The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from May 2008:
Water hockey at final stages.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne THE 15th Underwater Hockey World Championships have reached the knock-out stages at Durban's King's Park aquatic centre. In the men's open elite division France beat the eventual log leaders Australia 2-1. South ...
Chiefs make up for lost time with proud win over Arrows.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAMLESH GOSAI THE respectability of a top eight finish is within sight once again for Kaizer Chiefs after they downed Lamontville Golden Arrows 1-0 at Chatsworth Stadium yesterday afternoon. After missing out on a place in the top half of the table last ...
Paceman Glenn McGrath too hot for the Delhi Daredevils.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... DELHI: Glenn McGrath may have retired from international cricket but he once again showed all his miserly skills as a metronomically accurate pace bowler when he returned IPL tournament best figures of 4-29 for the Delhi Daredevils against the Bangalore Royal Challengers in Delhi last ...
Drogba stars in Chelsea triumph.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: London Frank Lampard scored a penalty in extra time last night and Didier Drogba later added his second goal of the night to send Chelsea to their first Champions League final with a 3-2 win over Liverpool in the second leg of the semifinals. Lampard, playing ...
Many experimental laws 'here to stay'.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Peter Bills International Rugby Board laws chief Bill Nolan has vigorously defended many of the new laws now being trialled in the southern hemisphere, ahead of a crucial IRB meeting in Dublin today. Nolan, the IRB council member for the Scottish Rugby Union, ...
Space . . . the final frontier.(Life)
May 01, 2008 ... ONE of the most classic and enduring of television shows makes its umpteenth reappearance on the box tonight - at 9.30pm on DStv's Go (formerly channel 110, but, from today, channel 123, as DStv has implemented new channel numbers). It's the colourful STAR TREK, the sci-fi ...
Only Solution Is To Get Beaches' Blue Flag Status Back.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... MUNICIPAL water and sanitation department head Neil Macleod's response to the Carte Blanche programme highlighting the water and sand pollution on Durban's beaches is ludicrous (The Mercury, April 29). His solution is to "find ways to publish the information we have that ...
Auditions for Queen show.(Life)
May 01, 2008 ... AUDITIONS are being held soon for a festive season stage spectacular, Queen III, based on the hits of the British rock group, to be seen in the Playhouse Opera from mid-November. It will feature the KZNPO. Auditions in Durban are set for May 24 and 25. Musicians, singers and ...
Recreating a symphony's birth.(Life)
May 01, 2008 ... Eroica - The day that changed music forever. This is the title of a BBC/Opus Arte DVD issue I came across this week, some four years after its release. Presented originally as a bicentennial documentary of its subject, the film is given a costume drama-actuality make-over as it ...
New tuskers on the block; And the elephants for the title of biggest tusks for 2007 are . . .(News)
May 01, 2008 ... DESPITE centuries of predation by ivory hunters, there are still dozens of elephants across the continent which truly qualify for the title of "tusker". Records from the early 20th century suggest that an elephant from the West African nation of Benin probably had the biggest ...
Sponsor hatches plan to save Catalina Theatre.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BILLY SUTER DURBAN theatre fans have something to crow about - Themi Venturas's Catalina |Theatre, scheduled to have closed last night after rental arrears in tough times, has been taken under the wing of Rainbow Chicken. The lifeline came after public outcry ...
Don't overlook African matches.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kamlesh |Gosai WHENEVER there is talk about the Champions League images of long-range goals, crunching tackles and frantic touchline gestures from coaches come to mind. Such scenes are accompanied by the sound of incessant drumbeats, weird |gyrations from ...
Court puts mayor back in office after councillors' lunchtime revolution.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: SHARIKA REGCHAND A PIETERMARITZBURG High Court judge has temporarily set aside the removal of IFP member Petros Ngubane as mayor of the Umvoti (Greytown) Municipality. The ANC caucus in the council, which passed a vote of no confidence in Ngubane and the ...
Laws not made to target an individual; Great thought and consultation have been involved in making/decisions about traditional leadership positions.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MICHAEL MABUYAKHULU After a decision by cabinet to confirm the positions of the provincial chairman of the House of Traditional Leaders and his deputy as full-time positions, there has been pandemonium and deliberate distortions around the cabinet decision. Let us put ...
Cooking oil drives Gaza in fuel crisis.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... GAZA: When Hassan Amin al-Bana gingerly presses the accelerator of his bright yellow taxi, a strange smell wafts from the exhaust: deep-fried fast food. Faced with chronic fuel shortages because of an Israeli blockade and a strike by Palestinian distributors protesting against ...
