The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from February 2008:
Plugged in and checked out of reality.(Life)
Feb 01, 2008 ... CHANCES are you talk to your best friend every day but hardly ever see her and, rather than engage in conversation at dinner time, your children take their cellphones to the dinner table so that they can continue to text their friends. Communication technology - from social ...
WIN yourself/a meal for TWO.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BILLY SUTER WITH a new year comes a refreshed menu and some new faces at one of Durban's most novel restaurants - uShaka Marine World's Cargo Hold, which, situated in the theme park's showpiece ship, is famous for its sharks in large tanks, overlooking diners. ...
Celebswith badattitude.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Feb 01, 2008 ... MIKE Myers, star of the Austin Powers movies, might be a joy to watch on screen, but he's apparently not a pleasure to work with - being quite the demanding diva on set, according to a US report. National Enquirer states that the comic, who also provides the voice of the green ...
Always thebridesmaid . . .(Goodlife Tabloid)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Carina Chocano KATHERINE Heigl is always the bridesmaid and never the bride in 27 DRESSES, a garden-variety wedding-themed romantic comedy - except here, never means later, as it should alarm nobody to learn. In this, and in every other way I can think of, the ...
SA must not hesitate to use power expertise from around the world.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... The government before 1994 made grave errors. It allowed Eskom to slowly become the only regulator of electricity |in the country. And a terrible decision was taken in the 1980s to close down all decommissioned power stations that were efficiently and effectively managed by ...
I want to be the /new CEO of Eskom.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... To the board of Eskom: I would hereby like to apply for the position (possibly soon to be vacant?) of CEO. I hold a Bachelor of Science Elec Eng degree (heavy current) so I feel I am suitably qualified. I haven't personally run a power station before, but ...
Focus on comets and our planet.(Goodlife Television)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE first episode of a new series, SUPER COMET: AFTER THE IMPACT, offering a clear picture of how comets are formed and the likelihood of one of them striking Earth, starts on DStv's Discovery Channel (channel 250) at 9pm on Saturday. The debate continues about the effect a ...
From panto to Polonius.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BOTH are devious characters, transparent and two-faced. Both are hypocrits who look out for their own interests|- and betray those to whom they should be loyal. Yet, for all these similarities, Durban actor Darren King's hissing panto villain, Abanazar, the flamboyant magician ...
Rising admirably to the challenge.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Feb 01, 2008 ... It was the North Coast at its best: sea and sky blue, a brisk little wind cutting the humidity and sending the kite surfers into a colourful aerial frenzy. Sitting at Bel Punto with the big glass doors open to a splendid view of the beach gave a friend|from Scotland a taste of ...
Take Care Of All Our Services.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Eskom's problems (and ours) prompt the question as to where else those in authority in our country have taken their eyes off the ball. Are we going to need more dams to hold and distribute more water in the next few years, and is the power shortage to be followed by water ...
A great couta season seems on its way.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Round one of the KZN Coast Angler's Union common venue competition was fished last Saturday and at the time of submitting this report results were still coming in. Hunt Leuchars amateur |angling club took first position among the central zone teams, followed closely by Defence ...
Poor theatrics aside, Ronaldo is still United's star performer.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... They call Old Trafford 'The Theatre of Dreams' and cynics have dubbed Cristiano Ronaldo the chief actor. The Portugese player's antics at the 2006 World Cup in Germany revolted neutrals and threatened a sizeable backlash against him when he returned to the English Premiership ....
ANC acts on Polokwane resolutions.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: SIPHO KHUMALO THE ANC leadership in KwaZulu-Natal will meet at a special conference in Durban this weekend to discuss the implementation of organisational and government programmes in line with resolutions taken at the party's Polokwane conference in December. ...
Filth around hospital raises ire.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES OFFICIALS at King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban were concerned that grime outside the hospital posed a health risk to patients and their visitors. There were complaints that the pavement along the Sydney Road entrance of the hospital was in ...
I pitch as/the token/Mauritian.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Greg Arde Obed, howzit, boet! Wow, the week has flown by. So much has happened. I wanted to e-mail you, but I lost the e-mail in a load-shed. Actually, that's a fib. Everybody is blaming all sorts of incompetence on Eskom and I thought I'd try my ...
Artists sought for Art in the Park.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Feb 01, 2008 ... APPLICATIONS for artists to exhibit at the 2008 Nashua Art in the Park, at Alexandra Park in Pietermaritzburg, close on February 13. Thirty-five stands are available, while 20 others will go to last year's top 20 sellers. The 46th Nashua Art in the Park will be held ...
