political woods. The most striking ...
No backhander for a delinquent.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... I joined the "pile of glass in the car park" club the same day the National Council of Provinces passed a Bill banning the corporal punishment of children. The fact that my car window was smashed and valuables were stolen fades into insignificance when compared to the damage ...
MP's Whingeing Contributes To Strike Sympathy.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... There was a time when I thought that the 6% increase offered to public service employees was quite reasonable. That was until I heard Mike Ellis of the DA and Sybil Seaton of the IFP being interviewed on SAfm about the proposed 5.4% increase for ordinary members of parliament. ...
Eskom Is DoingA Good Job Saving Us From Ourselves.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... I think Eskom is doing a great job. But before you invite me to your next cold meat and salad dinner in your blacked-out home to question my sanity, let me explain. By now you should be aware that man-made CO2 is the biggest contributor to the greenhouse gas build-up in our ...
Protecting one's integrity always.(News)
Jun 04, 2007 ... I learnt a very important lesson while working as a financial journalist many years ago. Among many others I was offered shares in an insurance company that (I think it was about 1986) was busy listing on the stock exchange at that time. As was quite common, these new shares ...