The Star (South Africa) back issues from July 2006:
Africa's top new models face-off in catwalk challenge.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Helen Herimbi Eyes change colour, claws come out and their true nature is revealed. No, it's not another episode of Survivor, it's merely catwalk queens vying for an opportunity to be crowned the winner of Nokia Face Of Africa 2006. Besides, the only purrs that will be ...
Young teens play the fame game.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Helen Herimbi The braces era is upon us. Between the ages of 10 and 16, it is not uncommon to be greeted by mouths full of braces. SABC2 has taken being an adolescent to a whole new level, by introducing a reality TV show that involves five teenage girls being ...
Ugliness in the beautiful game.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sally Scott Score, a co-production between SABC2 (Curious Pictures) and Swedish National Television, starts this Friday on SABC2. The new drama series tells of two teen soccer players who meet in Gottenburg at the annual world cup for young players held in the ...
Find yourself in a fix? Then Samm's your man.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Bongani Mdagane When days are dark friends are few, so goes a popular phrase. But not when the Let's Fix It crew are around. This 26-episode reality series, which entered its second season this year, is aimed at helping people in need. The show has ...
Grim tale of doomed Flight 93.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Sally Scott On September 11 2001, actor Khalid Abdalla was in Paris in a taxi, having just visited his ailing father who was recovering in hospital from a liver transplant. News of the "9/11" attacks was trickling through on the taxi's radio and as he ...
Kids get new (K) space to call their own.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Kim Clayton-Millar For almost two decades KTV, M-Net's children's entertainment component, has delighted pre-teen, teens and a lot of grateful parents who simply could not have done without this welcome diversion. And now, from today, KTV is not only getting ...
Could Ridge's perfect world be crumbling?(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2006 ... The next time you're having a giggle at the people who watch - and make - soapies, consider that SABC1's The Bold and the Beautiful is viewed by over 450-million people in 98 countries and is claimed to be the most watched show in the world (though detractors say CSI Miami may have the ...
Cops favour my white Christian wife, says father.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi A Muslim man is crying foul to the authorities, ranging from the police to the politicians, saying they have failed him by refusing to enforce a court order compelling his ex-wife to allow him access to their two young daughters. Shameel ...
Top seeds.(Verve)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Makes 2 loaves 6 x 250ml nutty wheat flour 500ml bran 15ml brown sugar 20ml salt 1 sachet instant yeast 800 - 900ml warm water 30ml honey 30ml oil 60ml sunflower seeds 60ml ...
Laughter may boost success rate of fertility treatment.(Verve)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Steve Connor Making women laugh by "medical clowning" has been found to boost the chances of success during fertility treatment, in a study that appears to prove the therapeutic powers of humour. Doctors in Israel have literally sent in the clowns to try to ...
It's official: money doesn't buy happiness.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Jamie Talan A psychologist at Stony Brook University, collaborating with scientists at other institutions, has discovered what philosophers have long known: Money doesn't make people happier. Yet the perception that it does continues to motivate people to ...
Surgical robots hold a promise of no scars; High-tech tools make operations safer and faster.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Shari Roan The doctor sits in a darkened corner of an operating room about 3m from the gurney where his patient lies. His surgical team is staring at several large, flat-screen video monitors hanging from the ceiling. On screen is a colon, shiny and pink. The ...
'My little boy is going back home'; US dad wins son back after mom brought him to SA 'on holiday' and wouldn't return.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Phomello Molwedi A man who put his life on hold so that he could fight a custody battle for his 3-year-old son has won in the Pretoria High Court. Hal Berger (46), of Los Angeles in the US, arrived in South Africa six weeks ago because his wife would not allow ...
Smokers must pay more.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... London - Many hospital doctors believe smokers and drinkers should pay if they need surgery because of their habits, research has revealed. Some also think obese patients should not be given weight-loss drugs or joint surgery for free, a survey of hundreds of British medics ...
SA wine comes to London's underground.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Elizma Nolte London - South African wines are being promoted on the London underground with large billboard posters plastered over 140 tube sites. South Africa's first outdoor wine media campaign, launched by Wines of SA (Wosa) last week, is aimed at ...
Africa culture the foundation of all our civilisations.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... The most important part of a structure is the foundation, even though it remains hidden once the building is complete. KC Motshabi (The Star June 19) should realise that the fact that some African languages and traditions are now less practised, does not mean they are being ...
