The Star (South Africa) back issues from January 2008:
Golden Eto'o boots himself into records.(Sports)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Tamale, Ghana - Samuel Eto'o became the leading all-time African Nations Cup scorer with 16 goals as Cameroon defeated Sudan 3-0 in Group C to finish runners-up and reach the quarterfinals. The Barcelona striker was level on 14 goals with Laurent Pokou of Ivory Coast entering ...
Egypt fluff chances as they scrape a draw.(Sports)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Kumasi - Holders Egypt eased into the quarterfinals of the African Nations Cup as Group C winners last night in spite of conceding a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Zambia. Amr Zaki scored after 15 minutes in another solid display by the defending champions, who finished with ...
There is still hope for Bafana boys; Anything can happen, says optimistic coach.(Sports)
Jan 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: jonty mark The Baba Yara Sports Stadium has come a long way since Bafana Bafana last played here at the start of the new Millennium. It is, indeed, virtually unrecognisable from the charming but dilapidated old ground where South Africa beat Ghana in the ...
China's big political challenge; The country's leaders seem reluctant to match great economic reforms with an equivalent political transformation.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Patrick Laurence Most China observers agree that its huge population of 1,3-billion people and vast size of approaching 10-million square kilometres make it a difficult country to govern. The point is reinforced when these facts are expressed differently: ...
Gambling is like an 'idiot tax'.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Clive percival It is an aberration in our society that we are inundated with information on the winners of millions at the casinos, but hear nothing of the many melancholy losers. For every one person who hits the jackpot, there are thousands who hit ...
Watch out for the telltale signs of ageing; Instead of the police, it's your doctor who tells you to slow down.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: james clarke As another year has slipped by with you wondering what the devil happened to it, I thought I'd cheer you up by passing on a few thoughts readers have about growing older. "Old," says my Kentucky correspondent, Kas Beyer, "at least for a man, is ...
CAPTIVATED BY CAPRIVI.(Verve)
Jan 02, 2008 ... The boatman picked his way through the channel in the Kavango River, carefully avoiding a pod of yawning hippos treading water on the side. Jacanas tripped over water lilies and lechwe splish-splashed across the watery banks. A crocodile slithered into the river and a fish eagle soared ...
Matric: not all bad news.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... While the 368 217 matrics across the country who passed their exams are celebrating this week we need to take an in-depth and sombre look at the standards of education in this country. The 2007 matric results revealed a number of interesting trends, both positive and negative, ...
Heed the warning.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Alarm bells should be ringing among officialdom, but so far they appear to be falling on deaf ears in the relevant provincial department. We refer to the deep concern voiced by environmentalists over the existence of a chromium-processing plant they believe is operating secretly and ...
Protection money.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Zimbabwe has been treated to a rare example of authority being challenged by a public servant. As the Reserve Bank began introducing new bank notes, a woman was arrested for possessing Z$10-billion in the new currency without explaining its source. In court it emerged that the ...
Dead or alive, it seems we're all the same to the SABC.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... I read with interest Joan Gallimore's letter "Why must SABC harass old woman?" (The Star, December 27). My domestic worker, who was widowed five years ago, brought a letter for my advice just before Christmas. It came from Munnik Basson Dagama Inc Attorneys and was ...
Appalling incident in a lovely place.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... I visited South Africa for the first time in December and find it a beautiful place with really warm people. However, I will not come again because of a harrowing experience at OR Tambo airport on December 17. I flew from Victoria Falls to Joburg and after the flight landed, the ...
Most Afghans don't see Taliban as oppressive.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Professor GA Doyle's "Separating the liberators from the terrorists" (Letters, December 28) affirms that he endorses the "one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter" maxim. Reading between the lines, however, the inescapable conclusion which has to be drawn from his ...
Tribalism blinds this Zuma supporter.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Zulumathabo Zulu's letter "Star must ensure quality reporting" (December 28) refers. Being educated and living in Canada has clearly done nothing to free him from the shackles of myopic tribalism. The only proof of the "intelligence" of Zuma's supporters he can ...
Matric colour divide is our national shame.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... It seems that every year when the matric results are published we are confronted with the same fundamental problem: the overwhelming majority of high achievers are (to put it bluntly) white! Every year, we also see the heartwarming stories of the schools in CD (currently ...
Joburg Hospital a war zone as 2008 dawns.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Louise Flanagan A teenager with a gashed face cried quietly in a corner, a drunk moaned loudly while a doctor stitched his back, and paramedics in bullet-proof vests rushed in yet another bloody and bandaged man. It was just another New Year for Johannesburg ...
