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Artificial Intelligence. Robot Racism

Artificial Intelligence. Robot Racism

Dirty Secret Behind Norway's Clean Energy

The happiest and most democratic country in the world funds its very green power by selling its plentiful fossil fuels to the rest of us.

Dr Munsamy, I Presume ...

He’s been called ‘A crook and a fraudster. An animal and a disgusting waste of skin and bones’.

Draining Tshwane's Swamp

Mayor Solly Msimanga wants to focus on service delivery.

It's a giant international scam

Brits are losing millions to UK’s biggest con while the government stands by.

Food, Travel And Design. Cape Town To Sydney

After the summer hols IN Cape Town, it’s back to the land of the “lounge room”. Other than a diabolical new government plan for Australia to become a top global arms exporter (almost AU $4 billion in support to local weapons manufacturers is being mooted), Adani coal mine resistance continues, private school fees have rocketed as happens perennially (they have hit the $37,000 mark), Australia Day (Invasion Day to Aboriginal people) protests were duly held, and the iconic koalas and leadbeater possums have less and less habitat because of tree clearing.

Radio Nose. Daysed And Confused

PLEASE, PLEASE NO MORE DAYS. No, I am not calling for the end of time – I’ll explain my plea shortly – but first, let us see what’s happening in the musical charts.

In For A Zweli, In For A Pound

Questions keep rolling in over a succession of dodgy loans involving former KZN premier and his wife.

Corruption Net Closes In On KZN Big Boys

How tens of millions of rands were siphoned off under the guise of bringing the North Sea Jazz Festival to Durban.

Death Do Us Part

Armed and organised syndicates are muscling in on Durban’s funeral industry to exclude white and Indian-owned businesses from operating in KZN townships and rural areas. Jonathan Erasmus reports

A Pain In The BMW

Dealership’s sloppy work wrecked owner’s 316i then they slapped him with a R362,000 quote for repairs

Vodacom's Fraudulent Charges - The Saga Continues

Vodacom's Fraudulent Charges - The Saga Continues

Anti-fracking Forces Triumph Again

VICTORIES ARE ROLLING IN FOR THE anti-fracking lobby in KwaZu-lu-Natal. State entities along with murky prospectors have attempted to bulldoze through exploration rights, deliberately breaking the law and making it difficult for the public to object.

A 19-ton Truck In The Gardens Of The Afterlife

You’ve pored over the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Der Spiegel online, now dip into the monthly ISIS publication on the dark web.

Liz McDaid Of The Nuclear Victory

Triumphant anti-nuclear campaigner believes courage works wonders.

Physician, Heal Thyself

LAST MONTH, THE PRESIDENT OF THE Health Professions Council of South Africa, Dr Kgosi Letlape, described medical aid schemes as “a crime against humanity” and suggested they should be abolished as they cannot co-exist with the government’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.

Once Celebrated, Since Disgraced - Dines Gihwala To Pay Up Big Time

DEAR READER, this story begiNs way back in 1998, but listen patiently and keep in mind: the sting is in the tail.

King Shaka International - An Airport In Search Of Passengers

FIRST COSTED AT R3.15 BILLION, by the time Durban’s King Shaka International Airport was completed in 2010, it had cost any-thing between R7.6bn and R9bn.

Goodness Me. Keep Trying

IN A DO-GOODER FRAME OF MIND, Noseweek’s intrepid correspondent [Please God, not another one! – Ed.] last year ventured out of Sydney’s eastern suburbs to see if she could be of any use at the Asylum Seekers Centre in the somewhat less salubrious Newtown.

Turning Facebook Likes Into Action

How technology was used to upend Cape Town’s punitive water tariff.

Justice In Lalla Land

Could evaporation of sex case against St Alban’s teacher have anything to do with his father’s well-placed connections?

KZN Tenders: The Dicey Stick It To The Dodgy

Two companies – each as politically connected as the other – have it out in court over awarding of contract.

Petrol Consumption Figures Pour Fuel On Ford's Fire

Doughty widow challenges advertising claims.

Hot Stuff. The Wall Game

HUNGRY? FANCY A CRISP GRASSHOPPER shank? What about a dainty ball of fat that has been knocking around in your backpack for a week or two? No?

Inge Lotz Broken And Betrayed

On Wednesday 16 march 2005, the mutilated body of Inge Lotz, an at-tractive and talented Stellenbosch University student, was found in her Welgevonden apartment. She was lying on her couch covered in blood.

Paedophile Priest And The Catholics' 17-year Cover-up

IN OCTOBER‚ WILLIAM SEGODISHO went public with the story of how he had been raped and sexually abused in the 1980s by Father William MacCurtain, a Jesuit priest then based at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Doornfontein, Johannesburg.

Mandela Bay

City saviour who wrote the book on ANC-looting of Nelson Mandela Bay Metro actually helped the theft.

Digging Deep To Save Lives

A charity better known for its work in Middle-Eastern war zones, has recently gone to the rescue of Afrikaner farmers and their workers in the remote, drought-stricken town of Sutherland.

Butt Of A Joke. Don't Do It

For a few years following My return from a long journey of self-imposed exile in the States, I was constantly being reminded that this is not America. I guess some people did not find it appropriate that I would do things like wear tights while jogging or cycling. Yes, absurd as it may seem, there are those who objected.

Struck-off GP Finds New Way To Exploit Elderly

Doctor guilty of unprofessional conduct has developed a profitable alternative speciality; preying on old women.