FNBs media liason officer, Bongolethu Futuse, says that the interest rate is based on several factors, inclucing the applicant's age, type and period of employment, level of indebtedness and the repayment period. African Bank's rate is 170.4%.

‘Mr Arniston’, Robert Haarburger, got a great big klap recently, courtesy of the Western Cape High Court. Nose110 reported on the skulduggery going down in this sleepy little Cape resort situated ...

The Arabella operation in SA is up for sale. Riaan Gous, executive director, says it had nothing to do with the recession.

Full details of how Isaac Shongwe’s Letsema Investments used the chemical industry’s provident fund to make a personal fortune have come to light in a high court application. Lawyers asked for information on shares and a statement of account, but none of this was forthcoming.

Chris Dairopolous claims that Mark Kleynhans talked him into attending the Savile Row auction as a "phantom bidder" to push the price up.Estate agent Lew Geffen describes it as a fantastic auction and adds Kleynhans:  "We shot the lights out and blew the market away".

Unscrupulous operators are draining cash from the bank accounts of people who don't understand what they've got into. Platinum Africa is either taking money without instructions or taking money on instructions that are suspect.

MacDonald Netshitenze was appointed Registrar of Patents and Trade Marks in the mid 90s and a black man with attitude, and no background in IP, was about as welcome as a wet fart in a space suit. His new Bill will lead to all sorts of absurdities as it seeks to give protection to things which are not original, making traditional knowledge the antithesis of intellectual property.

A prisoner who was released on bail after the court docket went missing has now herself mysteriously disappeared. State prosecutor, R Oliver, has sent a scathing letter to Mzwandile Petros, Western Cape Provincial Commissioner of Police, complaining about the highly questionable conduct of detectives at Table View police station.

A married couple is being hounded for rates and tax arrears on a house they sold some 40 years ago. Mr & Mrs Money received a letter of Final Demand from attorneys Van de Venter Mojapelo with no reference to the property address or erf number.

Where was the anaesthetist, Dr Marius Gouws, when four-year old Zenande failed to wake up after a routine procedure by Dr Bob Banieghbal at Life Fourways?

The Cape Windlass Environmental Action group – perhaps fortified by the recent Cape High Court judgment against the Arabella estate (see nose122) – has lodged a challenge in the same court against ...

When Capetonians Johan and Angelique Hafkamp planned a trip to Australia last April, with their two young children (aged 18 months and three), they chose to fly Emirates Airlines. They could hardly have imagined the nightmarish voyage that awaited them.

Jack Lundin last saw his sister Gill more than 14 years ago. he only learned in October that she had died - two months after that sad event. When he set about piecing together the last months of her life, he was shocked to discover that while dying of cancer, Gill had been subjected to grotesque mistreatment by a woman who suddenly became determined to inherit the estate that Gill had only weeks before willed to charity.

Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought (Walker Publishing) By James G Workman

Alright Country Life fans – if I do have fans out there: after a week of unprecedented disrespect directed at this country scribe, I suddenly have serious doubts. But maybe disrespect is just the lo ...

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