The Saturday Star (South Africa) back issues from April 2009:
magical mankwe; but for how long?(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... There's a lot you can learn about animals, birds - and people - simply by spending time in that wonderful, stilted game-viewing hide over the waters of Mankwe Dam. The spacious hide at Mankwe has, justifiably, become one of the major attractions of Pilanesberg National Park. On ...
Holidays galore in Singapore.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... SIA Holidays and SilkAir Holidays are offering packages that include a free night of hotel stay, |and a range of discounts to a variety of leading tourist attractions. Singapore Airlines has teamed up with the Singapore Tourism Board and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore ...
mountain high; The berg draws visitors from far and wide.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Someone once said that growing old is one of the most surprising things that can happen to a man. At a venerable 39, which is impossibly antediluvian to some, and young to others, I'd like to add that, to my surprise, it does have certain advantages. One of them is that you ...
Pilgrim's; An educational walk.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... For centuries pilgrims have travelled rough along the age-old route to Spain's holy shrine at Santiago de Compostela. Today, the camino, as it is called in Spanish, attracts a far wider band of pilgrims than its original core market of devout Roman Catholics seeking plenary ...
SA is a 'must-visit'.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... The New York Times has named South Africa as one of the 44 must-visit destinations this year, which is interesting considering how neurotic many Americans are about security and crime. South Africa was voted the 20th best destination to visit by its readers, who raved about ...
Press Association teaches kids to 'learn the news'.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Primary school pupils are getting wind of the basic principles of journalism. The latest development in the South African Press Association's schools' newspaper project, Learn the News, involves carrying news pages of stories written by children. First, however, they ...
THIS BEAST IS A total BEAUTY; Everyone stops when they see the ML 63 AMG, writes Jovial Rantao.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... I tried very hard. God knows I did try, but with little success. First I attempted to use my willpower to resist my strong attraction. And second, once I had been hooked, I then tried to tame The Beast. She is a beast all right. A very big beast.|A beautiful beast. A very ...
Family-owned lodge offers bush and sea.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Lidiko Lodge is a well-appointed four-star lodge centrally situated in the village of St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, in the heart of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park. The lodge is family-owned and managed. The park is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Set above the Great St ...
A chance to see the 'White Zulu' /play Down Under.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... South Africans with friends and relatives living in Australia and New Zealand now have the opportunity to give them the ultimate gift - tickets to concerts by our very own Johnny Clegg, who is touring Down Under in May and June. Clegg is one of SA's most famous sons, and his ...
Bracing activities and wine to be had.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Dave Morgan, skipper of the mussel cruise, is a long-time resident and a mine of information. The Sounds are dotted with "baches", the holiday shacks that every New Zealander regards almost as a birthright. Until about 10 years ago, you could buy a waterfront bach here for ...
TASTE, TOUCH, SEE AND SMELL HERBS.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... This weekend, discover the world of edible gardening by visiting the 2009 Herb Association of South Africa "Herb Happening" at Doonholm Nursery's herb farm in Midrand. While the spectacular 170m-long spiral sensory herb garden is the focal point of the show, herb enthusiasts ...
Grow your own and reap benefits.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Now is the time to discover how to grow your own herbs and vegetables. Horticulturist and former president of the South African Herb Society, Toni B Walters, has produced a complete guide to kitchen gardening in southern Africa, entitled Cultivating Flavour. In the book, Toni ...
Simply nirvana; The Marlborough Region of new zealand.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Captain James Cook knew a thing or two about paradise. During his three voyages through the Pacific, the great navigator visited Tahiti, Hawaii, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef with its many splendid islands. And, as a connoisseur of palmy nirvanas, ...
A pleasure to watch the weavers at their work.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... It was getting dark and|the final product would probably only have been submitted for her approval the next day. I do hope she was happy. Some hapless male weaver in our backyard is now busy on his 11th nest - all the others were summarily rejected. Another marvellous spectacle ...
ARIES.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Mar 21-Apr 21: (086 7133 501) Today: Be grateful for the gift of knowledge and for your ability to recognise and accept your opportunities. Let your thoughts and actions be expansive because they will conduce to rich fulfilment. Give thanks for prevailing good fortune. ...
ART WITH A DIFFERENT STROKE; Vlismas turns from comedy to canvas in his first solo exhibition.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey He made you double over with laughter, brought tears to your eyes with his jokes and has |been dubbed one of SA's funniest funny men. So it's only natural for John Vlismas to be having an art exhibition, right? Not really. But it's definitely the direction ...
