Recently added articles from The Independent on Saturday (South Africa):
Windows tinted too dark illegal; This law must apply to VIPs as well, says DA.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: Fiona Gounden THE Democratic Alliance is once again attacking the government over what it says are different laws for ordinary South Africans and "important people". While authorities have warned motorists that windows which are tinted so dark that the ...
Too late for 2010 blue flag status.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: Victoria John IT is too late for Durban's beaches to get Blue Flag status in time for the World Cup. This is according to Alison Kelly, South African co-ordinator of the Blue Flag scheme, who said this was despite clear evidence that a Blue Flag flying at a ...
Why is local labour not used in Chatsworth?(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: From: Devan Kistnasamy Naicker Chatsworth Recently contracts were given to black economic empowerment (BEE) companies to install new water pipes in Chatsworth and other areas of Durban. It is of concern to the residents of Chatsworth that the workers that are ...
Horrific crime is a major damper for World Cup.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: From: ALLAN SELBY Illovo Beach As a visitor to South Africa it saddens me to read in the news-papers of the horrific crimes that are carried out by so-called human beings against their fellow men. One that really horrified me was the young woman being ...
THE FASCIST CASANOVA; He juggled 14 lovers at once - and would sleep with four in a single evening. New diaries lay bare Benito Mussolini's insatiable appetite for women.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: JANE FRYER BENITO Mussolini didn't look like your average Casanova. He was short (barely 5ft), bald, suffered horribly from constipation and, by all accounts, rather let himself down when it came to personal hygiene. But the father of fascism must have had ...
Time for civilised people to act against this cruelty.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: From: Barry Edy Durban Seldom has an act of such wanton cruelty and savagery revolted and incensed me as that of the impending slaying of a bull with bare hands by a bunch of puny cowards in a ritual disguised as a cultural rite. Just the announcement of this ...
Cricket star Stephanie plays a straight bat to the critics.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: Victoria John Stephanie Weiss is not your average 13-year-old. Instead of shopping for make-up and the latest fashion she spends her afternoons making runs and taking wickets for the boys' first cricket team at Westville Senior Primary School. ...
Boy, Oh Boy! Pint-sized Japanese icon takes flight.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... Film: Astro Boy Director: David Bowers Cast: Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Nathan Lane, Samuel L Jackson Reviewer: Michael Rechtshaffen Rating: 6/10 SINCE making his debut ...
MUSIC GIANTS TO ROCK DURBAN.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: Bill Ryan ARE you a fan of local music with nothing planned for next Friday? Then make sure you head for Durban's Suncoast Casino for the Rock on Summer Concert that will feature four of the country's top music acts. Presented by the casino in association ...
yummy treats for Yuletide.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: BILL RYAN THERE'S nothing quite like a delicious Christmas feast, but the mere thought of the amount of ingredients required and preparation involved in creating this lip-smacking extravagance tends to give most of us an instant headache, yes? However, all ...
WIN A CRUISE TO MAPUTO AND BARRA LODGE ON THE SINFONIA!(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... HUGE apologies! Gremlins crept into the works last week when we ran a competition on this page offering the prize of a trip, for two people, from Durban to Maputo and Barra Lodge, Mozambique, aboard the impressive cruise liner MSC Sinfonia. The competition phone number we ...
LISTEN.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... THE soundtrack of the film Michael Jackson's This Is It - showing the pop icon and dancers in rehearsals for what would have been his final concerts in London this year at the O2 Arena - contains the previously unreleased Jacko song of the title, co-written by Paul Anka and featuring lots ...
LEARN.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... IN ASSOCIATION with the Imperial War Museum, the newly available World War II by R G Grant - published by Penguin, and selling locally for about R260 - combines excellent images with dramatic eyewitness accounts of the people who were involved in history's greatest conflict. ...
WIN! WIN! WIN!(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... THE Stables Wine Estate holds its annual Blues Festival next Saturday at the estate on Nottingham Road in the KZN Midlands. Guests can enjoy live music by Gordon Jackson and Errol "Smelly" Fellows of Salty Dog, while experiencing a Stables Wine Estate wine tasting. ...
Screen ratings.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... NEW ON CIRCUIT THE NUTCRACKER: The sumptuous St Petersburg Ballet's production of Tchaikovsky's glittering festive favourite. (8) 500 DAYS OF SUMMER: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in an off-beat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't ...
VITAL Signs.(Tonight Broadsheet)
Dec 05, 2009; ... ARIES Mar 21-Apr 21 You will have to strive somewhat harder if it is your intention to boost your status significantly. In doing so, you will need to guard against antagonising certain superiors or colleagues. Somebody might accuse you of being too pushy. TAURUS Apr ...
Police crack team needed to stop hijackings.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: From: Clr Colin Gaillard Democratic Alliance The number of brutally violent hijackings and armed robberies being committed in and around Durban is shocking. The city is obviously rapidly becoming one of the most dangerous places in which to live. Recently ...
Can someone explain this car price difference? 24pt bold heady goes.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: From: Edward Mitchell Gillitts My car, A Mazda MX5, sells here in South Africa for R337 000. In the UK the recommended retail price of a top-of-the-range MX5 is R264 974 (�21 695). Can anyone explain the enormous price differential - ...
My vehicle has incorrect weight.(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: From: David Paddon Sherwood THIS is a letter to all owners of Hyundai Tucson 2.0l GLS 2X4 vehicles. You are paying 15 percent more on your vehicle licence than you should be because of somebody loading the weight of the V6 4X4 on to the system. Check your ...
Flash 40% of your booty! Want to woo a man? Then you should . . .(News)
Dec 05, 2009; ... BYLINE: Fiona Macrae IT is the question that has troubled many a young woman as she dresses for a night out: How much should she dare to bare? After all, if her clothes are too revealing, she may catch the eye of the wrong kind of man. But too prim and she may attract ...
