The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from November 2007:
Chiefs win testing encounter.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jonty Mark Rustenburg: "It's a game of two halves" is a well-worn cliche, but if ever it could be applied, it was in Rustenburg where Chiefs beat Free State Stars 3-0 yesterday. The scoreline may indicate a rout, but it was far from that for the Amakhosi, as ...
Axing Shrek.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... THE popular Shrek film series is coming to an end - but there are two more films to come before the axe falls. ...
Big bucks.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... DANIEL Craig, the new 007 and soon to be seen in the fantasy epic The Golden Compass, has become Britain's highest paid actor following a multi-million-dollar deal ...
The ball's in your court.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Courtyards can be traced back to 3000BC in China and Iran, and were identified by an open space enclosed by a building with sky views. These open-air rooms often acted as a meeting place for the residents, cooking, sleeping, working, playing, gardening, and even keeping animals. ...
Our drivers are notoriously selfish.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Road users defy the rules with impunity. Pedestrians walk across freeways and wait until the traffic lights are against them before crossing. Drivers bypass the four-way-stop rule, speed up to jump traffic lights turning red, ignore the white lines at intersections and don't ...
A Winning Team Unites A Nation Better Than A Representative One.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... The Rugby World Cup is on everybody's lips, the word "transformation" is also on everybody's lips, and there appears to be a growing realisation that a winning team is more important for nation-building than a "representative" team. There is also, thankfully, a growing awareness ...
Houses in the hills; A residential development at Woodridge, Balgowan, is being opposed by local people who fear it will attract other such projects and eventually transform the area.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... IF you take a Sunday drive to the KZN Midlands, you will see abundant evidence of the residential property boom creeping further into the hills and dales. Some landowners have grabbed the opportunity with both hands, but there are many local folk who view the trend with alarm. ...
'Control that anger, MPs'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: SIPHO KHUMALO THE violence did not reach the same heights as in Taiwan where, in May this year, MPs of opposing parties threw punches and wrestled in that country's parliament, but an expert has warned that last week's clashes between ANC and IFP politicians - which ...
Communities can reduce crime.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... The killing of Lucky Dube has sparked a debate on crime. The media has lambasted the government for failing the Dube family and has accused the government, and Charles Nqakula in particular, of failing the nation. It is unfortunate that the media, opposition parties and analysts ...
More travelogue than drama.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... This film, set amidst the beautiful backdrop of New Zealand, is something of a curiosity, as well as a period piece. The movie's technical excellence, unfortunately, does not compensate for the convoluted storyline. A young Irish woman, played by Samantha Morton, ...
Keep the light shining on your vehicle's life.(Motoring)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Good lighting is essential for safety reasons, but almost every day I see vehicles with at least one light inoperative. Even in the absence of a warning on the instrument panel, a headlight failure should be obvious to the driver, but what about rear lights and indicators? ...
Boks would be squashed on SAA flights.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... I know exactly why the Springboks didn't fly SAA. They just wouldn't fit. I'm a 1.7m tall woman, and the seats and leg room turn an SAA flight to Europe into an eight-hour ...
Those geysers are big power users.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... The letter about geysers from L Riphagen (The Mercury, October 30) contains a few facts, but with unfounded assertions and serious errors that cannot go unchallenged. His comments about kettles being used to heat water for a few cups of tea are spot on. Although most ...
System lets our talent down.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... THE euphoria of victory after the Springboks' Rugby World Cup final triumph, the football team's success in the Cosafa Cup final and the cricketers' one-day series win in Pakistan has been a great spectacle, showcasing celebrations across the three major sports codes. Sharing in ...
Designing a herb garden.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Jekka McVicar is regarded as the queen of herbs. She was in Durban this week and provided some useful tips on how to design a herb garden. McVicar and her husband, Mac, began planting herbs more than two decades ago on a small patch of ground at their Bristol home in the UK. In ...
None but the brave.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... The penultimate concert in the KZN Philharmonic's Spring Season in the Durban City Hall this evening presents the unorthodox mix of Elgar and Tchaikovsky. Few concert-goers familiar with the three components of the programme, however, are likely to be churlish enough not to ...
Moolman scoops top prize.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Kobus Moolman's poignant two-hander, Stone Angel, took top prize at the weekend's regional finals of one of SA's most dynamic writing competitions - the NLDTF and Pansa Festival of Contemporary Theatre Reading of New Writings - held at Durban's Kwasuka Theatre. Selected by ...