Newtown party goes off without a hitch.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Paola Verouden It happens only once a year. A large, colourful crowd of dancers and singers crossed the Nelson Mandela Bridge and stopped the traffic. This year, the fourth annual Johannesburg Carnival - on New Year's Eve, was cheerful and peaceful. The 11 ...
Well-prepared cops take no chances in Hillbrow.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Laura Lopez Gonzalez Six floors up, the hallway linoleum ends in Hillbrow skyline and the new year begins with a rifle at their back. The police's grunts and curses precede them, wafting up the partially lit bloodstained staircase, mixing with the smell of ...
Hundreds left destitute after fire destroys shacks.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bhavna Sookha and Sapa More than 100 Alexandra families saw in the new year watching their possessions go up in flames. Residents watched helplessly as their shacks burnt to the ground in a fire which started just after midnight during New Year celebrations. ...
An achievable way to keep New Year's resolutions; Trish Beaver warms to the reverse psychology of focusing on not winning the Lotto or not trying to lose weight.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... This year I have made New Year's resolutions that I am determined to keep. I am an expert at making and failing New Year's resolutions and by February that peppy feeling of "get up and go" has got up and left the building. By Valentine's Day, having failed to locate, let alone ...
SPCA has its work cut out thanks to fireworks.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: TRISH BEAVER SPCA branches around Gauteng have been swamped with calls of stray and injured animals following New Year's Eve. Inspector Neil Visser from the Roodepoort SPCA said he managed only an hour's sleep due to the large number of callouts. ...
Pakistan play down concerns over Australian tour.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Karachi - Pakistan's cricket chief said on Monday that Australia's planned tour starting in March is still on despite the turmoil unleashed by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), said he believed the country would ...
Gatlin banned for four years.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Washington - Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin has been banned for four years for a 2006 positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone, The Washington Post reported on its web site on yesterday. The Post said in a split decision among three US arbitrators, two arbitrators said they ...
English football badly needs some spirits in a material world.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sue Mott Happy New Year Joey Barton, sitting in your prison cell on remand for an alleged charge of assault and affray at a McDonald's in Liverpool. What a peculiarly Dickensian start to the year it is for a man blessed with a rough and ready football talent ...
Old Firm derby called off as mark of respect.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Glasgow - Today's Old Firm clash between Celtic and Rangers has been postponed as a mark of respect following the death last weekend of Motherwell captain Phil O'Donnell, the Scottish Premier League (SPL) announced on Monday. "These are never easy decisions. But we recognise ...
Meet Bara's first New Year baby.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kanina Foss and Bhavna Sookha She sighs and scrunches up her face, furls and unfurls her tiny fingers, sucks on a red pinkie and squints briefly out at the world. Then she closes her eyes again and yawns. It's exhausting being a celebrity, especially when you ...
Women's tennis is clean, claim young stars.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: John Weaver Tennis stars Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic insisted here yesterday the women's game is clean as the world's elite players gear up for the first Grand Slam of the year in Australia. Rumours of match-fixing and concerns over unusual betting ...
Mbeki reflects on the gains and pains of democracy; New Year message reminds South Africans to keep focused on goal of a better life for all.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... The year ahead will present South Africa with new tasks and challenges arising from decisions adopted at the recent 52nd national conference of the ruling ANC, President Thabo Mbeki said in his New Year's message. South Africans should "bear in mind the national goal our ...
Pressure to share Jerusalem.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Jerusalem - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday signalled that Israel might have no choice but to share Jerusalem with the Palestinians in a peace deal, citing international pressure for compromise over the holy city. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and annexed it in a ...
Aircraft crashes, killing four.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL A light aircraft has crashed into the Swartberg mountains near Oudtshoorn, killing all four occupants. Superintendent Ntobeko Mangqwengqwe said three women and a man died in yesterday's crash. They had not yet been identified. He said ...
McKenzie mystery deepens; South Africa remain silent over whether the Lions batsman will replace Gibbs.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Telford Vice Neil McKenzie is an easygoing sort of bloke, which is just as well considering the conspiracy theories that are swirling around him like the winds that roam Table Mountain. McKenzie has been drafted into the South African squad, ostensibly as a ...
Benazir had dossier on poll rigging.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Islamabad - On the day she was killed, Benazir Bhutto was planning to give two US lawmakers a 160-page dossier accusing the government of rigging upcoming elections. This was stated yesterday by one of the former Pakistan leader's aides as calls for an international probe into ...
Cops want to silence me - Van Heerden.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY A former Western Cape police commissioner and now head of a private investigative firm at the heart of the Cape Town city council spy saga has been arrested. But Neil van Heerden (55) yesterday said the police had acted to "shut his mouth" and ...