Burundi warned against abuses.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... NAIROBI: The government of Burundi should act immediately to end a "climate of |impunity" that allowed the torture, mistreatment and illegal detention of individuals, |Human Rights Watch said. The New York-based group said it had documented 21 cases of beatings and torture ...
Thanks to Kingsmead for quieter fireworks displays.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Having watched the Pro20 cricket final at Kingsmead last Friday, I was pleased to see that, instead of using explosive fireworks to celebrate, shooting flames were employed during the game and, at the end, showers of silvery stars shot out of containers, with minimum noise and maximum ...
Citizens remain vulnerable victims of crime.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... The remarks by the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, Susan Shabangu, about shooting to kill come at a time when levels of crime have reached boiling point. Although late, we are lucky that at least our minister has opened her eyes ...
Buthelezi defended.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Mangosuthu Buthelezi's finger-pointing debacle has enjoyed a wide commentary. Buthelezi is human and, as human beings, we all reach a point where enough is enough. Buthelezi had every right to respond to Michael Mabuyakhulu's comments and petty political garnering, ...
Everything is about the Boks, says coach.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED Peter de Villiers has had an eventful time since being appointed Springbok coach. There was a dispute over his contract, he appointed John Smit as captain very early in his tenure, and he has seen the South African Super 14 teams experience mixed fortunes ....
Wear and tear will win wooden spoon.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Mike Greenaway Here is an interesting exercise: look at the list of 26 players that went to the Rugby World Cup and note how many have not found form in 2008 and/or have been injured. At the same time, go over the form players in the Super 14 and notice how ...
Medical aid member's bitter pill.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA AN INFORMATION technology specialist from New Germany has become the victim of a bizarre coincidence in which someone with the same name and surname has been treated by several specialists at Durban's St Augustine's Hospital at his expense. ...
More tests for Michalak, /but knee op ruled out.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... TOULOUSE: The knee injury that felled French flyhalf Frederic Michalak will keep him out of action for up to three months, but will not require an operation. Michalak lasted just nine minutes of the Sharks' 25-10 loss to the NSW Waratahs on Saturday before he badly injured his ...
Sharks in a defiant mood.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Christchurch REDEMPTION has been the theme of the week for a Sharks squad that has been hurt and humiliated by the abjectly poor quality of the last 120 minutes of rugby they have played (the second half of the Brumbies game plus the 80 against the Waratahs). ...
KZN pupils shine at UN mock debate.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: LATOYA NEWMAN FOUR KwaZulu-Natal pupils have acquitted themselves well in representing South Africa at a United Nations mock debate in New York. Haseena Latif and Nomfundo Jama, grade 11 pupils at Mowat Park Girls' High, and Nolwazi Gama (grade 12) and ...
Babies 'did die of klebsiella'.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: NTOKOZO MFUSI THE KwaZulu-Natal health department has confirmed that two babies at Umlazi's Prince Mshiyeni Hospital last week had died of klebsiella. This comes a day after the department's chief operations officer, Nhlanhla Nkosi, had said that there was ...
The loser by a nose.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... A BRITISH survey has named the electric nail file the most pointless gadget of all time. Apparently it costs as much as R2 500 and is supposed to give nails a perfect shape and smooth finish, but folks are just as happy with the ordinary manual nail file that costs a few rands. ...
New property roll 'could reduce rates'.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: TANIA BROUGHTON DURBAN'S new rates would be a lot lower if thousands of valuable properties had been included on the new valuation roll, a ratepayers' organisation said yesterday. And the council has conceded in papers before the Durban High Court that "at ...
Council payment for funeral queried.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: SHARIKA REGCHAND THE DA in the Msunduzi Municipality is threatening to approach the provincial treasury to call for R20 000 paid by the municipality for the funeral expenses of a youth manager, who was in its employ for about six months, to be returned. DA ...
Proteas manager.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... JOHANNESBURG: Proteas team doctor Mohammed Moosajee has been appointed national team manager. Moosajee takes over from Logan Naidoo, vice-president of Cricket South Africa, who has served as Proteas team manager in a caretaker capacity since September last year. Moosajee's appointment is ...
Short-Term Profits.(News)(Financial report)
May 01, 2008 ... Night follows day and, when the price of oil rises, so do the profits of the oil companies. That is the context we should bear in mind when we read about Shell's and BP's record profits. Shell made [pounds sterling]3.9 billion (R58 billion) and BP posted a profit of [pounds sterling]3.31 ...
Sad tales from Nationwide.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN Collecting staff members' access permits, looking at the despair in their faces and telling them "thanks, you were great" was probably one of the hardest things a Nationwide Airlines employee had to deal with on the day the airline ceased |operations. ...