Brand new cars hijacked.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BRAZEN criminals made off with a new Opel Corsa after hijacking a vehicle carrier near Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands early yesterday. Police report that the carrier was parked just off the N3 at the Hilton off-ramp, with two drivers asleep in it. Two men ...
Nana Ngobese quits KZN government.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... KWAZULU-NATAL Deputy Director-General Nana Ngobese resigned with immediate effect yesterday, the Office of the Premier announced. Ngobese the granddaughter of the late ANC president Albert Luthuli, was the deputy director-general in charge of ...
Old Mutual taken on over payouts.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: TANIA BROUGHTON In a case which could affect thousands of insurance policy holders, two men are taking on giant Old Mutual in a court battle to get paid out what they claim they were legitimately owed when they cashed in their policies early. Rajwantha Mungal ...
SA may vote for sanctions against Iran; Iran's right to produce nuclear power for peaceful purposes is supported, /but no one believes that is what they want it for, writes Peter Fabricius.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Last Friday President Thabo Mbeki met Iran's new ambassador to South Afric, Asghar Ebrahimi, for the first time and assured him that South Africa supported his country's demand to be allowed to produce nuclear power for peaceful purposes - a right enshrined in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ...
The flow of information is vital to save our rivers.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tony carnie I don't enjoy kicking people between the legs, least of all friends and potential allies. Well, this may be something |of an untruth, in fact, because I can certainly think of one or two individuals who might benefit from a short, sharp tap up ...
Thank you for caring.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... I bought a bottle of handwash from a Checkers store recently and, on returning home, found |that the bottle was half |empty. I voiced my disappointment on the company's website, and within a couple of hours received telephone calls from the regional ...
Rationing power the only workable solution.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... We WERE informed that wet coal was a problem for power generation, then we were told that this is not the case. Then it was said that the grade of coal was not high enough, only to have that denied and be told that the power stations were designed to burn low-grade coal. ...
What about hydro power?(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Of all the answers about power generation and the time scales and costs involved, I have not seen any mention of |hydro-electric projects. Would it be possible and cost-effective to convert a ...
The Ligurian buzz.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jon Penn EVEN at breakfast it pays to read the small print. About to attack a small pot of honey yesterday, I peered at the tiny legend on its label. It said: "Product of Kangaroo Island, Australia, home of the world's only pure strain of Ligurian honeybee." ...
No accountability in ANC govt.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... It has been disconcerting to note that there has not been a single political casualty arising out of the power cut disaster, except of course our economy, businesses and electricity consumers. This is in stark contrast to other democracies around the world, where those ...
Michalak's big moment.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY Tonight's trials match between the Cheetahs and the Sharks will be a low-key affair, mostly about brushing off rust and testing out the new laws, but for Sharks flyhalf Frederic Michalak the match will mean much more. He is now just two weeks ...
COR tests/every two years, plan for cars.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sinegugu Ndlovu Compulsory roadworthiness tests every two years for private vehicles may soon become a reality should a government feasibility study confirm the need for small vehicles to undergo such testing. This announcement was made by Thabo Tsholetsane, ...
Lightening The Load.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... This is not a free advertisement. It is a pat on the back of one of the country's large retailers for action to help ease the electricity crisis. The decision by Pick 'n Pay to sell all its energy-saving light bulbs at cost must inevitably have a tangible result. As the company ...
Spurs sharpen up for United.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: London Manchester United and Arsenal both face testing away trips this weekend as they try to stay clear of Chelsea at the top of the English Premier League. Locked together on 57 points, four more than Chelsea, the battle for supremacy could take a twist ...
Walcott rules out loan move.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... LONDON: Arsenal teenager Theo Walcott has ruled out a move to another club on loan in order to fast-track his development. Two years after becoming the most expensive 16-year-old in football history, Walcott is still struggling to secure first-team opportunities at the ...
Drogba accuses European clubs of bias.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... ACCRA: Didier Drogba believes European clubs are biased in the way they treat players from Africa. The Ivory Coast captain, preparing for his side's African Nations Cup quarter-final with Guinea, told sponsors mtn.football.com yesterday. "I sincerely believe that if ...
Pfister smoking ignites row.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... ACCRA: Cameroon coach Otto Pfister has came under fire for setting a bad example by smoking at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi during Saturday's game against Zambia. The condemnation of the 70-year-old's decision to light up in a stadium where smoking is banned came from the ...
