The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from August 2008:
Tappingteenage talent.(Goodlife Television)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A UNIQUE, behind-scenes look at the casting of a big stage musical is offered in M-Net's latest local reality series, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: SPOTLIGHT SOUTH AFRICA, scheduled to start at 7pm tomorrow. Inspired by the hit British series I'd Do Anything and Any Dream Will Do, which, ...
Most popular Afrikaans series ever.(Goodlife Television)
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE popular local music quiz series, NOOT VIR NOOT, returns to SABC2 at 7.30 tonight (Friday) for its 31st season. The series is officially the longest-running game show in South Africa and also the most popular Afrikaans television show ever. The acclaimed music ...
File under forgettable.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: JAN STUART When Gillian Anderson first reunites with her X-Files co-star, David Duchovny, in this, the second spinoff movie from the sci-fi TV series, opening locally today, she finds him much as she did in the pilot episode 15 years ago. He has his back to ...
Plans to sink Dockyard woes . . .(Goodlife Tabloid)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BILLY SUTER WITH the leisure rand more precious than ever, local theatre practitioners are continuing to feel the gnaw of hard times - but one debt-laden Durban venue, The Dockyard Theatre in Musgrave Centre, particularly badly hit this year, has a plan to ease its ...
In deep water.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Aug 01, 2008 ... SHARKS have long stirred hostility and anxiety in humans. Countless books, films and sensationalised headlines have made the mere idea of the word "shark" synonymous with images of vicious attacks by indiscriminate killing machines. "The truth is that sharks have much more to ...
Durban shows dominateat Hilton Arts Festival.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Aug 01, 2008 ... SOME of the top-rated stage shows seen in Durban this year and in 2007 will feature prominently at this year's Hilton Arts Festival, which is set to be held, as usual, in the picturesque, sprawling grounds of Hilton College from September 12 to 14. Durban shows on the programme ...
A phenomenal event.(Life)
Aug 01, 2008 ... I FIRST heard Maya Angelou's poem Phenomenal Woman a week ago. The poem, about a woman who isn't conventionally beautiful, but whose inner strength and confidence make her incredibly attractive to others, is the last thing one would expect to hear at a beauty industry launch. ...
Willie Madisha.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... ONE might have thought that a man who defended himself and spoke honestly and openly when implicated in a police case involving a R500 000 cash donation to a political party should be commended. Especially if he also produced witnesses to corroborate his statement. But it was ...
Will votes also count as one if they are similar?(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The National Assembly's portfolio committee for safety and security has said that as many of the petitions submitted against the disbanding of the Scorpions are identical, they will treat them as only one. This means that the objections of more than 98 000 people who signed ...
WIN a meal for TWO.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BILLY SUTER PICTURE it. A triple chocolate brownie with white chocolate and poppy-seed ice cream. It's truly heaven on a dish for R38 - and just one of the fine delights to be savoured at Durban's Cafe 1999, which opened at Silvervause Centre, Berea, in May of, well, ...
A more low-key (ad)venture . . .(Goodlife Tabloid)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Steven Clements once had a very good Thai restaurant in Durban called Chokh Dee. After a robbery he left the country for a while, but since his return a few years ago has become a familiar face again - now for his delightful Garden Shed cafe at a nursery in Vause Road. ...
More than a legal sideshow; Next week's bid by Jacob Zuma to have the decision to prosecute him set aside could be an interesting test of his claims that he is a victim of a political conspiracy, writes Tania Broughton.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... On the face of it is a legal sideshow - one which could be likened to a tit-for-tat schoolyard spat - and which will have little impact on the main application of whether or not the prosecution of Zuma is lawful or unlawful. But the state's application for a "strike-out" from ...
Where guitars rule!(Goodlife Tabloid)(Theater review)
Aug 01, 2008 ... THREE of Durban's hottest guitarists - John Ellis of hit band Tree 63 and the very busy Barry Thomson and Andy Turrell - have united for Long Train Running, the new supper show at Hillcrest's Heritage Theatre until August 31. The production, featuring musical direction by Dawn ...
Man arrested over abuse of two girls.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A 50-year-old man had been arrested on allegations that he molested two girls in Hillary, Durban, Chatsworth police said yesterday. Insp Jabulani Shange said the girls - one 7 years old and the other 6 months old - were in the ...
Cele cracks the whip on taxi operators.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: GUGU MBONAMBI Transport MEC Bheki Cele has threatened to withdraw the operating licences of taxi drivers who continue to cause conflict and compromise the safety of commuters. "Public transport facilities and routes are a public entity and not a shooting game ...