Budget passed amid objections.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES DESPITE vehement objections that the eThekwini Municipality's 2008/09 budget could be trimmed to lessen the burden on ratepayers, the budget was passed unchanged at yesterday's full council meeting. The DA and ACDP were outspoken in their ...
No more columns /for me, says Bullard.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN CAPE TOWN: Fired Sunday Times columnist David Bullard has "no desire" to write a newspaper column again. "I would rather have a voice, but I'm s ... scared that every time I open my mouth I'm going to be attacked," Bullard told a Cape Town ...
Pupils to be given boat for safer crossing.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sinegugu Ndlovu A DURBAN businessman has built a boat for the impoverished Sahlumbe community in Weenen for use in crossing the Tugela River. Amar Sirpath, an attorney and the owner of Impala Marine, in Clairwood, decided to build the boat after reading a ...
Policewoman tells of shooting intruder.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kamini Padayachee Alerted by her dog and noises in her garden, a Durban police officer confronted and shot an armed robber who was breaking into her Umbilo home early on Tuesday. The man was shot in the neck and died at the scene. Speaking to The ...
Provincial transport group condemns taxi rape incident.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kamini Padayachee The KwaZulu-Natal Transport Alliance has condemned the rape of a young Durban woman by a taxi driver and his conductor at the weekend. A police spokesman, Capt Thembeka Luthuli, said the woman boarded the taxi in the Berea to be taken to the ...
Rabie dies /in hospital.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Anna Louw JOHANNESBURG: Jac Rabie, 69, a former National Party cabinet minister, has died in hospital, 17 months after |his wife was viciously assaulted and strangled in a robbery at their home in Boksburg. Rabie died in the Sunward Park Hospital's intensive ...
Workers' Rights.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... IT WAS 122 years ago today that workers in Chicago embarked on a campaign for an eight-hour |working day. During four days of protest, police shot dead six workers. Four anarchist union organisers - August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolf Fischer and George Engel - were hanged after ...
Your /weekend Mercury.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Your Mercury will be published as usual tomorrow, full of news, features and sport, PLUS the GoodLife, TV and ...
ANC MPs turn on entire SABC board.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Deon de Lange The battle for control of the SABC took a stunning turn yesterday when MPs passed |an unprecedented vote of no-confidence in the corporation's entire management board. The motion was muscled through the National Assembly's communications ...
ANC to still revise list to include Motlanthe.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ANGELA QUINTAL, XOLANI MBANJWA & CHRISTELLE TERREBLANCHE The ANC's national working committee will meet on Monday to finalise changes to its list of candidates to fill four vacancies in the National Assembly. This was confirmed by ANC spokeswoman Jessie ...
International companies express interest in buying Nationwide.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BRONWYN GERRETSEN Nationwide Airlines has been thrown a lifeline with the news that two "very, very large" international companies have expressed interest in buying the beleaguered airline. The airline was provisionally liquidated yesterday, but |its ...
Bulls offer Matfield millions to return.(Sports)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: VATA NGOBENI Pretoria: Springbok lock and former Bulls captain Victor Matfield will become the highest paid rugby player in the country if he accepts an 11th-hour revised offer to return to Loftus Versfeld by the Blue Bulls Company. Matfield stands to earn in ...
Bank warns of statement glitch.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thandi Skade JOHANNESBURG: If you are a Standard Bank customer and have made transactions through a Priora ATM in the past three days, check your bank statements and ensure you accounts are in order. The Mercury is in possession of a Standard Bank internal ...
Govt warns judge over Scorpions.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Justice director-|general Menzi Simelane has rubbished suggestions that the ANC's resolution to disband the Scorpions was aimed at protecting "various ANC members from current and future investigations". While not referring to the Scorpions' ...
Home affairs boss locks horns with committee.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BABALO NDENZE CAPE TOWN: It was a tense encounter yesterday when straight-talking home affairs director-general, Mavuso Msimang, and members of the National Assembly's home affairs portfolio committee locked horns over allegations that members of the committee were ...
Cabinet endorses end of Scorpions.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal The cabinet yesterday approved two Bills that would see the end of the Scorpions as an |independent unit under the National Prosecuting Authority and would instead give birth to a new organised crime fighting machine in the police. They are the ...
Hirvonen takes Jordan Rally.(Motoring)
May 01, 2008 ... Mikko Hirvonen won the Jordan Rally on Sunday to move into the lead of the World Rally Championship. The 27-year-old Finn finished the three-day event in the WRC fifth round in 4 hours, 2 minutes, 47.9 seconds in his Ford Focus, 1:15.7 ahead of second-place Dani Sordo of Spain ...
