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R6.7 Million Lotto winner accused of murder
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News in Brief Driver burns to death inside car A motorist was burnt to death inside the wreck of his Ferrari after colliding with a Lamborghini in a suspected illegal street race in Sandton. Paramedics said the driver of the Ferrari was still alive after his car had crashed through a fence, rolled over and landed on its roof before bursting into flames on Sunday afternoon. An eyewitness said he, together with two other motorists, watched helplessly as the flames grew and engulfed the car with the injured man trapped inside. “We tried to pull him out but he was strapped by the seatbelt and suddenly the fire started on the side of the car, and then it exploded after we had backed off,” he said. “We watched the car burn and there was not much we could do. The man inside was visibly injured from the impact of the car rolling and landing on its roof in the veld. He was alive, but could not utter a word when we arrived at the wreck.”
‘Brave’ Courtney to walk again on ninth birthday The dream of South Africa’s youngest crime victim, Courtney Ellerbeck, to be able to walk has become a possibility on her ninth birthday. The little girl was left a paraplegic by a bullet wound she received while in the womb. This was two months before she was to be born, but she was delivered by emergency Caesarean section a short while after her mother, Lesley Ellerbeck, 32, had been shot in the stomach in a botched hijacking attempt. Over the years, Courtney has had several major operations - all of them to straighten out her damaged body - and will now be able to wear callipers that will enable her to walk with crutches.
120 000 hectare National Park for South Africa
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A devastating fire in one of Cape Town’s biggest informal settlements has left more than 1000 people homeless. Almost 600 shacks were razed in the fire that started at about 2am yesterday in the Joe Slovo informal settlement near Langa. Sivuyile Masiba, a security guard who lives in Joe Slovo, came home yesterday morning after a 12-hour night shift, to find nothing but ash and twisted metal sheeting where his home had once been. ‘‘I found the whole place in smoke and black ash. I lost my bed, wardrobe and food. I just don’t know what
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Expats allowed to vote overseas By Khanyi Magubane
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he Constitutional Court has handed down a breakthrough ruling which now allows registered voters living abroad to vote in the general elections on 22 April. The highest court in the land ruled on 12 March that South Africans living abroad need to notify the chief electoral officer of their intention to vote by March 27. Presiding Justice Kate O’ Regan, said that the right to vote had a symbolic and democratic value, which should be afforded to all South Africans, whether living in the country or abroad. Speaking on the ruling, Justice Sandile Ngcobo said, “We have ruled that South African citizens who are living abroad will be allowed vote. However, those who are not registered to vote will not be allowed to vote.” The case went before the Constitutional Court following an application by the political party the Freedom Front Plus, on behalf of a Pretoria schoolteacher working in the UK, who wanted to vote. In February, Willem Richter took his case before the Pretoria High Court, where he ordered that the minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe MapisaNqakula, and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to extend the right to special votes to all categories of registered voters who are away from South Africa. Other political parties who also submitted presentations on the issue included the Inkatha Freedom Party, the Democratic Alliance and the A-Party, which also doubles as a lobby group. An independent group of South Africans living overseas also made submissions before the court. Responding to the ruling, the IEC’s Chief Electoral Officer Pansy Tlakula assured South Africans that the IEC
This is the fifteenth South African Democratic election that Willem Schutte, 90, will vote in. He commented that it was important Pic: Nina Williams for everyone to be given the right to vote, regardless of gender, race, location or age. will be able implement the court ruling. Speaking in an interview with the local television channel etv’s news programme, eNews , Tlakula said she was confident the ruling had not thrown them off course, “I can assure South Africans we can pull that off.
Fire leaves more than 1000 homeless By Stacey Millers
Coca-Cola Zero Fest final band announced
to do,’’ he said. Speedy Smit, a spokesman for Cape Town fire services, said it had taken firefighters just under five hours to bring the blaze under control. He said no fatalities or injuries had been reported. The cause of the fire is being investigated. Mzwanele Zulu, a member of the Joe Slovo task team that is helping residents rebuild their homes, said 575 shacks had been destroyed and up to 1200 people, including scores of children, had been left homeless. When The Weekly Gazette visited the area yesterday, residents were sitting on the burnt-out sites of their former homes.
They said they had to secure their spots because after disasters such as this fights often broke out over land. Western Cape MEC for social development Zanele Magwaza promised to help the families with food and clothing. The department will give each displaced family R500. They will also be provided with materials to rebuild their shacks. Smit said firefighters were still battling a fire on a farm in the Helderberg area and several grass fires on the outskirts of the city yesterday. Fires in the Jonkershoek Valley outside Stellenbosch “have calmed down, for now”, the Cape Winelands fire department said yesterday.