'Baby M3' is hot to trot.(Motoring)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jesse Adams So if the new M3 was BMW's most anticipated car of 2007, what does that make the new 1-Series Coupe? It's a bit of a toss up considering that the world launch for the extension to the 1-Series range was held this week, but the car will only reach our shores ...
The democracy debate - some questions and answers.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... More than 35 broadcasters worldwide, a global web presence and several top international newspapers are working together for the first time in a major multimedia event to debate the dominant political issue of our time. They are asking the question: Why democracy? ...
KZN scoops greatest share of season's blue flags.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: TONY CARNIE KWAZULU-NATAL beaches have scooped almost half of the country's 21 blue flags for next year - although three local beaches have been ordered to lower their flags because of water pollution or substandard amenities. Blue flags are flown as part of ...
Former Model C schools forced to face reality; Those who still practise a Eurocentric culture in former Model C schools didn't count on the resilience of the likes of Navi Pillay, writes Usha Naidu.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... THE recent Constitutional Court judgment on the Sunali Pillay nose-ring issue puts the writing on the wall for all former Model C schools, forcing them to now embrace the realities of having a culturally diverse pupil population. If anything, it has certainly made schools like ...
Surprisesfor Angela.(Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BROKEN alliances, tittle-tales, backstabbing, cheating, little white lies, confusion, wrong assumptions, surprising twists and turns . . . last night's episode of Survivor South Africa: Malaysia made any soap you care to mention seem like a very dreary wildlife documentary. And ...
Thousands of divorces may be null and void.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: TANIA BROUGHTON THOUSANDS of divorces granted in Durban during an eight-year period could be declared null and void - and any subsequent remarriages declared unlawful - depending on the outcome of a case pending before the Durban High Court. The application, ...
'Do away with public hearings'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: SIBUSISO MBOTO Opposition parties in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature have suggested that public hearings be done away with, as input from the public is not considered when laws are formulated. The suggestion comes in the wake of the decision by the ...
Australia set to dominate Fina World Cup.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne Sydney: The 2007 Fina/ Arena Swimming World Cup goes into its third leg of seven in the series in Sydney tomorrow and Saturday, with Australian swimmers out in force to dominate the 34-event short-course meeting. They dominated last weekend's ...
2010 response disappoints Fifa.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: COLLEEN DARDAGAN LARGE numbers of guest house and B&B owners in KwaZulu-Natal are dragging their heels in signing over their facilities ahead of the 2010 World Cup, frustrating Fifa officials, who say that only 736 rooms have been contracted out of the required 2 000. ...
Mbeki heads back to KZN.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: SIPHO KHUMALO PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will visit KwaZulu-Natal this weekend for the second time in a month, as ANC branches in the province put together nominations for the party's next leader. KwaZulu-Natal has indicated its support for his deputy in the ANC, ...
A Sporting Hat-trick.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... It has been a wonderful period for South African sport recently - We won the Rugby World Cup, the Cosafa Cup football tournament, and now, our cricketers return triumphant from Pakistan, having won both the Test and one-day series. Such a triple-crown achievement hasn't happened ...
Bid for anti-drug strategy shot down.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES A NOTICE of motion to form a strategy to deal with drug dealing and illegal alcohol sales was rejected by the eThekwini Municipality's council yesterday. The DA notice said that communities in the municipality regularly experienced problems ...
Fate's fickle finger.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A FEW days ago this column carried some of the amazing coincidences in the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. Geoff Hardy of Durban says I missed at least one, which is that Kennedy went to his assassination in a Ford Lincoln, Lincoln went to his at Ford's Theatre. ...
The good, the bad and the ugly of Rugby World Cup 2007 . . .(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... After two months in France, I returned home last Tuesday to be greeted at the gate by my gardener. Leaning on his rake, he asked me what I thought of the Mark Cueto foot-in-touch-"try" in the final, and why did the Boks kick so much when they had such good backs, and please haven't I got ...
Black Caps set to face SA.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess New Zealand are looking forward to a tough, uncompromising encounter against a powerful and experienced South Africa A-team in Potchefstroom over the next four days. Although they had some problems in Bloemfontein, mainly with the state of the ...
