The Star (South Africa) back issues from February 2008:
Court is out on whether utility can be sued.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ronnie Morris |Cape Town Consumers who suffered financial losses during electricity blackouts could not sue Eskom for damages unless they had a direct contract with the utility, Grant Ford, a director of the law firm Hofmeyr, said recently. Any legal entity, ...
Eskom spreads net wide for staff.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Samantha Enslin-Payne|Durban Eskom has identified 4 500 people it could employ and is recruiting internationally to plug the skills gap for its capital expansion programme. Steve Lennon, Eskom's managing director of resources and strategy, told Business ...
Not our fault, but we pay.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: roland solomon How noble of the government to admit for once that they messed up over Eskom. But instead of compensating us for their mismanagement, the burden and costs of power rationing, converting appliances to gas or solar heating, etc, will fall on our ...
Overhaul SA's education.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Education is surely everybody's favourite gift to their children. In an ideal world children go singing to school, knowing a treasure chest of knowledge and new experiences await them. Anyone who has had the privilege, or misfortune, as the case may be, to attend an old-style ...
Cut power exports to solve crisis - DA, union.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Donwald Pressly |Cape Town South Africa supplies about 6 percent of its energy to southern African states at about a quarter of the price of the local residential rate amid a power crisis. The Democratic Alliance and the trade union Solidarity have proposed ...
He acts, sings and can talk up a storm.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kgomotso Moncho US artist Henry Rollins (47) does not write jokes like stand-up comedians. He doesn't write his material like a typical poet, but put him on stage and he engages you like a comedian and a spoken word artist put together. For this reason, SA ...
Those critters won't go down without fight; When it's mango time, you can't have your dignity and eat it.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: james clarke As we are deep into the mango season| (and, once again, I am in big trouble| for staining yet another shirt with | mango juice) I thought it time to discuss, with consenting adults, whether there is a secret to eating a mango with dignity. In my ...
Govt got priorities wrong.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Your editorial on Monday January 28 pays tribute to the SA Police Service on their national day while bemoaning their failure to effectively deal with crime. With figures of 50 murders a day and over 100 children murdered a year in the Western Cape alone, the police need a ...
Frothy as a bridesmaid dress.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Theresa Smith 27 Dresses Director: Anne Fletcher Cast: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Ed Burns, Malin Akerman Classification: 10 L Running time: 111 min Rating: HHHII Katherine Heigl has actually been ...
Frasier's wit dissolved to toilet humour in new show.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Having never quite understood all the hype surrounding Everybody Loves Raymond, I had no real regard for the show. So when I learnt that Patricia Heaton (who played Ray's wife) would be headlining a new sitcom, I offered little more than a shrug. After watching her in action ...
Four Weddings still the best of screen nuptials.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Theresa Smith Anyone who comes up with a list of really good wedding films cannot help but think of Four Weddings and a Funeral. Not only did this film introduce us to Hugh Grant's floppy hairstyle and re-introduce an entire generation to the sadness that is WH Auden, ...
Sorry seems to be the hardest word.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... In his Oscar nominated original score for Atonement - Dario Ma-|rianelli's uses the sound of a typewriter to literally underscore the mood in the opening scenes. Initially innocuous enough, it soon adds an air of clacking menace. Words and their meaning, interpretation and perspective come ...
Keira's pliable balancing act.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Geoffrey Macnab 'She walked into the audition room and oozed youthful vitality and confidence much like the character I wanted her to play. She was a delight to work with from start to finish and, from what I know, has remained very grounded, much like she was then," the ...
Fish industry left high and dry by outages.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ronnie Morris |Cape Town Oceana, the country's largest fishing company, had to dump fish and french fries at some of its operations, including its cold storage facilities, because of the electricity cuts, chief executive Andrew Marshall said this week. ...
Ireland seek to ease World Cup pain.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Ireland's rugby men should have a banner with the words "Unfinished Business" in front of their faces. Their abysmal displays at the Rugby World Cup last October have cast a pall over the game in their country ever since. Tipped as potential semifinalists by judges ...
Scotland have nothing to fear - Hadden.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Spring is still a few weeks away in the northern hemisphere, but there have been distinct signs of life in Scottish rugby. Edinburgh, under former England coach Andy Robinson, put powerful English club Leicester out of the Heineken Cup by beating them in Scotland, and Glasgow, ...