“As the IEC we always anticipate the outcome [of such court cases] and plan for the worst, we have made contingency plans,” she said. Tlakula also revealed that about 5 000 South Africans abroad had informed them of their intention to vote
overseas, and she expects that this number would probably double in the wake of the new ruling. Today’s ruling comes as a victory for thousands of frustrated South Africans living abroad, who had hoped to cast their votes in the upcoming elections.
Schoolboy to appear for murder By Theresa Taylor An 18-year-old boy is expected to appear in Pinetown Magistrate's Court on Thursday morning for allegedly stabbing a classmate to death, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said the teenager was arrested on Wednesday morning, only a few hours after Andile Mbeje, 18, was stabbed while on his way to school. "There was a fight between him and another boy. He was stabbed twice in his shoulder and once in his chest." Paramedics attempted
resuscitation for about 45 minutes before Mbeje was declared dead on the scene. Witnesses apparently told police who the alleged killer was. KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Ina Cronje and department head Dr Cassius Lubisi sent their condolences to the family. It was unclear what the two had been fighting over. "Even though this incident occurred outside of school premises, as the department, we will help provide psychological counselling to the school to assist learners with trauma debriefing," Cronje said on Wednesday.
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National health insurance planned
9 March 2009
Lotto winner on murder trial
By Robyn Bands
By Karen Breytenbach
The ANC plans to introduce national health insurance in its next term in government, party president Jacob Zuma said. “The NEC [National Executive Committee] set up a sub committee to work on this plan and even costed it,” Zuma told a business breakfast in Johannesburg. “One of the requirements is health, it is an imperative, we have to find the resources to do it and we are confident that we will do it,” he said. The ANC had made plans for national health insurance before the global financial crisis, but the party remained determined to put the plan into action. “It might not be at a level that it was but we believe we can do it,” Zuma said. The ANC was looking beyond the elections and planning its next term in government, he said. The incoming administration would make changes to Cabinet portfolios based on the party’s 15 years of experience in government and its priorities in the next five years. He said some portfolios would be split and there would a planning committee in the presidency to oversee government and its functions. “We believe that the structure will have a big role, there is no need for anyone to remain in position if they are not performing,” Zuma said.
inning the national lottery would seem like the end of all one’s problems. But for Jason Canterbury from Kuils River, who won a R6,7-million jackpot in 2003, that was where his problems began. Six years down the line, the 25-year-old went on trial in the Cape High Court on Monday, accused of organising the September 2006 murder of a man said to have become one of his drug runners when he allegedly tried to generate income from his dwindling fortune. Russel “Sniper” Johannes, 25, and Remo Kuys, 28, are on trial with Canterbury. They are alleged to have helped to move the body of Henry “No Rules” Stevens, 34, from his Kuils River backyard to the vicinity of a well-known drug house and tavern. Stevens’ body was allegedly dug up and set alight before being reburied. The three men’s trial began in Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court in late 2006, but after numerous delays, it was transferred to the Cape High Court. All three pleaded not guilty, and only Kuys is out on bail. Prosecutor Pedro van Wyk called 21-year-old Chandre Petersen from as his first witness on Monday. Petersen is in witness protection and has signed an agreement with the state, granting him immunity from prosecution. “Jason told me his money was nearly spent and he decided to start selling drugs. He asked me if I would do it for
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Inspector Marius Joubert and Superintendent Johan Kok, remove part of concrete slab. him... He said I would be in charge of selling the drugs, but Henry (Stevens) and (someone named) Balla would help me. We sold tik and Ecstasy.” Things went wrong when R8 000 in cash and drugs disappeared. Petersen said Canterbury told him Stevens’s “cap must be cleaned”, meaning he had to be killed to be made an example of. On September 28, 2006, Petersen was sitting with a man called
Wilfred “Wimpy” Gouws in Canterbury’s VW Kombi when he saw Canterbury drive his Rav4 into the backyard and heard him “scold someone”. “Wimpy said, ‘Here he comes.’ I heard footsteps. I looked down, knowing something bad was going to happen. A shot was fired. I looked up and saw Henry slump over. Wimpy had shot him.” Wimpy, Johannes and two other
Pic: Mary Adams
men put Stevens’s body in a cage. The group planned to dispose of the body. At one stage, he heard Canterbury tell a man called Montas that he had had Stevens shot. Montas came over to help them deal with the situation. Petersen said Montas told him to clean up the blood in the backyard and he and Montas dug a shoulderdeep hole in the ground for the body. The case continues on Tuesday.
