The response to our flash fiction competition was overwhelming, with hundreds of entries pouring in. The prize winners.

Just in time for the festive season! Info and advice from Richard von Geusau, SA's chocolate artist extraordinaire.

Husband and wife write to each other about the private emotions that get lost in the big AIDS debate.

Michael Griffin thought he was sitting pretty in his new designer home, when suddenly the bottom fell out of his world.

In October a talented and successful SA entrepreneur killed himself, leaving a note saying that Vodacom had driven him to the terrible deed. The record certainly shows that the cellphone giant treated Dieter Sauerbier with corporate SA's customary contempt.

“I was made to feel criminal in actually wanting to be paid on a claim,” an Outsurance client tells noseweek.

Is it a shocking attempt at extortion against a leading SA businessman? Or did Macsteel's boss really take advantage of a lady in distress?

The SA public is the new owner of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. It's a hitherto secret 'investment' necessitated by the fact that no private investors will touch the dubious project.

If you weren't concerned about Eskom’s multi-million rand foray into developing a new-style nuclear reactor, you should be – since you’ve officially joined the rest of the South African public in becoming the majority shareholder in the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company – a position other international and private investors have politely declined to fill for almost a decade.