The Sunday Independent (South Africa) back issues from April 2009:
The toughest challenge yet; The Joburg Art Fair is back, but will it be as successful, asks Mary Corrigall.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Unlike most big art extravaganzas, art fairs are primarily about generating sales, not about engaging with art discourses in challenging ways. So their ultimate success is measured in numbers. From this perspective, last year's inaugural Joburg Art Fair was a resounding success, ...
A journey of classical sounds, fine wine and gourmet food.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... At the next Classic fM Soiree to be held on Sunday, April 5, be prepared to enjoy a breathtaking journey through African, Latin, Celtic and classical sounds. Inspired by his many travels, flautist Wouter Kellerman will perform a selection of music from across ...
California ho! Two treks, six legs, 1 driver; Seasoned travellers, my dog and I decided on another road trip, writes Melanie Kaplan.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... On a cold December morning just hours before sunrise, I stood in the doorway to my bedroom, where my beagle, Darwin, was curled up on a pillow. "Want to go for a ride?" I asked. She tilted her head, and her ears flexed out like an elephant's. "By the way," I added, "we're going ...
Not terribly complex.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The Baader Meinhof Complex Director: Uli Edel Review: Jonathan Romney One really hates to stereotype people, especially German terrorists. Still, you won't be surprised to learn that there's very little humour to be found in The Baader Meinhof Complex, ...
Dodgy times bring out the tax dodgers.(Business Report Weekend)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Emma Ross-Thomas "I'm declaring half as much as I used to," said Cruz who runs a painting business in Madrid. "Prices have fallen 30 percent and customers will choose you for a difference of as little as e50 (R624)." As the US, Japan and Europe weather the ...
Finding Lenny hilarious but poignant; A truly South African film that appeals to all, regardless of colour and class, writes Janet van Eeden.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The film Finding Lenny tells the story of a man who wakes up one morning and has a bad day. It's not just any bad day. It's the bad day to end all bad days. Lenny Vincent (played by Barry Hilton) discovers that when all your choices in life are inspired by fear, you can only ...
Legendary Zawinul CD offers some familiar tracks.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul, who succumbed to cancer on September 11, 2007 at age 75, left behind a half-century legacy of brilliant music that will last for generations. Born in Austria and originally trained in classical music, Zawinul embraced the jazz tradition at a ...
Braving the Great Outdoors is so much easier with a bottle of Scotch courage.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Here's something to make us all feel good. The recently published Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture showcases the finest architecture from around the world completed since 2000. More than a thousand key buildings have been chosen through a rigorous selection ...
Mythical Joburg; It's cast as a veritable war zone but aren't there other dimensions to this city, asks Mary Corrigall.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... THOSE who never leave Joburg are those who can't. Cast as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, riddled by crime, corruption and moral decay, why would anyone want to inhabit this treacherous locale? Or such are the popular perceptions of this illustrious African conurbation. Durban ...
Rip in the fabric of/a town in Hungary; The closure of a Levi Strauss factory highlights the economic 'Iron Curtain' that is stretching across Europe, writes Jeffrey Fleishman.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Nearly everyone old enough remembers the day that Levi Strauss & Co, whose jeans evoked the West's rebellious allure for millions of youths trapped in the Soviet bloc, opened its doors at the edge of Kiskunhalas in Hungary and began hiring box men and seamstresses. It was 1988 ....
Slow-motion crisis as safety net starts to fray in Western Europe.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Sebastian Rotella Italian supermarkets report an increase in shoplifting by first-time offenders, especially among middle-class and elderly people. The most popular target for rookie thieves: Parmesan cheese. French shoppers, famously insistent on freshness, ...
How AIG's complex tricks built a house of cards.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Ralph Vartabedian|and Tom Hamburger When insurance giant American International Group imploded late last year, the company's problems were quickly blamed not on its core insurance business but on an obscure operation that traded exotic mortgage securities. ...
