The Star (South Africa) back issues from February 2009:
Saving starts with bringing lunch to work.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... IN RESPONSE to the global economic crisis, Kelly chief operations officer Gayleen Baxter has the following advice on tightening your belt at work: "Too often people are fooled into thinking that they are not overspending at work, however the reality is that if you add up the R10 for your ...
Lucrative careers await; Despite gloom, there are still good jobs out there for the skilled.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Peter Ayuk FOR MANY people, deciding what to do with the rest of their lives is a daunting |challenge. The prevailing global economic circumstances characterised by depressed demand and massive job cuts makes this question even trickier. Then, sprinkle a bit ...
Shaeleen: One'seriaas' Coconut.(Entertainment)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Lara de Matos Shaeleen Tobin is a very solemn person and extremely serious about the things she considers of paramount importance in life. A dedication to honing one's cooking skills, for example, is something she simply will not compromise on and serving a weak cup of ...
meeting of minds.(Entertainment)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Another year is upon us and as I edge towards my 30th cycle on this planet, the time has come for me to reveal the dark secret I have kept close to my bosom for most of my semi-young life: I possess the power of psychic insight. "What a crock!" I hear all the cynical ...
THE BOLD AND THE BLOODY.(Entertainment)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Stephanie Forrester (The Bold and the Beautiful) might be in need of a nip/tuck ... THE REASON: In rubbing so many people up the wrong way, this matriarch clearly had it coming. She cost her husband, Eric, his company, threw his former mistress, Jackie Marone, over a balcony, is ...
Doing the right thing takes immense courage; Whistle-blowers face being fired and losing their jobs /and their families.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Frances Kazan Would you blow the whistle on a boss embezzling funds who had been and continues to be incredibly supportive? Would you be willing to risk your job? What will happen if you do nothing and the scam is eventually uncovered? How do you ...
Employees can only disclose what's relevant to job; A cleaner cannot be fired for not saying he has no driver's licence.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... At this time of year recruit- ment of new employees is at its peak. Too many employers are failing to double-check that the qualifications submitted by job candidates are genuine. Common law entitles employers to know all facts about a prospective employee that are relevant to a ...
Contact centres still offer opportunities.(Workplace)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Francois Venter FOR many young people working in South African contact centres, the past year or so has been a challenge. Due to the downturn in the economy, jobs became scarcer and optimism made way for gloom. But it seemed like such a fantastic place to ...
Why do prisoners get preference over aged?(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... I HAVE recently heard that the IEC is pulling out all the stops in order to register as many prisoners as possible before the final voter registration, due to take place on the 7th and 8th of February. Wonderful news for some, but what about all the disabled, frail and elderly ...
Yes, there sure is something to a name; Aptronyms are names that tie in with a profession. Just look around.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: james clarke SOME years ago New Scientist carried an article on how a person's name sometimes steers them towards a career appropriate to their name. So we have a Helen Bloom writing in The Saturday Star's gardening page about flowers ... The science magazine ...
How dare they purport to speak on my behalf!(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... WHEN political parties were unbanned by the Nationalist Government under F W de Klerk, we started seeing new faces on our TV screens. The brilliance that was displayed by the spokespersons of different parties was intriguing. From the ANC we saw the likes of Cyril Ramaphosa, ...
I admire dogs more than man.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: terry friend I was amused to see the furore on the Letters page about politicians calling their opponents dogs. If someone called me a dog I would be flattered. A Frenchwoman back in the 17th century said, "The more I see of men the more I admire ...
Africa does not need thinly veiled superiority.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... THE letter "Our politicians' shabby comparison to Obama" (The Star January 26) refers. There was commentary immediately after Obama's inauguration that was more balanced than the vitriol that spews from the pen of Mr Cattin. In fact, some commentators said they were reminded of ...
Different, but still admired; Zuma's wives and children will cost much less than Mbeki's endless trips overseas.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: heidi holland LAST week I gave a framed print of a Madiba portrait to one of my B&B guests, an Englishwoman with Caribbean roots, after she complained that she'd walked Jozi in search of a Mandela poster. The copy of him looking trendy in dreadlocks was given ...
Good Samaritan's killers are just empty shells.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... HAVING just attended the funeral of Dieter Furrutter, the good Samaritan who was killed while helping a friend, your article "Stunned friend sees highway murder", January 20, has reference. I have to express how overwhelmed with sadness I am over the senseless killing of this ...
BAKED BEAUTIES.(Verve)(Recipe)
Feb 02, 2009 ... PLUM COBBLER Serves 6 1kg plums, halved and stoned 125ml castor sugar Cobbler: 80g butter, chilled and cut into cubes 375ml self-raising flour 125ml castor sugar 150 - 180ml buttermilk ...
