Chris Hofmeyr's health improved dramatically after a new doctor correctly diagnosed his condition as bi-polar depression, for which benzodiazapines had been the wrong treatment, and started him on Lithium. As he felt better, so he began to return to his old, energetic self and to assemble the evidence he needed to prove what had been done to him, and to recover some of what he had lost.

Behind the World Wide Fund for Nature’s fluffy, eco-friendly image, so well expressed by its cuddly panda bear logo, lies a darker history.

President Mandela will ignore the report of the Nel Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of Masterbond at his - and our - peril.

Top executives from ABSA lied on the stand in a case against David Hersch - the "too clever Jew".

It's no surprise that South African judges have no respect for the fundamental part freedom of speech plays in a democracy. After all, look at their attitude to the habeus corpus rule in the apartheid days.

In December (1997), on application by casino magnate Sol Kerzner, Judge Flemming prohibited publication of the book Kerzner Unauthorised. The author, former Finance Week editor Allan Greenblo and his publisher, Jonathan Ball, have appealed against the order. Here is some of the material that appears in the book. Read it and judge for yourself whether this is information you should be entitled to have, and a view you are entitled, by democratic right, to hear.

In Nov 1985 a picture appeared introducing the nation to a new blonde in Sol's life - 19 year old Tanya van Wijk, a runner-up Miss Hillbrow.

Kerzner Unauthorised quotes extensively from the court papers in the divorce of Sol and Anneline. According to the Divorce Act that is a criminal offence. The papers were, however, also widely reported evidence in a criminal case - the trial of Anneline's second husband, Tucker, on dagga charges. Greenblo argued that, as evidence in a criminal case, he was entitled to quote it.