Timeline.(News)(Chronology)
Aug 01, 2008 ... q November 2000: State initiates investigations into allegations of corruption and fraud related to the arms deal. q August 2003: Former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka announces decision to prosecute Schabir Shaik, Zuma's financial adviser, and French ...
KZN women take a bow.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: SUREN NAIDOO LEADING and inspirational women in KwaZulu-Natal were recognised at a glittering gala dinner last night as part of the "Standard Bank Salutes the Women of KZN" campaign at Durban's International Convention Centre. The event - now in its second ...
Money and power . . . mazavaroo!(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Greg Arde Hey, Obed, howzit, boet? I know you thought you were rid of me after last week's pledge to retire to my temples of newspapers, flowers and tea. Sorry, all I can say is that I'm a fickle politician and I have changed my mind. After five minutes of ...
Political scientist ruffles Pretoria's feathers; South Africa has blotted its human rights copybook during its time on the United Nations Security Council.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: PETER FABRICIUS Laurence Caromba, of the Centre for International Political Studies at the University of Pretoria, has annoyed the Union Buildings by contending that South Africa's performance on the UN Security Council these past 19 months has been a "foreign policy ...
Nought To Celebrate.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... In another act of financial desperation, the Zimbabwe government is fiddling with the national currency. From today, banknotes have been lightened by the deletion of 10 zeros. From today, $10 billion becomes $1. While the change is purely cosmetic, it does serve to ...
Abused men urged to report incidents.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: NOMPUMELELO MAGWAZA Men at the receiving end of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of their partners should report such incidents to the authorities. This call was made by police representative Sisule Mhlungu at the Men for Change march in Durban ...
If We Obey Road Rules We Won't Need Policing.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Another cyclist has been killed, another totally unnecessary tragedy (The Mercury, July 30). Who is to blame? The easy answer is the "metro police of course" because there is no control on our roads. That's the easy answer. I am sick and tired of the bad ...
Don't give up on your plans to be mayor.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Greg Arde's column of July 25 refers. I was appalled to read Arde's statement: "I have given up my bid to contest you as eThekwini mayor" and request an opportunity to address him through your newspaper: Mr Arde, I urge you to carry on fighting! Don't leave this to ...
Nightmare of ELVs compounded by renaming of stadiums fiasco.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Captain Cook UNLIKE most of the commentators, I thoroughly enjoyed last Saturday's Sharks-Lions encounter - the first half anyway. From my vantage point in the Elephant & Castle I could see out on to the veranda, and was immediately riveted by the most astounding ...
Anger over decision to demolish sports centre.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES THE Ocean Sports Centre on Durban's Golden Mile will be demolished in the next few months following an eThekwini council decision yesterday. It will be replaced by a small restaurant and beach cafe, with space allocated for "landscaping" ....
JZ supporters mobilise for trial.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kamini Padayachee & Sharika Regchand THOUSANDS of Jacob Zuma supporters will flock to Pietermaritzburg next week to show their support when he appears in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on fraud, corruption and racketeering charges. This is according to ANC ...
Cricket coverage has been a treat for cricket fans.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... AS an avid cricket fan, it is an absolute pleasure to read Patrick Compton's coverage of South Africa's cricket tour of England in The Mercury Clear and incisive, he brings an insight to the game of gentlemen that few in his field achieve. But then that is hardly ...
Caesar gets bashed in eThekwini Times.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Correspondent Ron Legg enthuses about columnist Tony Carnie's column on Caesar's empire, saying it was good, classical satire. He suggests that Carnie does a weekly continuation. While Legg favours a specific Caesar-bashing column, Caesar has had for many years to ...
Barton's acceptance into football is a sad statement about the English game.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Giving those who have erred and strayed from their ways another chance might seem a decent humanitarian gesture. But then there's the case of Joey Barton. How many more chances does this thug of English football need for us to confirm our original judgment? With people like ...
Benni bashes Bafana selection.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... JOHANNESBURG: Bafana Bafana striker Benni McCarthy blames poor team selection for the national team's demise in world soccer. "Massive shame! Big embarrassment for the players and the country. But things never seem to change," he told weekly soccer publication Soccer Laduma. ...
Policing of scrum will be crucial.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Peter Bills Auckland: One area, a single phase of the play, holds the key to the entire Tri-Nations match in Auckland between New Zealand and Australia tomorrow. It could also be the crucial factor in determining the whole future of All Blacks coach Graham ...
