The Sunday Independent (South Africa) back issues from February 2009:
Regulator gives jewellers more leeway on BEE qualification for licences.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo|Johannesburg The SA Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator has allayed the jewellery industry's fears that operators might be denied new licences for not complying with the mining charter's black empowerment requirements. The regulator said ...
SA's debt penetration rises despite financial turmoil.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo|Johannesburg South Africans continue to wallow in debt despite the global economic turmoil of the past few months, which has brought into stark relief the need to manage debt wisely. This is according to the FinScope 2008 survey by the FinMark ...
Big fish of hedge fund world were blind accomplices in creation of $50bn poison pond.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: THE INDEPENDENT Fifty billion dollars: $50 000 000 000. No matter how you write it, it is a breathtaking number. Few Wall Street money managers achieve a business on that scale. Madoff did it while having to maintain a fiction of Truman Show scale. For many ...
Bank bonus bans are too late to help the industry.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... US President Barack Obama has indicated that further support for banks would be dependent on ending the bonus culture. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered state aid to banks if executives skip extra rewards. In the UK and Switzerland, where financial ...
Charm and personality can rob banks, latest scams prove.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Bloomberg France's financial community was shocked, while many Americans, wondering how such a mess could happen, smugly chuckled at French ineptitude. Then along came the massive losses emanating from the subprime crisis and Bernard Madoff, whose $50 billion (R496 ...
Procurement rule offers SMEs a ray of hope amid crunch.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... This puts more pressure on companies to perform well in the other areas of BEE. I would like to explore the impact of the global credit crisis and economic downturn on elements such as preferential procurement, enterprise development and socioeconomic development in the year ...
Greyhound racing chases green light.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Bonolo Modise Johannesburg Legalising greyhound racing in South Africa had the potential to create 30 000 jobs and generate annual tax revenue of R1.5 billion, supporters said this week after the department of trade and industry (dti) launched public discussions on the ...
Absa's futures loss is not the last - analyst.(Business Report Weekend)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Vernon Wessels Johannesburg Absa would not be the last local bank to be hurt by futures contracts, with Nedbank and Standard Bank likely to suffer too, Deutsche Bank said on Friday. Absa became the second local lender after FirstRand subsidiary Rand Merchant ...
Sandler pulls sugarplum out of his hat.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Has Adam Sandler been defanged? Bedtime Stories is his first family-friendly comedy, not to mention his first for the Disney banner. But if Sandler can startle us in a dark, obsessive role Punch-Drunk Love, he can surprise us here, too. In a modern-day fairy tale about hopes, ...
Posh girl marries rich boor in celebrity-style period drama.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... She married a titled peer of England decades older than herself, and her sole job was to produce sons. She set the fashions and stumped for progressive causes. She was immensely popular with the common folk even as her husband busied himself with a mistress. She died before her time. ...
Veteran director rises to 'remarkable levels of artistry'.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Ron Howard is celebrating his 50th year in show business, and if you learn anything in that span, it's not to mess with a good thing. In Frost/Nixon the veteran director smoothly demonstrates the value of that attitude, taking a silk purse of a project, making it even silkier ...
The beauty and the beast of TV; Watching cookery shows without putting on weight is an art.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Cooking yourself thin sounds about as plausible as swimming without water. Yet the four gals who present Cook Yourself Thin (BBC Lifestyle channel 180) are adamant that such an activity is quite probable. Perpetually interested in ways of gorging on delicious food without it landing on my ...
A love of bebop and the influence of jazz greats have shaped this talent.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Cheryl Hughey Promotions in St Louis, Missouri, has sent me two CDs for review. This one, titled I Like That, is from David Boswell, the Los Angeles-based guitarist and features 12 tracks of his compositions. As usual, I listen first, ruminate second, then I start on the research. ...
Ritchie on form in a movie as frenziedly macho as ever.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... In one of the more likeable touches in RocknRolla, one of Guy Ritchie's underworld types reveals a fondness for watching DVDs: what else but The Remains of the Day and Pride and Prejudice? It's a cheeky reminder that, in British cinema, there are only two genres that really count: posh ...
Hard times hit bigshot motor city; Boom towns are going bust as the US car industry declines, writes Ken Bensinger.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... There's little question that Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a company town. The 14-storey Chrysler world headquarters is the tallest building for kilometres, towering over the corporate campus on the western edge of the city. Police cruise in Dodge Chargers developed with the automaker. The ...
Employers forget that experience can save lives.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Michael Hiltzik The battle of youth versus age is one of the defining economic struggles of our era. Therefore, speaking as someone who hasn't been referred to as "The Kid" for a decade or three, I would like to salute Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, 57, for ...
