The Star (South Africa) back issues from March 2008:
Dull play spoilsa Bright show.(Sports)
Mar 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nazli Thomas The South African women's hockey team pulled off yet another big win yesterday when they beat Russia 5-1 at the Randburg Sports Complex, but coach Jenny King was not impressed with the overall performance. A disturbing, complacent attitude seemed ...
Hugo out to 'cop' SA Amateur title.(Sports)
Mar 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Grant Winter Most of the 172 golfers taking part in the Glacier SA Amateur beginning at Royal Durban on Sunday play the game full-time with an eye to joining the paid ranks in the not-too-distant future. One exception, though, is 37-year-old East Rand ...
Dane burns up Durban CC fairways; Local amateur Strauss waltzes in with 69 to be on SA Open leaderboard.(Sports)
Mar 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Grant Winter Denmark's Julie Tvede took the Acer SA Women's Open first round lead with a sparkling seven-under-par 66 at Durban Country Club yesterday. This put the 27-year-old two in front of Swede Karin Borjeskog and England's Rebecca Hudson who were ...
And the best sledge goes to ...(Sports)
Mar 01, 2008 ... It's been a rare old week for sledging. We've had an "obnoxious weed" from Matthew Hayden, an "open your eyes, touch judge, you're as blind as a bat" by Schalk Burger and an "I didn't like Graeme Smith when I first met him and I may not like him now" by Shane Warne. Then there ...
Holyfield, Tyson in talks for re-match.(Sports)
Mar 01, 2008 ... London - American boxer Evander Holyfield said in an interview published yesterday that he was in talks with Mike Tyson for a re-match of their infamous 1997 fight. In that fight, the second between the two boxers, Tyson, now 41, bit Holyfield, now 45, twice and ripped off a chunk of his ...
When dolls are blokes.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Clive Percival I attended a meeting in the auditorium of the Florida community library held by local government MECs of several wards in Florida. After the minutes were read and approved, the usual boring speeches were made. Don't get me wrong. Some speeches were good ...
Reserve Bank failed to keep promise.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Chris Grant Glenvista, Johannesburg I receive daily information for building plans passed nationally. Over the past six months, new projects in the private sector (townhouses etc) have dropped by about 50%. In addition to this, many plans approved before six ...
Not leaving, but weeping.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jan Kleynhans Sunninghill, Sandton My family have been in this country since 1751 and I have always been a proud South African. However, I am asking myself more and more lately where we are going. The president of the country does not have the support of his ...
Calling on all you language maestros; The anagram on a moneylender's tomb inscription is a great example.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: James Clarke One of the most persistent e-mails I have been getting over the years has been a list of remarkable anagrams - an anagram being a word or phrase made up from all the letters of another word. Examples: n Desperation - A Rope Ends It ...
The Star's old news ignored the progress hospital has made.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sibani Mngadi Spokesperson for the National Department of Health This is in response to the story "Bara Baby Crisis", which appeared in The Star on February 26. It is disturbing that The Star has used outdated information relating to last year's incident as ...
Our duty to heal one another; A constructive response to the recent disturbing events is necessary to emphasise accountability and restore dignity.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Raenette Taljaard The devastating events of late at the University of the Free State must be condemned in the strongest possible terms as a fundamental affront to the human rights and dignity of all South Africans, therefore as a breach of the values and principles in ...
Sarkozy hits the right note.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... French President Nicolas Sarkozy is plummeting in the polls back home but he made quite a big hit on his first state visit to South Africa last week - with his glamorous new bride on his arm. MPs applauded when Sarkozy announced a new French policy on Africa to parliament, ...
Who should pay?(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Ekurhuleni police chief Robert McBride, no stranger to controversy, has hit the headlines again. This time questions have been raised about his legal costs - believed to be more than R2,3-million - being paid by the metro council. The fees stem from the drunken driving charge ...
Premature 'guilty' verdict typical SA.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Francois Kotze Fairland, Joburg Nobody in their right mind would condone what the Reitz four did. It is, however, noted with disgust that all and sundry jumped on the bandwagon and slapped a guilty verdict on the students, not even bothering to wait until a full ...
What about the missing billions?(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Dr S L Biddulph Westcliff, Johannesburg The national Budget has come and gone and as usual Finance Minister Trevor Manuel prances across the stages of the country, being lauded by all and sundry for producing yet another fine budget. He certainly does an ...