How the real dogs of war are saving soldiers' lives.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christian Davenport Rambo sounds the warning as soon as the kennel door at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington creaks open, a ferocious bark like a jackhammer. In the next stalls, Rocky goes berserk, spinning in tight circles, and Jess bounces excitedly up and down. ...
'It is up to us to finish the terrorists off'; Villagers defend themselves as Pakistani authorities battle to contain mayhem disguised as holy war. By Pamela Constable.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... ThE tiny village of Bazitkhel in north-western Pakistan has paid a high price for its defiance. The health clinic lies in ruins, blasted to rubble by a car bomb that exploded outside three weeks ago. The mayor's compound next door is full of jagged holes. Five residents are ...
Afghans tire of washing blood with blood as poll looms.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Pamela Constable Like the roadside nurserymen selling rosebushes and plum saplings under Kabul's dark, still-wintry skies, Afghans are pinning improbable hopes for deliverance on spring. But the season could instead yield more insurgent violence, deeper ...
Is this the death of the death of Joburg?(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Adrian Loveland, a filmmaker whose pop-documentary on Joburg, Unhinged: Surviving Joburg will be released in cinemas soon, suggests it is no myth that Joburg is a harsh place to live. But he doesn't see it as being any more or less harsh than other major cities in the country. It seems ...
Portrait /of the artist as martyr; As a friend of Thami Mnyele, the author overcomes a thin paper trail to reveal his soul.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Diana Wylie is an American historian specialising in southern Africa. Her book on Thami Mnyele is evidently targeted at an international readership, and is therefore packed with contextual information - on apartheid, on the struggle - that some South African readers might find redundant. ...
March of the miniature heroes; Charging Lancers, ranks of kilted Highlanders and the glorious band of the Royal Marines. How an auction of toy soldiers took Max Hastings on a magical journey back to his boyhood.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... NOTHING evokes lost childhood as vividly as glimpses of its toys. More than half a century ago, like most boys of my time, I spent hours with my nose pressed against the windows of toy shops, gazing dreamily at ranks of brilliantly painted, infinitely glamorous and desirable little ...
Varied line-up for National Arts Festival.(Life)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Now in its 35th year, the National Arts Festival announced a varied line-up in Johannesburg this week. The fest is in the hands of "two daddies", as one of the daddies, new director Ismail Mahomed joked as he introduced the line-up. The other daddy is CEO Tony Lankester. ...
Filipinos brace for return to poverty as factories close.(Business Report Weekend)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Karl Lester Yap Rosemarie Maglalang and her husband made a living housing and feeding Intel factory workers in the Philippines for the past 13 years. That livelihood is about to disappear. The world's biggest maker of semiconductors will close its chip ...
The truth about Andre...almost; One of South Africa's most celebrated writers has written his memoirs, but a great deal of mystery remains. By Maureen Isaacson.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The author's life is long. The allotted interview time is short. Forty-five minutes to discuss the narrative of Andre Brink's 73 years on the planet is hardly adequate. The "naked writer", post-memoir, stripped bare by his own revelations, has no trouble packing a punch into a ...
Envoys/cause /concern/in Kenya.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Daniel Howden recent headlines in Nairobi reveal a curious development in Kenya. It appears that foreign ambassadors have taken over the role traditionally played by an elected opposition. The notion was first floated by the country's most famous ...
Motorbike ambulances come to rescue Sudan's mums.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Southern Sudan has introduced motorbike ambulances to a remote region in a pilot scheme aimed at cutting the number of women dying in childbirth or while pregnant. Five powerful scrambler motorbikes with sidecar "beds" have been deployed by the ministry of health to boost access ...
Woman who built a/caring world for people; Helen Lieberman believes in helping the less fortunate help themselves and has/spread her NGO's wings to everyone from children, to the disabled, to seniors.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Back in the 1960s, a speech therapist working at Cape Town's Groote Schuur hospital made a grim discovery. Helen Lieberman had decided to track down a baby who had not received adequate therapy. She drove out of Cape Town to Langa and found the baby in a shack. The conditions ...