Barbie’s shocking confession
Tragedy for potential Idol
By Cara Wingate
By Amukelani Chauke
Former advocate Cezanne Visser, better known as Advocate Barbie, on Wednesday conceded that she would probably have committed murder if her ex-lover Dirk Prinsloo had asked her to do so. Visser, who has denied guilt to 14 sex charges relating to children and women, claimed Prinsloo had controlled her to such an extent that she would probably have done anything for him, including murder.
Prinsloo disappeared while on a court-sanctioned business trip to Russia, leaving his former mistress to face the music alone. Asked about the alleged sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl Visser and Prinsloo had fetched from a children’s home in 2002, Visser denied that she had indecently assaulted the child. She said the child’s evidence in this regard was a lie, but conceded that she and Prinsloo had sex in front of the child, and had demonstrated a vibrator to the girl “because she had
asked about it”. Visser conceded that Prinsloo had not “forced” her to perform oral sex on him in front of another young girl from the children’s home. She claimed he used to grab her by the hair and forced her head down, and she complied because he expected this of her. Visser said she could still not understand or explain why she acted the way she did when she was with Prinsloo. “What I’m trying to say is that Dirk was my god. Dirk was almighty.
Panic caused by meningitis outbreak By Nico Fouche Meningitis has hit the Johannesburg CBD. The disease reared its head in the worst possible place – the refugeeflooded Central Methodist Church in the Johannesburg city centre. A case of meningitis has been reported at the church and the person with the disease was sent to hospital at the weekend. Medical personnel from a nearby Doctors Without Borders clinic have been handing out prophylactics to people who were in contact with the man. Warning signs on the symptoms of the disease have been put up but the message has yet to reach the thousands sleeping at and around the church each night. Thousands of immigrants take refuge at the church, most of them Zimbabweans. Epidemiologists and doctors warn that these are the types of condi
tions ideal for the spread of several communicable diseases, including meningitis. Adding to the fear is the number of children who sleep in the church every night. In addition the Gauteng department of health has also confirmed several other new cases in the province. This is in addition to the several cases which had already been confirmed in some of the province’s schools. “As part of its established system of tracking developments related to illnesses such as meningococcal meningitis, the Gauteng department of health’s response team has confirmed four more cases in the province of Gauteng,” said spokesman JP Louw in a statement last night. “One case involves a student from the University of Pretoria who is at the Muelnet Clinic. “Another case is of someone
living at the Methodist church in Johannesburg and is being attended to at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital. “Two other cases are of people attended to at Tembisa Hospital.” Louw confirmed that prophylactics had been offered to persons who had been in closest contact to the patients as well as educational material and educational talks. “The department has also started an educational campaign that will involve the use of schools, clinics and hospitals to disseminate information about meningitis generally,” he said. Doctors are not the only people concerned about the latest outbreak. “I am concerned at the reported case of meningitis. It highlights the fact that cholera and other diseases could break out as well, unless alternative temporary accommodation is found for the refugees. More needs to be done to educate people on meningitis symptoms,” Louw commented.
Jason Hartman’s joy at making the top 10 of the Idols contest was cut short this week when he learnt of his brother’s death in a car accident. Hartman, 29, found out that his stepbrother, Joshua Landberg, 25, crashed his car into a stationary trailer near the Mariannhill Toll Plaza on the N3 highway while returning to his Howick home from Durban on Saturday night. Hartman, who runs a non-governmental teaching organisation in Kwazulu-Natal, said his brother’s “untimely death” had knocked all the stress out of the competition for him. “Everything has been put in perspective for me. A tragedy like this shocks you into reality and makes clear what’s truly important in life. “My mantra has become: ‘Don’t forget to be awesome.’ He certainly was. He was the angel of the family.” Hartman dedicated his performance of the Beatles’ hit, With a Little Help From My Friends, to his late brother.
Hartman makes Idols top ten on the same night he finds out about his brother’s death. Pic: Supplied
Prisoner dies after escape bid By Sue Mullins A prisoner who was serving a 10year sentence in Mthatha died after trying to escape from prison, Eastern Cape Correctional Services said on Wednesday. "The inmate who was in prison for robbery was due to appear in the Bizana Magistrate's Court for trying to make an escape last year," said spokesperson Zama Feni. "As he entered the access gate at
Bizana at 19:00 on Monday, he got off the vehicle he was being transported in, and tried to run away... but correctional officials managed to recapture him." On Tuesday morning the inmate complained of body pains and was taken to a local hospital where he died. Feni said Regional Commissioner Nontsikelelo Jolingana would conduct a preliminary investigation into the death.