Return to simplicity.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... I hope it doesn't show, but I'm writing today with a puzzled expression. I've just returned from a week's business in Europe. Having left here before they put the clocks forward for daylight saving and returned afterwards, I reckon that my life has been shortened by an hour. ...
too much car.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... MERCEDES-BENZ ML 63 AMG Price: R1 080 000. But it does come with|a six-year/120 000km graduated contribution motor plan. A lot of car, but a lot of |money, too. Acceleration: Merc says the huge 4x4 will|hit 100km/h in 5 seconds. But that's at sea level and on ...
Record votes ... but not in Pixie's favour.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... THE fifth season of Idols has proved its popularity, with more than half a million votes this week alone. Fans cast 534 908 votes - the most this season. More than 34 000 of those votes were cast in the last 30 minutes before the voting closed on Monday. It may not ...
Win a trip for two to Lidiko Lodge.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... l The Star Travel Club offers one member a two-night getaway for two sharing, including bed and breakfast at Lidiko Lodge, St Lucia. l To enter, post your details, including your Star Travel Club number and the name of the lodge to: The Marketing Dept., PO Box 1014, Joburg, 2000 ...
Reality show lifts cover of fashion mag.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey What do you get when you mix Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City with Donald Trump in The Apprentice? Running in Heels - a reality TV show exclusive to DStv's The Style Network channel. It's no secret that South Africans love ...
Racism - the elephant in the room.(Entertainment)
Apr 04, 2009 ... I have been watching that humourous TV ad for Kinky Afro cds. It starts out in the present and then flashes back to South Africa in the 70s. The one ad shows a coloured man in a terrible Speedo swimsuit being ordered off a Cape Town beach by a white police constable. I laughed - but then ...
Travel fair postponed to June.(Travel)
Apr 04, 2009 ... The World Holiday and Travel Fair (WHTF) will now take place from June 19 to 21. The decision to move the fair to June was taken after considering the possibility that the country's general elections would take place mid-April and that Indaba takes place next month, says Glynis ...
A taste of Portugal - on a street poster.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Just one Orchid from me this week - but it will outrage many. It goes to the ANC (and its ad agency, Ogilvy Joburg) for the street posters they put up in different languages, including Greek and Portuguese. Opponents may cry that this smacks of cynical opportunism but the ...
It's time for all of us to become active citizens to further our democracy.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... In his book, From Poverty to Power, Duncan Green makes an invaluable input which I suspect is tailor-made for our young democracy. Teenagers are inclined to resort to inappropriate conduct if left unsupervised. As child psychologists recommend, parents must become hands-on ...
Development is out of control.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Innes House stands at the end |of broad, tree-lined Innes Street, Observatory, against a ridge - the highest point in Joburg. The building stands as it was originally designed by Sir Herbert Baker - the focal point at the end of Innes Street - the space surrounding it ...
Suburb's dead-end streets finally get makeover; Public, private investment is helping clean up Bertram's shady image.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Thabiso Thakali Bjarne Nielsen scrambles through a thicket of razorsharp scrap metal and goes around the corner, passing through growing grass to reach his office, near a cramped and squalid house. "Welcome to Bertrams! What do I owe this visit to?" he ...
Tough lessons for teachers.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... There is always a difficult balance between protecting the rights of individuals to have their privacy observed and the right of a community to be protected from predators and criminals in its midst. This, in a nutshell, is going to be the key point for debate around the South African ...
No mercy for bad drivers.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... This time next week, South Africans will be enjoying the first of what will be a series of long weekends throughout April, as Christians across the world celebrate Easter. No sooner will we have emerged from this weekend, than we will be faced with prospect of a short week ...
Robben Island terns up the volume; Continuous cacophony marks seabird colony.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: John Yeld THE noise is deafening. "You can hear it all the way from the harbour," shouts Mario Leshoro, one of the Robben Island Museum's environmental officers. Leshoro has particular responsibility for the seabird populations on the island - like the seven ...
Baby pops out as mom pops into Jet.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... The slogan "Jet knows babies best" took on a new meaning this week when a woman gave birth to a healthy 2.7kg baby in the store's Kimberley branch. Already a mother of three other children, Maria Mvelase of Galeshewe "popped" into Jet on Tuesday afternoon to look for baby ...
US 'nutrient-packed' vitaminwater ready to make splash on local shelves.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Georgina Haupt The Americans are invading South Africa. No, they're not coming here in the shape of Hollywood propaganda, nor in super-sized form. A "nutrient-packed", "active lifestyle" brand is being endorsed by some of the biggest names in glam city - and it's coming ...
