The Sunday Independent (South Africa) back issues from June 2007:
Public sector discontent reflects wider dissatisfaction.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: SIBONGILE KHUMALO and NTEBO MMOPE Johannesburg - The discontent underpinning the striking public servants' demands for a 12 percent pay increase reflects a wider dissatisfaction in the private sector. While thousands of red-shirted members of public sector ...
Porritt must post R2m bail for US trip.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo Johannesburg - Gary Porritt, the former chief executive of financial services firm Tigon, and former chairman of Shawcell communications, has been ordered by the Johannesburg high court to post an additional R2 million as surety for bail before he can ...
Absa may have failed Fica duties, say curators.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: RONNIE MORRIS Cape Town - Absa Bank may have failed to comply with the requirements of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (Fica) for the large amounts of money that flowed in and out of bank accounts opened by Angus Cruickshank, a business associate of Fidentia boss J ...
LeisureNet duo may be retried.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The state has challenged the acquittal of former LeisureNet bosses Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell on charges including money laundering. Cape high court Judge ...
Edcon to sell e1.8bn of debt to fund Bain buyout.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Edgars Consolidated Stores (Edcon) would sell e1.8 billion (R17.6 billion) of debt to fund its acquisition by Bain Capital, South Africa's biggest retailer said on Friday. The firm will sell e1.18 billion of floating-rate notes that mature in 2014. A second sale of e650 000 of ...
Petrol up 23c Wednesday.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The price of petrol will rise by 3.3 percent on Wednesday after crude oil rose in May. The price of unleaded petrol would rise by 23c to R7.24 a litre in Gauteng, the ...
Get physical online; Follow the web craze to workout videos and a strange new world opens to you, writes Kathleen Hom.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... By now, YouTube's reputation for the wild and just plain weird is well established. What you may not know is that its stash also includes fitness videos, which raises the question: if you've grown bored of your regular fitness routine, could this be a source for a new workout? ...
Farmers want state support in order to stay in business.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Edwin Naidu Cash-strapped farmers throughout the country are coming under increasing pressure as globalisation, monopolisation by large retailers and the drought combine to make farming a nightmare. Lourie Bosman has been farming for 40 years through droughts ...
Enjoy best of Jo'burg from a green enclave.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The four-star Protea Hotel Wanderers, on Johannesburg's green belt, is in the secure grounds of the historic Wanderers Club. From the holiday haven of Protea Hotel Wanderers, you can venture into Sandton, Rosebank or the Melrose Arch precinct. Alternatively, one can relax at the ...
Hero worship; It's no easy task preserving Sol Plaatje's legacy, writes Sabata-mpho Mokae.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Daniel Plaatje is the fourth-generation nephew of Sol Plaatje and a proud guardian of the South African writer's legacy. "My duty is to safeguard the interest of the family," says Plaatje, who is also a board member of the Sol Plaatje Educational Trust, a role he considers "very ...
Pervasively melancholic novel meanders in broad and demonstrative style.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Helon Habila's first novel, Waiting for an Angel, which was built around two Caine Prize-winning stories, was set in Lagos and has become firmly established as one of a new generation of highly praised novels that re-examine that extraordinary city. In Measuring Time Habila ...
Groundhog Day.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... 'I t's cold out there ... It's cold out there every day," said Bill Murray, waking up to another freezing morning in the movie of similar title to this rant ... Yes, I am that unoriginal. Winter hath arrived, campers. Alas, it seems to have caught perennial underachiever, to this ...
Polly Sherman checked out of Fawlty Towers long ago; In the private life of the co-creator of the greatest television sitcom in British history, Connie Booth, there is no desire for onscreen appearances, writes Cahal Milmo.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Connie Booth has a simple explanation for why she lost her enthusiasm for sitcoms. The actress and co-writer of Fawlty Towers once said: "I used to watch a lot of comedy until I got divorced. Then I went off it." The American-born actress, whose status as a creator of the show ...
