The Saturday Star (South Africa) back issues from August 2008:
cultural axis; meeting point of India, China and Malaysia.(Travel)
Aug 02, 2008 ... You don't have to enjoy the famous Singapore Sling cocktail to be intoxicated by this exotic city, often described as the gentle introduction to Asia, where East meets west. Singapore's unspoilt beauty will blow you away. From the onset it was clear that if one is looking for ...
Lower Yourself; To visit troglodyte France's Western Loire.(Travel)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Despite its wonderful wines and food and its marvellous countryside, the attractions of the area are not all that apparent. On the surface the region is very much like many other places, unless you are prepared to lower yourself, settle for very primitive facilities and hit rock bottom. ...
Border; Into Zimbabwe.(Travel)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Flying into Livingstone Airport, the plane was crammed: there was a corporate group from South Africa and foreign tourists from various parts of the globe. Crowds are literally pouring into this part of Zambia. Competition between the towns of Livingstone and Victoria Falls as ...
Egyptian; the other side of Africa.(Travel)
Aug 02, 2008 ... I have jumped out of a plane. I have leapt off a cliff. But one of the scariest things I've ever done is ride in a taxi from Cairo's airport to its city centre. Even at 1 am, the traffic was perpetual mayhem. Cairo seems to have an unwritten minimum speed limit - I was desperately looking ...
Goa Way; on a languid journey.(Travel)
Aug 02, 2008 ... I am behaving badly, whistling along a narrow road lined with coconut palms, 100ccs of motor scooter between my thighs, threading through rice fields that are now shorn and dry and dotted with farmers winnowing their rice, tossing the grains high into the air, the chaff swirling in a ...
Built like a bouncer on Steroids; It handled the road as if it were dancing, writes Caroline Hurry.(Life)
Aug 02, 2008 ... When it comes to cars, these days you need something butch enough not to burst into tears at all the potholes in Parktown yet smooth enough for a girl to apply her lipstick without mishap. The Nissan X-Trail fits the bill. Built like a bouncer on steroids, it's solid and bulky with a dense ...
Dusty, but it's First World; It started out as amodest clinic butnow employs 240people and has anoperating budgetof over R40m.Justine Gerardywent there.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Moutse lies in a long, dusty valley that history wedged into a geographical twilight zone. The area has been part-bantustan, part-apartheid South Africa, post-democratic Mpumalanga and is now re-demarcated Limpopo. By mid-year, winter has burnt the valley to blunt ...
ARIES.(Entertainment)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Mar 21-Apr 21 (086-7133-501) Today: A good time to expand your horizon and gain valuable experience. If it is adventure and excitement you crave, climb over the wall that separates you from the outside world. Launch yourself on a bold search for learning experiences. ...
'Surrogate mom' saves birds; Endangered wattle cranes have future at Joburg Zoo.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sheree Bega Thoko Masina extends her arms wide as if she is flying. As she runs, she chirps: "Prrrrrrt Prrrrrrt" and the young wattled crane spreads his wings and eagerly flaps behind her, prancing elegantly. Using the crane puppet attached to her hand, ...
School is toast of Soweto despite lack of resources.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thabiso Thakali The neighbourhood in Senaoane, Soweto, hustles and bustles in the morning. The atmosphere in the streets is that of rush hour traffic as thousands of workers and pupils run in all directions. In the midst of this area is Senaoane Secondary ...
The Law is quite clear.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... In a matter of the law, Jacob Zuma's biggest problem, irrespective of which way you cut it, is that a judge called Hilary Squires, in finding his erstwhile financial adviser Schabir Shaik guilty of fraud and corruption, in essence found Zuma had a case to answer. This was ...
Stop the rot by starting to honour good teachers.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... It's been the great male fantasy since time immemorial - the young male and the hot female teacher. Books have been written about it, films have been made on it and it's been the punch line of innumerable jokes around the braai. The flipside of the fantasy - male teacher falls ...
Technology has changed love - not necessarily for the better.(Life)
Aug 02, 2008 ... It is, I believe, generally acknowledged that love is one of the most powerful forces known to mankind. It motivates us to behave in ways we wouldn't ordinarily even consider. As adults, how many of us now look back and cringe at some of the ridiculous and frankly crazy things we did for ...
He may be injured, but the Man U winger is still scoring.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Manchester United and Portugal football star Cristiano Ronaldo won't disobey doctors' orders and jeopardise his injured ankle - even if it means wearing his orthopaedic boot during his sexy bedscapades. London's News of the World newspaper reported this week that Ronaldo, who ...
Crop spraying has residents up in arms.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sheree Bega Hendrik Groenewald and his family dread the arrival of August every year. It signals the start of the heavy chemical crop-spraying season in the farming town of Groblersdal - and the time of the year when they often fall ill. "We get stressed when ...
