The Star (South Africa) back issues from July 2008:
Car owner finds his car on bricks at police pound.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thandi Skade December 24 is a day Andile Mnothoza will never forget, but for all the wrong reasons. It was the day he discovered that his VW Golf had been stripped while parked at the Joburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) pound. His car, which had ...
Capitalism is a creed of greed.(News)
Jul 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: clive percival How does it come about that the property of nations is drawn into fewer hands? Why is it that the favoured, prominent few have ownership of land, enjoy property rights and the majority have no rights or ownership of any land? The capitalist ...
THE 5-MINUTE INTERVIEW.(Verve)
Jul 02, 2008 ... BYLINE: - Jabulile Ngwenya Jeannie de Gouveia, who holds a communications degree from RAU, began her career as a DJ on Good Hope FM in Cape Town, and is one of the four presenters on TV's Top Billing. She won the 2006 Crystal Award for best-dressed presenter, was ...
WHY I CRACKED MY HUSBAND'S RIBS.(Verve)
Jul 02, 2008 ... Tertia Albertyn (39) admits that she is very odd. The Capetonian always cuts the labels out of her clothes. Sometimes she wears her panties inside out. She has banned whistling in her house. It was only when her son Adam (3) was diagnosed that her oddity was given a name - ...
Exposing the secrets of a war.(Entertainment)
Jul 02, 2008 ... Linda de Jager grew up in the wind-washed harbour town of Walvis Bay, the last enclave of the South African mandate over that country - then South West Africa, now Namibia. As a child she often heard old men arguing, sometimes until late at night, about South African politics ...
Putting Mzansi on the international arts map ...(Entertainment)
Jul 02, 2008 ... The 22nd International Congress of the International Society of the Performing Arts (Ispa) When Jacqui Davis, executive director of the unique New York Library of the Performing Arts, returned to Lincoln Centre last week, she had not only viewed Zulu urban and traditional ...
All aboard with Bligh.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2008 ... Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne Doubleday R195 Reviewed by James Mitchell If all you recall is Captain William Bligh's outraged "Mr Christian!", from the immortal (but inaccurate) 1935 movie with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable ...
Stay healthy this winter.(News)
Jul 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jabulile Ngwenya The flu season is upon us. Flu, or influenza, is a viral disease which generally infects people during the autumn and winter months. A contagious virus, it is spread through the air and by touch. People who are at risk for ...
Kyalami set for Super Series action.(Motoring)
Jul 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Motorsport Correspondent Tight points positions and some seething rivalries set the scene for a blockbuster round six of the WesBank Super Series at the Afrox Race Day at Kyalami on Saturday. Gate entry is R40 per adult with children under 10 free and VIP ...
THE VERVE GUIDE TO GAS.(Verve)
Jul 03, 2008 ... In January, when Eskom's load-shedding was at its peak, James de Villiers decided to install piped gas in his Kensington home. "We'd thought about it two years ago, but decided the cost was prohibitive. But when the power outages came, we decided to go for it," he says. ...
House of skill repute.(Entertainment)
Jul 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Therese Owen Like an office, each recording studio has a different energy. The RP Studios belonging to SABC, for example, are situated deep in the bowels of the public broadcaster's headquarters. With the characteristic twists and turns of the Auckland Park HQ ...
Hacker with conscience never took money from 'small man'; On Alistar Peterson's first hack he swiped R9,8-million from the government.(News)
Jul 03, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lee Rondganger For more than two years, Alistair Peterson headed an elaborate online bank-hacking syndicate. He was the thorn in the side of South Africa's four giant banks whose top cyber experts were left red-faced every time he hacked through several ...
No comforting bedtime tales.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, my favourite bedtime story was by Enid Blyton, on an enchanted tree. Some children were lucky enough to discover this awesome tree, make friends with an assortment of fairies, pixies, squirrels and even an oddball called Saucepan Man. ...
James, Elizabeth create images of success; Prof Wiseman says the way names sound is quite important.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: james clarke According to a recent academic study in the United Kingdom people make "extensive assumptions" about a person whom they have never met - assumptions based on their names. Professor Richard Wiseman of Hertford University says names such as Ryan ...
Living in a world that hates you; In our ongoing look at xenophobia, life in Joburg is not the same after the attacks in May, but things are slowly returning to normal.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Niels Posthumus It's still dark when Aron Madjaya walks to the Primrose Gold Mine for the first time since May 16. To reach the mine from the workers' hostel, he has to walk through a squatter camp situated in between. Madjaya is on the morning ...
