The Mercury (South Africa) back issues from May 2009:
On the couch.(Goodlife Television)
May 01, 2009 ... CURRENT favourite shows on TV? BBC's Hardtalk, news and current affairs shows, Hustle, Masterchef Goes Large, Top Gear, Mythbusters, Tribe, The Louis Theroux series. All-time favourite TV shows? CSI, Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under, The Practice, The Simpsons. ...
'Green'/ search on.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... THE German government is inviting 15 of the world's brightest young scientists to enter a "green technology" competition which features a study tour to some of the country's top research universities. The competition is open to all scientists under the age of 35 who have "above ...
IPL dancers are graceless.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... I have been watching the IPL with great interest and on the whole, it has been very entertaining. However, I tend to get very irritated with the so-called "cute little dolly birds" who get up and gyrate when the occasion demands it. They have ...
Sword hangs/over ANC.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The ANC may well have won the 2009 elections, but there are signs and indications that it is sitting in the Last Chance Saloon. The party has not achieved the 66.6 percent majority that it predicted it would. The Western Cape now belongs to the DA. The ANC's majority ...
Ready for a Big Night Out.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... DURBAN'S KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Glenwood, recently gained an additional status as a Section 18A (educational) organisation, and, as part of its increased mandate, is developing a series of educational programmes. The first of these was the KZNSA Professional Practice ...
TURNIng PoINT.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Charlotte Fairfax FOLLOWING a dream and finding a niche, dancer and choreographer-director Sean Bovim has opened an edgy new contemporary ballet company in Cape Town, specialising in what has become known as "rock ballet" - boundary-breaking dance which is more Cirque ...
Food for thought.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The "use it or lose it" policy, although criticised by many, is critical in making sure that all beneficiaries of the land reform programme use the land that belongs to the state effectively for agricultural activities. These land ...
Inspection reveals tip of the iceberg.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The Metro supplement of April 24 shows officials inspecting our once proud city. According to the story they found broken paving slabs, trading on walkways, illegal trading, and ...
Spreading a little happiness.(Entertainment)(Theater review)
May 01, 2009 ... AN UPBEAT new stage production, Happiness Through the Mist, presented by Umgubho in association with Imbumba Artists Productions, is to slot in at Durban's Playhouse Loft from May 20 to 24. Written and directed by Zeph Nzama, the production stars Thabani Mahlobo, Scelo Ngcobo ...
Dark, unsettling drama.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... SET DURING a grey Brighton Beach winter, TWO LOVERS, now showing in Durban, begins with the solid shape of Joaquin Phoenix lumbering down a pier, a bag of dry-cleaning slung over his shoulder. We don't know who he is or anything about him, really, but for the heavy resignation ...
City to plan for climate change.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: TONY CARNIE DURBAN is holding its first climate change summit this month to discuss how the city should prepare for a wide range of changes predicted by global climate scientists. The summit on May 28 at the International Convention Centre will be attended by ...
A century of a hospital's history.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... INDEPENDENT art curator and consultant Carol Brown, of Durban, has curated a detailed exhibition chronicling milestones from the first 100 years of Overport's McCord Hospital, entitled A Walk Through Time. Opening today, it can be seen at the Old Court House Local History ...
Muslim marriage bill needs community input.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The Muslim Marriages Bill, which will recognise marriages concluded according to Islamic rites in South Africa, stands on the brink of acknowledgement and implementation. It has surfaced on about three occasions in the past and each time it has been vehemently opposed by some ...
Media should help, not criticise.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Over the past weeks the media have been focusing their glare on the ANC, its leader, Jacob Zuma, and the party's election campaign. Any little news that could place Zuma in a bad light was given prominence. The print media usually juxtaposed such "bad news" against ...
Where will the homeless go?(News)
May 01, 2009 ... I live in the South Beach area and I would like to thank city manager Michael Sutcliffe for the planned R100 million facelift for Durban's beachfront. I have a problem, though, with regard to inconvenience. They have only focused on noise and disruption regarding ...
Adding insult to injury.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... The gobbledgook spouted by Amichand Rajbansi (The Mercury, April 29) cannot go unchallenged. Attempting to substantiate the shift of Indian votes from the ANC to the DA, he terms this as "negative". He then demeans Indians who voted for the DA instead of the ANC as "some weak ...
KZN's Sithole takes craft prize.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... KwaZulu-Natal ceramist Clive Sithole has been named as the overall winner of the Department of Arts and Culture's Craft Awards 2009, in the ceramics category, for his innovative and beautifully crafted burnished clay vessel. As the overall winner, Sithole pockets R10 000 and a ...