South Africa will be a lesser team without you.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... The emotional farewell given to Shaun by the Port Elizabeth crowd at the end of the ODI on Sunday was fitting and brilliant to see. I am sure the response will be the same in the remaining matches of the series. I know that the time to leave a party is while you are still having ...
Heigl hitched and in heaven.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lara de Matos She may be suffering from a serious case of "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" syndrome in 27 Dresses, but in real life, Katherine Heigl has already long since found her Prince Charming. The actress married musician Josh Kelley on December 23, in a ...
LOVE /ACROSS CONTINENTS.(Verve)
Feb 01, 2008 ... So it was with Karin and Chris when they met in Canada, after corresponding online every day for months - she from Joburg and he from Montreal. "We knew each other already. When I saw Karin at the airport, it was like: 'There you are!' We gave each other a big hug, like old ...
Oscar-winning 'Crash' for TV.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Steve Gorman The racially charged drama that won the Academy Award for Best Film of 2005, Crash, comes to the small screen later this year as a television series for the Starz network, the pay cable channel said this week. The film's director, co-writer and ...
Transnet's new electric trains need a jump-start.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Samantha Enslin-Payne |Durban New electric locomotives that Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has ordered could be lying idle unless Eskom guarantees power to critical railway lines. TFR - formerly known as Spoornet - has ordered 192 new locomotives, of which 142 ...
J-Lo's twins are named.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Jennifer Lopez plans to name her unborn twins Max and Emme. The Do It Well singer and her husband Marc Anthony are said to have chosen names for their son and daughter after J-Lo's mother Guadalupe was seen buying engraved gold ...
It's diet shakes for heavy'SlimShady'.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Eminem is set to become an ambassador for Slim-Fast. The controversial rap star, famously known as "Slim Shady", has piled on weight recently and allegedly tops the scales at over 90kg. He has now been approached by the weight-loss food and drink manufacturer, famous for its ...
Animal instincts.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Christina Ricci was sexually assaulted by a chimpanzee on the set of her latest movie. The actress, revealed Chim Chim grabbed her left breast while she was filming Penelope. Christina, who plays a woman ...
Kate: Matt's a good dad!(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Kate Hudson insists Matthew McConaughey will make a great father, despite being a party animal. The Fools Gold actress is adamant her co-star - whose girlfriend ...
Trying for the right Chemical.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Lily Allen wants to try for another baby following her miscarriage. The Smile singer, who was devastated earlier this month after losing her first child with ...
The big joys of mother nature.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Nicole Kidman says the best thing about pregnancy is having bigger breasts. The slim star - who expects her first child with husband Keith Urban - has always wanted a more curvy figure and can't wait for her modest chest ...
Ostrich product exports may face challenge.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ronnie Morris|Cape Town South African ostrich producers, the biggest exporters of ostrich meat and leather to the EU and other markets, could face tough competition in the future from Brazil and China, Francois de Wet, the chief executive of Mosstrich, the world's ...
Reserve Bank gets it right.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Yesterday's unanimous decision by Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni and the monetary policy committee not to raise interest rates - the first time since June 2006 that the committee has made this call - was a welcome relief for beleaguered homeowners and businesses. After all, ...
A dead dodo?(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... At the African Union summit in Addis Ababa| yesterday, President Thabo Mbeki was due| to report back to his peers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on the progress of his mediation in Zimbabwe. It was the SADC which gave him the mediation mandate last March ...
Lightening the load.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... This is not a free advertisement. It is a pat on the back of one of the country's large retailers for action to help ease the electricity crisis. The decision by Pick n Pay to sell all its energy-saving light bulbs at cost must inevitably have a tangible result. As ...
Clearance certificate causing a cash crisis.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... n Gracious Ncanywa writes: I am requesting that the Joburg metro be persuaded to speed up the process of issuing property transfer clearances. I am of the view that people who enter into these transactions do so because of either economic hardships or to get economic advantage ....
More power cuts as industry battles.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Louise Flanagan Load shedding continued yesterday, and more was due today. Eskom said it lost more generating units on Wednesday afternoon and still had problems due to wet coal. "The capacity shortage remains at approximately 4 000MW, which was ...
Rodrigues in bid to appeal her conviction; She was found guilty of hiring hitmen to kill her lover's child.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Dina Rodrigues has begged for the chance to challenge her conviction and life sentence for the murder of six-month-old Jordan-Leigh Norton. And, within the next two weeks, she will find out if she has it. Two Supreme Court of Appeal judges - who ...