Answers must be given for botched job.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... It is with great sadness, and rage, that I write this. The reports in The Star of the deaths of four policemen, and the statement by Captain Dennis Adriao of the SAPS, command comment. If things had been done "by the book", the wrong book was used - and if it was the "right ...
Let cops' deaths not have been in vain.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... The tragic killing of four policemen in the line of duty in Jeppestown over the weekend shows up several serious shortcomings in the fight against crime, which must be urgently addressed. The first failure is the relaxed attitude by the politicians in charge of policing, which ...
Far from opposing the Gautrain, Cosatu bitter for losing contract.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... W atching The Big Question on SABC about whether the Gautrain is a waste of money, I was shocked when Gauteng Transport MEC Ignatius Jacobs asked Zwelinzima Vavi, Cosatu's general secretary, why Cosatu's business unit had tendered for the Gautrain if they were opposed to the project. ...
Financial institutions feel pressure of consumer dynamics.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Tonny Mafu Johannesburg - South Africa's financial institutions face a potentially huge conundrum: the likelihood of two population sets, an aging affluent group and one that would be dying young, both of which would need to be provided for in the range of financial ...
Thanks, angels with brooms.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: sheree russouw I never knew that my guardian angel would be 10 years old. Or that I would meet him through a broken car window in Mamelodi. I met Neo after thieves had smashed a window of our company car to steal my cellphone and jacket. As I started to remove ...
Emerging markets back on track after big weekly gain.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: ETHEL HAZELHURST Johannesburg - Emerging markets made their biggest weekly gain since 2002 on Friday. The Morgan Stanley Capital International emerging markets index rose 3.32 percent to 747.545 on Friday for a fifth day of gains. The relief came ...
Traffic parts like the Red Sea did for Moses; London has no vehicle-flattened people, and they don't jaywalk.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: james clarke Early one sunny Sunday morning, our six-man Tour de Farce cycling team crossed the Thames bridge from Eton into Windsor, and rode past the 1 000-year-old Castle - the world's largest inhabited fortress. The Royal Standard was not flying, so we ...
PetroSA tackles fuel plant speculation.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... State oil and gas producer PetroSA, which produces fuel from gas, said last week it was not involved in a coal-to-liquids fuel plant that was being investigated by Total SA's coal unit and BHP Billiton. PetroSA spokesperson Letebele Masemola-Jones said: "Extracting gas by ...
Food retailers to cash in on inflation.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Cape Town - Rising food inflation would benefit the supermarket groups, allowing them to achieve greater margins on food products, industry experts have said. Data released by Statistics SA last Wednesday showed that food inflation was ...
Grindrod subsidiary orders two new bunker fuel barges.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: SAMANTHA ENSLIN Durban - Grindrod, the shipping and logistics group, will diversify into the delivery of bunker fuel supplies by barge to ships in port through its black economic empowerment venture, Southern Tankers. Grindrod's product tanker subsidiary, ...
Law could restore the customer as king; No more long-term contracts you can't get out of and no more dodgy mail-order marketing ploys. At least, that's what we can look forward to if the draft Consumer Protection Bill goes through, writes Wendy Knowler.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Depending on which side of the business fence you sit, the proposed new law is either cause for celebration, or utterly unworkable and an extreme infringement on free enterprise. Current consumer protection in South Africa sits in various bits of legislation, and there are huge ...
Fifa's crusade against racism.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... The 2006 World Cup will be remembered many years down the line for the fact that overwhelming favourites Brazil were knocked out in the quarterfinals by an unfancied France. It will also go down in history for the long overdue stance stance that he world football governing body, ...
Winter of death.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... It is the season for initiation schools, and it is also the time when young men die due to botched circumcisions at the hands of fly-by-night surgeons . A provincial health department spokesperson in the Eastern Cape said that since the start of the mid-year circumcision season, ...
Working late, I stumbled on Grocott's-gate; But the spooks sneaking around the office weren't government employees.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: JONATHAN ANCER I was in the office, working late. Okay, maybe I was just playing Tetris. I heard a noise. I ignored it. I heard it again. It didn't sound like the usual late-night noises of the building groaning or the wind howling. It sounded like someone scurrying ...
Transforming, we forget our minds; Issues such as the who and what of our knowledge production sector remain largely ignored.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: EDDY MALOKA The Native Club conference has sparked off an interesting public debate which touches, on the one hand, on the substance of our country's transition from apartheid to, on the other, how the historically disadvantaged should organise themselves to support ...