Jazz redeemer.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Lucas Senyatso - All of Me This debut album from Lucas Senyatso renews my faith in local jazz musos. The term jazz has been hijacked by many musicians who wouldn't know a riff from glissando. Senyatso's album, All of Me, is an excellent example of the high standards ...
Busted! Edwin Naidu meets The Mythbusters team to discover what it's like to spend your working life blowing up experiments and dispelling urban legends.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are living out their boyhood fantasies. As stars of The Mythbusters they get to rip apart aeroplanes, blow up cement trucks and make pigs fly. Hyneman has been buried alive in their global quest to dispel widely held myths. Savage and Hyneman are ...
Shedding light on the darkness.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... An urban legend about a baby boom that is said to have occurred nine months after a massive New York power blackout in November 1965 is, sadly, just that. So it is unlikely that passion will blossom when Eskom suffers electron dysfunction this winter. That is not to say you ...
Marking time; TJ Lemon witnesses a traditional Zulu ceremony in which a village celebrates girls' passage to adulthood.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Jameni Nxele, the patriarch of the family, sits on a simple wooden stool under a thorn tree at the highest point in the homestead's kraal. His ear lobes hang in loops, indicating he comes from a time when isiqhaza (decorative ear accessories) were fashionable among Zulu men. ...
Crossing Over; Johnny Clegg might not look like a Zulu, but he surrendered himself to the culture, writes Mary Corrigall.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... He's an anomaly. A white Zulu. Yet Johnny Clegg looks like an average, middle-aged white man, when I see him sitting at a table at Mugg & Bean in Johannesburg. He doesn't parade the bravado that most performers ubiquitously wear on their sleeves. He barely catches my eye. And ...
Bigger things beckon YouTube fashionista.(Life)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Deborah Netburn William Sledd isn't your average YouTube star. His posts are funny, but he's not an aspiring comedian. He's not a stripper, although he has put up video of himself dancing in American Apparel underwear. And he's not an editing nerd, re-cutting scary ...
Fugard warns on cycle of poverty and violence; Christina Kennedy speaks to Lara Foot Newton, the director of Victory, a bleak tome on the mirage of democracy in post-apartheid South Africa.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... In his biography of Athol Fugard, Stephen Gray describes how the celebrated playwright has variously been cast as a black-sheep Afrikaner, a white liberal English-speaker, an anti-apartheid subversive, a collaborator and a diehard survivor. With the advent of Fugard's latest play, perhaps ...
JM Coetzee's essays as withholding as his fiction.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... With Inner Workings, JM Coetzee collects his essays of the past six years. Many of these pieces appeared in the New York Review of Books. Most of the others (on Robert Musil, Graham Greene, Samuel Beckett and Hugo Claus) were printed as introductions to new editions. Placed in a sequence ...
Habila puts pen to injustice in any setting.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Katy Guest At George Mason University, Washington DC, the newest member of the creative writing faculty has just moved into his office. His shelves are empty and his walls bare, but he hates offices that are full of personal effects. All he needs are "lots and lots and ...
Now showing: Return of the Cicadas XIII.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: PJ Huffstutter Normally, this would be the beginning of the busy season at Jim Nadeau's ice-sculpting company. But when the phone rings, Nadeau tells confused Chicago-area brides and party planners that they might want to postpone their events. "The cicadas are coming," ...
Computer pinpoints that elusive moonbow.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Eric Bailey Aristotle took note of this celestial happening a couple of millennia back. Ben Franklin bagged a sighting or two, as did Mark Twain. The venerable John Muir, chronicler of Sierra mountaintop and meadow, waxed enthusiastic about the night-time phenomenon. ...
Potter films spawn a duet that works like magic.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The late, great Peggy Ashcroft had a remarkable, influential career on stage and screen. She provided a memorable roster of Shakespearean heroines for Stratford (Perdita, Imogen, Lady Macbeth, Isabella), where her interpretation was considered definitive, and her film career paralleled the ...