Affordable housing bucks the trend.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: David Pincus Allan Bateman, owner of the Kempton Park Chas Everitt International office that specialises in affordable housing, claims his office is bucking the downward trend in the housing market: "We were exceptionally busy in the first half of this year," says ...
Breaking china; off to Beijing to watch the Olympic Games?(Travel)
Aug 02, 2008 ... If you remember nothing else as you leave your hotel, guesthouse, hostel or whatever accommodation you happen to be staying in during your trip to the Beijing Olympics, remember this - take a card with the details of the address and phone number of where you are staying. And ...
Inzalo's lack of tact up the Nats' alley.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... While watching the final day of the Tour de France, I saw an advert which I think is a candidate for an Orchid. A man is in a bookstore leafing through a newspaper when he is suddenly overcome and sneezes into the newspaper. Then the payoff line; use Salex. Short, to the point, ...
Appointments, awards and accounts.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... lThe P.R Team has been appointed to manage the PR and publicity portfolio for the five-star Hotel Izulu, BLEND Eventlife - "Spirited Staff & Bars" and the New Kings Hotel. lJason Cumming recently joined Lowe Bull Cape Town as a business unit director working on accounts such as ...
Loerie win a black and white affair; Evocative commercial shot in Buenos Aires for Allan Gray investment house gets the thumbs-upin race for prestigiousGrand Prix Loerie.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Another Loeries advertising awards has come and gone, and it was good to see that one of the big winners, and most talked about, was an cinematic "big idea" executed by one of the country's finest visual craftsmen. Keith Rose of Velocity Films, together with ad agency King ...
'Love me like you did before'; But instead, panelbeater butchered his pregnant wife.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Zelda Venter Pretoria North panelbeater Pieter Viljoen was so well liked at the escort agency he frequented that the escorts sent him flowers and condolences after his wife's death. He also visited them on the night after the funeral, on their invitation ....
Financial clout of the over-40s makes them marketers' dream.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... South African business could be ignoring the moneyed over-40s market at their peril, says the director of the UCT Unilever Institute for Strategic Marketing, Professor John Simpson. With a combined income of R300-billion, the 1,9-million South Africans who are older than 40 and ...
Playing Mandela card probably won't raise ANC stakes at polls.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... The ANC is running on empty. It lacks credible leadership and it knows it too. That explains why the ruling party is re-attaching itself onto Nelson Mandela's coat-tails. With an election coming up, the party needs the nonagenarian's name and legacy to help burnish its image, ...
Female sex offenders are rare; Under-reporting and shame may account for small percentage.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey Less than 1% of sexual offenders tried in South Africa are women. But experts warn that many of these sexual offences probably go unreported. Tiny Makopo, the former Oprah Winfrey Leadership academy matron, is one of only three known female ...
Cyclists invited to Soweto.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Metro Sport Correspondent Following the success of last year's Vodacom Tour de Soweto Cycle Challenge, organisers will once again be hosting the race and cyclists, both recreational and professional, are invited to enter. The event, which attracted over 1700 ...
St John's to host best junior golfers.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Theo Garrun St John's College, in association with FNB Private Clients, will be hosting the fifth annual International Schools' Golf Tournament next weekend. The event has grown steadily over the years, to the extent that all the top golfing schools in the ...
St Mary's girls in a league of their own.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Theo Garrun St Mary's School in Waverley have been the foremost girls hockey school in Johannesburg for a number of years now and this year they set something of a record when all their A sides (1st, 2nd, Under-16A, Under-15A and Under-14A) won their respective leagues. ...
Speedy Nokwe set to sizzle; Plucked from obscurity, the Cheetahs winger is in the fast lane to Bok stardom.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen It's been four years since he was first thought of as a potential Test player and now Jongi Nokwe will finally get his chance. The call-up of the Cheetahs winger to Springbok coach Peter de Villiers' Bok squad for the one-off Test ...
MXit gets tough over malicious lists.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kashiefa Ajam If your name and number have appeared on the "slut" or "bastard" lists on MXit, go to the police and open a case. That's the advice of the teen cellphone chatline, which is now working with the police to find out who started the defamatory lists ....
Complaint to ad watchdog over use of Lebo's voice.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey Banking giant Standard Bank may come under fire for a funeral insurance radio advertisement featuring former South Africa songstress Lebo Mathosa talking about the dangers of the road. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received a ...
A very shrewd Kiwi leads the Aussies into a brave, new world.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Who would have believed it? Here we are after the first few games of the Tri-nations and it's neither the Boks, nor the All Blacks, at the top of the log. It's the team nobody gave a chance, the Aussies, who sit there with two deserved wins out of two. What on earth has happened? ...
Sorry Benni, you don't have a clue what you're talking about.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Benni McCarthy has never been content with just shunning the national team, he has also developed a knack of forever provoking us with some of his most voluble vitriol. We thought it was enough for him to withdraw via SMS from the Bafana Bafana squad in June, but there he was, ...