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9 March 2009
profiles
South Africa’s own Indiana Jones By Patrick Curran
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t’s a bright blue February morning on the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. The little beach side town of Zinkwazi is pulsing with heat as I stand under a tree being barked at by a giant dog. The woman sweeping leaves in the yard is clearly annoyed by Watson’s incessant barking, and shushes him with a practised swipe of the broom. I’ve disturbed the peace at Kingsley Holgate’s Afrika House by ringing the bell, and my penance is to be attacked by mosquitoes. I am shown through the varnished wooden gate decorated with intricate carvings into the Swahili-style house. Walking through Kingsley’s home is a sensory overload. I can hear the deep voice of the ‘grey beard’, as he is fondly known, chuckling down a telephone line somewhere in the cool depths of the house. I have three dogs bouncing around my ankles, two parrots speaking rapidly in squawks and hallos, and my eyes are taking in countless carvings, masks, weap-
onry, plants, pots, stars, beads, cloth and endless bits and bobs neatly arranged from wall to wall. Kingsley and his wife Gill are a wellknown couple, famed for their madcap family adventures through Africa and indeed across the world. With a purposeful humanitarian objective and a distinct distaste for living inside the realms of normality, the Holgates have been just about everywhere. Kingsley was born in 1946 in Durban, and primed for adventure from an early age, snacking on the tales of David Livingstone read to him by his father. Used to life in the bush from his family’s missionary work, on finishing school he backpacked all over the world in a special effort to grow his beard. At age 23 he managed to procure the attention of one Gill Adams, who came back to Africa with him. And so their mutual adventure of a lifetime began. Kingsley and Mashozi have completed many formal expeditions throughout Africa to implement their aid programmes, such as One Net One Life, which involves distributing
Kingsley standing outside a campsite in Kenya, on one of his adventures through Africa. hundreds of thousands of mosquito nets to mothers and babies across malaria-infected areas. They also have the Right to Sight programme, which supplies glasses to people who battle with their eyesight, thereby ensuring they can keep working to earn an income. Then they have the Teaching on the Edge programme, which takes mobile libraries and class-
New national park for SA
rooms to some of the most remote spots imaginable. All these projects are to be carried over into their 2009 Boundless Southern Africa Expedition, which kicks off on the 14th of May. From circumnavigating the world along the Tropic of Capricorn, to sailing on Land Yachts across the Makgadikgadi salt pans in central
By Cherise Van Coller
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has established a new national park in the country as part of a long term strategy to expand protected areas in South Africa. The new Garden Route National Park (GRNP) will consist of 52 500 hectares of newly proclaimed land as well as 68 500 hectares of the Wilderness and Tsitsikamma National Parks. The entire 121 000 hectare park will effectively straddle both the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. According to the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the establishment of the Park is part of a strategy to expand the protected areas in South Africa under formal protection from 6% to 8% of the total area of the country. “As our Parks are some of our most important conservation and tourism assets, we have invested R411 million in infrastructure development,” the Minister said at an event in Knysna on Friday which coincided with the gazetting of the GRNP. Speaking at the event, South African National Parks (SANParks) Chief Operating Officer Sydney Soundy said that the Garden Route is one of the critical focus areas in South Africa. “The area plays host to the largest continuous complex of indigenous forest in the country, spanning approximately 60 500 hectares. Its aquatic systems, the Knysna estuary and the Wilderness lake areas, are rated number one and number six respectively in the country.” he said. “The Garden Route is one of the most important conservation areas in South Africa and one of our crown jewels in terms of biodiversity and its attraction to both foreign and local tourists,” Van Schalkwyk said. According to the Minister, the formation of the GRNP will have a number of beneficial results. The park will allow for the sharing of resources and management experience and the integration of current management units in
Nearly a quarter of the world’s population of North Atlantic right whales, one of the most endangered species on earth, have gathered off Cape Cod in Massachusetts in a rare feeding frenzy, scientists say. The nearly 80 right whales are the largest number seen in Cape Cod Bay for this time of year, said scientists who attributed the spectacle to an unusually large presence of zooplankton - a marine species that is favourite whale food. The number is about six times greater than last year and represents about 24 percent of the estimated 325 right whales left in the world, said officials at the Provincetown Centre for Coastal Studies, which is conducting aerial surveys of the whales, and the National Marine Fisheries Science Centre. In March, right whales typically feed on a winter type of zooplankton that forms in waters as far north as Canada and floats with the currents into Cape Cod. This year, the tiny zooplankton species are especially rich. “It’s a pretty special sight in a tiny embankment so close to land,” said Dr. Charles Mayo, a senior scientist at the centre in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod. The sight of the whales thrashing off the sandy beaches of Provincetown follows an increase in right whale calf births in waters from coastal South Carolina to Florida, said Dr. Richard Merrick, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries service. That has swollen the right whale population by a rate of 1.8 percent a year over the past decade, added Merrick, who works at NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Science Centre in Woods Hole on Cape Cod.
order for greater economies of scale to be achieved. The park will also help further boost SANParks’ contribution to the
economy of the region which currently stands at R95 million per annum. The organisation is the second biggest employer in the region.