Use this episode to narrow the divide.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Dr Lucas Ntyintyane Cresta, Randburg Apartheid may be dead. But its ghost haunts us, judg- ing by the increasing incidents of hatred and intolerance engulfing the country. I am not surprised! Apartheid was, after all, built on a foundation of dislike and ...
Offloading a lemon.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... If someone buys a car that turns out to be a dud and then, after months of fighting with the dealership, they finally get to swop the problematic car for another one, what happens to the dud? Well, in the case of a certain blue 2003 Kia Sorento, it got put back on the showroom ...
Province denies matric meddling.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... The Mpumalanga Education Department has denied allegations that it covered up its bungling of the 2007 matric results. This follows the anonymous release of an e-mail message that provincial examinations director Kayise Hlophe sent on January 3 in which she advises the ...
Draft bill to criminalise illegal 'spooking' on the way; Proposed law sparked by the conflict in the Scorpions over its intelligence and investigative roles.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal The cabinet is poised to approve a draft law that will crack down on illicit spooking - information-peddling and unauthorised intelligence-gathering - deemed to threaten state security. The Promotion of Information Bill, piloted by the ...
Joburg residents stuck without water for days.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox An entire section of Joburg's north-eastern suburbs around Highlands North and Waverley has been without water for four days. And because Joburg Water failed to send any tankers, frustrated residents had to resort to using swimming pool water to flush ...
Time limit hell for doctors; Diagnosis ruling bad for patients.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Anna Louw Angry Joburg doctors say the seven minutes they have been given to make a diagnosis is endangering patients' lives. And in recent weeks the death of a 4-year-old girl with a heart condition - believed to have been discharged too soon from hospital - ...
Mandoza in death crash after awards.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Solly Maphumulo Mandoza's health took priority at the accident scene where two people died - and no breathalyser test was done, according to Joburg metro police spokesperson Inspector Edna Mamonyane. She said yesterday that Mduduzi Tshabalala, known as kwaito ...
These must be worrying times for the Bok coach.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Dear Peter Phew, you must be pulling your hair out. Wasn't that just such a disappointment! For two weeks in a row now, there was little to cheer from our Super 14 sides. You must be pleased that you only have to select one team to take on the best the ...
Blaze damages Hillbrow landmark's interior; Cause of the fire is unknown, but restoration work on the derelict building is set to continue, says JDA.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox and Kanina Foss A historic Joburg building, Governor's House in Hillbrow, has been gutted by fire. The house, on the corner of Kotze and Queens streets, opposite the Old Fort, was earmarked for a complete refurbishment as part of the ...
Lions hoping for a change of fortune at Loftus.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum The Lions, the residual anger at their two-point loss to the Western Force still lingering, will take on the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld on Friday night focusing on the things they can control rather than those they can't. Against the Force on ...
All Blacks hold the key - Muir; But the Sharks coach is confident that South African teams will get stronger towards the end of the Super 14 competition.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum After ripping five points and some small revenge from their visit to Loftus Versfeld on Saturday night Dick Muir was still cautiously optimistic about the prospects of other South African teams in the Vodacom Super 14. However, on a weekend ...
Annan leaves hope behind.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Nairobi - Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan flew out of Kenya yesterday after brokering a power-sharing deal between feuding leaders, but insisted Kenyans must still respect the rule of law while a final political solution was sought. After weeks of tough negotiations, Kenyan leaders ...
Saviours from the sky.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kanina Foss They're like ambulances in the sky; rescue birds ready to swoop down and scoop up patients when a few minutes could mean the difference between life and death. Aerocare is an air evacuation service based in Bethlehem and Bloemfontein, the Free ...
Taliban say they knew Prince Harry was in their midst.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Washington - Afghan militants have said they knew that Britain's Prince Harry had been among soldiers recently deployed in their country and had been gunning to get him, according to a US magazine. A veteran Taliban field officer, deputy commander Mullah Abdul Karim, told ...
Facebook battle over racist video.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan and A'EYSHA KASSIEM Condemned for living in the hostel that spawned a racist anti-integration video, some students at the University of the Free State's Reitz residence are desperate to keep their website free of "bitter" pro-integration opinions. ...
Now third legal team for Petersen; Hopes set on advocate who secured not-guilty plea after husband's murder.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER Najwa Petersen has consulted with an advocate who secured an acquittal for a woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her husband. The woman, Petroleen de Wet, of Pniel, was found not guilty of the murder after the court found that the state ...
Wacko Jacko's retreat up for auction.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Andrew Gumbel London - Even after the child molestation charges, the botched plastic surgery, the face masks and pyjamas, it's hard to imagine a greater humiliation for Michael Jackson than the public auction of his Neverland ranch, the one-time paradise retreat that ...
