The Star (South Africa) back issues from August 2008:
Affordable houses show gains.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst Johannesburg Affordable housing is the only segment of the residential property market that continues to make gains in real terms. Jacques du Toit, a senior property analyst at Absa, said yesterday that prices of affordable housing rose 12.1 ...
Sappi's by-product to help bolster electricity grid.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Black liquor has the potential to transform pulp mills into net electricity producers. It could enable pulp and paper group Sappi, which already produces nearly 50 percent of the 380 megawatts of electricity it uses in South Africa, to be self-sufficient in power, says Sappi ...
Walloping rise in power prices pushes producer inflation to 16.8%.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst Johannesburg A rise of nearly 45 percent in electricity prices in June helped push annual producer inflation to the highest since April 1987, when it reached 17.4 percent. Statistics SA said yesterday that overall producer prices rose 2.6 ...
AngloGold cuts hedge book by just R8bn since April.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Justin Brown Johannesburg AngloGold Ashanti's lossmaking hedge book would cost a further R25 billion to close out, the gold producer reported yesterday, even after it raised nearly R14 billion through a rights issue early last month to cut the physical hedge position by ...
UK shark theft may be only the beginning.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: REUTERS A rare shark was being hunted by UK police after it was stolen from an aquarium in Farnborough, Hampshire at the weekend. Imported from Indonesia, the 60.96cm, mottled brown, marble catshark - Atelomycterus macleayi - is the female of the only active ...
Road to court.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... On November 6 2000, prosecutors started a preparatory investigation to see if there were grounds to investigate corruption and fraud in the controversial multibillion-rand arms deal. The investigation itself started the following year, and by October 2002 it included Jacob Zuma ....
UK house prices and confidence plunge.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Bloomberg The average value of a home fell 8.1 percent from a year ago, the biggest decline since at least 1991, Nationwide Building Society said yesterday. An index of confidence based on a survey of 2 001 people fell 5 points to minus 39, the lowest since ...
Banks take heart from official endeavours to calm markets.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ian Chua London Tensions in the interbank money market have shown signs of stabilising in recent weeks, suggesting that official moves to bolster the global banking system are succeeding in calming fears of systemic risk. Even in the last few weeks, when ...
Fresh hit puts Deutsche Bank on top 10 casualties list.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Deutsche Bank has taken its bill from the global financial crisis beyond $11 billion (R81.3 billion). The German bank announced $3.6 billion of fresh write-downs yesterday, putting it among the top 10 global casualties of the turmoil. Germany's flagship financier had ...
Madisha's axing hints at conflicts in alliance.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Who is telling or has told the truth about alleged cash donations, disciplinary procedures, credit card misuse and profes[logical not]sional misconduct may all be resolved be[logical not]fore the equality court. But the underlying political reason for this eruption of hostil[logical ...
Drop in inflation 'clear long ago'.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst Johannesburg It had been clear "a long time ago" that reweighting the consumer price basket would lower inflation next year, if recent trends in relative inflation persisted, Reserve Bank chief economist Monde Mnyande said yesterday. Central ...
NUM attacks commercialisation of public services.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Donwald Pressly Cape Town National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) yesterday took the government to task in parliament over the commercialisation of public services, with a senior trade union official declaring that Eskom's price rises were hardly in the interests of the ...
SASOL.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Sasol's Inzalo share offer to the black public was almost four times oversubscribed, the petrochemicals firm said yesterday. The response "has far exceeded expectation in terms of its broad-based appeal", it said, as 95 percent of the applications received were for 200 or fewer shares. "We ...
randgold resources.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Randgold Resources' second-quarter profit had more than tripled because of increased metal prices and production, the owner of two gold mines in Mali said yesterday. Net income rose to $17.9 million (R132 million) from $5.8 million a year earlier, the company said in its statement. Gold ...
Sappi rubs hands over saturated EU market.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ingi Salgado Cape Town Sappi was gearing up for a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the fragmented European glossy paper market - its largest business segment - in the next year, chief executive Ralph Boettger said yesterday. "In principle and from a ...
Warning: PC games.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Reuters Personal computer (PC) games could be given ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the UK government said yesterday. Culture minister ...
Bad debts dent Imperial Bank's performance.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria Bad debts and losses by the motor finance division of Imperial Bank were largely responsible for the bank increasing its impairment charge by 92 percent to R340.8 million in the six months to June compared with the same period last year. ...
