The Star (South Africa) back issues from September 2008:
Once is more than enough.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: JOVIAL RANTAO It's not the e-mail messages, dammit - it's the person who presses the send button more than once. It is because of the arthritic malfunction that the index finger seems to press the send button more than once to my - and, I am sure, to your - ...
Why the Olympics should go with a bang; In-flight training can be tough for angels ... who first have to die.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: james clarke While the Beijing Olympics are still fresh in the mind my colleague, books editor James Mitchell, left a message to say he agreed with me when I felt the goose-stepping soldiers who carried the Olympic Flag were an unfortunate touch to the opening and ...
Genaro gets a little outside help to clean up his act.(Entertainment)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Linda Sokhulu returns to soaps as a traditional healer in Rhythm City. She plays Inyanga Ziyanda, who is brought in by Bernard to help David Genaro (Jamie Bartlett) rid himself of evil spirits. Many will remember her as Cleo Khuzwayo, from Generations. Since leaving the SABC1 ...
Between docs and a hard place.(Entertainment)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Since she made her debut as Zieg Combrink's mistress, Stefanie Louw has been unable to liberate herself of the "other woman" tag. And while Rolanda Marais doesn't agree with the morally questionable decisions of her character, she realises that is what gives Stefanie so much ...
Land reform needs new debate; More creative thoughts are needed than simple redistribution of farm land in South Africa.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: andries du Toit South Africa urgently needs a debate about the future of the countryside: a debate not only on the "land question", but about every aspect of how agriculture works, how we feed our people and how we care for the environment. This is ...
Presiding officer must hear all the evidence; Employer must ensure key players in the accused's case are free from duty.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The central reason that a presiding officer (PO) attends a disciplinary hearing is to hear and understand the evidence from both sides. The PO must hear this evidence properly in order to be able to consider it once the hearing is adjourned for purposes of a verdict. ...
So you think you can handle him?(Entertainment)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Munyaradzi Vomo The producer of the smash- hit shows Pop Idol and American Idol is heading to South Africa. Nigel Lythgoe will join the So You Think You Can Dance SA team on its first live episode on Saturday. He is also the show's creator. After a ...
Gossip revolution grips TV.(Entertainment)
Sep 01, 2008 ... It's the hottest show to hit television screens in the US since Sex and the City first held audiences in the throes of Manolo Blahnik-inspired admiration, and it's fast acquiring cult status in the UK. But for all the hype that now surrounds Gossip Girl, magazines and other ...
Some helpful advice on how to ask for a favour; No one can make it alone - sometimes you need support.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tessa Silberbauer This article was inspired by the intersection of several similar experiences. First, I received several rather odd requests. Then, one of my favourite authors reminded me of an essay she'd written some years ago. To see her ...
There should be room for all in the rainbow nation.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... I read with great interest the article "The time to stay, not to leave" by Mathews Phosa (The Star, August 27). It's great that such a senior ANC official finally admits that South Africans of all races are needed for their skills and contribution. But the ANC as an ...
Regularly rest the eyes to ward offcomputer effects.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... What do all modern office workers have in common? All strain their eyes daily for the benefit of the company. Looking into a computer screen for large periods of time, causes nearly 80% of all computer users to suffer from Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), a study found. ...
Let's return to basic principles.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The opinion article "The time to stay, not leave" by Mathews Phosa (The Star, Opinion and Analysis, Wednesday August 27 2008) refers. I compliment Phosa for his great vision. While there are many wonderful things happening in South Africa, these are outweighed by the ...
Welcome to the house of fun . . .(Entertainment)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By the looks of things, there won't be another Fingergate scandal to controversially cloud everything Big Brother Africa stands for this year. Oh no sireee, all this season's housemates seem willing and prepared to do anything to get their golden opportunity. For 91 days young ...
Aptitude and attitude play role in career choice.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Heather Jones Objective quantitative assessment is an integral part of career guidance when exploring an individual's career options. This approach matches individuals to jobs based on the measurement and collection of quantitative data. There is ...
Flexi-work the way to go; Temporary work agencies aim to join forces to create a strong, efficient South African sector.(Workplace)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Workplace Staff The temporary Employment Services (TES) sector in South Africa is facing one of its biggest challenges to date. Organised labour, in the form of the unions, is lobbying government to amend existing labour legislation limiting certain employment ...
TIME TO CLEAN OUT YOUR CUPBOARDS.(Verve)
Sep 01, 2008 ... What's hiding in your grocery cupboard? Half packets of pasta or rice, empty honey bottles and expired cans of smoked mussels stuffed away at the back? If this sounds like your kitchen cupboard, it's time for a spring-clean. First, empty the cupboard and wipe the shelves. Throw ...