Revamped joint force in Darfur faces same prospect of failure.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Hans Pienaar A full United Nations battalion of South African troops was among African Union troops handed over to a new joint AU-United Nations force in Darfur, Sudan, yesterday. But critics fear the new force faces the same prospect of failure as the old one. ...
Pressure to share Jerusalem.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Jerusalem - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday signalled that Israel might have no choice but to share Jerusalem with the Palestinians in a peace deal, citing international pressure for compromise over the holy city. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and annexed it in a ...
Hijackers toss wife from car, put husband in boot.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Solly Maphumulo|and Bhavna Sookha A woman was seriously injured when she was thrown from a hijacked car - while the robbers fled with her husband stuffed in the boot. ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak said the 32-year-old passenger and her husband had been ...
Joburg Hospital a war zone as 2008 dawns; Lots of chaos, lots of blood ... but no deaths reported.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Louise Flanagan A teenager with a gashed face cried quietly in a corner, a drunk moaned loudly while a doctor stitched his back and paramedics in bullet-proof vests rushed in yet another bloody and bandaged man. It was just another New Year for Johannesburg ...
Pressure to share Jerusalem.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Jerusalem - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday signalled that Israel might have no choice but to share Jerusalem with the Palestinians in a peace deal, citing international pressure for compromise over the holy city. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and annexed it in a ...
Old Firm derby called off as mark of respect.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Glasgow - Today's Old Firm clash between Celtic and Rangers has been postponed as a mark of respect following the death last weekend of Motherwell captain Phil |O'Donnell, the Scottish |Premier League (SPL) announced on Monday. "These are never easy decisions. But we recognise ...
beaches packed on new year's day.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: TROY MARTENS and IRENE KUPPEN Thousands of revellers ushered in 2008 on beaches and parks across KwaZulu Natal in what officials said were the safest celebrations yet. As always, the focus remained on Durban's beaches. Yesterday, authorities ...
Sinclair's the man for 2007.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Hong Kong - Kevin Sinclair, Hong Kong's best-known Western journalist, who died of cancer last week, was today named as the person of the year in an annual poll. Sinclair (65) beat government Chief Executive Donald Tsang and pro-democracy champion Anson Chan to the title in a poll by the ...
Derby called offas mark of respect.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Glasgow - Today's Old Firm clash between Celtic and Rangers has been postponed as a mark of respect following the death last weekend of Motherwell captain Phil |O'Donnell, the Scottish |Premier League (SPL) announced on Monday. "These are never easy decisions. But we recognise ...
Pakistan play down concerns over Aussie tour.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Karachi - Pakistan's cricket chief said on Monday that Australia's planned tour starting in March is still on despite the turmoil |unleashed by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), said he believed the country would ...
Gatlin banned for four years.(Sports)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Washington - Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin has been banned for four years for a 2006 positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone, The Washington Post reported on its web site on yesterday. The Post said in a split decision among three US arbitrators, two arbitrators said they ...
My wish for the new year is not to win the lottery.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: trish beaver This year I have made New Year's resolutions that I am determined to keep. I am an expert at making and failing to stick to New Year's resolutions. By Valentine's Day, having failed to locate, let alone snag, |a rich and generous husband, I'm ...
Hijack wife thrown into streetHusband locked in boot in late-night attack.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: Solly Maphumulo|and Bhavna Sookha A woman was seriously injured when she was thrown from a hijacked car - while the robbers fled with her husband stuffed in the boot. ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak said the 32-year-old passenger and her husband had been ...
NPA lines up some big guns to sink Jacob Zuma; State insists decision to prosecute was based on strong evidence and not on pressure from the ANC president's political rivals.(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... The state has identified a list of 218 witnesses it intends calling to testify in its case against ANC president Jacob Zuma in August. Attached to the indictment, filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday, the list of witnesses includes Independent Democrats leader ...
I'm the One!(News)
Jan 02, 2008 ... Des Moines, Iowa - On the eve of the long-awaited first voting in 2008 for White House candidates, the top hopefuls zigzagged across Iowa today to plead for every last vote. The longest, most expensive presidential race officially kicks off at the fabled Iowa caucuses tomorrow, ...
Regulated sex trade a must; There has to be a way of managing street prostitution, as it's something that will always /be with us.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: rich mkhondo It is called the world's oldest profession, a confirmation of the age-old belief that being sexually available and submissive to men was the oldest form of survival for women. As the world's oldest profession, prostitution is presented as an ...