Robbers terrorise Cape's posh suburbs.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: HELEN BAMFORD State-of-the-art-security measures, armed response and large dogs have not deterred a gang of robbers terrorising households in Cape Town's Constantia and surrounding upmarket suburbs. The gang has been described as meticulous and professional ...
Obama campaign has important lessons for SA parties.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kate Lefko-Everett After last year's historic US elections, much analysis has focused on international interest in now-President Barack Obama's campaign, and its potential to impact on voting patterns in upcoming South African elections. Obama's victory has ...
Foreigners with rare skills hit by job cuts in Australia.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Anthony Mukwita Jack Mwale, 40, a Zambian citizen, had his Australian dream all wrapped up when he pursued an information technology degree down under five years ago. After completing his degree, he received a working holiday visa, the so-called 417, which ...
Government should ask Mugabe what he's doing with our money.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Let's assume you have a neighbour who has lost just about everything. He is so poor his hearth has, as the Zulus would say, become the sleeping place for the family cat. You know your neighbour's problems can be blamed on the fact that he sees the world through the bottom of the ...
Debts drive more SA men to suicide; Groups can help you get out of your financial slump.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kashiefa Ajam South Africans have received much-needed financial relief with two repo rate cuts this year but it's still not enough - more and more people are calling help lines, threatening suicide, because they can't pay their bills. Recently the World ...
Park fence stillundecided.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey Emmarentia residents are set to apply for heritage status for the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens to stop the City of Johannesburg from building a fence through the park. The Environment and Dog Group of Emmarentia (Edge) would approach the SA ...
Oprah must set her schoolgirls free; The talk-show queen is betraying her dream and failing her charges as yet another/scandal rears its head at the posh academy that she established.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Janet Smith Oprah certainly didn't appear to be in any rush to get back to her spiritual home, South Africa, to take care of dirty business at her private girls' academy this week. But she did release a statement, which found its way onto America's bitchiest gossip ...
Stalingraddefence; Judge Hlophe will fight his disciplinary case street by street, block by block ... /much like Jacob Zuma did.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: LOUISE FLANAGAN Delay, delay, delay ... and delay some more. That's Cape Judge President John Hlophe's strategy in the disciplinary case against him - and it makes a gratuity payment look like a certainty and his career prospects look better. "He's a long way ...
Glam slam as hot bods hit magazine party.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... I whisked the gorgeous Christina Storm away for a quick shot at Glamour magazine's fifth birthday bash held at Rosebank Mall's Cranks on Wednesday night. "It's my birthday, too. Yup, I'm an April Fool's baby," she announced before we knocked back a Jagermeister. We ...
Deluge of responses to pool bylaw.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey The drafT bylaw to regulate safety around private swimming pools across Joburg, which could see pool owners forking out thousands of rands on safety measures, will undergo major changes before it is finalised. And in some instances, residents ...
Winter family asks for help in finding body.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: BARBARA COLE THE FAMILY of Kerry Winter have asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to contact officials of countries near Dubai to ask them to be on alert should her body wash up on their shores. "The last thing we want is for her to wash up somewhere and ...
Guns are not for sissies or cowboys.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... The boys were well into the brandy-and-coke even before we got there for the lunchtime braai. And, by the time the sun was sinking, they were lekker fired-up. Round the bar they sat, swopping war stories and dirty jokes, oblivious of the more polite (female) company around them ....
Incorrect website address published.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... In an article about a bad-driving name-and-shame website, published in the Saturday Star on March ...
E-mail 'was from Prinsloo'.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: ZELDA VENTER Fugitive Dirk Prins-loo, or a person purporting to be him, came out of the woodwork this week after being on the run for nearly three years. Offering to return to South Africa on his terms to face his trial, he also mocked the police for not being ...
Zuma is the man - ANCYL.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... The ANC Youth League advised Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu to tell himself every hour that Jacob Zuma would be president of the country after the April 22 elections. "Once again, the ANCYL advises Archbishop Tutu to repeat every hour (even on his prayers) until the 23rd of ...
Last assets of MKB property empire set to go under the hammer.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: MELANIE PETERS The last of MKB Property Developments' empire is to go under the hammer this month. Auctioneers are calling it a treasure trove of luxury residential properties, both completed and under construction. The liquidation sale is set for April 17. ...