Botswana, the Holgates have set foot in some weird and wonderful places, and tend to bring equally weird and wonderful things back to their homestead. It’s not surprising that a sign outside the main entrance has the following inscription: “Afrika House – A Fusion of the Cultures of the East Coast, Karibu”.
Whales unite in rare mass gathering
By Christopher Kemp
From top to bottom: The sunsets over a lake in Sedgefield, Wilderness. A view of Table Mountain from Blaauwberg Strand, Cape Town. A giraffe bathes in the Pics: Supplied morning sunshine, Tsitsikamma National Park.
Pic: Sam Baker
It is unclear how many North Atlantic right whales are dying each year. They roam a huge expanse from the Gulf of Mexico to Norway, and it’s next to impossible to find and track all the carcasses as they die, said Merrick. Right whales got their name from 18th- and 19th-century whale hunters who considered them the “right” ones to kill because they are rich in oil and baleen, move slowly, stay close to shore and float when they die. Up to 59 feet (18 meters) long and weighing up to 100 tons (91 tonnes), they have been protected since a 1937 worldwide ban on hunting right whales. But ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements have ravaged the species in recent decades. For the past two years, unusually large numbers have gathered in Cape Cod Bay, where they typically feed from January to mid-May. There were sightings of 148 last year and 161 in 2007 -- twice the yearly average from 1998 to 2006. “I’d expect that we’ll beat both those years,” said Mayo. Last April, about 70 to 100 right whales gathered in Cape waters but that was later in the season to feed on a spring variety of zooplankton known as Calanus finmarchicus. It’s far rarer, Mayo said, to have such a large number feeding on the winter variety, known as pseudo Calanus. “We’re in a pivotal time in this season,” said Mayo. “The concentration of plankton in the upper levels of the water has now begun to drop from its highs in February and early March. That is normal. And we’re anticipating the influx of Calanus, a very rich plankton source. “If that happens, you can imagine what that means in terms of numbers of whales,” he added.
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9 March 2009
entertainment This week on the small screen
Last band for ZERO fest announced By Shannon Dalton
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Coca-Cola Zero and 5FM have announce the final band that will take to the stage at the Coca-Cola Zero Fest, which kicks off in Johannesburg on Friday, April 10, and then travels to Cape Town on Monday, April 13. The concert promises to be one of the biggest anticipated festival the year. One Day Remains, the final band to be announced to participate in this year’s Coca-Cola Zero festival is carving out their own destiny and is firmly set on a path to becoming a major hard rock band. The four man band comprises of Michael Naranjo who lends his vocals and guitar skills to the band, Jason Oosthuizen on drums, Donovan Paterson on Bass and Ryan Schnettler on lead guitar and vocals. One Day Remains credibility skyrocketed when their track Never Say Die was chosen by Super Sport as the theme song for the Vodacom Tri nations. This major breakthrough is from the band’s debut album Sins, Convictions & Confessions and displays the band’s hunger and constant intensity in their on stage performances. The band is constantly evolving and has their SA audience enthralled with their edgy sound. One Day Remains has been invited to perform on air at various radio stations around the country including 5FM’s Band Invasion. They are ready to invade the Coke Zero Fest stage and prove why
