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Tony Blair: BAe's errand boy?
The support given by the UK authorities to peddlers of weapons far surpasses the assistance given to any other business, writes George Monbiot. See also The SA connection; Gainful Employment & That Tender Touch in this issue.
Gainful employment
The appointment of two former public servants to private-sector jobs would be regarded as corrupt in many countries. See also BAe's errand boy; The SA connection and That Tender Touch also in this issue
Something blue at Something Fishy
When cops shrugged and said there was nothing they could do about a bunch of con artists selling worthless pieces of glass, as tanzanite – for a few hundred thousand bucks apiece – a pair of amateur sleuths arranged their own counter-sting
Drunk and disorderly
A Johannesburg businesswoman says that friends in high places helped Free State director of public prosecutions – and heavy drinker – Brink Ferreira, to have her evicted from their Bloemfontein home
Beware Greeks bearing graft
ANC bigwigs involved in the consortium that will run the national lottery deny knowledge of the tainted history of their ‘technical’ partner, Intralot, or its owner, tycoon and former Stasi agent Socrates Kokkalis
Legal gloves off in gym dispute
In August, after months of delay, trial was due to start in fitness trainer Jenny Reichlin’s R1.2m damages claim against Legacy Group’s multi-millionaire head Bart Dorrestein. But deputy judge president of Johannesburg High Court, Phineas Mojapelo (see box on opposite page), handed down an unusual order, in fact one that advocates consider unprecedented
Prophet and loss
Unknown to adoring acolytes in Centurion, diamond- dealing Pastor Hennie Hancke (above) is a disgraced insolvent
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Harold Strachan
Floys, monkeys etc IF YOU GO about two blocks straight down this street, says Merv, architect, Inspector of Things in Newcastle, New South Wales, you will come upon a nice old Victorian pub. ...
Tony Blair: BAe's errand boy?
The support given by the UK authorities to peddlers of weapons far surpasses the assistance given to any other business, writes George Monbiot. See also The SA connection; Gainful Employment & That Tender Touch in this ...
The South African connection
In 1998, when the arms deals were negotiated, the SAAF had no need for a new fighter aircraft, having taken delivery in 1997 of 38 top-of-the-range Cheetah C fighters. See also BAe's errand boy; Gainful ...
Gainful employment
The appointment of two former public servants to private-sector jobs would be regarded as corrupt in many countries. See also BAe's errand boy; The SA connection and That Tender Touch also in this issue ...
That tender touch
SA navy chief, Vice Admiral Johannes Mudimu, claimed in a recent interview about the country’s controversial arms deal that the Navy had merely “stated its requirements”, and from there the matter had been taken forward ...
Something blue at Something Fishy
When cops shrugged and said there was nothing they could do about a bunch of con artists selling worthless pieces of glass, as tanzanite – for a few hundred thousand bucks apiece – a pair ...
Drunk and disorderly
A Johannesburg businesswoman says that friends in high places helped Free State director of public prosecutions – and heavy drinker – Brink Ferreira, to have her evicted from their Bloemfontein home ...
The unkindest cut
A Pretoria woman was left paralysed after her surgeon botched a routine operation ...
Beware Greeks bearing graft
ANC bigwigs involved in the consortium that will run the national lottery deny knowledge of the tainted history of their ‘technical’ partner, Intralot, or its owner, tycoon and former Stasi agent Socrates Kokkalis ...
Legal gloves off in gym dispute
In August, after months of delay, trial was due to start in fitness trainer Jenny Reichlin’s R1.2m damages claim against Legacy Group’s multi-millionaire head Bart Dorrestein. But deputy judge president of Johannesburg High Court, Phineas ...
Prophet and loss
Unknown to adoring acolytes in Centurion, diamond- dealing Pastor Hennie Hancke (above) is a disgraced insolvent ...
Editorial
Arms deal still unravelling – and Phillip ...
Reader's consumer gripes
Accounting software's bottom line v Taken for a ride by the court? ...
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Web Dreams
The bunch of expats who have gone Bush pore over every morsel of bad news from home are like the guy dumped by the only girl he ever loved: he’s so over her that he ...
NoseArk
Does the International Fund for Animal Welfare have a vested interest in the continuation of culling? ...
Wining
Tim James hits the bottle Rising sapSPRING IS NOT a time to be curmudgeonly. Let others do their bleakly useful business of finding fault – but here, in an established springtime tradition ...
Harold Strachan
Floys, monkeys etc IF YOU GO about two blocks straight down this street, says Merv, architect, Inspector of Things in Newcastle, New South Wales, you will come upon a nice old Victorian pub. There you can sit ...
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