When, in 1982, it dawned on the National Intelligence Service that the Anthony de Crespigny that president P W Botha had appointed to head the constitutional committee of his President’s Council co ...

By its very nature secrecy is vital to the PR industry. That’s why its phenomenal growth of the last century has largely escaped notice. But PR is always there behind the scenes - writing the news, monitoring journalists, spreading dis-information, corrupting the language . . . the first part of a gripping interview with John Stauber, editor of the US based magazine PR Watch.

Stalwart Masterbond campaigner Don MacKenzie is coming to the end of the road. Big Don deserves a medal for stepping in where the professional financial community was acting like the crew of the Oceanos. We revisit SA’s most disgraceful financial scandal and the equally disgraceful aftermath.

There’s been a whole lot of shakin goin’ on at MTN, as then Group Executive Jacques Sellschop found out on his first day on the job. (And they were screwing their customers too.)

A certain senior lawyer, a well-known fella in sport circles, was touched to receive a present just before Christmas from a lady with whom he’s had a ‘strictly pay for play’ relationship for years.
But the pressie turned out to be a clandestine video featuring Mr X and his lady friend in flagrante delicto; the lady turned out to be not so nice. Restraint and good taste be damned - we bring you the full story.

The new toast in the Northern Province after SAB’s men show that, when it comes to interracial brotherhood and the spirit of the new SA, their money isn’t where their mouth is.

President Mbeki is famously cheesed off because his name appeared at the top of our old arms !!!! organogram. Maybe that’s because it shows him in some pretty dubious company - like that of Shamin ‘Chippy’ Shaik, who last year allegedly announced that he would sign a major arms deal on behalf of the government only if a massive ‘commission’ was paid into a private bank account specified by him.
That’s just one of the things we know that the president knows, but definitely wants kept secret.