South African monkeys and baboons are being exported to foreign laboratories for use in cruel and secret experiments. When it comes to the decent treatment of animals, it emerges, new ANC politicians lie as slickly as old Nat ones.

Vagrant David Hlatana's claim to the Road Acccident Fund was handled by attorneys H Mohamed & Associates, of Athlone in Cape Town. noseweek has established that the lawyers kept a shockingly high proportion of his payout. (The prelude to a noseweek investigation which eventually saw Mohamed and his partner struck off the roll of attorneys.)

A landmark Appeal Court judgement in the case Durr vs ABSA, establishes the principle that the skill of a broker or financial advisor must be commensurate with the t ype of service he offers.

In the saga of pioneering lumberjack lawyers, Shepstone and Wylie, and the missing trees, enter the bush pilot and aerial survey specialist.

Dave Stewart and Dave McGregor emerge as star witnesses for the prosecution at the trial for fraud of their old friend, former Tollgate director, Mervyn Key.

Drug lords in SA, as elsewhere in the world, have one great problem – what to do with mountains of cash generated by their nefarious activities. However, in South Africa, unlike most other countries, the problem is being resolved by some of our most reputable financial institutions.

A battle royal has been raging in South Africa’s courts since 1994 between fugitive German conman, Jurgen Harksen, and the trustees appointed by the court to find and seize the fortune he took off the rich and gullible of Europe – said to total over R1 billion – before fleeing to South Africa ahead of various court officials waving warrants for his arrest.

Why is it that in the new, democratic South Africa, the public is still not deemed fit to be told the reasons for the collapse - at huge cost to us all - of a major insurance company?