Chelsea duo bid for African merit.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... KUMASI: Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba faces competition from Chelsea teammate Michael Essien and Sevilla's Frederic Kanoute in his bid for a second successive African Footballer of the Year award in Lome today. Drogba's goals kept Chelsea in the Premier League title race ...
Mayor may be losing control of Msunduzi.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: SIBUSISO MBOTO Msunduzi mayor Zanele Hlatshwayo's control of the municipality took a blow yesterday when a full council sitting unanimously adopted Speaker Alpha Shelembe's report. The report calls for, among other things, an investigation by independent ...
Six Nations, bokdrolspoeg and bok-bok . . . Point Road rules!(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Captain Cook HERE we go for a mini-rerun of the Rugby World Cup. The Six Nations kicks off tomorrow, launching several weeks of what promises to be exhilarating stuff, a culmination of the European club rugby that has so entertained us until now. It's just as ...
Mad dash to meet tax deadline.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: JeFF WICKS |& DOMINIQUE HERMAN SOUTH African Revenue Service spokesman Adrian Lackay was possibly the most exhausted man in the country yesterday, as he fielded call after call about the overloaded server ahead of the midnight deadline to file tax returns ...
Rodrigues seeks appeal.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... CAPE TOWN: Dina Rodrigues has pleaded for the chance to challenge her conviction and life sentence for the murder of six-month-old baby Jordan-Leigh Norton. And, within the next two weeks, she will discover the outcome. Two Supreme Court of Appeal judges - who have not given ...
Snake bite puts Marugi in the rough.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Grant Winter The par-five 12th hole at Wild Coast Sun Country Club is aptly named the Green Mamba as its lush, green fairway snakes its way along the floor of a valley flanked by thick coastal bush. It is a hole that can "bite" hard any golfer straying ...
Skills, service delivery crisis, warns DA.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Deon de Lange South Africa faces a service provision crisis because the public sector is unable to attract and retain skilled workers, the DA warned yesterday. The research - based on official government figures - reveals a vacancy rate of just over 10% ...
Mbeki speech likely to focus on 'successes'.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare NEXT week, President Thabo Mbeki will be reflecting on his achievements in his last but one state of the nation speech amid the electricity crisis and an ineffectual criminal justice system. Even though there is a relatively congenial ...
Power cuts stimulate ingenuity.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Chris Jenkins Power cuts have brought more than just frustration to residents of uMhlathuze who have wasted no time coming up with ingenious ways of keeping going during blackouts - to ease the inconvenience and for survival of small businesses and those working from ...
Zuma urges youth league to heal party rifts.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb ANC president Jacob Zuma told the ANC Youth League, which was instrumental in catapulting him to power, to bury the hatchet with their succession enemies. He was speaking to the ANC Youth League national executive committee meeting outside ...
Beware bogus job advertisements.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN CAPE TOWN: Avis Rent A Car is warning job seekers not to pay for a job application form after the company has had to field numerous inquiries from the public responding to a job advertising scam. "Our investigation has revealed that these ...
Relief for consumers as repo rate stays at 11%.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lee Rondganger & Sapa South Africans can breathe a sigh of relief. For the first time in nearly two years, the Reserve Bank has decided not to increase the repo rate. The announcement to keep the repo rate at 11% was made by Reserve Bank governor |Tito ...
Emotional night on the cards as Kingsmead bids farewell to Pollock.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: PATRICK COMPTON IT'S going to be an emotional evening at Kingsmead today when Shaun Pollock bids farewell to a capacity crowd at his home ground when South Africa take on the West Indies in the fourth one-day international. The result of the series, with ...
Murless, Spangenberg in swing.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Grant Winter Mark Murless |and Theunis Spangenberg share |the R1.2 million Nashua Masters lead on six-under-par 64 after a drama-packed first round yesterday that saw Eugen Marugi's hopes dashed when he was bitten by a night adder. Marugi, 24, one of South ...
Woods makes his intentions clear early on.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... DUBAI: An imperious Tiger Woods has charged into a two-stroke lead after the Dubai Desert Classic first round yesterday. The world number one made his intentions clear from the start when he chipped up to an inch from the cup at the 10th hole, his first, for a birdie four that ...
Immelman back from tumour surgery.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... South African Trevor Immelman returns to the PGA Tour here Thursday at the FBR Open just six weeks after surgery to remove a non-cancerous |tumour from his diaphragm. Immelman, who was sidelined part of last season with a stomach parasite, spent four days in intensive care, ...