What is Ted doing at Downs? New Sundowns 'technical advisor'insists he won't interfere with Moloto.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe Like a man uncertain of what his duties should be, Ted Dumitru could be found shuttling between the Mamelodi Sundowns training ground and the office this week. One moment he was watching the training session from the touchline, the next he was chatting to ...
Kent pay the penalty for ICL link.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... London - Kent will not be invited to the inaugural Champions League despite finishing runners-up to champions Middlesex in the English Twenty20 Cup. The 2007 champions, beaten on the last ball of the final last week, have been refused entry by organisers because their team includes two ...
Lekana piles on the woes; 'Treatment of widows and orphans is a disgrace'.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bruce Cameron Widows and orphans of the deceased members of the Mineworkers Provident Fund, who lost more than R700-million in benefits as a result of the Fidentia scam, have taken another knock. This time it's as a result of the inefficiency of the fund's ...
Lions tackle WP in crunch tie.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen It's hardly surprising Lions captain Cobus Grobbelaar has labelled today's Absa Currie Cup clash against Western Province at Coca-Cola Park (5pm) as "one of our biggest games this season". After dominating much of last week's clash ...
Australia, NZ face gloomy financial outlook.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The financial storm swept through Australia and New Zealand this week amid signs of contagion across the Pacific region. Financial shares were pummelled in Sydney after investor flight forced National Australia Bank to slash a [pounds ...
Van Biljon taking it all in her stride.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nazli Thomas Suzaan van Biljon is very blase about the Olympic Games - the biggest sporting event on the planet. For four years her focus has been getting to Beijing and then doing well there, but judging by how calm she was before the team left for a ...
Strike to check exports, warn manufacturers; Commerce leaders say engaging in discussion would be more helpful. Thabiso Thakali reports.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Employers in the manufacturing sector have issued a stern warning that next week's planned national strike action by Cosatu will cripple the country's export commitments. Negotiations are said to be taking place behind the scenes at the National Economic Development and Labour ...
UK seeks better vetting of YouTube-style sites.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Peter Griffiths Video-sharing websites like YouTube must do more to protect people from the internet's "dark side", such as pornography or images of child abuse or bullying, an influential group of British lawmakers said this week. Parliament's culture, media ...
Seconds from glory; Sifiso Nhlapo is one of South Africa's brightest medal chances for the Beijing Olympics.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum On August 20, Sifiso Nhlapo will place his front wheel against the starting gate on the eight-metre high starting ramp at the Olympic BMX track in Beijing and ready himself for 370-metres of all-out sprinting. Nhlapo will know the track ...
SAA overbooking grounds delegates.(News)(Conference notes)
Aug 02, 2008 ... A number of delegates headed for the International Aids Conference in Mexico were stopped yesterday from boarding an SAA flight due to overbooking. "They said we must come tomorrow, but that we cannot guarantee that you will get a seat," said another delegate, who is due to ...
Former Bosnian leader angered by American about-turn on deal that would have ensured his freedom.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bruno Waterfield Radovan Karadzic has accused America of refusing to honour a deal that would have seen him slip quietly into retirement and avoid charges of war crimes from the bloody Yugoslav civil war. The former Bosnian Serb leader used his first hearing ...
Gloves come off in the US election battle; McCain accuses rival Obama of playing the race card. Steven Hurst reports.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... The US presidential campaign has taken a nasty tone and crossed into the political no-man's land of American politics, as Republican John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama - who would be the country's first black president - of playing racial politics. After first unleashing ...
Couple soon to get reward for rapist's capture.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... The conviction and sentence handed out this week to serial rapist Johannes Mowers means a farmworker couple will soon be paid the R100 000 police reward for stopping him. Mowers would probably still have been conducting his reign of terror in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley near ...
Is it going to be Krol's Red team or A-side?(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe It was under Bibey Mutombo that Orlando Pirates first developed the idea of two teams in one. To the astonishment of journalists and fans alike, Mutombo would split his team into two at his training sessions, one named Orlando and the other Pirates. ...
China rocked by aftershocks.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Two aftershocks yesterday hit the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, the site of May's devastating earthquake, with the second felt strongly in Chengdu, Xinhua news agency said. More than 69 200 people have been confirmed dead and some 18 000 are still missing after a ...
Teacher's steamy novel fires up Catholic school.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... "I miss that night with you so much ... I miss the feel of your naked body pressed against mine, the warm embrace of your arms, the warmth of your breasts pressed against my chest as I draw you tight to me. Your sweet lips against mine and the loving look you gave me ... When you took me ...
Affluent eye an overseas home.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Melanie Peters While the local property market is struggling, an increasing number of affluent South Africans are buying property overseas because of the weaker rand and political uncertainty, say estate agents. Major estate agencies are still doing good ...