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3 Talk with Noeleen VIII 13:00 News @ 1 13:30 Africa News Update 14:00 Generations XVIII B 14:30 Isidingo XIII 15:00 Knock Knock IV 3:30 Fantastic Four 16:00 3 Talk with Noeleen VIII 17:00 Days of Our Lives XXVII 17:45 T.Oprah Winfrey Show XXIII 18:30 Isidingo XIII 19:00 News @ 7 19:30 English Premiership 20:30 News in 60 Seconds 20:31 Psych 21:30 Journey To The Core 22:00 News @ 10 22:15 Dead Man Walking Planet Parent 12:30 Judge Judy 12:55 Infomercial 5 min 13:00 News Day 13:30 WWE Raw 14:30 Untalkative Bunny 14:35 Cool Catz 15:00 Are You Afraid Of The Dark? 15:30 Shiz Niz 16:00 Care Bears 16:30 Infomercials 16:40 Backstage 17:10 Young and the Restless 18:00 e News Early Edition (Zulu/ Sotho) 18:30 Rhythm City 19:00 e News Prime Time 19:30 Scandal! 20:00 Planet’s Funniest Animals 20:30 WWE Smackdown 21:30 Lotto Draw 21:35 Lotto’s Show Your Number 22:00 e News Late Edition 22:15 Uefa Games 2008/2009
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Khumbul’ekhaya IV 12:15 YO.TV Off Camera 13:00 Making Moves II 13:30 Live it! 14:00 Muvhango X & XI 14:30 Jika Majika VI 15:00 Monster Warriors 15:30 I Got a Rocket 16:00 YO.TV Ziyakhipha II 16:30 Winx Club III 17:00 Off Camera 17:15 YO.TV Off Camera 17:28 Journeys Of Inspiration III 17:30 SiSwati/Ndebele News 18:00 The Bold and the Beautiful 18:30 Ses’khona V (Loc Mag) (Multi) 19:00 Zola 7 VIII 19:30 News (Xhosa) 20:00 Generations XVIIIB 20:30 Ubizo - The Calling Repeat 21:30 Cutting Edge (Loc) 22:00 My Wife and Kids II 22:30 The Mighty Quinn
Sabc 2: 12:00 Dr. Phil VII 13:00 Days Of Our Lives XXVII 13:45 Judge Hatchett III 14:15 Judge Hatchett III 14:30 Fokus (2007) 15:00 7de Laan X 15:30 Muvhango X & XI 16:00 Hectic Nine -9 III 16:30 Hack Shack II 17:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV 17:30 News Venda/Tsonga 18:00 Election Discussions 18:30 7de Laan X 19:00 News (Afrikaans) 19:30 On The Lot 20:30 News (Sesotho/Sepedi/Setswana) 21:00 Muvhango X & XI 21:30 Mponeng II (Sitcom) 22:00 Last Man Standing 23:00 Cold Case IV00:00 Learning Channel Sabc 3: 12:10 3 Talk with Noeleen VIII 13:00 News @ 1 13:30 Africa News Update 14:00 Generations XVIII B 14:30 Isidingo XIII 15:00 Creature Club II 15:30 Phantom Spirits II 16:00 3 Talk with Noeleen VIII 17:00 Days of Our Lives XXVI 19:30 Top Billing XIX 20:30 News in 60 Seconds 20:31 Prison Break II 21:30 Andy Barker 22:00 News @ 10 22:15 Key Largo Showbiz Report 2009 12:30 Judge Judy 12:55 Infomercial 5 min 13:00 News Day 13:30 The Steve Wilkos Show 14:20 Infomercial 14:30 Untalkative Bunny 14:35 Cool Catz 15:00 The Adventures Of Hyperman 15:30 Crazed Out 16:00 Dark Oracle 16:30 Infomercial 16:40 Backstage 17:10 Young and the Restless 18:00 e News Early Edition (Zulu/Sotho) 18:30 Rhythm City 19:00 e News Prime Time 19:30 Scandal! 20:00 The Net 22:20 e News Late Edition 22:35 Super Troopers
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Friends like These 13:00 Yilungelo Lakho/It’s Your right 14:00 Muvhango X & XI 14:30 Zola 7 VIII 15:00 Batman III 15:30 Codename: Kids Next Door VI 16:00 YO.TV Wildroom Mega PT I 16:30 Winx Club III 17:00 YO.TV Wildroom Mega PT II 17:28 Reflections on Faith 17:30 SiSwati/Ndebele News 18:00 The Bold and the Beautiful 18:30 Jam Alley XXI 19:00 My Wife and Kids II 19:30 News (Zulu) 20:00 Generations XVIIB 20:30 Eve III 21:00 Live Series IX 22:00 Out for a Kill 00:00 SMS TO WIN
they are the most talked about band in the Western Cape to date. One Day Remains will perform at the Joburg leg of Coca-Cola Zero Fest only, where they will join Oasis, Panic! At the Disco, Snow Patrol, Bullet For My Valentine, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Dirty Skirts, Zebra and Giraffe and Foto Na Dans. If last years Coca-Cola Fest is anything to go by – this should be a big one.
By Rob Claude
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The four band members of One Day Remains, the last band to be announced for Pic: supplied this year’s Coca-Cola Zero fest.