Tiwheel in provisional liquidation after Nedbank action.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria Tiger Wheels (Tiwheel), the alloy wheels maker established in the 1960s and listed on the JSE in 1987, has been placed in provisional liquidation. This follows an application by creditor Nedbank to the high court in Pretoria for the ...
Finance sector shelves BEE talks over rift on ownership.(Business Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Mzwandile Jacks Johannesburg The country's major banks and insurance companies suspended their negotiations with Cosatu and the SA Communist Party (SACP) yesterday after failing to make progress on the ownership clause in the transformation charter of the financial ...
That's the score of all the judges who have voted for and against the ANC's president.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Jacob Zuma has been buried in a legal landslide: 31 to 5. Thirty-one is the number of civil rulings against the ANC president in the past three years. Five is the number of judges who have supported Zuma's legal efforts to stop the Scorpions ...
From Russia with drugs.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Monte Carlo - Seven Russian female athletes, including an indoor world record holder and a two-time world champion, were provisionally suspended yesterday by the IAAF for doping-related matters. Yelena Soboleva, who set an indoor world record in the 1500m race at this year's world ...
Heart patient's last chance to lead a normal life.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kanina Foss Wally Katzke has been given a second chance. Tomorrow he will undergo open-heart surgery, and if he makes the recommended lifestyle and dietary changes, he could go on to lead a normal life. If he doesn't change, he will end up with the ...
That's the score of all the judges who have voted for and against the ANC's president.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Jacob Zuma has been buried in a legal landslide: 31 to 5. Thirty-one is the number of judges who have voted against the ANC president in the past three years. Five is the number who have supported Zuma's legal efforts to stop the Scorpions from ...
Disaster movie was real.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Wellington - More than 1 700 passengers arrived in Auckland today, telling reporters they had endured a "nightmare, like a disaster movie" on a cruise ship hit by a subtropical storm in the Pacific. Graphic footage, showing the P&O liner Pacific Sun rollling as it hit seven-metre swells ...
Bus horror as passenger decapitates another, displaying the head.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Portage la Prairie, Canada - A man aboard a Greyhound bus has repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, according to witnesses. The man, who was not identified, was arrested for the murder, which occurred on Wednesday night aboard a bus travelling from ...
Helper gets life term for murder.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Baldwin Ndaba The domestic worker who masterminded the murder of her widowed boss's new lover was this morning sentenced to life in jail. Busisiwe Zodwa Ngema (53) was found guilty, along with Bheki Mahlangu (29) and Lybon Makhubela (29), on charges of murder ...
Zuma's judge a 'crusader for justice'.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Judge Chris Nicholson might not need his quick wit or knowledge of Wagner to get proceedings under way, but he will be required to divorce his mind from mountains of controversial and explosive opinion that have surrounded the state's case against ANC president Jacob Zuma. He ...
Ruling on rights a blow to sex worker.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH Sex workers have no labour rights under the constitution, says the Women's Legal Centre. This after the Labour Court dismissed a Cape Town sex worker's application to force the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) to ...
Honesty of ANC chief and legal team questioned.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan SA's highest court has said prosecutors were right to doubt ANC president Jacob Zuma's honesty - and questioned the honesty of his lawyer. Constitutional Court Chief Justice Pius Langa yesterday defended the Scorpions against attacks from Zuma's ...
31-5 - that's the legal score against Zuma.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan Jacob Zuma has been buried in a legal landslide: 31 to 5. Thirty-one is the number of judges who have voted against the ANC president in the past three years. Five is the number who have supported Zuma's legal efforts to stop the Scorpions ...
Police nab truck hijacking suspects.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Gill Gifford Seven suspects arrested on the N12 East highway south of Joburg this morning are said to be behind a string of truck hijackings. Captain Manaka George Raphulu, of Alberton SAPS, said pro-active police work lead to the ...
From Russia with drugs.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Monte Carlo - Seven Russian female athletes, including an indoor world record holder and a two-time world champion, were provisionally suspended yesterday by the IAAF for doping-related matters. Yelena Soboleva, who set an indoor world record in the 1500m race at this year's world ...
Mandela is our finest example.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... We heard the tributes paid to our beloved Madiba by distinguished South African personalities and politicians. We heard the sentiments expressed by foreign governments on his 90th birthday. His magnanimity often went beyond the bounds of reasonableness. His ...
