. . . send money to Dr Mashiza (alias Martin Feinstein).

Maseru is full of aid agencies, such as US Aid, Save the Children’s Fund, the German Development Service, Danish Volunteer Service, the American Peace Corps, among others. In recent times various agencies have moved their money – and their influence – to Pretoria, so as to be close to the “power”.

While Judge Hoexter’s misreading, or misinterpretation, of the evidence (in the appeal of General Lothar Neethling vs Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail) is cause for concern, it is his four colleagues’ concurrence which is most disturbing. Is it possible that five senior Appeal judges could all misread a trial record so extensively?

In their by now infamous judgement in the appeal of General Lothar Neethling vs Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail, the judges of the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein held that our Common Law does not accord any specific role or privilege to the press in a democratic State. The Judges were wrong: wrong about the facts of the case and in their analysis of those facts; wrong about the press; and wrong about the law.

Mystery excess arms payments / Tollgate may toll for the broeders / anatomical confusion at law firm / Cape Town city diary.

Dr Robert Hall, one of the SA Reserve Bank's more famous clients, knows how never to pay tax, and how to make a living out of fiddling the Finrand.

One way or another, it seems, the truth will out – about the CCB and also about South Africa’s continued involvement in the Angolan civil war on the side of the rebel Unita movement, which, having lost the democratic elections, has now set about burning down Angola’s cities.

Who are the players in contention to run the national lottery?