Warlords gather like vultures asEthiopians pull out of Somalia.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Stephanie McCrummen Nairobi - The departure of the last Ethiopian tanks from Somalia's capital is ushering in a new phase of conflict in a nation known for clan warfare: a battle for power among militias flying Islamist banners. In some ways, the situation in ...
Middle class turns to pawn shops for cash.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Megan Stack In the fluorescent-lighted dens of despair called pawnshops, bad luck is a commodity as casual as an aging cellphone or a grandmother's ring, held up for inspection, the sellers holding their breath to see what it's worth. You won't find Russia's ...
Dialogue on the nude female form; Two artists, each creating a corresponding body of work, present disparate views.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... This exhibition may share the title of a Kathryn Smith exhibition held at the Goodman Gallery in 2007, but the themes it explores are quite disparate. In Camera is a Latin phrase meaning "in private" or "in secret" and, though Smith unpacked its use in the legal context where ...
The game of the name; Children outgrow role-playing, and most children lose their desire to be someone else, but many do not, writes Isabella Morris, who changed her name.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Our names are considered to be our markers, unique words that hold in their grasp our history, our personality and our very essence. Many would agree with Marshall McLuhan, a philosopher and communications theorist, who said, "The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never ...
Bold unions, tempestuous relationships; Honeyman's The Tempest brings together a melange of the country's history and cultures but the end result is overload, writes Adrienne Sichel.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... There's nothing unusual about two leading men taking their bows greeted by a standing ovation at the end of a performance of Shakespeare's The Tempest. When the names of the actors playing Prospero and Caliban are Sir Antony Sher and John Kani and the director is Janice ...
'Thirst' is escapist theatre with soul; An age-old tale cleverly comes to life with a modern message.(Life)(Theater review)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Feel-good home-grown theatre that doesn't tend towards the mundane or contrived has to some extent become a rarity in South Africa. So James Ngcobo's Thirst is something of a refreshing surprise. It's escapist theatre with soul. In pure escapist fashion Ngcobo summons myths that ...
Strictlynocontact, thank you.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... While a level-seven hangover decimated my will to live, I cast a bloodshot eye |over a headline that screamed like a possessed street cat: "OPEN-PLAN OFFICES AFFECT YOUR HEALTH". I immediately took a step back from my desk, scanning the horizon for unwashed co-workers and the ...
A sanctuary where souls are restored Jovial Rantao ventures to the Lowveld and encounters beauty and a few friendly animals with histories of abuse that pull at the heartstrings.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... The rolling hills of Nelspruit, the lush vegetation, the thick forestry, the African sunshine and a climate to die for. In these perfect surroundings lies must rank as the world's biggest natural rehabilitation ward for abused chimpanzees. Chimp Eden is home to animals who, if ...
Sizzle up to Tango Nights.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Bovim Ballet, under the artistic directorship of Sean Bovim, the acclaimed choreographer launches at Artscape this month with its inaugural production, the full-length dance sensation Tango Nights. Tango Nights combines the allure and sensuality of tango with the athleticism of ...
Iconic Polaroid fades away.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Neely Tucker Scientists tell us that about 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct, so it should not be surprising that the laws of nature also apply to technology. Polaroid instant film, the little white-bordered photo shards ...
UK firms hope state will/bolster three-day week.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Jane Merrick The prospect of the three-day week has returned to haunt the United Kingdom as it emerged that ministers are considering paying firms to cut hours to survive the recession. Tens of thousands of businesses are already planning to cut back working ...
Slumdog is described as 'feel good', but it's no Mamma Mia.(Life)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Tim Walker Slumdog Millionaire is already the most talked-about film of the year but there's a lot that went on behind the scenes. The film was set to go straight to DVD after the film's original studio backer, Warner Independent (a division of Warner ...
Breathing new life into Gothic tale.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Ever since Mary Shelley published her Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), the tale has inspired countless reproductions, whether in literature, film or the visual arts. It is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student from Geneva who, upon discovering the ...
Gentle love story in hard times restores our faith in people.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... This beautiful love story tells us about love in its fullest and most liberating sense. In her powerful and moving memoir, Our Generation, writer Zubeida Jaffer told her own personal and intimate story woven into the turbulent political struggle against apartheid. In Love in the ...
Swedish thriller in translation is top of the pops in UK fiction.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Boyd Tonkin For the first time, so it appears, a novel in translation has roared to the top of the hardback fiction charts in Britain. As though that were not outlandish enough, the author will not be surfacing on TV chat shows any time soon. He died four ...
Fine work inspired by the L-word.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Love must be one of the most popular literary topics, and one of the hardest to write about well. Judging by the number of American writers included in this collection, it's also a subject that seems to preoccupy those on the other side of the Atlantic far more than their European ...