A Wise Decision.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... RELIEF is on the way for households battling with high inflation, if the forecasts of the Reserve Bank are to be believed. Explaining yesterday why the monetary policy committee had decided to leave interest rates unchanged for the moment, Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said ...
Environmentalists challenge/nuclear option for energy.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: XOLANI MBANJWA PRETORIA: While the government and Eskom forge ahead with plans to build nuclear power plants as an answer to the growing power shortage, experts have warned that this may have disastrous effects on the environment. In March 2006 nuclear energy ...
Tyson gets mixed reception at school.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lebogang Seale JOHANNESBURG: Pupils at Moletsane High School in Soweto could not contain their excitement as they waited for former boxing star Mike Tyson's visit to their school. "Mike Tyson at our school! Wow! I can't believe it's happening," said Charmaine ...
Woman survives shooting.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: JEFF WICKS A woman is fighting for her life |in a Durban hospital after she was shot twice in the head during a |domestic dispute with an ex-boyfriend yesterday. Police said that Gloria Khanyile, 32, was waiting for a taxi in Buro Crescent, Mayville, when she ...
'It's going to be struggle to focus on the game'.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: PATRICK COMPTON SHAUN Pollock bids farewell to his adoring fans at his home ground tonight after an international career spanning more than 12 years. "I might need to swallow hard a few times tomorrow," Pollock, 34, said at the Kingsmead nets yesterday ...
City to switch off your geyser.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: JEFF WICKS & LOUISE FLANAGAN DEVICES will soon be installed in KwaZulu-Natal homes to enable authorities to simultaneously switch off geysers, airconditioners and other appliances by remote control at the press of a button. The proposed initiative is in line ...
Open Water Championship to raise the bar.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne THE chief operations officer of Swimming South Africa, Shaun Adriaanse, has denied the suggestion that SSA had intended to affect the status of the Halfway Telkom Midmar Mile by staging its Telkom National Open Water Championships in the Cape this year, ...
'We are here to win'.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne INTERNATIONAL Cycling Union (UCI) riders have been busy acclimatising themselves to the altitude and the searing heat of the Midlands in advance of tomorrow's first race in the inaugural UCI 1.1 rated Intaka Tech World's View Challenge, starting at ...
Chaos as police try to control unruly strikers.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL CAPE TOWN: Police used rubber bullets and pepper spray to control hundreds of agitated municipal workers who threw bottles and destroyed council property during yesterday's march to the Civic Centre. The SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) said ...
Rossouw hired.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Pretoria: Former Springbok and Western Province wing Pieter Rossouw has been taken on as the Bulls' backline consultant on a two-week trial basis. Rossouw's appointment comes a week after the Bulls parted ways with Nico le Roux, who only survived three weeks before he was unceremoniously ...
Paddler escapes shark attack.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne GLENWOOD surfski paddler Wayne Symington, 42, had a close encounter with a 2m blacktip shark while on a training stint 3km off the Suncoast Pirates beach on Tuesday when he was thrown off his ski. "I was paddling at a fast rate out near where ...
Baby born en route.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BEIJING: A pregnant Chinese woman trapped on a bus in icy weather in south China for three days has given birth |to a baby boy, which she will |name Zhongsheng ("born |in a crowd"). Chu Hongling, 24, and her husband were on their way to ...
Mann missing from Zim prison.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Peta Thornycroft BRITISH mercenary Simon Mann has disappeared from Zimbabwe's top security prison since the high court's dismissal of his appeal against extradition to Equatorial Guinea. Diplomatic sources in Harare said that lawyers acting for Mann were ...
Bye-bye/Bafana Bafana.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jonty Mark Bafana Bafana again failed to make the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup here yesterday, but this time they certainly put up a fight with a valiant, pulsating display against Senegal. Needing a wide margin of victory to have any chance of ...
It makes good sense to pick up cents for poor.(News)
Feb 04, 2008 ... I have often been ridiculed and laughed at because |of my habit of picking up discarded money, often in denominations of 5c up |to 50c from the streets and pavements. On any given day, I collect about R2. This is not to say that I go about the whole day looking at the ground, ...
Don't promote cruelty to animals.(News)
Feb 04, 2008 ... History has taught us that great civilisations are often judged by their religious practices. The more extremist and fanatical, it seems, the more cruel and torturous punishments have had to be endured by the slaves, children, workers and the animals. So, it comes as no surprise ...