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Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me

FROM BEING THE ENFANT TERRIBLE of British writing, producing such shockers as The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, earning him the soubriquet Ian Macabre, McEwan has become something like the grand old man of British letters, producing 17 books, winning multiple awards, including the Booker (for Amsterdam, one of his least convincing novels), with at least five, by my count, of his novels being adapted for the screen.

Fears Fish Factory Might Stink Out Mossel Bay

School feeding scheme loses out as processing plant switches to importing pilchards and sardines for animal feed.

A Flawed Court Process That Puts Victims At Risk

NOSEY ONES, I MUST SINCERELY apologise to you all.

Tech's Online Exploitative Relationship With Children Is A Health Risk

A report submitted to the UK Parliament outlines the damaging effects on children of ‘persuasive design’ on the internet

Love And Loss

Karina was his fifth bride – and the love of André Brink’s life. Now she celebrates his memory. 

FNB's R800,000 For My Silence

ONE of the couNtry’s Best known rabbis has broken a 16-year silence to reveal to Noseweek an extraordinary deal in which he agreed not to “go public” with the revelation that his FNB safety deposit box had been plundered by a bank employee. 

MTN Ignores Court Ruling - Again

Call-centre staff fighting for R60m in salaries.

Aerodynamics. Flights of Fancy

The ANNuAl export of muttoN from New Zealand is 34,380 tons per annum, declared Miss Ootle.

Grammaticabobble Rammed Down Our Throats

I SUFFERED SORE DISMAY AT THE AGE of ten-or-so upon learning that language was not for pleasure, it was for discipline.

Hanging Out With Sharks

On Tuesday 5 February 2019 The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture was hearing evidence from its own investigator Frank Dutton.

‘Outlier' Plastic Surgeon Gets On Hospital's Tits

A DURBAN HOSPITAL has decided To cut the cord with a plastic sur-geon whose past, it would seem, has finally caught up with him.

Proudly Raise And Wave Your Mzansi Flag

UNLIKE TOO MANY OF OUR FELLOW Mzansi citizenry I like to think of myself as one of the most positive people when mulling over our current status of national affairs – political, economic and social.

The People Vs Eskom

IT’S UNANIMOUS: ESKOM IS THE MOST hated organisation in South Africa.

The Last Resort?

Mossel Bay woman defends her Mauritian dream in face-off with suspicious investors.

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story Of Genius, Betrayal And Redemption

IN 2009, AUTHOR BEN MEZRICH WROTE A book named The Accidental Billionaires, chronicling the unholy birth of Facebook, the rise of Mark Zuckerberg, and the fall – well, the stumble – of Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the identical twins who believed that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for the social network from them.

Free Homes For Select Few

Tshwane Metro lease agreements dumped at recycling plant during office move reveal council housing scandal

To Helen Back

We catch up with the political powerhouse that is Helen Zille

Mabuyakhulu Accuses ANC Bosses Of Political Interference

KZN ANC deputy chairman claims foul play in R27m development scandal.

Sars Helps Mpisanes Duck And Dive – Again

The Durban-based tender tycoons get a helping hand from the taxman.

Rogue Unit Skills For Sale

SARS spooks are (discreetly) at large again, with new clients and new masters.

Tshwane Capture

The world’s third biggest metro municipality is still on a corruption ride to nowhere.

How Safe Is SA's Morandi Bridge?

The designer of the Genoa viaduct that catastrophically collapsed in August also had a hand in several South African bridges, including the one that spans the Storms River.

Don't Mention My Conviction, Says Fraudster Panday

VISHAM PANDAY, GOLD AND DIESEL DEALER, convicted fraudster and brother to the more infamous

Talking Rhino To Vietnamese Kids

VIETNAM IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST RECIPIENT of illegal rhino horn from South Africa.

Spiritual. Hell Is About Rocks

Well to be spIrItual You don’t have to be religious.

Grasping The Nettle

A peek inside the life of DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen.

SARS Rogue Unit – Secret Official Report Revealed

The SARS ‘rogue unit’ trial is scheduled to resume on February 14. Noseweek has uncovered a secret report by the Inspector-General of Intelligence that once more puts the spotlight on that murky affair.

What A Kid!

Fortunately, nosey ones, I have never been in a car accident, certainly not a fatal one – or I would not be here writing this column now, would I? However if I were to be involved in one (not fatal of course), I would want to be accompanied by this remarkable kid I happened upon in early December. For I know that with him at my side, our chance of surviving would be that much greater.

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Is Cleverest Of Us All?

Vanity awards give a veneer of erudition to fake achievers with the gall and cash to flaunt them

Shark Mystery: Where Have All The Cape's Great Whites Gone?

Is the culprit man or beast?