Fed-up hostel women want decent housing; Alexandra residents have had enough of empty promises.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Bongani Masango WHEN you arrive at the Helen Joseph women's hostel in Alexandra, the first thing that hits you is the stench from leaking sewerage pipes. Inside, water leaks from the roof, and walls, doors and windows are in a dilapidated state. ...
Conservation and development; And at the heart of it all is the scarcest of resources - water, writes Leon Marshall.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A scenic tract of land between the Drakensberg escarpment towns of Wakkerstroom and Luneburg could this year help settle one of the most troubling environmental questions facing South Africa: Where to draw the line between conservation and development. The landscape of rolling ...
Many a slip between the hand and the hold; A mixed bag this week: the perils of giving up hand luggage; a batch of faulty nappies; and more on the shattering Corsa Lite rear-window saga ...(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Airlines don't consider| compensating passengers| at all if they pack "valuables" such as electronic items, jewellery or cash in their check-in baggage. Keep your valuables with you, is the golden rule, especially in South Africa. But what if you pack such valuables into your ...
Primary school supplement offers much more this year.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Good news for all schoolchildren - Primary Matters has returned this year, bigger and better. Today's supplement is a teachers' guide that will show all educators how Primary Matters will work this year and how they can use it. Instead of just catering for grade 0 to 3, the ...
The Corsa carry-on.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... The "exploding Corsa Lite rear window" story keeps running. The short version is that General Motors SA confirmed in late 2007 that Opel Corsa Lite models made or sold between May 2005 and June 2007 had a fault in the design of their rear windows or "backlites": an overheating ...
Faulty nappies give little comfort.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A bad batch of Huggies nappies has a few parents mad. The hellopeter consumer website features a rash of complaints about broken sticker tabs, which render the nappies useless in most cases. Huggies maker Kimberly-Clark has its consultants responding to every online ...
Private sector credit growth declines to 14%.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Ethel Hazelhurst Growth in credit to the private sector fell sharply in December to just more than 14 percent, from 15.3 percent in November and more than 20 percent only a few months ago, according to Reserve Bank data released on Friday. The figure, which ...
Local analysts see clouds ahead.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... The US economy shrank only 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, less than the |5.5 percent economists had expected. So the week ended on a relatively upbeat note after a stream of negative data. As bad news continued to come from abroad and global growth forecasts ...
Soros, unlike sunken US, ended last year in black.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... However, the US had entered the "crash of 2008 with 365 percent and the ratio is bound to rise to 500 percent", he said. How will they ever dig their way out of the debt? No country can escape the spillover from the chaos reigning in the major markets and the ...
Mom arrested after sons suffocate.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A MOTHER allegedly killed her two sons in an attempted suicide bid, according to North West police. Police yesterday said they were investigating a double murder case after the 29-year-old woman allegedly killed her sons in Ventersdorp on Saturday. The woman allegedly set a house on fire, ...
Crotty is right about politicians, wrong about UK.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Max Brewster On holiday in Cape Town However, her assumptions about UK democracy were wide of the mark. Our membership of the EU means the the people of the UK have an increasingly smaller say about how our county is governed. We elect members to the ...
Roubini feels no triumph in /his vindication as Dr Doom.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... No more. "Roubini was intellectually courageous, and he called the shots correctly," says Frenkel, whose AIG survives only on the basis of more than $100 billion (R1 trillion) of government loans. "He gained credibility and he deserves it." New York University's Roubini returned ...
Motata witnesses can't explain errors.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Botho Molosankwe A witness in Judge Nkola Motata's case could not give an explanation of how he got his calculations wrong while working out the alcohol percentage in the judge's blood sample. Another witness admitted to making a mistake of labelling the blood ...
You can join search for SA's best crime-fighters.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Staff Reporter THE search is on for police officers who have taken extraordinary steps to make South Africa a safer place. Radio stations 94.7 Highveld Stereo and Talk Radio 702 will this year pay tribute to the country's finest crime-fighters. Star for a ...
Protectionism vs opportunity.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Ann Crotty Protectionism, the retreat of "very significant amounts of investment" and what amounted to the closing of capital markets for a "number of countries" threatened Africa as a result of the global economic crisis, finance minister Trevor Manuel told Business ...
Watch out for potholes and blasts.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Aki Anastasiou THE heavy rains last week caused mayhem on our roads. The after-effects of the rains are going to cause problems. This was evident when the water started eroding many roads across Joburg, and potholes have developed. There are some ...