Bid to redress imbalances in vehicle repair sector.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bongani Masango For many years, township panel beaters have struggled to enter the formal vehicle repair sector, with reputable panel beaters taking the lion's share of the local market. But for TOY Panel Beaters and Spraypainting in GaRankuwa, Tshwane, this ...
CBD set for night shopping; Property owners pledge to upgrade buildings in retail improvement district.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox Joburg is set to get its own retail heartbeat - and the plan is to bring back night shopping. The area bounded by Rissik, Von Brandis, Jeppe and Market streets has been declared a retail improvement district (RID). Property owners have ...
The game of negotiating power.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Leon Wessels In Africa the cry: "Give us the political kingdom and heaven on earth will follow" has often reigned unchallenged. Put another way, it says: Give us our own constitution with voting rights and we will rid ourselves of the sins of the colonial ...
Astrapak 'looks like a takeover target'.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Cape Town The acquisition of a significant stake in Astrapak by the private equity Lereko Metier Capital Growth Fund might mean that the company was a takeover target, according to Alistair Lea, a portfolio manager at Coronation Fund Managers. ...
Ramphele hangs her head in shame at Mbeki's stance.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Poloko Tau Dr Mamphela Ramphele has openly criticised the government and political leaders for ignoring their responsibilities and not putting the people's interests first. The former UCT vice-chancellor was addressing a public speaking forum, hosted by the ...
'A home where I had no house'; In our ongoing look at xenephobia, we look at the kindly old lady with girlhood memories of Nelson Mandela, the friendly man,who loved pork and pap.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Alex Eliseev 'You're lucky you caught me," Gladys Mthetho chuckles, as she looks out onto a courtyard that has been her home for 72 years. She was a young girl - not yet a teenager - when Nelson Mandela spent a year living next door to her family in a small ...
NUM to strike over deaths at Gold Fields.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Justin Brown Johannesburg The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is readying itself to stage a one-day safety strike at Gold Fields after 47 workers died at the company's mines in the year to last month - the gold mining company's worst safety performance in history. ...
Reconciliation requires more than good faith; Whatever the election result, writes Leon Wessels, we will be called upon to uphold constitutional values.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... A constitution is the product of trust and confidence which people have in each other. A constitution does not create that trust ... a constitution or a declaration of human rights or constitutional courts as such flow from trust, and are not the sources which create trust. We ...
Business forecasting must look at all variables.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... It has been the proverbial roller coaster ride. The all share index was less than 30 000 points at the beginning of April, as high as 33 000 points in May - and had dipped to 28 392 at the end of last week. As we well know, it is difficult to predict economic trends over even a ...
We've no leg to stand on in Animal Farm replay.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... Upon hearing that the Pretoria high court had ruled that Chinese South Africans should be included in the definition of black people, labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana blurted out: "They can speak Chinese ... in their homes. I have absolutely no difficulty with that. But when we visit ...
Social security scheme at foot of uphill climb.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Donwald Pressly Cape Town The government faces an uphill battle working out implementation plans for the national social security system and convincing a tax-weary working population to subsidise poorer South Africans. Elias Masilela, a former deputy ...
Sole proprietor is still best format to start business.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: R Arnold HILLCREST What most aspiring traders and their business advisers overlook is that 50 percent of new business start-ups fail in the first year. If the insolvent business is trading as a close corporation, that loss will be locked in forever. But if the ...
Debate over hue of SA Chinese is a shade out of proportion.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... The fracas arose out of a Pretoria high court judgment that defined the Chinese as coloured. It is important to note that the government did not oppose the application, thereby leaving it to the court to make its own interpretation. Based on my experience and observations, I do ...
Phuthuma Nathi shareholders could pocket R400m jackpot.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thabiso Mochiko Johannesburg An estimated R400 million windfall is awaiting black shareholders in MultiChoice if Naspers decides to pay a special dividend after selling MWeb, the company's subsidiary. Last month Naspers said it would auction MWeb, the internet ...
Power utility, Nersa at cross-purposes.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Justin Brown Johannesburg Eskom plans to keep its 30 staff who run programmes to reduce energy demand, despite last month's ruling by the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) that these programmes would be run and funded by the government. Nersa has also ...
Routes to make commuting easier.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... Welcome to construction city. In the past few weeks road construction has gone into top gear with crews working on several intersections and highways across Joburg. The Gautrain project is moving full-steam ahead, especially as you approach the Marlboro exits off the ...
Six drug tests identified for schools; Urine method detecting wide range of drugs the best.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kanina Foss The Department of Education has proposed six different types of school drug tests - one of which is open to manipulation. Five of them are urine tests and the sixth a wipe test, which involves wiping surfaces such as hands or school desks to ...
absa.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... Absa Group has cut as many as 100 posts and has halted the hiring of new staff as higher interest rates and inflation have stalled growth in consumer lending. Louis von Zeuner, the executive director of Absa, said: "We had to rationalise our head office and regional offices to match the ...