'Concourt counter-revolutionaries'; The legal community is at a crossroad, writes Brian Spilg, and we must transcend the myopic view of some politicos that has been taken of the issues leading to recent attacks on the country's highest courts and take a look at exactly who are these ...(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Not since the 1950s has there been such a sustained attack on the highest court. Then, the attack was the result of a clash between pushing through political ideology on the one hand and a court's determination to preserve its own independence on the other. There the battle was fought out ...
Zille is keeping the opposition alive.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Moses Bobby Fothoane claims that, because Helen Zille is the executive mayor of Cape Town, the Democratic Alliance is now a regional party ("Zille is killing the DA, but it can still be saved", The Star, August 26). Zille, whatever her duties in Cape Town, is the national leader ...
It's not all bad news.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... At last, a little good news on the inflation front after all the bad news of the last couple of years. Though CPIX - the inflation measure the Reserve Bank uses to decide on monetary policy - rose to a new high of 13,4% a year in July from 11,6% in June, and producer price inflation beat ...
Called to account.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Johannesburg's claim to be "a world-class African city" has taken a knock with the disclosure that the city council's billing system is in chaos. Myriad problems have arisen since the introduction on July 1 of the new rates and property valuation system, affecting mainly ...
Will the real Mrs Moeketsi please stand up? It's a chilling prospect: as you read this, someone could be indulging on a lavish spending spree in your name.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Identity theft is a particularly nasty form of white-collar crime. Having got their hands on documentation that supposedly proves they are you, the fraudsters assume your identity - and your sound credit rating. Then they set about wrecking that hard-earned credit history and ...
If iconic model Kate Moss hates being skinny, then tell us why ...(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Amid Kate Moss's com- ments for a recent feature in Interview magazine, it's her thoughts on her own thinness that have sparked the most interest. The iconic model, now immortalised once again by Marc Quinn in a gold statue to appear in the British Museum, talks about the ...
Office space still in demand.(Classified)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Barrow Properties' new development at 85 Central Street in Houghton has been leased to Brink Cohen Le Roux Attorneys. The 1 700sq m development, consisting of two ...
Daughter in fight for truth over man killed by the police.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Lee Rondganger Gunshots pierced the night air and groups of men and women were sent scattering after a gang fight in a Joburg neighbourhood turned deadly. What happened on the night of April 5 this year at the tenement flats in Claremont, near Sophiatown, ...
Rate hikes hit consumer credit growth.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst Johannesburg The rate at which banks are lending to consumers is slowing sharply while growth in corporate borrowing is still strong. Credit extended to households grew 19.8 percent over the 12 months to July, compared with nearly 21 percent ...
Talk of anarchy if Zuma is jailed exaggerates his popularity.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... There is no doubt that if Zuma were to go to jail for corruption there would be some outpourings of angst and protests among his supporters. But to think that the country would become completely ungovernable seriously overestimates the man's popularity and the gullibility of ...
Protection is a promise that hurts everybody.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... His take on Obama's economic proposals is that they are anti growth. Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist who writes about "the politics and economics of inequality", hit back with figures on employment showing that job growth was stronger in the US under Democratic ...
Citizens made to pay as Manuel twists tax truth.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jim Harris Honeydew He talks of nominal tax relief of more than R90 billion and says the relative tax burden of all individual taxpayers has been reduced since 1999. Yes, it's always possible to choose words and angles that disguise and invert what's ...
Morality tale tells of ditzy wives, fall guys.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... This telling moment, linking fact and fiction, appears in a novel by Jacqueline Carey called It's a Crime. A strangely comic morality tale, it features a telecoms outfit called LinkAge, its acute accounting foibles and the $140 billion its shareholders lose when the Securities ...
Vodacom to use Gateway to expandzz $700m buy to stand alone.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Slindile Khanyile Durban Vodacom would use its acquisition of Gateway Telecommunications carrier services and business network solutions to grow its footprint in African countries it had struggled to penetrate through its cellular business, chief executive designate ...
SAPPI.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Sappi would have to almost double capacity cuts in Europe over the next year to reduce overproduction enough to boost profits, the paper maker said. "Between 500 000 tons and 600 000 tons of coated fine paper capacity would need to be closed" or even as much as 800 000 tons, chief ...
