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Property & Plagiarism
Developer Tongaat-Hulett under fire for blatantly using another firm’s plans.
Health Cheques For ‘GP'
‘Kind and loving’ con-doctor has been at it for years, while HPCSA dismissed a 2012 complaint
Changing The Game
Wits student Kamal Ramburuth-Hurt is driving a campaign to revolutionise the ‘irrelevant’ economics curriculum taught at South African universities. It’s called Rethinking Economics for Africa (Refa) – and it’s gaining traction.
A Stink About A Stink
Environmental offender given green light.
Xolobeni: An Assault By The State
The assault by the state on the community living at Xolobeni, Mbizana, in the Eastern Cape drags on as the Amadiba people are again compelled to seek the protection of the courts.
Senior Magistrate's Bigoted Songsheet
Court officer Ashin Singh sows discord among his peers
Tshwane Deals To Die For
Metro under the microscope for paying huge amounts for land in transactions that generate massive profits for speculators
Cape Town's waste ends up in its fish
Scientists find that fish caught by small scale commercial fishers in Kalk Bay are contaminated.
Deep Reconciliation
Wilhelm Verwoerd and his calling to ‘transform apartheid’
Food For Thought
Clear bright future – an extract
Not Rocket Science
The colour of bad science.
They Lied!
What Investec and Peter Gray knew and lied about in South Africa’s second-biggest corporate fraud on record
Books
Fighting for the dream
Durban Metro Supresses Investigation To Win Court Battle
eThekwini in hot water after allegedly misleading Supreme Court of Appeal.
Bitter Sweet In Kandyland
You can’t keep a good skellum down: Kandyland’s Pieter van der Watt is still at it. Jack Lundin tracks down the conman’s latest prey.
Time Warp Estate Battles To Hold Clock Back
Fierce rules, tough fines and a ferocious code of conduct keep the residents of this Gauteng paradise in order, while their tranquil way of life is under threat from all sides. Jack Lundin dropped in
Dispatches From The Front
A low-intensity civil war is grinding on just north of Pretoria.
Mob Boss's Attorney Sues Namibian Paper For Defamation
Case will be important test for country’s media freedom.
The King's Speech. Peanut Gallery
I CAN’T RECALL EXACTLY WHEN, BUT somewhere about 1936 when I was eleven-or-so years old, here in English Middle-Class Colonial Natal, we were all told at school to be sure to listen to the wireless at eight o’clock one certain night because the King was going to speak to his Empire.
The Killer Quantums Stalking SA's Roads
Toyota and authorities knew for three years about unsafe jerry-rigged taxis, but did nothing to stop the carnage.
Bheki Cele Heads Investigation – Of Himself
Police minister uses state-funded legal advisor in fight with own ministry.
American Tribes. Lessons For South Africa
Amy Chua is best known for Her 2011 best-seller, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a highly controversial mani-festo of zero-tolerance parenting, Chinese style.
A Curious Undervaluation
Why Would Johannesburg’s city council settle for an undervaluation of the property at 100 Grayston Drive?
Fake News And Gaddafi's Loot: Two Great Pre-election Spoilers
NoseWeek didn’t get the $30m (R417,000,000) version of the Zuma/King Mswati III/ Muammar Gaddafi / Nkandla treasure story.
Rian Malan Told You So...
The other day, I Was Woken from my afternoon nap by a thunderclap of stunned silence emanating from the United States, where special prosecutor Robert Mueller had just handed over the results of his probe into the allegedly cosy relationship between Donald Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.
Who Called Iqbal What?!
It Was late afternoon on the 27th of November 2014 and Tony Weaver paused and looked back at the Cape Times newsroom which he was leaving after having served as one of its most respected reporters and columnists for close on a quarter of century.
Free State capture and the ‘cattle thief'
An extract from Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh
The Ace Of Arts
On page 10 you Will find an extract from Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book: Gangster State – unravelling ANC Secretary General Ace Ma-gashule’s web of capture.
A Landslide Disaster
Mossel Bay homeowners sue authorities over wrecked homes
Eden. Pawpaws The Size Of Rugby Balls
I HAD A LOVELY BIG GARDEN BACK THEN, narrow but long, street to street, and in there I had flora burgeon-ing so you’d imagine this was the 100% Fruit Juice rack in a supermarket: Tropical Temptation, Fruits of Paradise, Berry Blaze.