The Saturday Star (South Africa) back issues from June 2007:
Romancity that contrasts.(Travel)
Jun 02, 2007 ... When I was 19, I went on a two-week Contiki tour, bussing across Europe in a blur of passports, postcards and tourist sites, McDonald's bathrooms, art museums, my first snow fight and a nightclub where an Italian student, Jordano, wanted me to leave the trip and run off with him. I learnt ...
the; to surf the.(Travel)
Jun 02, 2007 ... We snuck away from Johannesburg under cover of night. Our destination was a small town on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast, where we were to rendezvous with the ocean and the waves that had beckoned us for so long. We were desperate ... The drive to Durban was short and painless ....
LUBERON Light; Even Picasso was seduced by its beauty.(Travel)
Jun 02, 2007 ... One by one the villages gilded their brochures as they counted their new-found wealth. Discovering the Luberon ranked somewhere between the quest for an elixir and the search for the Holy Grail. Knowing we would eventually succumb to the hype, we waited awhile for the hysteria ...
Performance spirit makes it special.(Life)
Jun 02, 2007 ... A motoring memory will never leave me: sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in my mate John's PV544 Volvo. (Shoulder-to-shoulder because that's literally how wide the front of the passenger compartment was in the charismatic "Beetleback" car, which made its debut in the 1950s). There ...
Island; And the need to.(Travel)
Jun 02, 2007 ... When disembarking at a stunning hotel on a tropical island paradise - the Paradis Hotel & Golf Club in Mauritius - it is perhaps a tad unusual to demand to see the plumbing tucked away behind the palm-fronds. But that's exactly what I did on my recent trip to the island, because although ...
SaxonAPPEAL.(Life)
Jun 02, 2007 ... It came as no surprise to find world-famous El Bulli on Spain's Catalan coast topping the annual San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants poll for the third time. Restaurant Magazine UK, which organises this media-magnetic shindig, described the food of El Bulli mastermind Ferran Adria's ...
ARIES.(Entertainment)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Mar 21-Apr 21 (086 7133 501) Today: The social side of life might dominate during this ambit. It could also turn out to a lucky session for speculation and sport if you like to gamble or to compete. However, your strategies and gambits must be based on reliable data. ...
VICTOR MATFIELD (Taurus: May 11 1977).(Entertainment)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Acknowledged as one of the best (if not the best) lineout exponents in international rugby, Matfield is arguably the key player in both the Springbok and Bulls teams. Sun in Taurus with moon in Pisces renders him purposeful and resourceful on the one hand, and intuitive with an ...
Chelsea goes; Kay Montgomery reports back from London's Chelsea Flower Show on the latest trends in international gardening.(Life)
Jun 02, 2007 ... London's Chelsea Flower Show attracts the world's most talented horticulturalists, garden designers and plant breeders for five days every May. Although there are 600 exhibitors, the highlight of the show is always the 46 gardens and 100 floral displays. The 20 large show ...
EVENTS.(Life)
Jun 02, 2007 ... GARDEN DESIGN: The Irene School of Garden Design hosts courses. 15 East Ave, Irene, Centurion. Tel: 012-667-2328. Today - Garden design for amateurs. 9am-1pm. Cost: R450; Six-week Landscape design course. 9.30am-12.30pm. Cost: R1 900. June 9 - Kitchen herbs. 8.30am-1pm. Cost: R450. June 9 ...
tips.(Life)
Jun 02, 2007 ... lWorld Environment Day is celebrated on Tuesday. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972, it has evolved into National Environment Week (June 4-10) and is a time for considering ways to make you garden more eco-friendly. This week, pull out listed invasive alien plants ...
Are they saints or are they; Pitt and Jolie's nobleintentions flounder,writes Paul Scott.(Life)
Jun 02, 2007 ... A huge black four-wheel-drive Audi people carrier tears down the narrow streets of Prague, and without warning screeches to a shuddering halt. Slowly, a tinted rear window descends as an emaciated arm appears and points a bony finger, ET-like, in the direction of a bemused passing ...