Troy does the double.(Motoring)
May 01, 2008 ... Troy Bayliss on a Ducati won both races on Sunday to claim victory at the Dutch round of the World Superbike Championship. The Australian now leads the standings by 70 points over Honda's Carlos Checa of Spain, who moved up to second in the standings after two podium finishes. ...
Is X6 Arthur or Martha?(Motoring)
May 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jesse Adams I'm having trouble getting my head around this car. I don't think I'm the only one either. The Russian, Australian, Japanese and South African motoring journalists on hand at the new BMW X6's international launch in the USA last week could all be seen ...
Mbeki should not be held solely responsible.(News)
May 02, 2008 ... Mark Anthony's oration, "The evil that men do lives after them, for the good is oft' interred with their bones", in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, came to mind when I read the mounting criticism of President Thabo Mbeki, the latest being by Peter Fabricius "Surprise, surprise, the dam has ...
OUTDOORS.(Life)
May 02, 2008 ... Today: q Mood Indigo at the Sondela Tavern, Sibaya Casino from 7pm. 031 580 5009 q Murphy at Cafe Java, Wilson's Wharf from 6pm. 031 304 9992 q Beat-Route at Manna, Marriott Road, from 12.30pm-2pm. 083 262 3693 q Afro-Jazz at Oceans 11, BAT ...
Storm clouds over local theatres.(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... DURBAN theatres are facing increasingly tough times, managements fearing their venues going dark not only from power outages, but also the dwindling patronage of people forced to constantly tighten their purse strings. Continuous petrol and food price rises, interest rate ...
Bennewith takes a bite of the Big Apple.(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Charlotte Fairfax Sometimes career paths seem to be genetically programmed - and certainly in the case of Durban dancer, choreographer and director Dean Bennewith. There are dancing genes waltzing through his blood. He simply wasn't destined to become a ...
Go for dramatic colours this winter.(Life)
May 02, 2008 ... BROWN, black and deep olive are colours characteristic of the winter palette, says Durban make-up artist Aldytha da Silva. She says this season ...
Rabie, Roberts aim for Olympics.(Sports)
May 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sports Reporter All-African champion Mari Rabie and Bloemfontein star Kate Roberts will be on a mission to get closer to realising their Olympic dream when they join a host of local and international stars in action at the Richards Bay BG Triathlon World Cup on Sunday. ...
Probe into how Zulu left court.(News)
May 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: TANIA BROUGHTON THE management at the Durban magistrate's court building is probing how businessman Prince Sifiso Zulu gained access to a restricted area when leaving the court building after appearing there on a drunken driving charge last week. Area court ...
Snarkiness and sentiment.(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: GENE SEYMOUR Sometimes, Simon Pegg betrays too much suppleness, physically and otherwise, to convince you that he is packing a paunch as Dennis the lovelorn, chain-smoking slacker in Run, Fat Boy, Run, now showing in Durban. However, he is such a good actor ...
Orgy of disco-era excess.(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin crust IN Semi-Pro, now showing in Durban, comedian Will Ferrell plays one-hit disco star Jackie Moon, who buys the mythical, oxymoronically named Flint (as in Michigan) Tropics, doormats of the American Basketball Association, and installs himself as the team's ...
KZNPO winter winners!(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... OVERSEAS and local conductors and artists will continue to grace the podium and stage during the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic's winter season of symphony concerts, to be held in the Durban City Hall every Thursday. The first is on May 22, when the orchestra will be under the baton ...
Old beach favourite gets back into shape.(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... start spreading the news . . . sea-Belle at La Mercy is not only back in business, but back in shape. In recent years it's been the scene of many a disappointing meal, and after family disputes the North Coast beachfront restaurant closed for a while last year. But ...
Mum's the word!(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... THE KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kearsney Boys' Choir will entertain at Durban's Botanic Gardens at 2.30pm on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11. The orchestra, under the baton of Naum Rousine, will offer a fun mix of classical and contemporary tunes, including ...
OUT and ABOUT.(Goodlife Tabloid)
May 02, 2008 ... WITH all these public holidays it may be interesting to spend some time visiting the smaller galleries in Durban. There's certainly much to see. Start at Florida Road, at the African Art Centre, and look at an exhibition titled Sobathathu - the Three of Us . . . by Welcome ...
'Hundreds of pupils not ready to rewrite exams'.(News)
May 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: LATOYA NEWMAN Hundreds of KwaZulu-Natal pupils who failed matric in 2007 were not ready to rewrite their final examinations next week, the Congress of South African Students said. The students' union blames the education department for the situation. ...