Applauding innovation.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... There was AKA, then there was The Store, and now there's FUSION at Shop 4, Silvervause Centre. And Shaun Smith, formerly regional chef with Woolworths, has a link with all reincarnations. In 2002 he opened the Fusion Cooking School in Westville, joined two years ...
SA version of hit TV talent-search series.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... SABC2 has announced that it has secured the rights to one of the world's hottest television properties - the local version of the talent-search contests America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent. SA's Got Talent is scheduled to premiere on August 13, and the channel is now ...
Rubbing shoulders with the great Mr O.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: eThekwini Times HOWZIT Obed? It was excellent to see you at the civic reception at the City Hall this week. I was flattered that South Africa's consul to Mauritius invited me as the guest of honour to his inaugural bash. Being KZN's top Mauritian does have its perks. ...
Internet origins.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... IT SEEMS the internet has been around a lot longer than we thought. Antiquities researcher Eric Hodgson has discovered a fragment - possibly from the Dead Sea Scrolls - that casts fascinating light on the early development of cyberspace. It goes as follows: In ...
Sinfonia concert.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... NAUM Rousine and the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra will give a Sinfonia Concert at Durban's St Thomas's Church in Musgrave Road, Berea, on Sunday morning. The concert will start at 11.30am and the programme will include Handel's Arrival of ...
Morrison gigs.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... LOCAL performer Jean Morrison, who has a popular CD out, is to perform a number of local gigs, the first tonight, from 9pm, at Durban's Thunder Road Diner in Florida Road, Morningside. More details at 031 303 3440. Morrison's original acoustic music will ...
Rob Thomas releases second solo album.(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... A JUNE 29 global release has been decided for the second solo album by Rob Thomas, lead vocalist with Matchbox Twenty. This follows on the huge success of his first solo album, 2005's Something To Be, which made chart history by entering America's Billboard 200 album chart at No ...
That Bacharach brilliance!(Entertainment)
May 01, 2009 ... BORN in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1928, American Burt Bacharach had, as of three years ago, penned a total of 70 Top 40 hits in the United States, and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK. That's no mean feat, and it's little wonder his talent is so monumentally huge that he has worked with ...
Taking issue with racism; Freedom of expression should never be used as a means to incite hatred.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Peter fabricius The UN's Durban Review Conference (aka Durban II) in Geneva last week started pretty badly, but got better. Nine Western countries boycotted the conference mainly because they believed that it singled out Israel for criticism and would be a ...
'Mups' Deserves Hero's Farewell.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... We are all saddened by the loss of a truly great policeman in the shooting in downtown Durban this week. Dog Unit member Mbongiseni Maphumulo - "Mups" as he was known to us in Pinetown and his colleagues - was shot and killed by robbers hellbent on taking on the might of the ...
No one wants Buthelezi to step down, says IFP.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NATHI OLIFANT THE IFP has denied reports that elements of the party have called for leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi's resignation in the wake of the dismal showing in last week's elections. IFP national organiser Albert Mncwango said that there had been no such ...
Cycling accident driver in court.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kamini Padayachee A MOTORIST who allegedly knocked down four cyclists in Durban in August last year appeared briefly in the Phoenix Magistrate's Court yesterday. Farrel Isaac Chinnappan, of Phoenix, was charged with reckless and negligent driving. Chinnappan, ...
Shoot-out suspect in court.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: TANIA BROUGHTON Balancing on crutches with his leg in plaster, one of the men arrested in connection with an armed robbery and subsequent shoot-out with the police this week appeared briefly in the Durban Magistrate's Court yesterday. The incident on Tuesday ...
Brazil court jails S Coast woman.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: GUGU MBONAMBI A SOUTH Coast woman imprisoned in Brazil last year on suspicion of drug trafficking has been convicted of the crime and sentenced to eight years in jail. Tessa Beetge, 31, was arrested at Sao Paulo Airport en route to Johannesburg in June last ...
Take a tip from up north and cut the non-stop Super strain on our rugby stars.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Captain Cook SOMETHING is stirring in the world of rugby. Sanzar is looking to a reformulation of the Super 14 competition. Meanwhile, English club rugby is being colonised by South Africa. The Super 14 needs a make-over. The players are taking too much ...