Tighthead headache for Eloff.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen Good tighthead props are as scarce as South Africa's |current electricity supply and without them no team can expect to dominate on the rugby field, let alone at scrum time. For Lions Super 14 coach Eugene Eloff finding a new ...
Polly a truly class act; Shaun Pollock has been a faithful servant of South African cricket for well over a decade.He plays his final match for his country in the fifth ODI against the West Indies at the Wanderers on Sunday.Here, three of the game's leading personalities give their thoughts on the retiring legend.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... I first saw Shaun Pollock play during a primary school zonal tournament in Durban, but I had nothing to do with him at that stage. When he was under-19 he played for the Natal Colts, which I coached, and I had a lot to do with him from then on. My immediate impression ...
A fitting end to a perfect career.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... I was spoilt rotten by having Polly at the other end when we opened the bowling together. I always knew that the opposition batsmen were under serious pressure from the start because he simply locked up an end. Basically Polly freed me up to really attack the batters. ...
Inflation targeting still top of Mboweni's agenda.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Like everyone else, the committee members must be affected by the perfect storm of bad news sweeping both the local and global economy. The International Monetary Fund downgraded global growth expectations this week, "in the face of significant headwinds from the financial ...
Laffor seals SuperSport United deal.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... SuperSport United have confirmed the signing of Anthony Laffor from Jomo Cosmos. The Tshwane club announced this week that the Liberian midfielder would join them at the end of this season on a four-year deal. "We are confident that he will make a significant contribution to our team in ...
Local bonds stay on top of US crisis.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tonny Mafu|Johannesburg South Africa's securitisation market has been kept healthy even in the midst of the current subprime crisis, due to help from the major banks. Moody's Investors Service, the international ratings agency, yesterday corroborated this ...
Iron Mike: Less mad,more sad.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... In late June 1997, myself and friend Matthew Taylor were sitting in a bar in Las Vegas, considering going in to debt for two tickets to watch the rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson at the MGM Grand. It took us four free bloody marys and seven $1 Heinekens to figure ...
Sappi bucks US calamity but not local one.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins |Cape Town Sappi was bucking the slowdown in the US for now but had "great concern" at the possibility of being asked by Eskom to shut its local mills again, the world's largest maker of glossy magazine paper said yesterday. Chief executive Ralph ...
Pupils overcome with joy as Tyson visits Soweto.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lebogang Seale Pupils at Moletsane High School in Soweto couldn't contain their excitement as they waited for boxing icon Mike Tyson's visit to their school. "Mike Tyson at our school! Wow! I can't believe it's happening," said Charmaine Mahopo. ...
Zuma's WEF statements raise alarms for the Left.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... This is because the WEF was the forum where the ANC's long-held interventionist and demand-led policies were first fudged in 1994. The original macroeconomic framework, designed by the ANC's macroeconomic research group, was dumped by then president Nelson Mandela in the Swiss ...
SA's paradox on sanctions against Iran; UN concerned country could be preparing to make an atomic bomb.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: peter fabricius Last Friday President Mbeki met Iran's new ambassador to SA, Asghar Ebrahimi, for the first time and assured him that SA supported his country's demand to be allowed to produce nuclear power for peaceful purposes ... a right enshrined in the Nuclear ...
What it means for you.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Louise Flanagan Proposed electricity regulations, released by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) for public comment yesterday: nAll street lights must immediately be fitted with energy-efficient bulbs. nElectric geysers in new commercial ...
Varsities set to /do it by degrees.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Theo garrun University rugby will receive a major boost this year with the first staging of the FNB Varsity Cup competition. The tournament, launched in Johannesburg yesterday, will involve the top eight university sides as they finished in the SA Students ...
Zuma seeks match with business on job creation.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Donwald Pressly|Cape Town Ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma wooed the business sector yesterday, telling its leaders |that their contribution to growth, spreading wealth and employment creation was "absolutely critical". On the electricity outages, Zuma was candid ....
Youth waits 3 hours for ambulance in Sandton.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Paola Verouden A 17-year-old from Alexandra sat on the street for hours after being hit by a bus. Although Athenkosi Jungqe waited for an ambulance for three hours, a fire truck arrived at the scene in 10 minutes, but couldn't transport him to hospital. ...
Reprieve as interest rates stay unchanged.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lee Rondganger and Sapa South Africans can breathe a sigh of relief. For the first time in nearly two years, the Reserve Bank has decided not to increase the repo rate. The announcement to keep the repo rate at 11% was made by Reserve Bank governor ...