Cop pumps 12 bullets into man's car; Passenger is wounded, driver detained.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Thandi Skade An off-duty policeman fired 12 bullets into a civilian car - for alleged reckless driving - leaving a passenger with a gunshot wound through the neck and a graze on her head. The drama unfolded at around 11.30pm on January 23. A ...
Tsvangirai has more to lose than win from Harare deal.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... So forecasting that the entry of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) into Mugabe's government will come to a sticky end soon is probably dangerous. At the end of last week the MDC-T (the bigger, Morgan Tsvangirai-led faction of the MDC) issued a statement noting that it ...
Joburg metro police strike indefinitely over host of issues; Testing and licensing departments will be closed.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox THE Joburg Metro Police Department is on an indefinite strike. This means that the testing and licensing department will probably be closed until a resolution is found. The testing and licensing stations expected to be affected are ...
Top Zuma investigator quits Scorpions over uncertainty.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan ONE of the lead Scorpions investigators in Jacob Zuma's corruption case has quit. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Tlali Tlali yesterday confirmed that "since the beginning of this year, (Scorpions' special investigator Isak) du Plooy ...
Concern over state of Mandela bridge.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox THE Nelson Mandela bridge, a landmark in Joburg, is being dismantled bit by bit. A drive over the bridge shows aluminium strips having been pulled out, exposed wires which could kill or injure someone badly, and cracked glass panels. The ...
India mixing it up in double triumph.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza say their historic Australian Open mixed doubles success yesterday will give the sport a huge boost back home in cricket-obsessed India. Bhupathi and Mirza became the first Indian pair to win a Grand Slam mixed doubles title in Melbourne when they ...
SA aims for 4% economic rise.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... President Kgalema Motlanthe was "confident" South Africa's economic growth could reach 4 percent if the government implemented a $69 billion (R706 billion) infrastructure spending plan over the next three years, he said on Friday. While falling commodity prices would slow ...
Swim star Phelps going to pot?(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Tampa, Florida - Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps has admitted "regrettable" behaviour following the publication of a picture showing him smoking marijuana. Golden boy Phelps reportedly took the drug during two days of partying with students last November, a quiet time in the ...
SA Open dealing the aces at Montecasino.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Nazli Thomas THE paint has dried, the courts are up and Johannesburg's blue skies are back. The countdown is over and today, some of the ATP's most talented players will take to the courts at Montecasino for day one of one of the most anticipated events on ...
Expect a backlash - Arthur; Smith, Botha and the coach won't be underestimating Aussies in SA.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum SHORTLY after he and his band of merry men had touched down at OR Tambo on Saturday, Mickey Arthur said that he was expecting a backlash from the Australians when they arrived here. What he may not have expected, though, was that the South ...
Old people die in blaze.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Twenty-three people have died in a fire that destroyed a wooden old people's home in Komi Republic in north-west Russia. Preliminary evidence yesterday indicated the blaze began in the smoking room. Three of the aged survived, as did the staff. The blaze raised renewed concern over lax ...
Bucs kept at Bay in PSL; Pirates fail to capitalise after goalkeeper's silly blunder.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Jonty Mark Orlando Pirates have bolstered their defence ahead of this afternoon's transfer window closure, with the signing of Santos' Zimbabwean centre back Zvenyika Makonese. Coach Ruud Krol confirmed as much Saturday night, after the Buccaneers' ...
Zille won't tolerate cronyism - 'DA must walk its talk'.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christelle Terreblanche Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has put her foot down over party stalwarts squealing about their relatively low ranking on the DA's candidate lists, saying she won't tolerate crony systems within her own party. Zille told The ...
Girl asks for water, then jumps to death.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Mogomotsi Magome PRETORIA police are looking for a man suspected of killing his 42-year-old lover in Diepsloot Extension 2. According to police spokesperson Bonginkosi Msimango, the couple had an argument on Saturday night. The man then apparently ...
Crime, cops, grant De Lille's priorities.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY BOOSTING police staffing to 200 000, recruiting 5 000 social workers to help heal crime-hit communities, positioning the country as a leader in renewable energy, and introducing a minimum social grant funded through taxing luxury goods, tobacco and alcohol. ...
Pienaar is the pivot for De Villiers.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has given the clearest indication yet that Sharks utility player Ruan Pienaar will wear the Bok No 10 jersey against the British and Irish Lions this year. It would appear that the three performances ...
Reflectingon theglory.(Sports)
Feb 02, 2009 ... NORMAN Arendse, fulltime lawyer and sometime sports administrator, has jumped on the Proteas' bandwagon, and why not? Well, why not in this case is that the learned senior counsel has made a meal of the racial composition of the team - which at least he thinks is right - while everyone ...