Please deliver us from toilet humour of 'Crass' Rock.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Eric Rohmer, one of the most French of film directors, has had a wonderful career that stretches from the fifties to the present. His usual concern has been the small human comedies and missteps of love, miniature fables (though insistently adult) that are set against the larger background ...
GIs seek refugee status to escape 'illegal' war; But the Canadian refugee board refusesto allow crucial evidence to support their cases, writes Andrea Meeson.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... When Ryan Johnson enlisted in the United States Army, he was 22, unemployed, with few job prospects and even fewer of getting a college education. A career in the military - with promises from his recruiter of a non-combat job and up to $40 000 (R280 000) towards a tertiary qualification - ...
New research suggests we are hard-wired for morality; Scientists have found that placing the interests of others above our own activates a primitive part of our brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex, writes Shankar Vedantam.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The e-mail came from the next room. "You gotta see this!" Jorge Moll had written. Moll and Jordan Grafman, neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, had been scanning the brains of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either ...
Rhodesia revisited: an exile's deja vu; When she returned in 1980, after an absence of nearly eight years, she could already spot changes. But then the police arrived.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Grace and Garfield Todd had arrived in Southern Rhodesia as missionaries from New Zealand in 1934, with their two-year-old daughter Alecyn. By 1948, Todd became a member of parliament and in 1953 he became prime minister of Southern Rhodesia. By 1958 his work towards democratic ...
Encompassing the art of song - from folk to pop to jazz to soul.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Randy Lewis On a soggy afternoon under a steel-grey sky during the annual Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans, singer and songwriter Judith Owen was full tilt into her performance, engaged in banter between songs with a small crowd of onlookers made up of the ...
A soldier drawn by duty and changed by the sacrifice.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Marc Fisher On the afternoon of September 11 2001, Patrick Campbell walked over to the Pentagon and asked if he could help search for bodies. Only if you're a medic or a firefighter, he was told. That day, Campbell decided to become a medic. So you know ...
'Ambush evangelism' by sports stars queers the pitch.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Rodney Hartman Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite belongs to Jesus. The Brazilian football star, who plays for AC Milan, told us as much this week when, in victory over Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League Final in Athens, the man known simply as Kaka partly disrobed to ...
Remixing view of what makes art African; But Mary Corrigall wonders whether Africa Remix isn't designed to shift Eurocentric thinking.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Not only is it touted as the largest contemporary African exhibit to be staged in South Africa but it also is expected to be the most significant art show Johannesburg has seen since the Picasso and Africa show came to town. Providing a challenging counterpoint to Picasso and ...
Following in the footsteps of Stanley; Tim Butcher of The Telegraph travels down the Congo River on the route of an earlier journalist.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The Daily Telegraph changed the course of African history when it funded Henry Morton Stanley's voyage of discovery down the Congo River in the 1870s, which launched the continent's troubled history of colonialism and post-colonial turbulence. In recent decades the Congo has ...
Centuries-old craft and tradition are made accessible to a wider audience.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... "Beer" and "respect" are words not normally spoken about in the same framework. But the combination of these two form the kernel of the exhibition Ukucwebezela: To Shine at the African Art Centre in Durban. Beer, in Zulu culture, has an almost sacred role and a rich history. Elizabeth ...
Soirees to take you places in Pretoria.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The season of Classic fM 102.7 Pretoria Soirees resumed again last month and has been extended to a monthly event. On Sunday June 17, guests can indulge in the finest cuisine prepared by the executive chef of the Sheraton, fine wines from the Blaauwklippen estate and music that ...
Insidious tactics in murder and media.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The Literator in the London Independent informs us that Simon & Schuster is about to publish Marina Litvinenko's memoir of her husband, Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko's terrible death by polonium-210 poisoning was big news last year, and shed light on Russia's reversion to ...