Hughes hanging has nothing to do with art.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Christina Patterson This tragedy has nothing to do with poetry, nothing to do with art. In his letters to the critic Keith Sagar, Ted Hughes described blissful fishing trips with his son, Nicholas, in Africa, Iceland and Alaska. Alaska, he said, was a ...
Search for real monster makes for thrilling read.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... When the American thriller and crime writer Douglas Preston (of the successful duo, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child) moved to Florence with his family in 2000, he never bargained on landing in the centre of a true murder mystery which had held Italy in thrall for several decades, nor to ...
Nudging the world in the right direction.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: james kidd There can't be too many American academics who are invited to address the London School of Economics, the Labour Party and the Conservatives as well. However, that's precisely what Richard Thaler, the Professor of Behavioural Science and Economics at Chicago ...
Crackdown as rhino poaching surges; With demand from cash-flush Far East nations increasing, SA's government pledges an 'iron-fist' approach to curb this brutal practice.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Leon Marshall It may be no more than the power of suggestion that prompted the couple in China to finally perk up their sex lives. But there is no doubting the trail of horror left by the potion they thought they had to thank for firing up their desire. ...
Russians say nyet to luxury.(Business Report Weekend)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Amie Ferris-Rotman and Maria Plis The British designers' stilettos, diaphanous gowns and Italian-made wool coats were stuffed to the back of the adjoined stores and sold at a 70 percent discount before the financial crisis sealed their doors for good earlier this month. ...
Investment is more /vital than the Dalai Lama.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Archbishiop Desmond Tutu's comments regarding the government's disapproval of the Dalai Lama's request for a visa leave me with no doubt that the cleric has lost touch with the reality of poverty that the masses in the rural outskirts of the country are facing. Tutu does not ...
We must forgo muti madness in Aids fight.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The extract from the book The Virus, Vitamins & Vegetables covering Khanye Ndake's interviews with traditional health practitioners again draws our attention to the false cures and treatments promoted in South Africa. However appealing the idea of an African traditional medicine ...
Little point in preaching/to the converted.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... I read the March 29 edition of The Sunday Independent with much interest and an equal amount of sadness. Rex Gibson's column on Page 11 titled "In their lies, a great danger" and most of the letters to the editor point to the fact that we have "nought for our comfort" (the ...
Article on drug-trafficking does not paint a true portrait of the situation in Mexico.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... I refer to the article "Deadly beat of new Tijuana brass", by Guy Adams, published on March 22 and which was originally published in The Independent of London on Wednesday March 18. Considering that it might give a misleading and distorted picture of the truth, I would like to ...
Peace needs justice and democracy.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The peace conference with three Nobel peace laureates was ostensibly being held "to focus on issues of peace and harmony, and the role soccer has played in achieving this". We in South Africa should know, as well as anywhere else in the world, that you can't find peace without ...
Pahad's solution for those accustomed to speaking before thinking.(Dispatches)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Maureen Isaacson Essop Pahad, the former minister in the office of president Thabo Mbeki, once the scourge of the Fourth Estate, has now joined the hack-pack, assuming the illustrious title of editor. His new journal also has a grand name: The Thinker. I call ...
A slap in the face to English-speaking whites.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Jacob Zuma's statement that Afrikaners are the only true white South Africans is a slap in the face to English-speaking whites who have paid taxes all their lives. We, like Afrikaners, have only one passport. What about those whites who have immigrated to South ...
Alarm bells ring loudly over cloak-and-dagger bugging.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Laurie Nathan Imagine a country where the police intercept and record confidential conversations between the president and the head of the office of public prosecutions. Imagine that the police then pass the tapes on to someone facing criminal charges. And ...
In tough times, BEE deals fall and are left to swim or sink.(Business Report Weekend)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo Given the economic downturn it was not surprising that the value of black economic empowerment (BEE) deals fell in the last year, retreating to 2005 and 2006 levels. This is according to Mergers and Acquisitions, an annual review of activity ...
It's time for Zuma's PR makeover.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... THE spin doctors behind Jacob Zuma should wise up to the people on the ground. With heavyweights like Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu chirping that allegations of corruption make Zuma an unsuitable president, there is a need for a response. Being a public relations practitioner ...