Jaque Nicco and Tina Louw will be cooking at this year’s Taste food festival. Pic: Supplied
Taste of Cape Town is back. And yet again this remarkable festival will be bringing together the city’s most acclaimed restaurants and carefully selected exhibitors to attract 20 000 of Cape Town’s most dedicated and sophisticated foodies. This year the Mother City’s most extravagant food festival will be held on the majestic grounds of Jan van Riebeeck Sports Fields, off Kloof Nek on De Hoop Avenue. From Thursday 2nd – Sunday 5th
Dates and venues:
Friday: 10 April 2009 New Market Racecourse, Joburg Monday: 13 April 2009 Cape Town Ostrich Farm, CT Ticket Prices: Golden Circle R600.00 General Admission R375.00 Student Admission R299.00 *Gates open at 11h00
April, 18 of the city’s top restaurants and chefs will be serving a stunning selection of sample sized signature dishes to Taste of Cape Town visitors. 5 of the featured restaurants participating in this year’s festival have been crowned in the prestigious Eat Out Awards list of Top Ten Restaurants in South Africa. Taste of Cape Town is the culinary event of the year where the best food and drink in the country will be on offer. If you love eating out this is an opportunity too good to miss, and will be full of fun, flavour and colour.
This weeks movie review: Slumdog Millionaire
Friday
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Dr. Phil VII 13:00 Days Of Our Lives XXVII 13:45 Judge Hatchett III 14:15 Judge Hatchett III 14:30 Where Were You? 15:00 7de Laan X 15:30 Muvhango X & XI 16:00 Hectic Nine -9 III 16:30 Treasure Hunt III 17:00 Transformers 17:30 News Venda/Tsonga 18:00 Voetspore 18:30 7de Laan X 19:00 News (Afrikaans) 19:30 Noot Vir Noot XXXII 20:30 News (Sesotho/Sepedi/Setswana) 21:00 Masakeng 21:30 Comedy Cabin 22:00 Blow By Blow 23:30 NCIS IV 00:30 Afro Café V
Sabc 3: 12:10 3 Talk with Noeleen VIII 13:00 News @ 1 13:30 Africa News Update 14:00 Generations XVIII B 14:30 Isidingo XIII 15:00 Membaz Only II 15:30 URBO: The Adventures of ...II 16:00 3 Talk with Noeleen VIII 17:00 Days of Our Lives XXVII 17:45 Oprah Winfrey Show XXIII 18:30 Isidingo XIII 19:00 News @ 7 19:30 Aliens in America 20:00 Ocean’s Eleven 22:00 Welcome To Collinwood 00:05 Tortilla Soup E-tv: 12:00
My Name is Earl 12:30 Judge Judy 13:00 News Day 13:30 WWE Smackdown 14: 30 Running free 15:50 Frenzy 16:40 Backstage 17:10 The Young and the Restless 18:00 e News Early Edition 18:30 Rhythm City: Local soap 19:00 e News Prime Time 19:30 Style by Jury: Makeover show 20:00 Iron Eagle 3: 22:00 e News Late Edition (English) 22:30 The Punisher
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Saturday
Infomercials 12:30 Countdown 2010 13:00 Imizwilili XII 14:00 Sportwrap - Live 14:03 Telkom Splash 14:28 Soccer Scene 15:00 Sportwrap - Live 15:03 2010 Update 15:08 Laduma: ABSA Premiership - Maritzburg vs Santos 15:08 Laduma: Nedbank Cup - Black Leopards vs Amazulu 17:35 Warriors 17:55 Sportwrap - Live 18:00 Selimathunzi XXII 18:30 Friends Like These 19:30 News (Xhosa) 20:00 Laduma: ABSA Premiership - K Chiefs vs Bidves Wits 22:15 Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Sabc 2: 12:30 Dikolong I 13:00 Muvhango X & XI 13:30 Muvhango X & XI 14:00 Muvhango X & XI 14:30 Muvhango X & XI 15:00 Athletics SA Juniors 16:00 Quick Change 18:00 News (Afrikaans) 18:30 WWP Thunderstrike 19:30 News (Sesotho/Sepedi/Setswana) 20:00 Kid Nation 21:00 Cold Case IV 22:00 Late Night with Kgomotso 23:00 Close To Home II 00:00 SABC News International Sabc 3: 12:30 Style VIP I (REB) 13:00 House and Home 13:30 Take Home Chef 14:00 Steven and Chris 15:00 Oh God 17:00 The Amazing Race XI 18:00 Rock ‘N Style At Radio City 19:00 News @ 7 19:30 On The Couch 20:00 Ocean’s Twelve 22:00 Three Kings 00:00 Witness To The Mob E-tv: 12:30
e-Shibobo: Soccer 13:00 The Showbiz Report 13:30 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 14:00 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 16:00 Wrestling: WWE Raw 18:00 e News Early Edition (English) 18:05 Ripley’s Believe It or Not: Reality 19:00 e News Prime Time (English) 19:30 The Showbiz Report 20:00 Johnson Family Vacation way to a family gathering (2003) 21:30 Live Lotto draw 22:00 Film Red Corner
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Sunday