Firms embrace BEE - KPMG.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: RONNIE MORRIS Cape Town - A survey by KPMG, the professional services firm, on black economic empowerment (BEE) has found that the majority of companies embraced empowerment as part of their business strategy. Sandile Hlophe, associate director and head of BEE ...
Vukile expects to pass on savings of securitisation to unitholders.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria - Vukile, the listed property loan stock company, is optimistic that the favourable trading conditions and anticipated savings in debt costs generated by its securitisation project should reflect positively in the distributions for the 12 months to ...
Africa stumbles in race for oil engineering talent.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: William Maclean Algiers - Africa, an increasing supplier of global energy, may be unable to expand its output as fast as expected in the coming years because of a shortage of industry skills. Inadequate schools and poverty in Africa mean the continent is ...
Markets cheer what Bernanke didn't say.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, didn't say anything cheering on Thursday - but financial markets cheered up. The reason for their fresh take on life, after weeks of jitters, was what he didn't say when he raised the key lending rate by 0.25 percentage points to ...
Trade deficit balloons to R7bn.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: THABANG MOKOPANELE and Reuters Johannesburg - Pressure mounted on the rand and interest rates on Friday with the release of shocking trade data, which showed that rampant consumer demand and high oil prices had pushed imports 30 percent higher in May than they were in ...
Restructured Spectrum acquires control of Impson Freight.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: NEESA MOODLEY Durban - Spectrum Shipping announced the multimillion-rand acquisition of national customs clearing and forwarding logistics business Impson Freight on Friday. The deal comes after Spectrum has successfully moved from a clearing forwarding house ...
Unit trust investors manage to snooze without losing.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Ian Woodley Crisis management is supposed to be one of the most challenging of corporate disciplines, but I'm no longer so sure. If there's a crisis, why can't you just sleep through it? The question is prompted by the behaviour over the past six weeks of the ...
Suspect list grows as facts emerge on airport heist; Millions in foreign currency still missing.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Joseph Makua Seven suspects have been added since an original 10 were arrested over one of the country's biggest and most brazen robberies. On March 25 at least 25 heavily armed robbers stripped an SAA cargo plane of R74-million in foreign currency at ...
Women dominate as mom (26) scoops two metro police awards.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Linda Mbongwa After six months of intensive training, Thulisile Jwara has proved that to be a police officer one not only needs guts, but brains too. The 26-year-old single mother was on Friday named best overall student and best academic student during the ...
Mvela directors sell shares to finance debt.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Three directors of mining group Mvelaphanda Resources sold shares worth a combined R50 million last week and also exercised options to buy shares worth R13.4 million. Chairman and empowerment icon Tokyo Sexwale sold shares worth R26 million, while Mark Willcox and Mikki Xayiya ...
New head of dti spells out agency challenges.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... The biggest challenge facing the department of trade and industry (dti) was to harmonise the many agencies within the department to make sure that they worked seamlessly, newly appointed director-general Tshediso Matona said at the weekend. The dti has been criticised for ...
Crazy Store on track for R1bn sales.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Cape Town - Novelty discount retailer Crazy Store said it had grown turnover in the past 12 months by as much as 35 percent but did not state what that turnover was. The unlisted 130-store chain, which sells party accessories, unusual gifts, toys ...
I am embodiment of biblical prophecy, says killer.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi The woman who masterminded the murder of her grandfather and aunt says she doesn't understand why God chose her to become a living example of the Bible's Book of Revelation, where it is predicted that children will be involved in murders. ...
Mozambique reforms currency.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Mozambique lopped three zeros off the end of its currency, the metical, on Saturday, to make it more manageable ....
FDI does nothing for development, report concludes.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Margaret Legum "In the 1990s foreign direct investment (FDI) came to be seen as a miracle drug - a jumpstart to economic growth and sustainable industrial development, especially in developing countries. Policies to attract FDI became the centrepiece of national ...
Dovish Bernanke and strong gold price give local stocks a boost.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: From Reuters Johannesburg - Gold stocks led the bourse more than 2 percent higher on Friday on renewed interest in bullion, while the rest of the market rose on dovish comments from the US Federal Reserve, traders said. "But we need to be careful on these ...
Public outrage may cap executive pay if rules don't.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... The area of executive remuneration, particularly that accruing to senior executives, remains fertile ground for discussion and debate. In the past I have added my voice to the cause for alignment of the interests of executives with those of shareholders. In furtherance of this ...