Never idle Updike joins his esteemed peers.(Dispatches)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Boyd Tonkin A few years ago, as the United States began to celebrate the fast-departing heroes who had won the Second World War, commentators took to talking about the "great generation" that had achieved so much and could not be replaced. What applied to the ...
A blight on Old Blighty; The United Kingdom has been in decline since Churchill, and now it's staring into the abyss, writes Peter Bills.(Dispatches)(Company overview)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Johannesburg is a curious place to start tracing the roots of decline in the United Kingdom. But a conversation last year with Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer at her Gauteng home highlighted one of the key reasons for the sad state of what was once Great Britain. "Now tell ...
Contempt for the truth is pernicious.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Peter Bills's opinion piece, "A sick footnote in history" (January 25), is an appalling perversion not only of the truth but also of the most chilling programme of ethnic cleansing that mankind has been capable of pursuing. The mellifluous prose, at a cursory reading, depicts ...
Israel's is a 'defensive war'.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... I, like Peter Bills, have been to Auschwitz. His vivid description of this death camp is accurate, chilling and terrifying. One-and-a-half million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz. More than 6 million Jewish men, women, children and babies were murdered in camps similar to the "model" death ...
We have not heeded the cry, 'Never again'.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... The article by Peter Bills refers. January 27 marked United Nations International Holocaust Memorial Day, when people reflected on the greatest genocide, a tragedy inestimably cruel and calculating in its methods. We memorialised and remembered the precious lives lost and ...
In this case, there can be no comparison.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Peter Bills's article refers. He has written a mostly accurate and sensitive account of the death camp of Auschwitz. In this camp, at least 1 million men, women and children were murdered. No one knows the true figure. The SS commander estimated that at least 4 million people ...
Teacher union should broaden its politics.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... In her article ("Struggle to teach continues", January 25), Fiona Ford argues that the approach of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) is too political. I cannot agree. Sadtu's approach is not political enough, but it seems to understand politics too narrowly ....
Hypocrisy of major nations is staggering.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Human rights groups have hailed the prosecution in the International Criminal Court (ICC) of a Democratic Republic of Congo warlord for recruiting child soldiers and sending them into combat. This is an admirable step forward to combating worldwide crimes against humanity. But ...
Whose rights are /we talking about?(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Does considering the good of the whole make one a Marxist? Marxism seems to say that the state must do everything, but Obama does not say that. Both George Bush snr and his son refused to give funds to family planning organisations worldwide, if these organisations were ...
Ebrahim is neither quiet nor diplomatic.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Ebrahim Ebrahim, the ANC's head of international affairs, is the polar opposite of his party's quiet diplomacy when it comes to Zimbabwe. He is neither quiet nor diplomatic. In the article titled "ANC questions Mbeki's role and Tsvangirai's ability to lead a government in Zim" ...
Unspoilt Eden a rare find; A remote mountain spotted on Google Earth is an environmental treasure trove.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Leon Marshall Mozambique's Mount Mabu, the recently discovered forest containing several plant and animal species new to science is a haven for a number of threatened and rare bird types. In the northern-central part of Mozambique, it is named after a granite ...
LETTER FROM ZIMBABWE.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Mary Rachel Fishing is part of our life in Zimbabwe. The news that the bream are biting travels faster than bad news. Many families spend their spare time living in tents on the banks of rivers, rod in hand and hope in heart. One well-known Zimbabwean fisherman says: ...
Global warning for wildlife.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Juliet Eilperin At the Blackwater national wildlife refuge on Maryland's eastern shore, sea-level rise threatens to drown the brackish marsh on which migrating shorebirds depend. In Northern California, the shrinking snowpack has reduced stream flows that sustain the ...
A problem shared is a problem solved ... as long as it doesn't go public.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Nice to know that up there in the wild blue yonder they're getting it together ... and I'm not still rabbiting on about flying drugs into Heathrow, either. No, it seems the South African Air Force and Comair have cuddled up, with the SAAF opening its bases to the airline in the ...
Mkhize is just what ANC ordered.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Reports surfaced this week that President Kgalema Motlanthe is poised to appoint Muzi Wilfred Mkhize as the next national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) to succeed advocate Vusi Pikoli. If this happens, it will trigger a constitutional crisis. Advocate Mkhize ...
Job creation, food security top lists; Parties' election manifestos spell out their New Year's resolutions in a spirit of firm resolve to tackle South Africa's ills.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christelle Terreblanche Jobs - the need to create more employment as well as measures to ensure that ruling parties stop giving jobs to pals - are the prime concern of seven of the bigger parties that have already launched their manifestos. Among those who ...