Imani III 12:15 An Nur II 12:30 Behind the Video 13:00 Evolution 14:00 Sportwrap - Live 14:03 Slam Dunk 14:30 FNB African Soccer Show 15:00 Sportwrap - Live 15:03 2010 Update 15:08 Laduma: ABSA Premiership - P Stars vs M Swallows 17:30 What’s in a Name 17:55 Sportwrap - Live 18:00 Roots IV 18:30 Asikhulume Vll 19:30 News (Zulu/Xhosa) 20:00 The Bourne Identity 22:00 The Ladykillers 00:00 Music Lounge
Sabc 2: 12:00 Dharma II 12:15 Simcha II 12:30 Travel Magazine 13:00 Encounters II 13:30 Sport On 2 15:30 7de Laan X 16:00 7de Laan X16:30 7de Laan X 17:00 7de Laan X 17:30 7de Laan X 18:00 News (Afrikaans) 18:30 Fokus 19:00 Khululeka Siyavota 19:30 News (Sesotho/Sepedi/Setswana) 20:00 Election Debates 2009 21:00 I’ts Gospel Time VII 22:00 Close To Home II 23:00 Pasella XVI & XVII 00:00 SABC News International Sabc 3: 12:00
Dtv XII 12:30 Top Billing XIX 13:30 Going Nowhere Slowly 14:00 Religion Of The World 15:00 Top Travel 15:30 Pampoen tot Perlemoen 16:00 Tech Head 16:30 Zooming In On Man II 17:00 EverWood II 18:00 National Geographic 19:00 News @ 7 19:30 Interface 20:00 Bionic Woman 21:00 Out Of Sight 23:00 SABC3 Live 00:00 30 ROCK
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UEFA Magazine 13:10 20 Something 13:40 Johnson Family Vacation 16:00 The Biggest Loser 17:00 Wrestling: WWE Raw 18:00 e News Early Edition 18:05 Real TV 18:30 Medical Detectives 19:00 eNews Prime Time 19:30 My Name is Earl 20:00 Four Brothers 22:10 Hillsong 22:35 Boyz n the Hood (1991)
By Robert Waldman Remember the hoopla surrounding the Who Wants to Be A Millionaire television series? Less than five years ago that game show became a phenomenon not only in North America but around the world, making a bigger household name of Regis Philbin. Chances are good that this show will gain even more converts after viewing Slumdog Millionaire, a wildly engaging drama from Fox Searchlight Films now striking a sympathetic chord at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas. Wins at film festivals have been common for this widely acclaimed film. All the action here centres on Jamal Malik, a young worker from a high tech company who somehow becomes a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Most contestants who appear on this or any other television game show know what pressure is all about. Here, however the pressure reaches the outer limits as this fish out of water player has an unbelievable story to tell. Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) teams up with director Luveleen Tandan with support from Warner Brothers films to mount a truly impressive undertaking with masterful storytelling finesse. Danger surrounds the Indian version of the show with some coming to question just how a lowly Indian menial labourer could possibly know all the right answers on route to an unbelievably large jackpot, in the millions of rupees no less. While the squeeze is put on Jamal we are inundated with flashbacks to his childhood to see how he came to his current predicament. As a child Jamal grew up with his brother Salim and mother in the slums of India and the boys underwent harsh treatment largely sometimes because of his faith. Unspeakable horrors confront both
boys and those images and pent-up fears/hostilities have a clear impact on their teen years and adult lives. Love, romance and lust also enter into the equation as a young orphan named Latika seems to leave an indelible impression on the lads, and older grown ups as she ages. Full of violence and tense moments Slumdog Millionaire comes up a winner, turning out to be one of the best movies of the year. Gorgeous cinematography of the Indian continent engulfs viewers. Chases through the slums of Calcutta add a more realistic feel to this movie that’s long on atmosphere and full of great performances that at times will make you weep or cringe. Various actors play the central characters through their lives but one must single out Dev Patel who lights up the screen as the sadeyed Jamal, a man in love for years but not quite able to close the deal often through no fault of his own. And, in a stunning debut, Freida Pinto shines as Latika, the woman at the centre of much consternation in this story.
Top ten movies at the cinema 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Slumdog Millionaire Watchmen The Pink Panther 2 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button He’s Just Not That into You New in Town Bedtime Stories Bride Wars Inkheart Changeling