Rule book gets a tweak for 2008.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... LONDON: Golf's myriad regulations will get a tweak after the Royal and Ancient (R&A) issued amendments to its rulebook for 2008 yesterday. In an attempt to make penalties more proportionate to the offences the R&A, in conjunction with the United States Golf Association, has ...
Challenger winners.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Congratulations to our latest Mercury Challenger winners, who have each won R100. They are: Mystery word winner: Ameena Moosa. Answer: Ample Sudoku winner: Anne ...
Little girls just want to be healthy.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: SHARIKA REGCHAND TWO young Pietermaritzburg girls have simple wishes: all they want is to regain their health and play with their friends. Samantha Millar, 2, and Jade Preston, 8, spend most of their time in and out of hospitals, instead of enjoying their ...
White's move may also affect Blue Bulls.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: VATA NGOBENI Pretoria: In the light of the departure of coach Jake White after the Springboks' end-of-year, two-match tour of Wales, the Blue Bulls Company has moved to name Blue Bulls coach Pote Human as "stand-by" coach on an unofficial basis for their Super 14 title ...
Teachers to be hit in the pocket.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: LATOYA NEWMAN THE KwaZulu-Natal Education Department has confirmed that it will dock teachers' salaries at the end of this month for participating in a public service sector strike in June. Department head Cassius Lubisi said yesterday that there would be ...
Unit seeks to go it alone.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb South Africa's elite crime-fighting unit, the Scorpions, would continue to fight to become a semi-autonomous public entity, Acting National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Mokotedi Mpshe said yesterday. "We are still going to pursue that," ...
34 soldiers off to do duty in DRC.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sinegugu Ndlovu Excitement was written on the faces of 34 soldiers as they saluted their commanders at their farewell parade before leaving for the Democratic Republic of Congo today. The Durban-based Reserve Force Contingent from the 19 Field Engineers ...
Lifetime award for Mercury Correspondent.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peter Fabricius THE Mercury's Zimbab-we correspondent, Peta Thornycroft, received an award for a career of courageous journalism from film star Angelina Jolie in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night. Jolie presented Thornycroft, 62, with the Lifetime Achievement ...
Today's the day.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Swimmers wishing to enter the 2008 Halfway Telkom Midmar Mile are reminded that early entries close today. The world's largest open water swimming event, which attracts about 17 000 swimmers annually, will take place at Midmar Dam on February 9 and 10. Entry forms have been posted to all ...
St Lucia park is now 'iSimangaliso'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Chris Jenkins The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa's first listed World Heritage Site, takes on a new name from today. After an extensive two-year consultation process, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park was approved by the cabinet and gazetted on May 11 ...
Children's lifestyle poor, says report.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Thandi Skade JOHANNESBURG: South African children are on the whole overweight, physically inactive and smoke. These are the findings of a new research report, The Healthy Active Kids SA Report Card, conducted by Discovery Vitality and the Sport Science ...
Police rack up R6bn in lawsuits.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi A suspected paedophile was suing the police for a staggering R900 million for wrongful arrest and imprisonment, National Police Chief Jackie Selebi told MPs yesterday. This forms part of the R6 billion in lawsuits against the SAPS, of ...
Arrows lack finishing touch.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: KAMLESH GOSAI LAMONTVILLE Golden Arrows didn't take their chances against Santos in their Absa Premier League match in Umlazi yesterday afternoon, and were punished as the Cape side won 1-0 to register their maiden league win of the season. Arrows twice had ...
Someone had to go. It was me.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED, Beauregard Tromp & Jaques van der Westhuyzen JAKE White says he is "extremely disappointed" at the manner in which the South African Rugby Union has treated him since the triumphant World Cup campaign after announcing yesterday that he would not continue ...
It had become almost impossible for Jake to continue, says Stransky.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Beauregard Tromp & Jaques van der Westhuyzen Johannesburg: The decision by Jake White not to re-negotiate his Springbok coaching contract is a sad day for South African rugby, but it will provide a clean slate to further the aims of transformation. The rugby ...
The night Zille played sleuth.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jovial Rantao & Deon de Lange Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille so badly wanted to gather evidence against the man who aspired to be her nemesis, councillor Badih Chaaban, that one day she played sleuth and the Speaker of the city council acted as commissioner of oaths. ...