Party dies down for retailers as rate rises bite.(Business Report)
Jan 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins|Cape Town First to go were houses and cars, followed by furniture. But as expected, food sales, because people need to eat, held up. Supermarket sales grew at a healthy rate, suggesting the mass market was buying up when it came to the little things, even if ...
A hero at home.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Jan 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sally Scott Ever had a gun put to your head. Or your child's head? A few years ago the very thought of anyone coming near me with a gun would have been pretty much within the realms of the ridiculous. That sort of thing happened to other people. But, as things ...
We need to know facts on death penalty.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... If a middle-aged Jew, walking to his Joburg synagogue one Saturday, can be murdered for his bag containing nothing but his prayer shawl, and a law professor walking down a leafy road in Rondebosch is murdered for his bag, there must be something hopelessly dysfunctional in South Africa. ...
The new bullies on our roads.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: PULE MAKGALE There is a new breed of loose-cannon "taxi driver" running riot on our roads. What sets them apart from the average taxi driver is that they are not underpaid, get generous benefits that often come with formal employment, and work according to ...
DA wrongly labelled a right-wing party.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... It isn't surprising that, given the result of the ANC's Polokwane conference, many people are looking elsewhere for a political home. What is disturbing, however, is the seemingly widely held perception - in the letters pages of The Star at least - of the Democratic Alliance as ...
Ice breakers.(Verve)
Jan 03, 2008 ... 1 litre water 1kg castor sugar Combine water and sugar in a heavy-based saucepan and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil and remove from heat. Cool. Will keep in fridge for up to two weeks. Serves 4 60ml vodka ...
Debt weighs on global growth.(Business Report)
Jan 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst |Johannesburg Slowing global growth and the potential effect of bad debt on banks' balance sheets cast a shadow over financial markets yesterday. But surging commodity prices cushioned the local stock market and the JSE all share index, which ...
A sombre tragedy for all of Africa.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... Five years ago, close to a million people watched as Mwai Kibaki was inaugurated as president of Kenya in Nairobi's Uhuru Park. Daniel arap Moi, the authoritarian strongman who had ruled for a quarter of a century, was gone, his hand-picked successor roundly defeated. A nation ...
Ease the squeeze.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... South African cities should be closely following Italian moves to curb traffic congestion and consequent pollution. Milan is leading the trend in Europe by introducing a pollution levy on drivers entering its inner city. It's a move long overdue, because 86 000 vehicles a day jam into the ...
Nothing to fear but beer.(Sports)
Jan 03, 2008 ... At around lunchtime on January 1 those of you who like a drink or two would have made a promise never to drink again. Or, at least, to give up the sauce for the month of January. Here's a suggestion to do your body and soul a power of good. Enter the Pick n Pay The Star Fast One ...
Indians announce venues for SA Tests.(Sports)
Jan 03, 2008 ... Mumbai - South Africa will play their three Tests in Ahmedabad, Kanpur and Chennai on their|India tour in March and April, the Indian cricket board said in a statement yesterday. Top-ranked Australia tour in October and November for four Tests to be played in Bangalore, Nagpur, New Delhi ...
Legal process against Zuma must go ahead; To withdraw the case would destroy all that is sacred and moral in SA.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: max du preez Jacob Zuma's election as ANC president has had no impact on investor confidence, the worth of the South African currency or on the racial and ethnic equilibrium in the country. But this can change drastically if the newly elected ANC leadership makes the ...
English not just a school subject - it's a life skill.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... The matric results are out again and have been followed by the annual postmortem. As usual, everyone has had their say, everyone but the teacher in the classroom. Here is one who dares raise his hand. Will I be given a second? I am a teacher with more than 10 years' ...
No to counting by machines.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... I watched with interest as Jacob Zuma's supporters at |the Polokwane conference vehemently objected to the use of electronic vote-counting. They rekindled my long-held suspicion that the ANC has been rigging elections, especially at the Independent Electoral Commission computers ...
Hope for commodities as Asia relies less on the US market.(Business Report)
Jan 03, 2008 ... Asian stock markets fell yesterday - the first trading session of the year - on fears that slowing demand from the US would drag down the region's growth prospects. However, the JSE held its own due to high commodity prices, as global investors remained confident that Asian demand for ...
Birds of a feather flocking to SA; Birding routes are teaching the locals to appreciate the environment and how to better look after it. And Leon Marshall says there are other advantages. Pictures by Etienne Rothbart.(News)
Jan 03, 2008 ... Visitors to bird-rich Muzi Pan on the road between Mkuze Nature Reserve and isiMangaliso (as the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park is now known) used to be horrified at the sight of village youngsters snaring beautiful waders like jacana and happily carrying them off dangling from the head. ...