VOLVO C30.(Life)
Jun 02, 2007 ... PRICE: R279 000 - on the high side in the hot-hatch brigade, but not too bad if you're talking exec expresses. TOP SPEED: Around 230km/h, but no one looks sexy going past in a blur. ACCELERATION: Between 7,5 and 8 seconds to 100km/h at Gauteng altitudes. ...
Next.(Entertainment)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage, sporting an astonishingly bad hairdo) is a Las Vegas magician who can see into the future. Naturally, the FBI is keen on harnessing his talent, in order to prevent a nuclear attack. That's how you can tell it's fiction - the FBI is using his talent for the ...
Sex blogger blows it with online lies; Claims of homosexual encounters with celebritySouth Africans puts maverick gay activist on spot.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Michael Schmidt The National Intelligence Agency is hunting the "male prostitute" sex blogger - who claimed 50 famous South African men paid for his services - because he fingered one of President Thabo Mbeki's guards as a client. The vindictive blogger, who ...
How different people view ads differently.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... l The Joko tea ad where there is a dancing black female worker washing the floor "We should be proud we can dance - a white woman could not do that." (woman from the Young Families sub-group) "I like it - it reminds me of my mother." (woman from Mzansi Youth ...
Eat your heart outCap'n Jack; The real Jack Sparrow - a vicious Caribbean pirate called Black Bart - wasa far cry from Johnny Depp's mincing mariner, writes Christopher Hudson.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... This week, Johnny Depp, as Jack Sparrow, brought his mixture of menace and mockery back to the big screen in Pirates Of The Caribbean 3. But the real pirate he is based on would have eaten the skittish Jack Sparrow for breakfast and spat out his bones into the deep blue sea. His ...
Autobay comes at you from all directions.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... The most successful advertising campaigns will integrate a number of small variations on the same theme across different media. A good example is the Automobile Association's latest work, created by Net#work BBDO, which centres on its client offerings, such as car finance and ...
SA leads the way, Pencil-wise.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... South African ad agencies have done well at the latest D and AD Global Awards, which took place recently in London. Net#work BBDO won a Yellow Pencil for its innovative billboard campaign for Nedbank entitled "Power to the people". The ad ran on a huge billboard next to a school ...
Black Diamonds haveDIFFERENT facets; Up-and-coming group aren't homogeneous.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Neil Higgs This is because there's no magic connection formula - it's a heterogeneous group - and there's no "one size fits all" solution to reaching Black Diamonds. Multiple factors, from identity issues to one's journey into the Black Diamond class, ...
Maybe it's time to decriminalise prostitution.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... With singer Afrikaans crooner Nataniel and butch former Springbok James Small now united as victims of the "slander" that they paid a male hooker for sex, it is time to look behind the skinner at our troubled morality regarding the oldest game in town. The skande unleashed by ...
Experimental mix of luxury and low-cost housing on the cards.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: David Pincus Those who live in and around Fairland will know that work has already started on developing an office complex and a "fashion hub" on the Jerusalem site. Which is hardly news; many commercial buildings are being developed in Johannesburg. But what ...
Ensure no more slaps on the wrist for child abusers.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... That's at least how it seems this week after the long-awaited Child Amendment Bill was approved by the relevant committee in parliament. What's a dad - or a long suffering mom - to do? I don't know about you, but I was given many a good hiding when I was growing up. To tell you ...
Credit act will temper the cash grab; Money lenders forced to ensure debt will be repaid.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Thembisile Makgalemele This means money lenders need to ensure that consumers will be able to repay their debts before they can loan money to them. They need to conduct an assessment to avoid reckless lending. If the consumer can prove that there was reckless ...