Faith thaws the glacial zone of the human heart.(Dispatches)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The year is 1616, and a group of whalers are coming to the end of the hunting season aboard the Hearts-ease on the island Svalbard. The cabin boy Thomas Goodlard relates how one quiet man, Thomas Cave, becomes involved in a bet to stay the winter at the whaling station to prove ...
No justice for murdered workers.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... It is a national disgrace that no one has been convicted after the murder of 69 security guards who were killed during the security strike last year for trying to go to work. And it is a national disgrace of gargantuan proportions that no one seems to care. There is no public ...
Mbeki must confront his alliance critics head-on.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... President Thabo Mbeki mustn't hide behind the shield of the ANC every time he is pummelled by his opponents, but instead must confront them head on. When Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu decried sycophancy in the ANC, Mbeki immediately saw that as an attack on the ANC. ...
Silence on Tshabalala begs a few questions.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Surely, when KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala admits to accepting a gift of some R7 million worth of shares from empowered millionaire and possible presidential contender Tokyo Sexwale, this constitutes major national news? Do we simply turn the page when a person in such ...
Eskom leaving elderly on ventilators gasping for air.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... It doesn't seem possible that a government that is supposed to be alleviating poverty would allow Eskom to increase their tariff by 18 percent. Those who use pre-paid electricity buy what they can afford and not what is needed to run their household. Those of us fortunate enough ...
Was Shaik's examiner independent?(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Several of the claims attributed to Professor Sarp Adali in The Sunday Independent are cause for concern (Noelene Barbeau, "Academic supervisor defends veracity of Shaik's PhD", May 27). The examination of the thesis was apparently conducted by the principal supervisor, the ...
Communism in China has become the controlling hand of a capitalist economy.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Patrick Laurence For the past 15 years or so China has increasingly defined itself as a major world power and, looking ahead, as a potential new superpower. A central factor in the emergence of China from the doctrinaire and often disastrous rule of Chairman ...
DA should sprout black blossoms before barking up race tree.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... The saying goes that people in glass houses should not throw stones. That's why the refreshingly smart Helen Zille should be using her enormous potential to breathe new life into what was fast becoming a dying alliance under her predecessor Tony Leon. To achieve her goals, she ought to be ...
Bizos recounts a lifelong odyssey to two Ithacas; Torn from his home country, he never lost his Greek identity and, as a South African in the fight for democracy, he has not lost his sense of outrage at injustice.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Maureen Isaacson I've walked this road before, in interviews with George Bizos, tracking his odyssey to freedom, which has provided the title for his compelling new autobiography. It's a big book, a 600-pager, about a big life; a life well used. The launch on ...
Wheel of fortune finally turns for South African team.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Kevin McCallum It is ironic that the troubles of last year's Tour de France champion played a major part in opening the door for Barloworld to become the first South African team to be invited to take part in the most pres-tigious bike race on the planet. ...
Parreira is perfect councillor for Safa and McCarthy relationship.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Paul Martin The rocky marriage between Blackburn Rovers' prolific goal scorer Benni McCarthy and the decision-makers at the SA Football Association (Safa) could well avoid the divorce court this time. The player's decision to make himself available for his ...
Luke under the microscope at Ellis Park; Watson will have to pass severe physical test if he is to succeed against tough Pacific islanders.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen The most talked-about man in South African rugby can ready himself for the harshest examination he's ever been subjected to in the next week. Luke Watson's every move - from what he eats for breakfast to what time he goes to sleep ...
Bush wants SA on the team to curb greenhouse gases.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Leon Marshall South Africa will probably soon join developed countries in committing itself to meeting targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. An intriguing sign of the country's changing environmental status is that United States President George ...
Coaches in, out and there about at PSL clubs.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Paul Martin The Premier Soccer League's coaching merry-go-round is in full swing. And big bucks will be spent to secure miracle workers or soccer magicians who can bring out the best of players in a demanding domestic season. Following the ...