Unlicensed gun owners must 'sell or scrap' weapons.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Gun owners who missed the deadline to renew their licences have until the end of June to dispose of their firearms or face prosecution. All licences issued under South Africa's old firearms law will expire by the end of June. Police have declared there will be no ...
Birthday of birthdays as Masekela reflects on an amazing life.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Janet Smith The Shrine's dancefloor was alive with what felt like about a thousand people. Lost in a Lagos slum, this was a smoky, crazy go-go club that stomped sex and music. It was the kind of the 1970s spot that suited trumpeter Hugh Masekela, in Nigeria ...
Robbers posing asTelkom technicians; But company denies employees are part of crime syndicate.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey Criminals are posing as Telkom technicians to gather intelligence about security at people's homes. So far, there have been four incidents in two roads in Gallo Manor, and at least six other incidents have taken place in Melrose and Dunkeld at ...
Collapse in Zim 'blow to SA Aids efforts'.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Drug-resistant HIV resulting from the collapse of Zimbabwe's health system will undermine the success of South Africa's HIV/Aids programme, Health Minister Barbara Hogan has warned. "I am deeply concerned about the situation in Zimbabwe," Hogan told the close of the fourth SA ...
Taking him to the cleaners; Huge divorce claims an effort to reduce feelings of helplessness, expert believes.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: ZARA NICHOLSON A PSYCHOLOGIST has said that women who make lavish maintenance claims from their soon-to-be ex-husbands could be trying to maintain the identity they had through their husbands' status and wealth. He said they could also be making hefty material ...
Phishing scam ferrets out passwords.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Candice Bailey Telkom this week warned clients to be extremely vigilant as criminals are targeting their clients and defrauding them of cash or acquiring their internet user names and passwords under false pretexts. Thokozani Mvelase, of Telkom's enterprise ...
Niehaus 'around' but has no assets to pay his debts.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kashiefa Ajam Carl Niehaus, the disgraced former ANC spokesman, is unemployed and broke. His creditors - try as they may - will not recover money owed to them. Two weeks ago, the sheriff of the court claimed his belongings from a luxurious rental ...
Hanging out with Sol's A-list of the truly rich, famous and fabulous.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Therese Owen The opening of the One&Only Cape Town Resort this week was a peek into the world of the really, really rich. There were movie stars galore, South African celebrities and billionaire businessmen like Patrice Motsepe. The red carpet at ...
Sour note as renowned bass player's citizenship revoked.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: HELEN BAMFORD Musician Leon Bosch, one of the world's leading double bass players, got a rude shock when he discovered that the South African Consulate in London had revoked his citizenship, even though he was born in Cape Town. He left the country for ...
Joost is lying to make me look bad, says sex-tape stripper.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... BYLINE: Thabiso Thakali The woman featured in a sex video allegedly involving former rugby star Joost van der Westhuizen has accused him of making "false" claims to discredit her. Marilize van Emmenis, 24, has confirmed in her latest interview with Heat magazine that ...
Mama mia, turn it down please Silvio.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... A video of Queen Elizabeth II pretending to be exasperated with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at a summit reception has become a hit on YouTube. The clip from a Buckingham Palace reception for ...
Gay marriage is now legal in Iowa.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... The Iowa Supreme Court in Des Moines says the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples, making it the third US state where gay marriage is legal. The court ...
Obama rues loss of privacy, anonymity.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... US President Barack Obama has told European students that frustrations come with being president. At a meeting in Strasbourg, France, yesterday, a Hungarian student asked Obama if he regretted running for ...
'Ferrari Guy' back in trouble at home.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... A Swede who made headlines by crashing a rare Ferrari on a California highway three years ago has been arrested in his home country on suspicion of theft, assault and extortion. Stefan Eriksson was deported to Sweden ...
Naomi hits out at racism on catwalk.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... British supermodel Naomi Campbell has lashed out at what she sees as latent racism in the fashion industry, which she said gives preference to "blonde, blue-eyed models" over black women. "As a black woman, I am ...
Scandal may unseat Greek government.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... Greek lawmakers are likely to vote on Monday to probe a former minister's connection to a shipping scandal, in a move that would threaten the government's one-seat majority. An aide of ...
YOUR WEEKEND WEATHER.(News)
Apr 04, 2009 ... GAUTENG: Partly cloudy and warm. Expected UVB index: Dangerous. MPUMALANGA: Morning drizzle and fog patches on the escarpment and highveld, otherwise partly cloudy and cool. LIMPOPO: Morning drizzle and fog patches on the escarpment and the lowveld, otherwise partly ...