Farrah fights cancer in the public eye; The documentary of her battle with a deadly disease may be her final performance.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: annette witheridge and allan hall PALE and hunched-over in a wheelchair, her face hidden by dark glasses and a red woolly hat, she was unrecognisable as the pin-up girl who shot to stardom in the 1970s TV series Charlie's Angels. Despite putting on a brave ...
SADC blindly hands Mugabe pot of gold to loot.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Fiona Forde WHAT was the Southern African Development Community (SADC) thinking this week when it endorsed a multi-billion dollar bailout plan for Robert Mugabe's economy without a single condition attached? Did they not contemplate the tenet of the Golden ...
To sleep, perchance to clear one's mind of the day's clutter.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Steve Connor To sleep, perchance to dream, said Hamlet. Now scientists have shown that sleep is more about getting rid of the previous day's mental rubbish than it is about dreaming. A study of slumber has found that the nerve connections built up in the ...
An economic giant takes the stage.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... THIS week's G20 summit may well go down as the moment when China finally emerged from its shell to assert its own interests in the economic world of which it has become a central part. This shift was not openly there in the final communique. But it was certainly in evidence in ...
Masters of their own destiny; Amen Corner and an Augusta course which has been described as 'brutal' awaits the game's elite golfers in Georgia with eight of SA's best, including the defending champion Trevor Immelman, preparing for a mighty challenge.(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Any doubts that Tiger Woods would be ready for this year's Masters were spectacularly dispelled a week ago when he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando, Florida, thrilling the fans by making up six shots in the last round to edge out Sean O'Hair . That ...
What Bafana Bafana must do to get their act together.(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe As Bafana Bafana sank to their second defeat in two months against quality opposition this week, we could only but wonder what lies ahead. Will the Fifa Confederations Cup bring sorrow and despair, or is there cause to remain hopeful in spite of ...
Oh brother!(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Has there been far too much cricket of late? Probably, and Mark Nicholas would agree. During the break between innings in the first MTN ODI at Kingsmead on Friday night, he stopped Mike Hussey for a quick chat at the boundary after his 83 not out had helped Australia to a strong 286/7 ....
Shoprite receives brickbats and bouquets for operations in southern Africa.(Business Report Weekend)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo A report by the Bench Marks Foundation has thrown brickbats and bouquets at the operations of Shoprite in Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia. The report says Shoprite jeopardises local businesses, does not include local farmers in its supply chain, ...
Cultivating fertile grounds for BEE gains in rural SA.(Business Report Weekend)
Apr 05, 2009 ... The rural areas in the past were heavily reliant on agriculture. The industrialisation of South Africa required a sizable workforce to be successfully implemented. The only areas where this workforce could be sourced were the rural areas where a majority of black people lived. So ...
Recognition sought for a ruined star; He was the best heavyweight boxer of his time, but his colour put him outside the ring.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: DAVID JONES AS BARACK Obama set about finding solutions to the great global crises of the day in London this week, a century-old controversy involving race, sex and heavyweight boxing must have been far from his mind. When he returns to the White House, however, it will ...
Young, red and full of socialist zeal; On the eve of entering Parliament, Buti Manamela chats aboutsmelling the gravy, dividing the pie and eating the cake.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Maureen Isaacson BUTI Manamela, the founding national secretary of the Young Communist League (YCL), is number 53 on the ANC parliamentary list. With Blade Nzimande, the SACP general secretary, who clocks in at number nine, he is going to walk through the doors into ...
Kruger Park to get tough on roadhogs who endanger animals.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Vinni Dlamini IT SEEMS not even the Kruger National Park is safe from speeding motorists, following the hit-and-run death of a lion cub last Sunday. Raymond Travers, the park's spokesman, said the dead cub was discovered on the road to the Letaba rest camp by ...
Barstool dragster nabbed in act.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... A man has been charged with drink-driving - without even leaving the comfort of his bar stool. Police in Newark, Ohio, said they found Kile Wygle with the remains of his motorised bar stool after it crashed at about 32km/h. Wygle, 28, suffered minor injuries in the ...