Bush passes climate ball to Asia.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tabassum Zakaria and Chisa Fujioka Toyako, Japan US President George W Bush promised yesterday to be constructive in talks on global warming, but said a deal was impossible unless fast-growing China and India agreed to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. ...
zz FRESH TALENT.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... The automotive industry is focusing on boosting the ranks of black ...
Skaters left high and dry after PARK is sold.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bongani Masango Six months ago it was a disused overgrown piece of land. Now it is a revamped skate park and playing field for children in Norwood. But by the end of today, it could be no more. The Joburg Property Company (JPC) has given notice that ...
Ronaldo set to stay at Old Trafford.(Sports)
Jul 07, 2008 ... Madrid - Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo will likely stay at Manchester United next season because the English champions are not willing to let him go, Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon said yesterday. Calderon and Manchester United chief executive David Gill will hold talks in ...
President to push G8 leaders to meet African aid pledges.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Peter Fabricius Toyako, Japan - President Thabo Mbeki was due to meet the leaders of the world's richest nations at the G8 summit here today, determined to press them to keep their past promises to help Africa. Weighed down by immense global problems, such as ...
Suicide bomb aimed at cops.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... Islamabad - At least 15 people, including about 11 police officers, were killed yesterday in an apparent suicide bomb attack on police near a site where Islamists had been marking the anniversary of an army commando raid on the capital's Red Mosque. Thousands of people were at the mosque ...
PAC gives only MP boot after appeal.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: SIBUSISO NGALWA The PAC has fired its sole MP and former president, Dr Motsoko Pheko, after a committee at the party's congress dismissed an appeal by its most senior leader. Pheko was expelled in absentia yesterday, but he claimed that party officials had ...
Bankers' share options under water as financial stocks nose-dive.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Cape Town Nedbank Group chief executive Tom Boardman's share options, allocated to him at a total cost of R15.6 million six years ago, have fallen victim to sliding financial markets. His share options expired last week without being exercised, ...
'Change of Zim govt a necessity'.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lebogang Seale British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has blamed some of the causes of the squalor in Alexandra, Joburg, on President Robert Mugabe's wanton plundering of the Zimbabwean economy. Miliband was speaking after a visit to the township yesterday ...
Plea for students' killer to surrender to police; Parents will not rest until the guilty party in frenzied knife attack has been found.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jeremy Lovell The parents of one of the two French students murdered in London a week ago in a frenzied knife attack have appealed for the killer to come forward, and said they would not rest until the guilty party was found. Bio-engineering students Laurent ...
Probe into suspect's death in cell.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken The Independent Complaints Directorate is to investigate the death of an elderly suspected copper thief who died in a police station. The 65-year-old man was arrested in Pretoria West by members of the area's local Crime Prevention Unit on ...
Mother accused of abusing son (4).(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thandi Skade June 25 is a day Lizette Kruger* will never forget. It's the day she was accused of sexually abusing her son and the day he was taken away from her - only able to see him under supervised visits. Now Kruger is desperate to clear her ...
Droopy punters get only half winnings.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: LATOYA NEWMAN Vodacom Durban July punters have only taken home half of what they would have won if their horse only had won the race. In what became the first dead heat in 41 years, the weekend race extravaganza finished off with the grey filly Dancer's ...
Now heads of two judges on the block; AfriForum accuses 'drunk' Judge Motata of racism.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Louise Flanagan Two judges now face the possibility of being fired. Yesterday, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) confirmed receiving a complaint against Judge Nkola Motata, facing drunk-driving charges. "The complaint against Judge Motata ...
Nine hurt in CBD taxi crash.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bongani Masango Nine people were injured, one critically, after a minibus taxi and a car collided in the Joburg CBD. The accident yesterday happened when the taxi driver reportedly skipped a red traffic light at the Sauer and Market streets intersection. ...
Proteas setto bloom, says Arthur; Over-confidence not an issue but coach insists pundits are right to predict an SA series win.(Sports)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Patrick Compton The South Africans were denied a final day of match practice when driving rain forced their game against Middlesex to be abandoned at the lunch interval yesterday. It was the first time on tour that the South Africans had lost any match time, ...
Angie Motshekga in resounding victory; ANC Women's League will back Zuma all the way, she says.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Deon de Lange ANC president Jacob Zuma will enjoy the full back- ing of the ANC Women's League (ANCWL) during his upcoming corruption trial, newly elected league president Angie Motshekga has announced. Speaking shortly after her election to the top post ...