Rich warned to get ready to lock and load in analysis of how stock markets and war intersect.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: James Pressley|New York Barton Biggs has some offbeat advice for the rich: "Insure yourself against war and disaster by buying a remote farm or ranch and stocking it with seed, fertiliser, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etcetera." The etcetera must ...
TCTA.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... One of South Africa's largest water supply projects, the R2.5 billion Vaal River Eastern Subsystem Augmentation Project, would start pumping water to both mothballed and new Eskom power stations, as well as to Sasol in Mpumalanga, the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) yesterday said ....
Accused linked to murders in five days.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Baldwin Ndaba It took the police just five days to positively link Richman Gcinumzi Makhwenkwe to the Moffat Park serial rapes and murders. On the sixth day, 29-year-old Makhwenkwe - who was later to be dubbed the Moffat Park serial rapist and killer - ...
Consumers must get angry and act; Jovial RantaoThe public need to be less passive and start holding big business and the government /to account.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... We are a docile bunch, we South African consumers. We never seem to get angry, even when we have a thousand reasons to be. I think that, at best, even the few of us who do get angry do so quietly, as if we are controlled by some unknown force. South African consumers have many ...
Hearty football fans at risk.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Boston - Watching a big soccer match can literally strain a fan's heart, German researchers reported yesterday. After studying the effects of matches during the 2006 World Cup, they concluded that for German men, the risk of a heart attack or other serious heart problem was more than three ...
Rate decision was a no-brainerzz Committee vote is unanimous against hike zz Weak growth sentiment drives foreign money from JSE.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst|Johannesburg The decision by the Reserve Bank monetary policy committee (MPC) to keep the bank's official repo rate at 11 percent was a unanimous one and made in five minutes, governor Tito Mboweni said yesterday. Details of the MPC voting are ...
Jeppestown defence claims 'ambush'; Lawyers say correct procedures not followed regarding photos.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Alex Eliseev A total of R40 417,48. This is how much cash a gang of robbers stole from a Honeydew Pick n Pay on the morning of June 25 2006. This is the cash eight of them died for, taking with them four police officers in one of the bloodiest shootouts in the ...
Gold Fields warns output may plummet.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Antony Sguazzin|and Janice Kew|Johannesburg Gold Fields' output from its local mines might plunge 25 percent this quarter as the power shortage threatens to close shafts, the company said. The company's local mines were shut for five days in the past week due ...
Light at end of dark tunnel; Joburg has plans to cope with power blackouts.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox The City of Johannesburg has revealed massive plans to alleviate electricity blackouts as Eskom's regular load shedding of 4 000MW|a day kicked in to stabilise the national power grid. From next week, 200 000 geyser "ripple controls" will be ...
'Child's injuries were signs of abuse'.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Botho Molosankwe Tammy Herman was only 21 months old when she died, but her short life was characterised by extreme pain. By the time she died of multiple injuries two years ago, she had bruises and fractures on her head, knees, collarbone, elbow and ribs as ...
R51bn coal, rail plan cheers.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Justin Brown|Cape Town Plans were announced yesterday to spend R51 billion to build new coal mines and rail and port facilities to boost coal exports and meet demand from Eskom and domestic industrial consumers. These announcements bring mild cheer after many ...
SRP warns of damages in offer for Gold Reef.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... If Bidco's R34 a share offer for the Gold Reef Group failed to meet today's 5pm deadline and collapsed because of wrongdoing, then minority shareholders could look for damages, a member of the Security Regulation Panel (SRP) told a minority shareholder at a hearing yesterday. ...
McLardy on Tiger's tail; South African chases Woods, but a bogey at the last drops him into an 11-way tie for second on 67.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sapa-AFP Tiger Woods took up at the Dubai Desert Classic yesterday where he left off at the Buick Invitational in California at the weekend with a commanding display of golf to top the leaderboard by two strokes. The world No 1 was out early in the first round ...
Black woman boss to mend ArcelorMittal fences.(Business Report)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ingi Salgado|Cape Town A black woman, Nku Nyembezi-Heita, is set to take the helm at ArcelorMittal South Africa in March, signalling that the country's biggest steel maker intends to mend its strained relations with the government. Nyembezi-Heita, a senior ...
Two pupils attacked at Joburg schools.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Angelique Serrao Two teenage boys have been assaulted at their schools this week with no teachers in sight. And they didn't receive the medical attention they needed. Keenan Volmink (17) has a broken collarbone after he was surrounded by a group of eight boys ...