Points of order on presidents.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... By May 2014, South Africa might have four former presidents who did not complete a second term: Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe and Jacob Zuma. If things get bad, we could rely on our grey-haired (I think Motlanthe is using a dye and Zuma carries a razor-blade in ...
Looking for a climate quick fix; Some scientists tout geo-engineering as a solution to global warming.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Steve Connor Is there a technological solution to the problem of global warming? Why are we asking this now? For two reasons. A German research ship, the Polarstern, is steaming towards a region off the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic, where it ...
Council doesn't see the point.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANDY DOLAN Its a little difficult to place sometimes, but if itd never been invented our sentences wouldnt be so easy to read and wed all get confused because we wouldnt know who owned anything. But the apostrophe is obviously just too challenging for some. ...
New study/shows stem/cells help/MS patients.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: JENNY HOPE Stem cell injections can reverse the crippling effects of multiple sclerosis (MS), a study published this week says. Four out of five adults in the early stages of MS who were injected with stem cells taken from their bone marrow saw an improvement ...
Bullying not so bad, claims UK academic.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: SARAH HARRIS Bullying at school can actually be good for children, an academic has claimed. She said teachers should not protect pupils from playground spats as they can help them handle difficult events in the future. Helene Guldberg, associate ...
Sombre Davos focuses on reviving world capitalism.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Sean O'Grady Chastened is probably the word that best sums up the mood of participants at the annual World Economic Forum in the charming Swiss ski resort of Davos. What else could they be, after a year that has seen what Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, ...
Aussie cricket writer lauds the Proteas.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Robert Craddock The South Africa cricketers are back home with a well-deserved reputation as one of the most respected sporting teams to visit Australia. We can't quite call them the most loved team because we remember the tens of thousands of people who ...
How SA brainstrust played part in the glory; On the field big bombers set scene for batsmen to finish job.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess There's a saying about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Well, South Africa have some great parts that have made for one heck of a whole, that has delivered two magnificent series triumphs over Australia, in Australia. That they ...
It's not all stormy weather.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... In these days of doom and gloom, it is indeed heartening to have something to cheer about. Certainly not about the demise of the Scorpions, whose fate has been rubber-stamped by President Kgalema Motlanthe. The only people who have cause to cheer the demise of the nation's most ...
Battle begins for new SA Open crown; NAZLI THOMAS previews the Top 5 who will pack in the fans for the ATP event at Montecasino from tomorrow.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Nicknames: Tsunami, Muhamad Ali of Tennis Country: France Date of birth: April 17, 1985 Born: Le Mans, France Residence: La Rippe, Switzerland Height: 1.88m Weight: 100 kg. Turned ...
Down in the dump.(Sports)
Feb 01, 2009 ... So, you are the South African ODI team. You beat Australia in Adelaide to win the series, taking an unassailable|3-1 lead into the final match. You won on Australia Day, somewhat souring celebrations for the Australians. You need a place to party and celebrate after the win, which was ...
Determined Dali digs in his heels; Embattled former SABC chief executive is not giving up the fight to win back his job.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Edwin Naidu Dali Mpofu, the sacked SABC group chief executive, was in high spirits on Friday after watching the Proteas beat Australia to become the world's top one-day team. Bowled out of a job at the SABC, Mpofu insists he is confident of winning it back in the courts ....
Mother of six gives birth to eight more babies after fertility treatment.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Los Angeles - Bringing up eight babies might sound like a daunting prospect, but for the woman who gave birth to octuplets in Los Angeles this week, it's nearly only half the story - because she already has six other young children. The woman's mother, Angela Suleman, revealed ...
Unions urge consumers to protest; The poor, who spend most of their income on food and fuel, have been hardest hit by the rise in food prices.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Eleanor Momberg Trade unions are gearing up for a new round of protests over high food prices while consumer bodies are calling for a boycott of large retail stores to force them to decrease the price of groceries in line with the drop in fuel and production costs. ...
Education/is former/deputy/president'snew cause.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Caiphus Kgosana Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the former deputy president, re-entered public life with a bang on Friday when she hosted a massive gala dinner in support of her newly formed education foundation. The dinner, held at the Sandton Sun, saw a number of ...
Azapo calls for abolition of provinces.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christelle Terreblanche Black consciousness party Azapo has vowed to abolish the provinces in favour of a unitary state. The party launched its election campaign yesterday in Mokopane, Limpopo, at a rally addressed by Mosibudi Mangena, its leader. ...
Desperate bankers' wives spill out their woes in a blog.(News)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Los Angeles - Their clothing allowance has been halved, they've had to fire their personal trainers and their sex lives have dived. They're the once-pampered - now highly disgruntled - women partners of United States bankers and they're speaking out about how the financial ...