More rainy days in store for Mother City.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY Cape Town is braced for three more days of wet weather after a weekend in which lashing rain battered shacks in informal settlements, swelled rivers and drenched low-lying areas. Areas worst affected by four days of relentless downpours included ...
M&R pursues power cut payback.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria Murray & Roberts (M&R), the listed construction and engineering group, is still pursuing compensation for the "cost and time impact" it suffered because of the electricity supply problems that gripped the country earlier this year. Brian ...
R2.5bn retail bonds sold in SA since 2004.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: From Bloomberg Johannesburg South Africa has sold R2.5 billion of retail bonds since they were introduced in 2004 to boost savings in the continent's biggest economy. The government is selling fixed-rate and inflation-linked bonds to boost the country's ...
Auto sector grooms students.(Business Report)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria An initiative that was launched in the Eastern Cape four years ago, aimed at increasing the number of black engineers available to the automotive industry, has expanded to Gauteng. A pilot of the automotive experiential career development ...
cash heist gang foiled; Police and public join forces to track robbers down.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Beauregard Tromp Eleven armed robbers have been arrested moments after a cash-in-transit heist when members of the public, police and security assisted in hunting them down. At 9.30am yesterday, a Coin Security crew had just completed their transaction at the ...
'Sharks' 'Plumtree 'waits' for 'BJ call-up.(Sports)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum and Sapa After the Springbok scrum was bashed and dented by the All Blacks at the weekend, the Sharks' Kiwi coach John Plumtree said he would not be surprised if he were to lose the services of BJ Botha sooner rather than later. Botha was ...
Man (65) accused of copper theft dies in cell.(News)
Jul 07, 2008 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken The Independent Complaints Directorate is to investigate the death of an elderly suspected copper thief who died in a police station. The 65-year-old man was arrested in Pretoria West by members of the area's local Crime Prevention Unit on ...
We are the moaning nation with few solutions.(News)
Jul 08, 2008 ... The annoying noise has erupted again. This time, it comes from all spheres of life. Complaint after complaint. The "masses" are calling for President Thabo Mbeki's term to be curtailed before its sell-by date - let him go, they bark! When are we going to be the kind ...
TOURISTS ARE ONCE AGAIN MO-EST WELCOME IN KENYA.(Verve)
Jul 08, 2008 ... Perhaps it was the "KAK" registration plates on the tuk-tuks rattling along the pungent streets of Mombasa that instantly put me in good humour, but I found this part of Kenya a salve to my battered South African soul. And Kenyans - poor as they may be - are a laconic lot, and ...
Game torn between order and chaos.(News)
Jul 08, 2008 ... To any observer, there would appear to be only two approaches in playing the game of soccer: Order and Chaos. European nations are primarily ordered in player positions on the field and are disciplined in their interactions. Others, including South Africa, follow the more chaotic approach ...
People hurt in taxis often have no cover.(News)
Jul 08, 2008 ... BYLINE: Mziwandile Nkosi A taxi ride could cost you your life savings. "A car hit us from behind and the next thing I knew I was laying next to the road." These are the words of a pregnant 24-year-old Thandi Zondo (not her real name) who was flung out of a ...
Grand designs still hit the right chord.(Entertainment)
Jul 08, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sally Scott He's been tussling with Telkom for a year-and-a-half trying to get an internet line installed. A familiar story. Perhaps someone from Telkom will read this (an actual human being, not a recorded robotic voice) and sort out Roelof Colyn. ...
House robberies, hijackings now most common crimes; 'Scouts' leave signs outside properties.(News)
Jul 08, 2008 ... BYLINE: Thandi Skade House and driveway robberies and hijackings - known as trio crimes - are the most common crimes perpetrated against South Africans. Domestic Watch co-ordinator Penny Steyn and Inspector Lucky Khumela have identified methods criminals use to get ...
GRAFTING IN THE GREEN HOUSE.(Verve)
Jul 09, 2008 ... Rupert McKerron stands on the flat roof of his office in Parkwood, one of Joburg's first green buildings. It's a cloudless winter morning and the sunlight reflects blindingly off two large solar panels, which he tells me are for heating water. Attached at an angle to the edge of the roof ...
WICKED CHOCOLATE.(Verve)(Recipe)
Jul 10, 2008 ... TRIPLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES Makes 30-40 200g dark chocolate 220g butter 375ml dark brown sugar 2 eggs 10ml vanilla essence 500ml flour 125ml cocoa powder 10ml bicarbonate of soda ...