Small coal exporters have plan B to beat Richards Bay cuts.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Justin Brown Johannesburg Small empowered Richards Bay coal exporters are putting in place contingency plans in case the allocations they were expecting are cut back next year because of insufficient rail capacity. Karl Gribnitz, the chief executive of SA Coal ...
Amap's R18m loss leads to cost cuts.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Cape Town Loss-making Amalgamated Appliance Holdings (Amap) is looking to smooth out profits in its highly cyclical electronic goods import business after it had the worst annual result in its 11-year history. Amap was among the hardest hit ...
Stake in LCD TV plant up for sale.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Amalgamated Appliance Holdings (Amap) was "actively pursuing" selling a "significant" stake in its Cape Town manufacturing plant, to focus on its core sales and marketing function, chief executive Alan Coward said. The group, which makes most of ...
Cost of disasters hits Western Cape economy.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Donwald Pressly Cape Town The disaster management bill for the Western Cape has rocketed from R172 million in 2003 to R784 million last year, according to a University of Cape Town report. Repeated weather disasters cost the province just more than R2 billion ...
Harare trip shows how a country can be misled to ruin.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Though not exactly the welcome visitors expect, it was no cause for alarm to a bunch of South African travellers. After all, we too have learned not to always expect power from Eskom. Out into the streets of the city the sun was dazzling. But this only served to illustrate the ...
SABC in murky agreement over 2010 broadcasting rights.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Baldwin Ndaba The SABC board is on a collision course with the High Court and the ANC after it awarded the 2010 World Cup broadcasting rights, worth R300-million, to a Japanese company. This in spite of the SABC procurement committee's recommendation that ...
State fails to meet MIDP mid-term review deadline.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria The government has failed to meet its self-imposed deadline to finalise the outcome of the mid-term review of the motor industry development programme (MIDP) by the end of last month. However, Vukani Mde, the spokesperson for trade and ...
Shortage of skills putting construction projects in jeopardy.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne Pretoria Chronic shortages of skills and supplies in the global construction industry are a threat to projects worldwide and most businesses expect this problem to continue for the next five years, according to the results of two KPMG global construction ...
Rural poor struggle to feed themselves.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins and Donwald Pressly Cape Town Urban residents had received some relief in maize prices but for the rural poor sharp increases had continued recently, threatening household food security, the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) has reported. ...
Counsel:Mpofu hired by board.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Baldwin Ndaba Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri and Dali Mpofu, suspended group CEO of the SABC, are not singing the same tune on management of the public broadcaster. In the Johannesburg High Court on Friday, Mpofu filed another application in ...
It's BlueMonday for Soweto giants.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are having a blue Monday today after a bruising weekend from which they got further evidence that the Absa Premiership remains as difficult as ever. Both Soweto giants lost their opening matches of the new ...
Phosa urges ANC to unite in service; Power-grabbing and greed slammed.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa has appealed to members to stop destroying the ruling party in their fight for power and wealth. He was speaking at the funeral of Defence secretary January Masilela, who died in a car crash. ...
Boks finally deliver on Peter's promises.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen What a pity Peter de Villiers' World Cup stars took nine Tests to finally strike top form. While certain individuals performed consistently throughout the season, too many players, especially those who were part of the World Cup ...
Sars gives employers leeway.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Employers and businesses in the country are being granted more time to submit payroll information without suffering from penalties, the SA Revenue Service announced yesterday. "The original deadline for submission was August 29, but the new payroll reconciliation process introduced this ...
Finance sector BEE talks miss deadline.(Business Report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Mzwandile Jacks Johannesburg South African banks, insurance companies, Cosatu and the SA Communist Party (SACP) have failed to find common ground on direct ownership in the financial services sector and have missed the August 31 deadline set by the department of trade ...
Nigerian president ill.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Abuja - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has a chronic kidney problem, is receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, a source in the presidency said yesterday, reviving concern over his health and ability to govern. Some Nigerian newspapers reported he had a renal transplant in ...
Mbeki again fails to secure Zimbabwe agreement; Mugabe persuaded to wait a week before appointing own cabinet.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Basildon Peta Zimbabwean negotiators returned to Harare at the weekend after another unsuccessful attempt by President Thabo Mbeki to achieve an agreement on a power-sharing unity government. But Mbeki has succeeded in persuading President Robert Mugabe to ...
Vigilantes held for killing 'lost' man; 3 due in court over death of suspected housebreaker.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Solly Maphumulo and Mzwandile Nkosi A man accused of housebreaking was killed by a speeding train after the people who accused him of stealing allegedly placed his badly beaten body on the railway tracks. Before he was dumped on the tracks, the man suffered a ...
