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A degree of deception
Dodgy practices, plagiarism and cover-ups with the help of political influence are the order of the day at Educor
Let them eat biofuels (update)
The world's poor already spend 50–80% of household income on food, and are
more affected
Another one flushed (update)
Following publication of nose94,
Themba Nkabinde, boss of Rand Water, has left
his desk
Home truths (update)
After a five-year legal battle, Prof Matthew Lester may yet have to demolish that Kenton house
Fishy Meter runs out (update)
It seems that Hout Bay is proving too small a pond for the fishily ambitious Meter family
Bonitas: bouquets and brickbats (update)
Flowers are hardly to be expected from the medical fund you’ve been
hounding for months to settle thousands of rands of hospital
bills
Educor: no smoke without Brand
Media24’s Educor has lost the academic records of over 4000 former students of its Academy of Learning, and their at ...
A degree of deception
Dodgy practices, plagiarism and cover-ups with the help of political influence are the order of the day at Educor ...
Let that be a lesson
noseweek's Jack Lundin thought the media studies diploma course at Boston Media House would be a big break for aspiring journalist Mosa. But with R26 000 down the drain, and threats of summonses and blacklisting, ...
Head to head with Investec
Fifteen years after being sacked and nine attorneys plus four court cases on, Graham Lawrence is still wants his job back ...
Souk and you shall find
Liesa Jossel and her band of mothers, sisters and cousins go in search of Morocco's Jews. ...
Let them eat biofuels (update)
The world's poor already spend 50–80% of household income on food, and are more affected ...
Manyeleti hijacking (update)
Dramatic developments are underway in the battle between the Mnisi people and White River businessman Karl van Vuuren for the Manyeleti Game Reserve ...
Another one flushed (update)
Following publication of nose94, Themba Nkabinde, boss of Rand Water, has left his desk ...
Home truths (update)
After a five-year legal battle, Prof Matthew Lester may yet have to demolish that Kenton house ...
Fishy Meter runs out (update)
It seems that Hout Bay is proving too small a pond for the fishily ambitious Meter family ...
Glenrand: more misery (update)
For the past 15 months the insurance brokerage has hidden the story of how a junior employee stole R26,5m ...
Bonitas: bouquets and brickbats (update)
Flowers are hardly to be expected from the medical fund you’ve been hounding for months to settle thousands of rands of hospital bills ...
A whisker from extinction
There are believed to be fewer than 200 dugongs left around Mozambique's Bazaruto Island – where Sasol's prospecting for gas could reduce their number even further ...
Lip service
Poncy white horses maybe, but a lip balm called Carmex? Never. ...
Unhealthy ignorance
Do you ever wonder why so many Americans acquiesce to any argument favouring the "free market" or military intervention? ...
Monkey business
Who remembers that the primate has only done what the illustrious panel did last year? ...
Ephemeris
For historians to claim this eclipse omen is stupid, melodramatic and hysterical astrological bullshit, man! The truth is spine-chilling enough without that. ...
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Educor looks for an Indian, or Chinese, takeaway
FOLLOWING THE exposé of Media24’s manipulations of the accreditation system, Mr Nose is reliably informed by a Media24 insider that Naspers has sanctioned what CEO Hein Brand calls “gradual closure” of its education wing, Educor. ...
The rates stuff
CLIFTON is strictly for the stinking rich. Mr Nose has tried not to notice, had wondered if there wasn’t that tiny cottage tucked away up a back street he could go to rest in, watching ...
Sasolburg rocks the Winelands
MAC VAN DER MERWE, fabulously wealthy former owner of the President Steyn gold mine, bought the famous old Stellenbosch wine farm, Zorgvliet,in 2002 for a mere R31m (noses77&89). Son Sephanus, Mr Nose is told, was ...
Watch those padded hospital bills
Many of us like to think that although Africa can be a harsh place, the first world elements in our own country prote ... ...
Sudoku
Cobus Khumalo (9) a Benoni schoolboy has wonthe 2007 Young Inventor’s Award for a programdesigned to solve any possible sudoku in ten seconds.The innovation was proclaimed as a brilliant time saver by theGauteng MEC for ...
Discovery’s morality bypass; Educor-ruption; Bedside robbery
Discovery’s morality bypassNo surprise to find Discovery directors starring in your exposé of Ansbacher’s money laundering and tax evasion schemes (noses92&94) – after 15 years in the financial services industry I’m disgusted at the complete ...
Educor: no smoke without Brand
Media24’s Educor has lost the academic records of over 4000 former students of its Academy of Learning, and their at ... ...
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