Eskom's appetite for coal shields industry.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Eleanor Momberg ESKOM'S fixed-term contracts have buffered the South African coal mining industry from the detrimental effects of the economic downturn, unions and economists say. Because of this, coal supplies to the country's power stations will continue ...
Charter has not collapsed, despite missing deadline, says Treasury.(Business Report Weekend)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo The Treasury says the financial services charter (FSC) has not collapsed despite its failure to meet its deadline, which was on March 31, and contrary to media reports. It said the deadline was in fact much earlier: August 31 2008, and added ...
Briton Jenson on the Button; Brawn driver claims pole as Massa slams his Ferrari team.(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: MARTIN PARRY Jenson Button pushed his Brawn GP to a second successive pole position yesterday, topping the times during qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Briton swept around the 5,5 kilometre Sepang circuit in one minute 35,181 seconds ahead of ...
Tutu has the right to speak, as do others.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu must be defended for expressing his "unpopular" opinion about his presidential preference. He has the right not to like Jacob Zuma, or anyone, without justifying himself. He has and must set his own moral standards. It would be highly ...
Recent races in Malaysia.(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... 2008 - Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari Ferrari's Massa started on pole but teammate Raikkonen took the lead at the first set of pitstops. McLaren's Hamilton started ninth after he and teammate Kovalainen were penalised for impeding rivals in qualifying. 2007 - ...
Strike could ruin Easter; Fuel shortages loom as tanker drivers tell union not to come back empty-handed from wage talks.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Edwin Naidu Motorists travelling throughout South Africa during the Easter holidays could be left stranded because of a possible shortage of fuel. Petrol pumps may run dry at filling stations because of a threatened driver's strike scheduled to start on ...
Gasa quits 'toxic' gender body.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Edwin Naidu NOMBONISO Gasa, the embattled chairwoman of the body established to protect and promote gender rights, has quit her post, saying she could no longer work in a toxic environment and that the lack of support from Parliament had saddened her. Gasa, a ...
Gentleman in defence of his castle.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: ROBERT HARDMAN PAUL JACOBS is utterly astonished to hear that he is being hailed as some sort of international freedom fighter. A respectable, bespectacled 43-year-old real estate executive, he's not exactly Che Guevara material. In fact, he was pretty ...
Treasury won't call the shots.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Sibusiso Ngalwa The days of a powerful Treasury are gone, as the new, Central Planning Commission will decide how much is spent where, and the currently ineffective deputy ministers and deputy president will be given more work to do under Jacob Zuma's presidency. ...
State set to combat rhino poaching with tough new unit.(News)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Leon Marshall A massive increase in rhino poaching has spurred the government into reviewing its security system. Poaching of the endangered pachyderms has shot up from 10 in 2007 to a staggering 74 last year, of which 37 happened in the Kruger National Park, ...
Willemse pursues his 'lightbulb moment' after shock decision to quit.(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen Seven days ago Ashwin Willemse woke up and realised he'd had enough. It was time to call it quits. The announcement last Monday that the Springbok and Lions wing was retiring from rugby with immediate effect shocked the country, his ...
Lions' roar turns into a whimper; Brilliant opening 52 minutes is undone as Chiefs make up 19 points to break Lions' hearts.(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: Reuters-AP-AFP Waikato Chiefs (10) 36 Tries: Sweeney (3), Willison, Elliott; Conversions: Donald (4); Penalty: Donald Lions (22) 29 Tries: Fourie (2), Vermaak, Rose; Conversions: Pretorius (3); Drop goal: Pretorius Winger ...
Spoiling Stormers succumb to Turner's overdrive.(Sports)
Apr 05, 2009 ... BYLINE: AP-AFP-Reuters Waratahs (7) 12 Tries: Lachlan Turner (2); Conversion: Daniel Halangahu Stormers (3) 6 Penalties: Peter Grant (2) Winger Lachlan Turner scored two tries, including a match clinching effort in the final three ...