May means it's all about the sardine run around the corner.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... Well, winter is just around the corner and typical winter fishing can soon be expected. There have been some whisperings of garrick on the South Coast for the past month, but not really in large enough numbers to target. Further south, in the Eastern Cape, there have been some ...
Champions league second-leg ties could not be set up better.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... A curious affair at Old Trafford on Wednesday night means that both Champions League semi-finals remain exquisitely balanced. Some may conclude that Manchester United's failure to finish off Arsenal when, to use a boxing analogy, they had them on the ropes and all but out for ...
Sharks XV to go head to head with unbeaten Griquas.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY Sharks fans would do well to get to the Absa Stadium early tomorrow to watch the unbeaten Sharks XV in action against Griquas in the Vodacom Cup semi-final (12pm). Coach Sean Everitt's team are inching closer to a first win for this province in ...
MPL list handed to KZN legislature.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: SIBUSISO MBOTO THE ELECTORAL officer for KwaZulu-Natal, Mawethu Mosery has officially handed over the list of new members of the provincial legislature who are to be sworn in next week. Briefing the legislature's management committee yesterday, Mosery said ...
Teachers' unions plan for 2010.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Sinegugu Ndlovu TEACHERS' unions in KwaZulu-Natal have proposed several adjustments to ensure that next year's academic year and the marking of the matric final exam scripts were unaffected by the 2010 soccer World Cup. It has been agreed that the 2010 school ...
Family shooting tragedy.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Nompumelelo Magwaza A Durban man killed himself after shooting and injuring his wife in front of their children at Savannah Park, near Chatsworth, on Wednesday. Patrick Memela, 47, hanged himself after he shot his wife in the back and injured in her spine. ...
Tiger growls.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... CHARLOTTE: Tiger Woods found his putting touch to surge into the clubhouse lead during the opening round at the Quail Hollow Championship yesterday. Woods, making his first start since a relatively disappointing Masters, stormed home with six birdies on his inward half to post a bogey-free ...
Workers' Day.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... WORKERS' Day today in part commemorates the start of a campaign, 122 years ago in the US, for the right to an eight-hour working day. Six workers were shot dead and four trade union organisers were hanged as a result of a strike that has come to symbolise the struggle of ...
Be alert, Durban business warned.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kamini Padayachee DURBAN business owners have been warned to be more vigilant and to step up security measures after three violent robberies in the city in the past three weeks. Business Against Crime KwaZulu-Natal chairman Jody Nair said businesses should ...
AmaZulu looking to fans to spur them.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: KAMLESH GOSAI THE race for a top-eight place could turn into a sprint for fourth spot as AmaZulu look to draw on the support of Ulundi to help them overcome Free State Stars in the Absa Premiership this weekend. The approval from the Premier League to use the ...
Interest Relief.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... MANY people will breathe a sigh of relief that Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni yesterday announced a one percent (or 100 basis points) cut in the repo rate to 8.5 percent. However, we are actually relieved that the governor did not announce the two percent cut that some ...
Cape set for MP invasion ahead of swearing-in.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Vivian Warby HUNDREDS of MPs-in-waiting will start streaming into Cape Town this weekend in anticipation of being sworn in as members of the fourth democratic Parliament on Wednesday. There will be some old faces and some new. MPs will stay in ...
Ex-Thint chief holds true to his word to former co-accused Zuma.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal THE man who once stood in the dock with ANC president Jacob Zuma wants to become a South African. Pierre Moynot, the chief executive of French arms subsidiary Thint, which was accused with Zuma of corruption, retired from the company yesterday ...
Mass celebrations for workers today as ANC says 'thanks'.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: SINEGUGU NDLOVU, BARRY BATEMAN & SAPA WORKERS across the province and South Africa will join in Workers' Day celebrations, with 30 000 people expected to attend an address in Pretoria by outgoing President Kgalema Motlanthe today. ANC president Jacob Zuma is ...
Everest summit bid by SA man.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: DEVIN HERMANUS CAPETONIAN Gilad Stern will attempt to ascend the summit of Mount Everest today after several weeks of preparation on the slopes of the highest mountain in the world. Stern and 26 other climbers were due to start their ascent of the 8 850m peak ...
Sharks must now show their teeth.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY Rugby coaches will tell you that no game is more or less important than any other they play, yet you have the feeling that the Sharks' encounter with the Highlanders tomorrow at the Absa Stadium has moved up into a zone they have not yet explored this ...