Champion Ochoa thrills, just like Phil.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Singapore - The world's top player, Lorena Ochoa, claimed the rain- interrupted HSBC Women's Champions tournament yesterday by an incredible 11 shots, leaving a stunned Annika Sorenstam a distant second. Such is the Mexican's dominance of the current era that she was never ...
Imprison magazineeditors, says Jurie.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER Popular Afrikaans singer Jurie Els claims the editors of You and Huisgenoot are in contempt of a court order and is appealing to the Cape High Court for them to be jailed for the alleged transgression. Els had been accused of sexual ...
Super subs give the 'Beautiful Birds' wings.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: siyabonga mahlaba Moroka Swallows (0) 3 Mabedi 79, Phiri 90, Ndlovu 90+3 Bloemfontein Celtic (1) 1 There is never a dull moment with the Moroka Swallows players and yesterday they proved just that. Having to first put their ...
SACP urges perjury probe of both Madisha and R500 000 donor.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb The SA Communist Party has not yet decided to axe SA Democratic Teachers' Union president Willie Madisha from its ranks. But it has called on the police to investigate him for perjury. In fact, SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said ...
Cleric takes his own life.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH A clergyman hailed for bringing together the traditionally coloured Dutch Reformed Mission Church and the traditionally black Dutch Reformed Church in Africa has been found with a gunshot wound to the head. The Uniting Reformed Church in ...
Blind father wins battle to keep baby.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ZELDA VENTER A blind father has finally been reunited with his nine-month-old daughter after a lengthy legal battle. Now lawyers want the court to look into the Childcare Act to prevent social workers taking children away from their biological parents on ...
Zimbabwe finish in a flurry of runs to hunt down Lions.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Harare - The Zimbabwe Chevrons looked in control throughout their rain-interrupted innings against the Highveld Lions, recording their third win in the MTN series at Harare Sports Club yesterday. The reduced target of 205 off 39 overs was reached with one over and three balls to ...
Motion of the ocean could solve power woes.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: JO-ANNE SMETHERHAM Waves along the southern coast could produce between 8 000MW and 10 000MW of power - one-quarter of Eskom's maximum output at any time, researchers say. The energy would be obtained from Cape Point to St Helena Bay in the west and Port ...
Victims of serial killer finally buried.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sinegugu Ndlovu and LATOYA NEWMAN The families of four women murdered by the Umzinto serial killer are slowly beginning to piece their lives together after burying their loved ones yesterday. At a moving mass funeral held at Curries Fountain in Durban, three ...
Serial killer and rapist gets life terms.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: BOB FREAN The Ladysmith High Court rang with gleeful applause and women ululated when a serial killer and rapist was given life terms plus 53 years' jail. Released on parole 30 months before completing his jail sentence for burglary, Vusumuzi Khumalo went on ...
Reds and Toffees destroy; Merseysiders pick up points in scramble for fourth Champions League spot.(Sports)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sapa-AFP Rafa Benitez insisted Liverpool's season has not been damaged by his continual rotation of key players in spite of watching his full-strength side win 3-1 at Bolton yesterday. Benitez has opted to rest the likes of Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard and ...
ArcelorMittal brews a shocker.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Justin Brown Johannesburg ArcelorMittal South Africa shocked local industrial consumers on Friday by announcing a third increase in steel prices in two months. Corporate spokesperson Tami Didiza said prices had risen between 6 percent and 10 percent last ...
There's an axe at Whetstone that needs grinding.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... It must leave a bitter taste in the mouths of investors who lost out when Jurgens Steenkamp, Michael Lane and Trevor Glaum, the liquidators of Whetstone Industrial Holdings, a venture capital company that went bankrupt, reached a secret deal with the company's former directors. ...
Parents should stand in dock with young white UFS punks.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Generally, this is easy to do. After all, there is more than enough material out there for me to choose from. Someone, somewhere has done something wrong and often this column seems to write itself. But this week is different; for once it is difficult to focus on core business ...
Silver lining in today's cloud is platinum.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... People who are invested in the right assets must be making a killing, Energy and Capital (EC), an investment and energy website with an eye on sustainability issues, says coal prices have outpaced crude oil and natural gas prices and predicts they could double this year. ...
Mustek, Puno clash in fronting battle.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thabiso Mochiko Johannesburg A battle is brewing between Mustek and its black economic empowerment (BEE) partner of three years, Puno, after the technology group accused the BEE player of fronting. Mustek said on Friday it had asked Puno to repay a loan of R21 ...
