The funniest thing in noseweek to date.

A to B of the rich and (in)famous in the 1001 Club (which, it emerges, appropriately also spells "atom bomb"...)

Conditions in Africa seem to contradict the failure of AIDS predictions in the US. But Africans have different levels of antibodies in their blood, and the HIV antibody-test has many flaws - many of them quite fundamental.

Richard Emdin wanted a second-hand Toyota. He had three conditions. The car should have a full service record, it shouldn't be from the coast and he didn't want an ex car-hire vehicle. Sandton Toyota salesman Milden Lurie reassured him on all fronts - sold him a car - and then supplied him with ... a lovely brand-new service book! That's when the fun started.

What the Reserve bank doesn't want you to know about David Jenkins and the murder of Simon Law - plus Chait and van der Merwe are tracked down.

When Old Mutual decided to go offshore - in the financial sense - it seems they needed to bolster their results with a $100 million dividend achieved by selling off the prime assets of one of their underperforming holdings - Safmarine. Curiously, there's no mention of the one-off deal in a massive report issued by OM's friendly London brokers, Merrill Lynch, in which they heavily punt OM's shares to UK institutional investors.