What's in a name - litigation and profound embarrassment.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... In the beginning, when the world wide web was void and without form, you could buy an island in it for a song, without having to concern yourself about hostile natives. Some early colonists bought what amounted to whole continents. In 1994, Gary Kremen registered "sex.com", but ...
Promises of more and better TV.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Edwin Naidu TV addicts will soon have two new channels to choose from - CNBC Africa and Al Jazeera English. Another 18 broadcasters started bidding on Monday last week for commercial satellite and cable-transmission licences from the Independent ...
Unions vow to continue strike indefinitely; Leaders will go back to the bargaining table tomorrow, while members stay away from work.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Eleanor Momberg Unions are to escalate their indefinite strike tomorrow as their chief negotiators and leaders enter into a new round of talks with the government in an effort to end the public service strike. "The action is likely to be escalated on Monday," ...
Security guards died like dogs. So who cares?(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jeremy Gordin and Eleanor Momberg They died like dogs between March and June last year - but in worse circumstances than most dogs die and probably filled with more terror. Yet no one has been convicted in connection with any of the deaths of the 69 security ...
SA given lots of vooma by hero Zuma.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Carl Peters South Africa(3) 4 Morris 12 pen, Zuma 23, 33, Nomvete 69 Chad(0) 0 How Bafana Bafana will wish that every qualifying game for the African Nations Cup or World Cup was this easy. Barely 25000 spectators forked out ...
Stiffer tests await, but Bafana are on fire; South Africa score record home victory against Chad to top group for Nations Cup qualification.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jonty Mark With a record victory and goals from two homegrown heroes, Durban was left dancing in delight yesterday to the tune of Bafana Bafana. A 4-0 thumping of Chad was also a record margin of victory for the national team since their re-admission into ...
Former All Black recovers.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Madrid - Former All Blacks forward Zinzan Brooke should be able to leave hospital next week after undergoing surgery on a head injury sustained in a fall while in Spain. "He is up and about, walking around and on a regular diet now," Barbarians media officer Alan Evans said yesterday. ...
Blood on the tracks of security strike action.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... No charges have been laid in connection with any of the following incidents: March 23: The first day of the strike: 10 people are injured when security guards attack motorists and on-duty guards, vandalising property and torching a patrol vehicle. April 4: Security ...
Rooted to the spot.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... We don't know the name nor, indeed, anything about the dear thing who reads out the sport on Classic FM, but we're going to assume that they had some contact with an Australian at some time in their life. Why else would they describe England's victory over the West Indies as a "rooting" ....
Scorpions raid Selebi's office and the Shinola hits the high-speed fan.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... Yes, indeed, dear readers, in the interests of bringing you the latest news without fear, favour or prejudice, I sallied forth at lunchtime on Friday into the strikers' melee in central Johannesburg. I can therefore tell you from the front line that everyone was perfectly ...
Mourners pay tribute at Sonn's crease.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Helen Bamford Mourners from around the world packed St George's Cathedral in Cape Town yesterday to bid farewell to Percy Sonn, the president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The 57-year-old, who was also an attorney and an advocate, died last ...
Give me a chance and I'll prove I still have what it takes - Solly.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peter Bills He could have been preparing with the Springboks for yesterday's second Test against England. After all, it's less than a year since Solly Tyibilika was confronting the might of the New Zealand All Blacks in a Tri-Nations Test. Instead, he flew ...
Rift in region's resolve to elect Mbeki for third term; Eastern Cape ANC no longer unanimous over decision adopted in December.(News)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Christelle Terreblanche and Sibusiso Ngalwa Cracks have started to emerge in the resolve of the ANC's strongest province, the Eastern Cape, to nominate President Thabo Mbeki for a third term as party president. The rifts have manifested in serious infighting ...
Senzo accepts challenge with gusto.(Sports)
Jun 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mahlaba They say good things come to those who wait and National Under-23 goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa gets his big break when he'll be handed the number one jersey today. After playing second fiddle to the injured Itumeleng Khune since the start of the ...