Women power rocks.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... The Shoprite Checkers Woman of the Year was the most inspirational event I have attended. Ever. Held at the Grand West Casino in Cape Town on Thursday night, it celebrated some of the most amazing women in South Africa. These women quietly get on with helping to heal and forward the nation ...
Children planned to plead insanity over slain couple.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bronwyn Gerretsen Even before they allegedly killed Johan and Riekie Lotter, their children, Nicolette and Hardus, and Mathew Naidoo had already decided that if they were caught, they would plead guilty by reason of insanity. This came out during the police's ...
'Najwa fired the lethal gunshot'.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Fatima Schroeder Najwa Petersen spent two days in the witness stand giving her version of what happened the night her husband Taliep was shot dead. Then state advocate Shareen Riley spent two more days showing that her story didn't add up. According to ...
Selebi's legal team tell of break-ins; Minister's evidence would not have withstood scrutiny, says advocate.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Members of Jackie Selebi's legal team have been the victims of break-ins at their offices and homes - and have lost computers, diaries and electronic equipment. The unsolved thefts on the nights of July 14 and 15 emerged in Selebi's submissions ...
Lunchtime death dive after taunt.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... A 27-year-old man plunged to his death from at the Cavendish Square Shopping Centre in Cape Town during lunchtime yesterday while screaming shoppers looked on. An eyewitness, who asked not to be named, said the man had apparently been arguing with a woman before climbing onto ...
Oprah matron close-ups barred.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey When the trial against alleged sexual offender Virginia "Tiny" Makopo resumes in the Sebokeng Magistrate's Court in October, the media will not be allowed to take close-up photographs of her. If they do wish to take a close-up pictures, they ...
Zimbabwean regime urged to lift humanitarian NGOs' food aid ban.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Humanitarian NGOs are desperately hoping that the Zimbabwean government will allow food aid back into the country when negotiations resume near Pretoria tomorrow. But with many Zimbabweans on the point of starvation, international food donors warn that even if the June 4 ban on ...
Singh leads India fightback.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... Galle, Sri Lanka - India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed 4/71 to leave Sri Lanka on 215/5 at the close of the second day of the second Test yesterday. Sri Lanka are still trailing by 114 runs after Harbhajan clawed India back into the game with the wickets of Malinda ...
Uproar over attempt to dupe refugees; Prepared affidavit may be underhand way to secure easy deportation. Justine Gerardy reports.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... A prepared affidavit handed to arrested refugees and asylum-seekers - to get them to surrender their internationally guaranteed protection - has raised concerns of an underhand attempt at easy deportation. The affidavit, in the Saturday Star's possession, was given by police ...
City Power to pay dearly for diesel and gas turbines.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thabiso Thakali Joburg may have beaten load shedding - even if Eskom cuts its supply to City Power - but this will come at a hefty price to the utility. A total capacity of 150 megawatts of electricity, which would be derived from the reinstated diesel and gas turbines, ...
'Choking game' blamed as another teenager strangles himself with a rope.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... A Pretoria teenager may have become the latest casualty of a fatal "game" played by teenagers, which involves asphyxiating themselves to achieve a euphoric state. It was while apparently playing the "choking game" on Monday that Kobus van der Watt of Elandspoort (17) strangled ...
If business deal flies, Nationwide could be back.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bronwyn Gerretsen Nationwide Airlines has a buyer, and the deal to put the company back into the air could be finalised in the coming days. Although major role-players are remaining tight-lipped on any details surrounding the arrangement, the Saturday Star has ...
Hotel rates poised to soar during 2010 World Cup.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Melanie Peters Luxury suites at South Africa's top hotels and private game reserves will cost between R30 000 and R45 000 a night during the 2010 World Cup. Soccer players, Fifa's top brass, delegates and spectators will be asked to fork out around R30 000 a ...
Defiant Collingwood; Ton of inspiration from an unlikely hero leads England's dramatic fightback.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Patrick Compton Edgbaston, Birmingham Paul Collingwood rose from his cricketing deathbed to lead England to a position of strength against a disappointing South Africa on the third day of this see-saw Test match here yesterday. Collingwood, the object of ...
Spat casts long shadow over SA Olympic team.(News)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum Apart from the lack of sponsors, public arguments between leading administrators, anger over the standard of the team kit and worries over the effects of Beijing's pollution, the South African Olympic team is in fine shape. The South African ...
Hat-trick hero Van drives Blue Bulls to easy victory.(Sports)
Aug 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Vata Ngobeni Brakpan Valke (7) 7 Try: Smit; Conversion: Smit Blue Bulls(28) 50 Tries: Van Heerden (3), Rossouw, Kruger, Jansen; Conversions: Steyn (3), Francis; Penalties: Steyn (4) If there is a game in this year's Absa ...