All the fishing news, big ones, small ones.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A couple of bronze bream were caught off the Shelly Beach tidal pool in the 1kg to 2kg range, but very few shad were reported caught. Things were also very quiet offshore with no notable catches reported. Let's hope things start getting better towards the weekend. On ...
MacDonald's Test career could be over.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... AUCKLAND: Leon MacDonald's Test rugby career appeared in jeopardy with the All Black coaching staff yesterday expressing their concerns about his catalogue of concussion-related setbacks. The 56-Test veteran was originally named to play fullback in a Tri Nations Test against ...
Get ahead with The Mercury!(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Olympics special On Friday, August 8 we will publish a special supplement giving full details of the games. Olympics coverage Daily we will carry news and pictures of the Olympics, with special columns from our KZN athletes. Good Food & Wine ...
Investigator in court again.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: LATOYA NEWMAN A PRIVATE investigator with links to Enforce Security made his second appearance in court yesterday on a charge of attempting to influence a crucial witness in Prince Sifiso Zulu's culpable homicide case. Nicholas Noome, 43, appeared briefly in ...
Krol looks beyond cup.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Johannesburg Orlando Pirates coach Rudi Krol is looking at the bigger picture. The former Dutch international star will field two different teams should the Buccaneers reach the final of the Telkom Charity Cup in the annual Premier Soccer league pipe-opener at ...
Vasco da Gama fleet races for Durban.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne THREE Cape-registered yachts led the fleet of 20 out of Maputo harbour yesterday afternoon at the start of the annual mcel Vasco da Gama Race with last year's line and handicap winner Crocs at the head of the pack followed by Tenacity and Orion Unzipped ....
Standing firm.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... IT'S good to see people are getting their priorities right. The Zanu-PF and MDC delegations that have been in Pretoria for power-sharing negotiations found their accommodation in a three-star lodge (at the South African taxpayer's expense) not up to scratch, according to reports. ...
Athletes banned.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... MOSCOW: The IAAF has banned six leading Russian women athletes from the Olympics, as well as one who was not selected for Beijing, after they were suspected of manipulating drug samples. "All six are definitely suspended and will miss the Beijing Olympics," Russia's athletics chief, ...
Lotter murder accused in court again.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kamini Padayachee The case against the Lotter children, Nicolette and Hardus, and Matthew Naidoo was adjourned in the Pinetown Magistrate's Court yesterday. They are charged with the murder of the Lotter parents, Johan and Riekie, who were killed in their ...
Not creche owner's fault, say parents.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: SIBUSISO MBOTO AN UNEXPECTED wave of support has been displayed by the Pietermaritzburg community to the Hemrajs - owners of a creche where a nine-month-old baby died after being hit by a car on Tuesday. Neighbours and parents of children who attend the ...
Blue Flag issue is grey area.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES THE eThekwini Municipality's decision not to apply for Blue Flag beach status was not really a decision at all, municipal manager Michael Sutcliffe said at yesterday's full council meeting. Responding to questions from DA councillor Geoff ...
Xenophobia rife in govt, says rights body.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: A'EYSHA KASSIEM CAPE TOWN: Xenophobic tendencies among Department of Home Affairs officials are one of the many concerns raised in a damning South African Human Rights Commission report. The latest report on the department's treatment of non-nationals also ...
Prostitutes not all trafficked, study shows.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Barry Bateman PRETORIA: Researchers have called for the decriminalisation of prostitution to combat the exploitation and abuse in that industry. Yesterday, the Institute of Security Studies briefed the media on a new book, Selling Sex in Cape Town. ...
Disappointment at dismissal of sex worker's claim.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH CAPE TOWN: Prostitutes do not have labour rights under the South African Constitution, according to the Women's Legal Centre after the Labour Court dismissed the application of a Cape Town prostitute who had sought to persuade the Commission for ...
Road accident fund settles with attorneys.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: ZELDA VENTER PRETORIA: The Road Accident Fund yesterday reached a confidential settlement with a Pretoria firm of attorneys about an urgent application to interdict the organisation from making direct payment to any of the firm's clients. The fund and Rontgen ...
Komphela declines Olympic invitation.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb Parliament's fiery sports committee chairman, Butana Komphela, has turned down an invitation from South Africa's Olympics bosses to watch the 2008 Games in China, saying that he had far too much ANC work to do here at home. "I am not going to the ...
'Prosecutors were right not to trust Zuma over documents'.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan South Africa's highest court has said that prosecutors were right to doubt ANC president Jacob Zuma's honesty - as well as that of his lawyer. Constitutional Court Chief Justice Pius Langa defended the Scorpions yesterday against attacks from ...