Taxi violence seen as pure lawlessness; 'Solution is a properly regulatedsystem in which everyone wins'.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Kashiefa Ajam This week's taxi shootings in greater Joburg, which left at least three people dead and several wounded, have angered the authorities, who say it was pure lawlessness. Poaching of taxi routes, tight profit margins and fierce competition are ...
Strike may affect rugby action.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Theo Garrun No one seems quite sure about which of today's scheduled schools rugby matches will go ahead in light of the teachers joining the national public service strike action. At least one match - Highlands North v St David's - had officially been called ...
Taxi body says DoT to blame for violence; Santaco says Department of Transportis not issuing routes in Joburg properly.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Kashiefa Ajam The national Department of Transport must shoulder some of the blame for the taxi shootings that rocked Joburg this week - claiming three lives. This is the view of the SA National Taxi Association Council (Santaco), that believe the department ...
'I need men, not boys for World Cup'; White's research shows only the very best are good enough to win title.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mark Keohane Men win rugby World Cups and Springbok coach Jake White believes the boys who crumbled for South Africa in the 2003 World Cup are now those capable men. "Patience is not something you'd associate with our rugby. There's this constant thirst for ...
Butch is World Cup No 10; Sharks man's physicalpresence puts himahead of Pretorius.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mark Keohane Butch James is Jake White's number one Springbok World Cup flyhalf. White confirmed James had seized the moment in his last two Tests against England and, allowing for fitness, the Sharks man will play flyhalf when the Boks front England in Paris. ...
Statistics don't tell the full story of Burger's worth to the Boks.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... We properly value great players only when they're gone. We all knew England had a legend in their midst even as Martin Johnson led them to the Rugby World Cup in 2003 - but just how once-in-a-lifetime great he was becomes clearer every day as they wander, shiftless, through a post-Johnson ...
Spanking kids to be outlawed; 'Reasonable chastisement' not longer a defence.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Christina Gallagher South Africa this week took a step closer to joining an elite group of countries that have abolished corporal punishment when the National Council of Provinces passed the Children's Amendment Bill, which bans the excessive use of chastisement by ...
United seek alternate tour.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Manchester - Manchester United are trying to organise an alternative friendly after being forced to call off next month's pre-season match in Malaysia. The Red Devils were due to play a game in Kuala Lumpur on July 27 against a Malaysian team to celebrate the country's 50th anniversary of ...
It's time we moved on from McCarthy, who's not that great anyway.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Bafana Bafana simply had to win. And they did, thanks to the player we today castigate - with a measure of justification - as unpatriotic, ungrateful and arrogant. After 21 frenetic minutes of ruthlessness and accuracy, I found myself and a group of friends chanting "Benni! ...
Interest rates set to increase.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Thembisile Makgalemele South Africans should brace themselves for a half-percentage-point interest rate hike next week. Statistics South Africa this week released the latest CPIX (consumer inflation minus mortgage costs) and producer price index (PPI), the ...
Afro-Asia Cup: an ill-timed shot at money making; Pointless series does nothing for the game or attracting the fans.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess What's the point of the Afro-Asia Cup, the three match one-day series between players representing Africa and Asia, taking place in India from Tuesday? Well there's money, money and then some more money. And that's reason enough to get weary ...
'When Sonn spoke, people listened'.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Andrew Miller Percy Sonn, who died aged 57, is possibly the only man to have been booed at consecutive World Cup finals. In South Africa in 2003, he was cast as the bogeyman at the final in Johannesburg, after the infamous "trouser-gate" incident at Paarl ...
This Child Protection Week failed.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... It was Child Protection Week this week, and a particularly bloody one at that for Alicia Hendricks, Alicia Cloete, Edwina Wing, Moegamat Kannemeyer, Julie Ulianitski and Wilfred Kriel. They're dead. Alicia Hendricks killed herself, Alicia Cloete, Edwina and Julie were gunned down in ...