Lions need more grunt to get away from the bottom of the log.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen The Lions don't have the kind of experience the likes of the Blue Bulls can call on or the game-time together as a unit to be a force right now, but they're a team with plenty of potential and will, according to their coach, come good. ...
Airbus's wires are formidably tangled, but it expects to get the A380 off the ground.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Tim Hepher Toulouse, France - Three technicians crouched in the shell of an Airbus A380 look up and reply "Guten Tag!" to a greeting of "Bonjour!" and go back to their diagrams. The technicians are among dozens of extra specialists flown in from Hamburg to ...
Harare prisoners come home.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Barely 24 hours after he was released from a 19-year Zimbabwean prison hell, apartheid-era spy Michael Smith watched France beat Brazil - and loved it. "I'm so glad I was able to see that game," he told The Star at Joburg International Airport ...
Harare's economy 'to shrink 4.7%'.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Zimbabwe's economy was expected to shrink 4.7 percent this year, the Zimbabwe Standard reported yesterday, citing an International Monetary Fund study. ...
Michaels agrees to $6bn buyout.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Michaels Stores, the biggest US arts and crafts retailer, on Friday agreed to a $6 billion (R43 billion) buyout by Bain Capital and Blackstone Group in the largest retail acquisition in more than a year. Bain and Blackstone would pay $44 a share, ...
Forgeard may quit in EADS shake-up.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) co-chief executive Noel Forgeard might quit as early as this week, the Sunday Telegraph reported. EADS shareholders DaimlerChrysler and Lagardere have a "preliminary understanding" on Forgeard's departure. That may also ...
Apartheid law may be used at ports.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: SAMANTHA ENSLIN Durban - The government is weighing up invoking apartheid legislation, the National Key Points Act of 1980, to tighten security at South Africa's seven ports to address concerns ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup. Nozipho Sithole, the general ...
WTO states ask Lamy to broker a deal after crisis.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Richard Waddington and Sophie Walker Geneva - World Trade Organisation (WTO) states asked chief Pascal Lamy on Saturday to try and broker a deal after failing yet again to break a deadlock in global free trade negotiations. Insisting the WTO's Doha round was ...
Asmal will chair new council for wine industry.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: RONNIE MORRIS Cape Town - Negotiations, sometimes lasting until the small hours of the morning; stalemates; tension; trade-offs; and compromises conveyed by SMS at 3am all characterised the formation of the SA Wine Industry Council (Sawic), which was announced in ...
Cricket.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Fourth Test Match-Day three West Indies v India Kingston, Jamaica India first innings 200 West Indies first innings 103 India second innings W Jaffer c sub b Taylor 1 V Sehwag lbw b Taylor 4 ...
Adcorp's prime focus on staff.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Adcorp Holdings will focus all its energies on the group's successful staffing division after selling its communications division to senior management and staff for about R13 million. Chief ...
ISA sells 32.5% stake to BEE group.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Information technology group ISA Holdings said on Friday it had sold 32.5 percent of its shares to black economic empowerment (BEE) company Viewcrest Trading. The deal involves the issue of 62 592 593 new shares ...
Vodafone calls talk to buy Telkom complete speculation.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: From Bloomberg and Reuters Johannesburg - Vodafone Group, the world's biggest cellular company, said yesterday that a newspaper report claiming it might be in talks to buy Telkom, the fixed-line provider, was "complete speculation". The Business Times ...
Young stars split with Els.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Grant Winter Branden Grace (18), the talented Southern Cape teenage golfer who beat a powerful international line-up to win the SA Amateur strokeplay title earlier this year, has been axed from the Ernie Els Foundation. And Monique Smit (15), also a very ...
Four court cases that could stop Gautrain going full-steam ahead.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox Despite initial construction work having started on the Gautrain, there are at least still four court cases that Gauteng province and preferred bidders Bombela have to fight. However, Gautrain project leader Jack van der Merwe believes these will not ...
Lamy races for breakthrough in trade talks.(Business Report)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Richard Waddington Geneva - World Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Pascal Lamy, known for his love of long-distance running, will need sprinter-like speed if he is to get a breakthrough in snarled global free trade talks in the month or so that he has been given. ...
Death of 13 teachers still haunts truck driver.(News)
Jul 03, 2006 ... BYLINE: Poloko Tau Mothusi Mohatlhe's eyes have sunk deep into their sockets. He can't sleep because visions of the crash that killed 13 teachers keep replaying in his mind. Mohatlhe (50) is the driver of the truck that collided with the minibus in which 14 teachers ...