New players for a new approach.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY Poor Freddy Michalak. So close to seeing the bright lights of Kimberley, yet so far. Yesterday he failed a fitness test on his dodgy hip, and so will miss out on the warm hospitality of the Griquas forwards. Michalak's demise opens the door for ...
ANC agrees with some issues raised by Boesak.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... CAPE TOWN: The ANC says that while it agrees with many of the issues raised by anti-apartheid stalwart Allan Boesak in his speech in which he slammed the party for reintroducing "racial divisions and ethnic categorisation", it does not understand why he accused the party of succumbing to ...
Judge's lawyers attack witness.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Alex Eliseev johannesburg: Judge Nkola Motata's defence team has gone for the jugular in a surprise bid to discredit the state's star witness in his drunk-driving trial. The bombshell - which threatens to lay bare Richard Baird's private life - dropped just ...
Today in History.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... q 1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion, over taxes imposed on whiskey-making in the United States, takes place. q 1858 - First game of Australian-rules football reportedly played in Melbourne, ...
PAC catfight continues.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi The fight for the soul of the Pan Africanist Congress has intensified with party stalwarts saying they are pressing ahead with their planned national conference this weekend in the face of a court order forbidding it and a court battle today to stop ...
UCB fraudster to swop flashy suits for orange prison garb.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Baldwin Ndaba PRETORIA: Diteko Modise, the former financial director of the United Cricket Board (UCB) is not ready to swop his expensive suits, bought with stolen money, for a prison uniform after his incarceration. Modise, 39, came to the Johannesburg ...
Buthelezi's cry from the heart.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sinegugu Ndlovu IN HATING him, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi's rivals had not spared his daughter, who once had had to leave a job because she could not endure the sniping she had been subjected to in the workplace. This was according to Buthelezi, speaking ...
Damaging blow for Zuma.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan ANC president Jacob Zuma has been buried in a legal landslide: 31 to five. Thirty-one is the number of civil rulings against the presidential hopeful in the past three years. Five is the number of judges who have supported Zuma's legal efforts to stop the ...
Four die in accident.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Four people died when their car left the road near Nongoma in Zululand, transport officials said yesterday. KwaZulu-Natal transport spokesman Nonkululeko Mbatha said the accident ...
Speedy aiming for pre-Olympic boost.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sports Reporter South Africa's top female mountain bike racer, Yolande Speedy, is hoping that when she heads off to represent her country at the Olympic Games in a week's time she will take with her the confidence of a winner and the glory of another national title. ...
Letter from Beijing . . .(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Port Shepstone-born Carol Joyce will compete in the 500m K4 sprint kayaking event at the Beijing Olympics next month, writes Yusuf Moolla. The 26-year-old is aiming to win a medal and with an array of achievements under her belt, her goal is achievable. Her greatest ...
Augustyn fancies his chances in Beijing.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum Around 1.30am on Monday, in front of the Arc de Triomphe, staring down the Champs Elysees where he had ridden a lap of honour a little over six hours previously, John-Lee Augustyn savoured the feeling of finishing his first Tour de France. He, ...
Flintoff rips through Proteas.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: PATRICK COMPTON A STUNNING spell of hostile fast-bowling in murky light by Andrew Flintoff brought England right back into this Test after South Africa looked likely to take a stranglehold on the match. When bad light brought the thrilling action to a halt on ...
Not everyone looks for excuses.(News)
Aug 04, 2008 ... I'm not sure if Heidi Holland "In denial about our own wounds" (The Mercury, July 22) wants me to take her seriously, but I got the distinct impression that she was asking, maybe telling, me that as a white person, I must accept responsibility and shoulder the guilt, for the "delusion and ...
Things change, but stay the same.(News)
Aug 04, 2008 ... It is staggering how many reports go "missing" (the one on the 142 baby deaths in the Eastern Cape) and how much evidence in court cases is "lost". We are reminded about the number of people detained without trial in the 1980s who "slipped" on bars of soap, or "fell" ...
There Is a Need To Acknowledge Incompetence.(News)
Aug 04, 2008 ... Much has been written in the newspapers, both positive and negative, with denials from those who head up the eThekwini Muncipality. To me the saddest thing about the new South Africa is the inability of those in high places to take responsibility for ineffective service delivery ...
High time the ANC grew up emotionally and politically.(News)
Aug 04, 2008 ... ANC MPs Maggie Sotyu and Yunus Carrim's arrogant statement of "No amount of public pressure will save the Scorpions and only the voters can decide next year if they disagree with the ANC's decision to disband the doomed elite police unit" is typical of the arrogance of the ruling party. ...