Handing out Test caps for bus change.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peter Bills The sad thing about this joke of an England tour is that it has completely devalued the sporting record books of England/South Africa Tests down the years. As we Englishmen prepare to don our tin helmets and make our way to Loftus for this ...
Pay row weakens visitors Chad.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe Chad arrived in Durban this week sans several players who lost to South Africa in N'Djamena in March, but it remains to be seen whether the radical changes to their line up will have any effect on their performance this afternoon. Beset by ...
Amaglug-glug eye the next step to the Olympics.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mahlaba After enduring a difficult week of preparations for their Group A, Beijing Olympics qualifier, Amaglug-glug finally left for Addis Ababa with a decent team on Thursday evening. Difficult in a sense that, in the first two days of training, ...
Sizing up the opposition from the telly, not such a good idea.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Some years ago I was asked to be the guest speaker at a company event. The MC, one of the directors, had worked hard on his introduction. This is the moment most speakers dread. Will the details presented be accurate? Will the tone tie in with the character of the main address? Lets be ...
Banyana face Zim sans top striker.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mzwakhe Ngwenya Banyana Banyana must beat Zimbabwe (home and away) if they are to clash with old nemesis Nigeria in the next round of the Beijing Olympics Qualifiers. The national women's team play the Zimbabweans in the first-leg of their preliminary round ...
Why Benni can call the shots; Pride and prejudice stumbling blocks in McCarthy impasse.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... While Bafana Bafana take on Chad in this afternoon's African Nations Cup qualifier in Durban, Benedict Saul McCarthy will be somewhere in Spain, no doubt enjoying the springtime sunshine with his wife and baby daughter. It is a long way from the Mediterranean to the South ...
Skinstad returns to Loftus.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum A few hours before England announced a team for today's Test that is held together with spit and stickytape yesterday afternoon, Bob Skinstad was speaking of good omens and how the stars were aligned for the Springboks in 2007. Skinstad, who ...
Shooting of strikers sparks war cry; Call for minister to curb police's'unwarranted use of force'.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Michael Schmidt and Janine Stephen Madisha told the well-disciplined but resolute crowd "we cannot tolerate that type of massacre" - he thought in the initial confusion that some strikers had been killed, whereas it later transpired several were injured when police used ...
Fans hope Bafana can turn on the flair.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jonty Mark Bafana Bafana have racked up the kilometres in Durban this week, preparing for this afternoon's 2008 African Nations Cup qualifier against Chad (Absa Stadium, Durban, 3.15pm kick off). From KwaMashu in the north, the birthplace of one Siyabonga ...
George wins the SA time trial champs.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum David George won the elite men's time trial at the South African championships in Bloemfontein yesterday. George was mistakenly told to turn at the women's distance marker instead of the men's, and wasted time getting back on track. Still, it ...
WASHINGTON:.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Evan O'Dorney (above) is the 2007 American National Spelling Bee champion. The 13-year-old from California aced "serrefine" on Thursday night to win the 80th annual bee. He won a tense duel with Nate Gartke of Canada. Evan won a trophy and a $35 000 (R250 000) prize, plus a $5 ...
Securicor guards head to London to highlight racism.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Michael Schmidt Workers in southern Africa have once again appealed to outsiders in London to publicise a local industrial issue. Backed by international unionists, Patrick Finyamowa, a Group 4 Securicor guard from Malawi, has launched a campaign to block ...
Othello:.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... A utility truck's elevated bucket collapsed during a school science demonstration, killing a utility company employee and injuring a teacher as about 600 children watched, authorities said. The pair had been lifted 6-9 metres in the air on Thursday when the boom separated from ...
CAIRO:.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Egyptian police have detained 48 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in a crackdown ahead of parliamentary elections. In one of the largest single-day tolls against the movement since February, police arrested members of Egypt's most powerful opposition group in raids ...