Comrades charity drive aims to make R2m.(Sports)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Tommy Ballantyne THE Comrades Marathon Association is to redouble its efforts on behalf of its charity initiative that supports four major charity organisations during the week running up to Comrades Day on May 24 and has drafted in the co-operation of SABC-TV in a bold ...
Radical reforms expected as Mkhize takes over in KZN.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NATHI OLIFANT & CARIEN DU PLESSIS A SHAKE-UP of the KwaZulu-Natal government administration is on the cards with the confirmation yesterday of ANC provincial chairman Zweli Mkhize as premier. The country's new premiers - of whom five will be women for the ...
'Motlanthe must take new job or risk split'.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: CARIEN DU PLESSIS NEW divisions could be created in the ANC if President Kgalema Motlanthe refused to serve as deputy president in the new cabinet of Jacob Zuma, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema warned yesterday. "Kgalema Motlanthe must be deputy ...
Gauteng woman is cleared of swine flu.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NTOKOZO MFUSI, LOUISE FLANAGAN & LEBOGANG SEALE THE Gauteng woman suspected of having swine flu has been cleared. "The result came out negative. There's no swine influenza," national Health Department spokesman Fidel Hadebe said yesterday, repeating his ...
SANDF peacekeepers on trial for serious offences.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken THOUSANDS of South African soldiers deployed on international peacekeeping missions in Africa are standing trial for a range of serious criminal and military offences including murder, rape, assault and refusal to obey lawful commands. This was ...
Rand, JSE up after rates cut.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: YUSUF MOOLLA, Sapa & Reuters A ONE percent interest rate cut announced yesterday - the fourth since December - boosted the rand and was hailed as relief for consumers and one step towards offsetting the impact of the global downturn. Announcing the cut, ...
Diamonds now rarer.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... De Beers, the world's biggest diamond miner, has cut production by more than 90 percent in response to falling demand, according to an Anglo American report released yesterday. About half of the ...
Four hurt in crash.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... FOUR people were seriously injured in an accident on the Ruth First Freeway (M4) near the Blue Lagoon off-ramp in Durban yesterday, when a car crashed into a tree. The occupants were the ...
'Stay calm over Zuma rule'.(News)
May 01, 2009 ... Potential investors need not be nervous of the new South African government, ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa said yesterday. "I fully understand that a change in leadership makes the international investment community more nervous. When accompanied by over-the-top media ...
Nine years on, by-laws still differ.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: MATTHEW SAVIDES A LEGAL dispute means that the eThekwini Municipality will be without a consolidated set of by-laws for the next two years. Opposition parties have warned that the municipality could face legal problems unless the matter is resolved. ...
Time to ditch debt.(Life)
May 04, 2009 ... IN THESE economically tough times, it is easy to be swayed when dealing with financial matters. Investment and corporate strategist Jacques Magliolo, in his book Women and Wealth, outlines the money mistakes we don't want to be making. Mistake 1|Not doing your homework ...
If you must give up your /dog, don't give it to the SAPS.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... Thanks to Glynne Anderson for her column exposing the ugly truth about dog "recruitment" by the South African Police Service |(The Mercury, April 20). I hope that many people who, ...
Madcap Martin's gone banjo crazy.(Life)
May 04, 2009 ... STEVE Martin has a reputation as |one of the toughest interviews in the entertainment business. He is known for clipped yes-no responses to questions about the making of his latest film, his thoughts on the art of comedy or, especially, his personal life. But bring up a subject ...
Ratepayers Should Have A Say In Salaries.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... It is high time that the salaries and increases proposed yearly by the city manager, city treasurer and other members of Durban municipality were brought under control. It appears that, as the city declines in the eyes of its citizens, so their salaries get bigger. Ratepayers ...
Voters should choose candidates.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... Jabulani Sikhakhane's remarks on the discrepancies in our democratic system |(The Mercury, April 27) are |well-founded, but don't go far enough. While it is true that between elections, most of the representatives elected on party lists are never seen or heard by those whose ...
I am not a weak-minded Indian.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... I take issue when the leader of the Minority Front makes comments that undermine the integrity of any community, let alone the Indians "DA support will slide just like it did in 2006" (The Mercury, April 29). I am not a weak-minded Indian because I did not vote MF or the ANC. ...
Lives endangered while ineffectual people twiddle thumbs.(News)
May 04, 2009 ... I know ratepayers have been going on about faulty robots, but it seems the problem is really with the traffic department, which is supposed to attend to the repairing of robots. I reported a faulty robot to the engineering department on April 21. Eight days later it ...