Cape in favour of Mbeki.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CAPE TOWN: President Thabo Mbeki has emerged as the clear front-runner in the Western Cape for ANC president after the nomination process for branches closed at midnight last night. Matthew Parks, Deputy Secretary of the Dullah Omar region (Cape Peninsula) - the largest of six ...
Big Brother footage may be demanded.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH CAPE TOWN: While M-Net maintains that a sexual encounter between two intoxicated contestants was consensual, a Gauteng advocacy group is considering sending a lawyer's letter to the broadcaster to demand unedited footage of the incident for perusal by ...
Still time to file taxes.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CAPE TOWN: The SA Revenue Service said more than two million tax returns - more than half of the number due - had been filed before yesterday's deadline. The remaining 1.8 million have until the end ...
Relief From A Jam.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Many a motorist who has experienced the embarrassment of being trapped with a bursting bladder will give an enthusiastic welcome to the latest in car accessories. There's nothing hi-tech about this product, by a Japanese plastics company, but that detracts nothing from its ...
Hijack suspect killed in shootout.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A SUSPECTED hijacker was killed and two others were arrested in a shootout with police in Mariannhill yesterday. The police were tipped off about a hijacking and found the vehicle, a green Toyota Corolla, with four men inside, which they followed. The Corolla sped up and its ...
'Growing support for De Villiers'.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED SPRINGBOK coaching candidate Peter de Villiers is receiving increasing support in the South African Rugby Union (Saru) hierarchy to take over from incumbent Jake White - with Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer possibly serving as the Bok technical advisor. ...
The good, the bad and the ugly of Rugby World Cup 2007 . . .(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... After two months in France, I returned home last Tuesday to be greeted at the gate by my gardener. Leaning on his rake, he asked me what I thought of the Mark Cueto foot-in-touch-"try" in the final, and why did the Boks kick so much when they had such good backs, and please haven't I got ...
Screen iconsset to reunite.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... THEY smouldered and created a classic cinema moment when they appeared on screen together for the first time in Heat - now Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are set to team again in a movie. The film is Righteous Kill and whispers have it the stars will share more screen time than ...
Allen and Indiana.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... KAREN Allen, who played Marion Ravenwood, the girlfriend of Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones character in 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, ...
Old block may become housing model.(News)
Nov 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Greg Arde An ugly duckling is being transformed into a swan in central Durban, and if it flies residents will marvel at how it could change the inner city. With a total of R27 million in Dutch funding, loans and government money, a not-for-profit company, ...
Start spreadin' the news . . .(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... AT THE risk of sounding like a major-league snob - one of the multitude of social challenges which really concerns me is the distinct "dumbing down" of society, the ripple effects of which have serious implications on the arts. We seem to be living in a global society which is ...
'The revolution I would engage in would be the spiritual reconstruction of minds'.(News)
Nov 02, 2007 ... More than 35 broadcasters worldwide, a global web presence and several top international newspapers are working together for the first time in a major multi-media event to debate the dominant political issue of our time. They are asking the question: Why democracy? ...
Guys and Dolls!(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... A FINE mix of Durban's top acting, singing and dancing talent is soon to spread the razzle dazzle in a festive season production of a lavish Broadway classic - a show produced by a young man who was still in school uniform last year. The show is Guys and Dolls, headed for the ...
Coffee, chocolate and cognac - and a great prize!(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... FANCY coffee, chocolate and cognac? If you do - and who doesn't - you simply have to drive out to Ballito on November 14 for a fun and very different social event being hosted at the five-star Relais Chateau Hotel Izulu. A special tasting of all these decadent delights has been ...
Back in the limelight.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... AFTER an absence of virtually a decade, much-loved opera singer and radio star Thokozani MaMkhize-Ndlovu is back in the spotlight again on the Playhouse Opera stage. She is performing opera arias as guest in the glittering Shall We Dance ballroom and Latin American showcase, ...
Is there a doctor in the house?(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: BILLY SUTER THE health woes and well-being wobbles of the rich and famous always make for sensational headlines in the tabloid press, but it's been a particularly busy few months for medical experts tending to celebrity complaints, it would seem. Take ...
VOTE and WIN.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Nov 02, 2007 ... CHOOSE your favourite Durban theatre personality for 2007 from the 12 GoodLife nominees listed below and you will place that person in line to win the inaugural Mercury Theatre Personality of the Year Award. The person with the most votes will win a certificate and a year's free ...