Missing data play havoc with forecasts.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst Johannesburg Crucial statistics, which usually give an early warning of further interest rates hikes, can no longer be relied on to point the way. Publication of the producer price figures for January was postponed indefinitely on Friday ....
Hospitals stick to their guns on prices.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Slindile Khanyile Durban The Hospital Association of SA (Hasa), which represents more than 90 percent of the country's private hospitals, has dismissed suggestions by health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang that medical price increases should be aligned with inflation. ...
Mbeki-ites use the short time left to try out transparency.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Presidency minister Essop Pahad, the Rasputin-like figure once described as having python-like eyes, is apparently circulating his yellowed curriculum vitae. Others, like alarmingly insensitive minister of agriculture and land affairs Lulu Xingwana, have suddenly adopted a ...
JD Group defends granting of share option to managers.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Cape Town The JD Group last week defended its decision to grant management share options at a discount but activist investor Frater Asset Management argued that directors should have to pay the same price as ordinary shareholders. Criticism of the ...
Massmart fine-tunes strategy.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Cape Town Massmart is tweaking its building materials retail strategy to follow the boom in big building projects as retail sales growth to residential consumers shows signs of slowing. Guy Hayward, the chief financial officer, said last week that ...
Scores of rare cycads found in garden after tipoff.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Shaun Smillie A man arrested for having 210 endangered cycads in his garden could end up keeping them because transporting and replanting the plants could kill them. A tipoff last week led police and Gauteng nature conservation officials to a house in ...
Commissioner warns on competition laws.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ann Crotty Cape Town While it was necessary to ensure that top-level corporate executives took responsibility for anti-competitive activity within their companies, Shan Ramburuth, the competition commissioner, cautioned against criminalising existing competition ...
King loses another round with taxman.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria Businessman Dave King has lost another round in his legal battle with the SA Revenue Service (Sars), which alleges that King and the entities he controls owe more than R2.5 billion in tax. An urgent application to the high court in ...
Power cuts drive January credit growth.(Business Report)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst Johannesburg Power cuts in January could have contributed to the acceleration in private sector credit extension (PSCE) that month, according to Shireen Darmalingam, an economist at Standard Bank. Figures released by the Reserve Bank on Friday ...
Blind father wins fight to keep baby.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ZELDA VENTER A blind father has finally been reunited with his nine-month-old daughter after a lengthy legal battle. Now lawyers want the court to look into the Childcare Act to prevent social workers taking children away from their biological parents on ...
Kwaito star to face culpable homicide.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Solly Maphumulo Mandoza's health took priority at the accident scene where two people died - and no breathalyser test was done, according to Joburg metro police spokesperson Inspector Edna Mamonyane. She said yesterday that Mduduzi Tshabalala, known as kwaito ...
Taliban say they knew 'chicken' Harry was in their midst.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Washington - Afghan militants have said they knew that Britain's Prince Harry had been among soldiers recently deployed in their country and had been gunning to get him, according to a US magazine. A veteran Taliban field officer, deputy commander Mullah Abdul Karim, told ...
Singer wants court to jail magazine editors.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER Popular Afrikaans singer Jurie Els claims the editors of You and Huisgenoot are in contempt of a court order and is appealing to the Cape High Court for them to be jailed for the alleged transgression. He had been accused of sexual molestation ...
Bill seeks to make illegal spooking punishable; Proposed law sparked by conflict in the Scorpions' investigative role.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal The cabinet is poised to approve a draft law that will crack down on illicit spooking - information-peddling and unauthorised intelligence-gathering - deemed to threaten state security. The Promotion of Information Bill, piloted by the ...
Frustration over baggage delay at OR Tambo.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: KarYn maughan Sobbing, shouting or crouched dejectedly on the floor, dozens of airline passengers last night waited more than two hours for their baggage to be returned to them. And the kulula.com, passengers, whose flight from Cape Town to OR Tambo ...
Facebook battle over varsity's racist video.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan and A'EYSHA KASSIEM Condemned for living in the hostel that spawned a racist anti-integration video, some students at the University of the Free State's Reitz residence are desperate to keep their website free of "bitter" pro-integration opinions. ...
Blind dad wins fight to keep baby daughter.(News)
Mar 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: ZELDA VENTER A blind father has finally been reunited with his 9-month-old daughter after a long legal battle. Now lawyers want the court to look into the Childcare Act to prevent social workers taking children away from their biological parents on flimsy ...