A teacher's empathy changed Teddy's life; But only after he had shown her how to make a difference.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: james clarke As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the first day of school, she told the children she loved them all equally. But she didn't. There was Teddy Stoddard, morose, scruffy, slumped in his seat in the front row. He did not ...
GETTING UNDER TERRY'S SKIN.(Verve)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Terry Pheto has the look of a woman whose dreams have come true. Relaxing poolside at the Fairlawns Boutique Hotel in Morningside, the actress is stylish in black trousers and patterned grey top cinched with a big silver belt. But it's her sparkling brown eyes set in her ...
Seeing ain't believing.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... For thousands of people out there, no, make that millions, there are six notes that play a little tune which signifies all the weirdness the world holds. So when those six little notes play out as a full moon rises in a darkened sky, we know that Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully ...
SA's biggest film fest fills unique gap.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Theresa Smith If it wasn't for the posters on the lampposts, you'd never know that there was actually an international film festival happening in Durban. Over the last 29 years, the festival has grown to the point where it is now spread over several venues in ...
We Zulus need not apologise.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: bongiwe mchunu The continual association - especially in the media - of the word Zulu with xenophobic attacks infuriates me beyond words. Zulus have been portrayed as warlords and unreasonable imbeciles for far too long. But blaming only this ethnic group for ...
ANC supports the principle of equality in law; Decision to support Zuma was taken after serious, careful consideration, writes ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... When Jacob Zuma appears in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday, not only will he be accompanied by a contingent of ANC leaders, but he will have the support of hundreds of thousands of ANC members. A number of people have publicly expressed disquiet at this. Others have ...
'It is something they can call theirs'.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Theresa Smith African filmmakers should embrace piracy, says Ugandan director Donald Mugisha. "In the sense that we need to develop a new model of distribution," he continued. In South Africa, at the Durban International Film Festival, to promote ...
Acclaimed African musical extends.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tonight Reporter The run of African Footprint, at Gold Reef City Casino's Lyric Theatre, has been extended by two weeks due to popular demand. The show has played to packed audiences since it opened at the 1 100-seat Lyric Theatre. African Footprint's latest ...
Swayze up for more dirty dance moves.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Patrick Swayze (pictured) is rumoured to be starring in another Dirty Dancing sequel. The 55-year-old has been bombarded with acting offers as he continues to make good progress after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He is now tipped to return as Johnny Castle ...
Brand told to watch his mouth at upcoming awards ceremony.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Russell Brand (pictured) has been banned from telling certain jokes at the MTV Video Music Awards. The British comic, who is renowned for his outrageous humour, will present this year's ceremony and has been warned by show bosses that there are specific things he cannot say. ...
Producing a precinct for pedestrians; Would you like to do your grocery and shopping, have coffee, eat out and go to gym without jumping into your car?(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox Imagine waking up on a Sunday morning and taking your family out for breakfast and some shopping at globally-recognised brand-name stores such as Geri, Lacoste and Hugo Boss, just a short walk away. Once the children have eaten, they walk back home ...
A long, painful quest for justice.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Michael Lingwood is a man haunted by the past. Ten years ago his wife was shot dead and he was hit by four bullets when a former employee opened fire on the couple. A decade later, Lingwood has not forgotten Jean, his wife, although he has moved on in some ways, having remarried ...
Dream revisited.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... To every soccer lover in this province and beyond, Orlando Stadium evokes fond memories. It was here in the '60s and '70s that gruelling battles took place between Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, Moroka Swallows, Wits University, Witbank Black Aces, Pretoria Bantu Callies and Pimville ...
Nought to celebrate.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... In another act of financial desperation, the Zimbabwe government is fiddling with the national currency. From today, banknotes have been lightened by the deletion of 10 zeros. From today, $10-billion becomes $1. While the change is purely cosmetic, it does serve to make life a ...
Exciting whisky event lined up for November.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Mziwandile Nkosi Preparations for the annual FNB Whisky Festival in conjunction with Kaya FM and The Star have begun in earnest. Enthusiastic followers of whisky trends from all walks of life in South Africa will be treated to another exciting event in ...
Heavyweight actresses shine in ultra-light comedy.(Entertainment)(Movie review)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Zane Henry Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day Director: Bharat Nalluri Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Mark Strong, Tom Payne, Ciaran Hinds Running time: 100 minutes Classification: PG Rating: HHHII ...