Blue-light car blamed as pedestrian killed.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A CAR escorting ANC president Jacob Zuma allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian in Ulundi, northern Zululand, yesterday. Police spokesperson Director Phindile Hadebe said the car was one of a convoy of vehicles escorting Zuma to an ANC rally in Nongoma yesterday morning. ...
Pedestrians drown crossing bridges.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... TWO pedestrians have drowned after attempting to cross flooded bridges in separate incidents in North West, police said yesterday. Inspector Sam Tselanyane said 50-year-old Modiko Kgalapa was killed on Hartsrivier bridge in Delareyville on Saturday. Samuel Mathsmeld (63) also ...
Pair held after drinking buddies are murdered.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... TWO men have been arrested for allegedly murdering two men with whom they had been drinking liquor at two different shebeens in Katlehong. The first man was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly stabbing to death a 34-year-old man following a squabble at the Mandela informal ...
Boesak for premier, crowd chants; Cleric warns against jostling for power in COPE.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Caiphus Kgosana CHANTS of "Boesak for premier" reverberated inside the Rocklands Civic Centre hall in Mitchells Plain as cleric Allan Boesak returned to the venue where the United Democratic Front was formed 25 years ago. About 500 people, mostly bused in ...
Battle of Nongoma; Zulu royal is ambushed after IFP, ANC members clash.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: SIPHO KHUMALO and SAPA three ANC members have been shot in northern Zululand, hours after ANC president Jacob Zuma appealed for political tolerance in KwaZulu Natal. Police spokesperson Director Phindile Radebe said a Zulu royal, Prince Zeblon Zulu, who is an ...
SA vehicle makers start feeling the squeeze of crisis.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Roy Cokayne The escalating crisis in the global automotive industry has spread to South Africa. Most locally based manufacturers are embarking on initiatives to reduce the size of their workforces and align their production numbers with declining vehicle ...
New municipal rules aim to speed service delivery.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Donwald Pressly The treasury's draft municipal budget and reporting regulations aim to provide budget information to local government councillors so they can make informed decisions about how to spend municipal revenues and promote efficient service delivery. ...
Projects to develop home-grown ideas.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Thabiso Mochiko Two initiatives aimed at developing innovative ideas have received a flood of applications from entrepreneurs wishing to advance their businesses. Launched six months ago by well-established local companies, the projects are targeting ...
Grocers look to trim costs in their distribution systemszz Pick n Pay is phasing out supplier deliveries in favour of centralised model.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Tom Robbins Grocers Shoprite and Spar are enhancing their distribution capacity while Pick n Pay is gradually scrapping supplier deliveries to stores in favour of its own centralised, one-truck model in a bid to boost profit. Shoprite confirmed last week that ...
Wall Street cuts bonuses to weather the storm.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Bank of America is deferring payment of last year's bonuses of $50 000 (R511 012) or more at its capital markets and investment banking units over three years, according to people familiar with the matter. Employees who had expected a bonus this month based on their work last ...
Obama plan to unblock US flow of cash, credit.(Business Report)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Hans Nichols and Julianna Goldman US President Barack Obama's administration was readying a plan to unblock credit markets and cut mortgage rates, he said on Friday, vowing that chief executives would be stopped from siphoning money intended for economic recovery. ...
Joburg dad held over child porn.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Anna Cox THE 15-year old girl sat on her bed, crying her eyes out. She had just seen her 50-year old father being arrested for child grooming and pornography. Last night the Child Protection Unit (CPU) swooped on an upmarket house in Glenhazel, ...
Move on Pan-African body.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... African nations will set up a new regional body to begin working out details of bringing 53 countries on the continent under a single Pan-African government, the African Union head, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, said in Addis Ababa yesterday. The new authority, to be launched by ...
School supplement offering much more.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Good news for all schoolchildren - Primary Matters has returned this year, bigger and better. Today's supplement is a teachers' guide that will show all educators how Primary Matters will work this year and how they can use it. Instead of just catering for grades 0 to 3, the ...
Sleuth in Zuma case quits Scorpions.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Karyn Maughan ONE of the lead Scorpions investigators in Jacob Zuma's corruption case has quit. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Tlali Tlali yesterday confirmed that "since the beginning of this year, (Scorpions special investigator Isak) du Plooy ...
Hlophe can't return to work until conditions of his leave are met.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH CAPE Judge President John Hlophe is not allowed to return to work because the conditions under which he was granted special leave last year have not been met, Justice Minister Enver Surty said yesterday. However, Judge Hlophe now has the chance ...