An umXhosa by any name would still have been victimised.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... It never really bothered me to find out why my father didn't have an African name. Your father is your father, period - it doesn't matter what his name is. But this week I realised that both my father's names were Afrikaans, and so were the names of his brothers - and some of his sisters ....
June just up your alley.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... GAUTENG: Warm in the north, otherwise partly cloudy and mild. The expected UVB index: high. MPUMALANGA: Fine and mild to warm, becoming cloudy in the east. Isolated showers are expected in the lowveld and along the escarpment. LIMPOPO: Partly cloudy and ...
TOKYO:.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Police found 8 000 pieces of women's clothing and lingerie in the home of a Japanese man who stole the items so he could sleep buried in them. Maeyasu Kawamura, 60, was indicted for theft. Police found 2 400 pieces of lingerie, 600 kimonos and 5 200 items of ...
Students keen to lure former coach De Sa.(Sports)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Paul Martin Santos coach Roger De Sa is the firm favourite to take over the coaching reins at BIDVest Wits with current caretaker coach Eric Tinkler likely to fill the assistant's position. While Wits officials have opted to remain tight-lipped on the ...
You must follow rules, court tells prospective adopters.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Affluent foreigners cannot imitate Madonna's rule-bending adoption of Malawian baby David Banda - even if they have only the best intentions for abandoned local babies. In a landmark decision that split the South Africa Supreme Court of Appeal, ...
KZN cop kills wife, then turns the gun on himself.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Babington Maravanyika A policeman shot and killed his wife in Johannesburg this week, before turning the gun on himself in Pietermaritzburg about six hours later. KwaZulu Natal police spokesperson Superintendent Vincent Mdunge yesterday said Inspector Petros ...
Cops sue McBride; Three metro police who removedhim from crash site seek R4,5m.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Kashiefa Ajam and Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat The three Ekurhuleni metro cops who whisked their boss away from the scene of a crash have not only turned on him - they're now suing Robert McBride and the Ekurhuleni metro police department (EMPD) for R4,5-million. ...
'My interview with Yuri the Russian'; 'The cold look in his eyes betrayed no feeling'.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Dale Granger We dubbed him "The Russian" because the cops couldn't pronounce his name. It was the mid-90s and Cape Town was in turmoil. Businesses were deserting the city. Nightclubs, bars and restaurants were imploding in economic meltdown as patrons fled to the ...
Girls' deaths put paid to child protection week.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat, Christina Gallagher and Botho Molosankwe Two girls. Both named Alicia. Both 13 years old. Both dead in the week in which no South African child was supposed to die from unnatural causes. On Monday, the beginning of child protection ...
Aunt struggles to deal with raped girl's suicide.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Noor Jehan Yoro Badat and Christina Gallagher Alicia Hendricks, Alicia Cloete and Edwina Wing weren't the only children to die during South Africa's Child Protection Week this week. Two boys, aged 7 and 12, turned on an 8-year-old as they walked home from ...
A lot more in Kimberley than the Big Hole.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Patsy Beangstrom A play, performed as a team-building exercise at a conservative high school, has turned into a drama of its own after a parent complained about its overt sexual connotations. The play, entitled My Lewe is 'n Cowboyfliek, My Ou! (My life is a ...
Judge orders pupils be released from jail after allegations of 'torture and abuse'.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Nine young reformatory pupils were beaten and thrown into an adult jail in Mpumalanga following a police raid on their school which went wrong. Now, after shocking allegations of torture, starvation and intimidation, the Pretoria High Court ...
SA unveils official World Cup website.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Lebogang Seale South Africans and the rest of the world will now be able to receive first-hand information about the country's preparations for the 2010 Fifa World Cup at the click of a mouse. This is after the 2010 organising committee unveiled its official ...
2 100.(News)
Jun 02, 2007 ... The age of a melon found in Japan The amount the Netherlands government will give to help train the embattled Palestinian police force The price peace protester Cindy Sheehan would put on her land outside George Bush's ranch ...