Reluctant hero gets hisslice of the celebrity pie.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lara de Matos He casually swaggers into the room clad in a grey tweed jacket and multi-coloured cravat, looking every bit the part of blase actor coerced into "playing nice" at yet another press conference. You half expect him to pull out an emery board and begin buffing ...
Power vendors are raking in the bucks.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... n Anonymous writes: While the price of electricity is being increased and Eskom is looking for money, the employees operating the vendor machines are stealing hundreds of rands daily. I experienced this at Eldorado Park ext 2. This is how they operate. When you ask to purchase ...
My part in the rise of Stefan.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... In the tradition of Spike Milligan, who took his fair share of credit for the downfall of Adolf Hitler, I should like to put forward a claim for my part in the rise of another German. Stefan Schumacher might not have been around to win the 53km time trial, the second-last stage ...
From Russia with drugs.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Monte Carlo - Seven Russian female athletes, including an indoor world record holder and a two-time world champion, were provisionally suspended yesterday by the IAAF for doping-related matters. Yelena Soboleva, who set an indoor world record in the 1500m race at this year's world ...
A 'can do' attitude can tackle crime; And we need every policeman and woman to cultivate commitment and perseverance to make a difference.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: JOVIAL RANTAO If you thought that one person - one good person - cannot make a difference, then read on and think again. And if you're sick and tired of crime and desperately need something to give you hope, you have more than one reason to read on. The story ...
You will be blown away by the Jewvenile humour.(Entertainment)(Movie review)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Atiyyah Khan You Don't Mess with the Zohan Director: Dennis Dugan Cast: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Schneider, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan running time: 113 minutes Classification: PG 13 LSN ...
Maduma's on the cutting edge.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nazli Thomas Most youngsters in Mamelodi dream of playing for Premier League giants like Mamelodi Sundowns or Kaizer Chiefs, but for Sello Maduma, fencing proved a more attractive sport. Maduma joined the Mamelodi Fencing Club in Pretoria, where he's been ...
Augustyn the Wall-climber; Latest SA cycling sensation fancies his chances of doing well on tough Beijing course.(Sports)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum At around 1.30am on Monday, in front of the Arc de Triomphe, staring down the Champs Elysees where he had ridden a lap of honour a little over six hours previously, John-Lee Augustyn savoured the feeling of finishing his first Tour de France. ...
Take off your blinkers, S Africa is in trouble.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... South Africa is in trouble and the future looks bleak. We have allowed the communists to manipulate their way into the ANC leadership. I want everyone to remove their collective blinkers and see communists for what they really are: a big propaganda machine taking over the ANC by ...
We need to understand why people 'speak fire'.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... How is the Human Rights Commission supposed to kick offenders when they are down? The public, progressive individuals like ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, Kader Asmal, political analysts and editors had lambasted ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and Cosatu ...
Nkosi was more versatile than volatile.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... I was troubled by the use of the word "volatile" in the obituary you carried in The Star of July 28. The word itself has negative connotations when applied to a person (ie fickle, unstable, likely to erupt in violence). None of these adjectives apply to the Stan Nkosi I ...
Rights body is failing us badly.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... It has been reported in the press that Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has not apologised for his controversial and inflammatory comment that he was prepared to kill for ANC president Jacob Zuma, but says he understands the word "killing" jars some people's sensitivities. ...
Pretoria denies its UN actions are a disaster; Allegation stung that SA's voting record is blotting its human rights copy book.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: peter fabricius Laurence Caromba of the Centre for International Political Studies at the University of Pretoria has annoyed the Union Buildings by contending that SA's performance on the UN Security Council these past 19 months been a "foreign policy disaster". ...
Heart patient's last chance to lead a normal life.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Kanina Foss Wally Katzke has been given a second chance. Tomorrow he will undergo open-heart surgery, and if he makes the recommended lifestyle and dietary changes, he could go on to lead a normal life. If he doesn't change the way he lives, he will end up ...
Simpson confirms childhood abuse.(Entertainment)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Jessica Simpson claims she has been abused. The singer made the startling confession in a candid interview, although she refused to go into any further details. When asked by America's Elle magazine if she had ever been physically abused, the singer said: "I don't ...
Ordinary Africans' lives still unchanged.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... In one of his brilliant books, Hegemony or Survival: America's quest for global dominance, author Noam Chomsky exposes America's "grand imperial strategy", which, he says, is aimed at ensuring America's permanent dominance of the global political and economic landscape. Chomsky ...