Drive carefully amid roadworks.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The first set-up phase of the major roadworks under way in Gauteng has almost been completed. The upgrades to more than 125km of roads are part of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP). Roadworks are taking place between the N1 from Soweto to the N4 in Pretoria, on the ...
How win saved coach's skin; Even if the team do not do well in Europe, at least De Villiers will still be in charge for the British and Irish Lions tour.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen It ended on a high, with a 53-8 victory over a team that just a week earlier had comfortably beaten them 27-15. What a turn-around for the Springboks and under-fire coach Peter de Villiers. The resounding victory, just the second ...
SA's first lesbian divorce finalised.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The first lesbian divorce since gay marriage was legalised in South Africa in 2006 has taken place. Elaine Burnett from Gordons Bay and Esther Groenewald from Strand were divorced before Acting Judge Sven Olivier in the Cape High Court on Friday. A couple from ...
Surprise winner sinks Celtic.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Sports Reporter Bloemfontein Celtic (0) 0 Mamelodi Sundowns (1) 1 Moriri 7 This was a performance Trott Moloto will have been proud of as Mamelodi Sundowns kicked off their Absa Premiership campaign with a vital away win at Bloemfontein ...
Major breaches in SA's most secure jail; Cellphones, dangerous weapons smuggled in.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken South Africa's most secure prison is allegedly being used as a centre to plan criminal activities, using smuggled cellphones. The Star has established that there have been a number of serious security breaches at C-Max prison over the past six ...
Snuki accused of muzzling journalists who back Zuma.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Hardly two weeks after returning from suspension, SABC news head Snuki Zikalala has been accused of removing two political reporters from covering Jacob Zuma because of their apparent allegiance to the ANC president. The two political ...
Fun, music end Women's Month.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jabulile Ngwenya Women's Month ended with hilarity and song when a host of female artists rocked a crowd almost exclusively of women at the Bosman stadium in Brakpan. Yesterday's day-long festival ended the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality's month-long ...
Nokwe to the four; After four Tests and 50 minutes the man from the Eastern Cape is a new Bok hero.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen He scored a record-breaking four tries on Saturday, but Jongi Nokwe is a reluctant hero. "I'm still inexperienced at this level of the game and need to play many more Tests before I can think of those things," said the humble left ...
'It's like a war zone here'; Many die as runaway fires, floods and storms hit the country.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY and agencies Gale-force winds, hail, snow and plummeting temperatures have brought disaster and death across the country. Runaway fires in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) and Mpumalanga have left hundreds homeless and claimed the lives of at least 10 people. ...
Home Affairs puts pupil's life on hold for two years.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Jacques Breytenbach However bright she may be, and however much she studies, Nkateko Ndlovu will not pass matric this year or the next - and so reach her dream of becoming a doctor. Thanks to the Department of Home Affairs, this Nelmapius Secondary School ...
Still no joy for residents.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Poloko Tau Joburg Connect, the call centre that logs customer inquires and complaints for the council, is still offline a week after it was hit by a computer glitch. City revenue department spokesperson Mandy Woods said last night that the Joburg Connect ...
Stormy weather gives displaced foreigners a break.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY With about 600 foreign nationals already moved out of municipal halls and camps across Cape Town, authorities said they would decide today whether relocation of the displaced should be suspended until the weather clears. City council and ...
Bid to defuse Motlanthe spat.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mkhwanazi The agenda of today's ANC meeting was due to be dominated by the infighting tearing the organisation apart and threatening its chance of winning next year's elections. The infighting will detract the ANC's national working committee (NWC), ...
Innocent couple shot by cops on the mend.(News)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: BONILE NGQIYAZA An innocent woman shot multiple times by police reacting to a house robbery in Meyersdal, Alberton, is out of the intensive care unit. But her husband, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds in the same attack, was still in the intensive-care ...
SA hopes fizzle in the drizzle.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BYLINE: Patrick Compton Kevin Pietersen lit the touchpaper and then man-of-the-match Andrew Flintoff finished off what had effectively become a Twenty20 match at a gloomy Lord's yesterday. On a dismal, rain-interrupted day, the home crowd were finally rewarded for ...
Newcomers stun highly-rated Barca.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Madrid - Promoted Numancia spoiled Pep Guardiola's league debut as Barcelona coach, beating their illustrious opponents 1-0 at home in the Primera Liga yesterday. The Second Division champions broke away to score through midfielder Mario early in the first half and Barca wasted ...