Noseweek Back Issues

Issue # 164 - June 2013
ABSAlutely shocking
South African-born financier and diamond dealer Leonard Himelsein, long resident in California, has issued ...

Issue # 163 - May 2013
Winnie's ghosts will always haunt SA
The extent of the conspiracy between apartheid police, prosecutors and the ANC leadership over the ...

Issue # 162 - April 2013
Wonder Woman: Gauteng's last hope
She visits the mines in high heels, dressed to kill, but unlikely activist Mariette ...

Issue # 161 - March 2013
What's cooking at Sasol?
Sasol uses World War II German technology to convert solid coal into crude oil – ...

Issue # 160 - February 2013
On a mission – to tell the story SABC won't tell
Respected journalist and film-maker Sylvia Vollenhoven refuses to be intimidated by the panderings of ...

Issue # 159 - January 2013
Banking with sharks at Standard Bank
When a client had R30,000 skimmed off his account, Standard Bank claimed he’d taken ...

Issue # 158 - December 2012

Louis Group stays mum over offshore collapse
The Louis Group, a family company, is licensed by the South African Financial Services ...

Issue # 157 - November 2012
Howzit China?
In the last five years, more than 6,000 Chinese shops have popped up in ...

Issue # 156 - October 2012
Terrible Twins
Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, is eager to favour a fellow ANC ...

Issue # 155 - September 2012
When Johnny met Jenny
As multi-millionaire Johnny Feinstein settles into new-found nuptial bliss out at Mouille Point on ...

Issue # 154 - August 2012
Puppet police
As, increasingly over time, shady businessmen and other criminal elements in pursuit of government contracts, ...

Issue # 153 - July 2012
Dear Editor
Audi ads in noseweek ♦ Standard Bank's rotten debt collectors ♦ Strachan's delight ♦ Saambou/FNB bond ...

Issue # 152 - June 2012
Jail Break
Lionel Greenberg is the ultimate comeback-man. An angry ex-wife had him arrested (unlawfully) 15 times ...

Issue # 151 - May 2012
Don't bank on the ombudsman
In a dispute with a bank, can the ombudsman be relied on to be truly ...

Issue # 150 - April 2012
Dead man fingers 'fuel cheats'
Winkelhaak Petroleum Distributors, established 10 years ago on a country road out of Standerton, ...

Issue # 149 - March 2012
Lawyers on the take
Shady lawyers are at it again, demanding debt payments that have prescribed. Several aggrieved recipients ...

Issue # 148 - February 2012
The judge and the stripper
Dennis Davis is the tough-talking television-show host who South Africans have come to identify with ...

Issue # 147 - January 2012
DearEditor
• Bench marred • Proctor's petard • You go girls! • Castle is king • ...

Issue # 146 - December 2011
Dear Editor
• Moral mix-up • Hillbilly Club • Break-down nerve • Censusless stats • ...

Issue # 145 - November 2011
Drowning by numbers
A quick scan of just one day’s edition of any South African newspaper, gives a ...

Issue # 144 - October 2011
Trapped in paradise
Three South African children under four were left stranded in Dubai after their parents were ...

Issue # 143 - September 2011
Dear Editor
♦ Universal truth ♦ Singled out ♦ Thwarting thieves ♦ Slim facts or ficion? ♦ ...

Issue # 142 - August 2011
Easy Pickings
Dicey state property deals are using racism to get the taxpayer to fund unlawful land ...

Issue # 141 - July 2011
Dear Editor
Spot the difference Your cartoon figure enjoying a cushy prison experience on the cover of nose140 ...

Issue # 140 - June 2011
Laughing all the way to the clink
If Shrien Dewani is returned to South Africa to face trial he need not fear. To quote ...

Issue # 139 - May 2011
Eastern promise
Has Zuma been taken in by China's seductive purr, or a fearsome predator? Money, money, money! ...

Issue # 138 - April 2011
Who stitched up J Arthur Brown?
Four years after he was arrested for the first time on 192 criminal charges, Arthur ...

Issue # 137 - March 2011
Who pulled the trigger?
Gossip is rife over the last days of the brilliant brain behind the 2010 World ...

Issue # 136 - February 2011
Roque trader
In January the Financial Mail named its 16 “hot” picks on the JSE for 2011. In ...

Issue # 135 - January 2011
Discovery's rude good health
Bennie Piek of Benoni took out a “Risk Transaction” with Discovery Life, which provided protection ...

Issue # 134 - December 2010
Dear Reader: Banks: Where does the buck stop?
We were the first to disclose dishonest bookkeeping by the FirstRand banking group and even ...

Issue # 133 - November 2010
Wailing and Gnashing at the SABC
The SABC is a shambles – everyone agrees on that. The truth behind a naive ...

Issue # 132 - October 2010
Monstrous hatchlings
The apartheid regime and their ANC successors thought they had successfully put the lid on ...

Issue # 131 - September 2010
What's the deal? Is ANC still cashing in on apartheid profiteering?
The ANC government was told in a secret report how apartheid-era government operatives stole hundreds ...

Issue # 130 - August 2010
Investec knows what you did last summer
Spies were paid to eavesdrop on clients and employees in a drama involving a R62m ...

Issue # 129 - July 2010
Why al-Qaeda loves our passport
There are serious security questions about the new SA passport which was quietly introduced last ...

Issue # 128 - June 2010
Dear Editor
The Fifa Famiglia If you really want to see how far back all the FIFA family ...

Issue # 127 - May 2010
Sepp Blatter's Great FIFA ripoff Circus
"Ladies and gentlemen, meet the 2010 Circus Strongman." Sepp Blatter and Jérôme Valcke ripped off ...

Issue # 126 - April 2010
Bullets over the Big Hole
Kimberley may still be a big hole, but at least it’s a hole that’s going ...

Issue # 125 - March 2010
Civil service pensions go down the drain
Government agency secretly wrote off a whopping R1.3 billion of civil servants' retirement funds to ...

Issue # 124 - February 2010
Dear Editor
You’re write, off course I submit the following in support of my application for the post ...

Issue # 123 - January 2010
Justice at knockdown prices
A thriving business in fake court orders is being run under judges' noses. Judge President ...

Issue # 122 - December 2009
O, Tannenbaum
The gold waren’t in them thar pills. How Barry Tannenbaum and Dean Rees exploited the rich ...

Issue # 121 - November 2009
Who's on Tannenbaum's ponzi laundry list?
Forensic investigations into the cash flow through the ponzi scheme for millionaires conducted by Barry ...

Issue # 120 - October 2009
Siemens greases the palms
Reinhard Siekaczek was half asleep in bed when his doorbell rang early one morning in ...

Issue # 119 - September 2009
The rats who ate our pension
Sanlam dragged to the brink in ding-dong, behind-the-scenes, battle over stolen millions. Sanlam and its investment ...

Issue # 118 - August 2009
WARNING! Your cellphone is a pickpocket
Unsolicited content services are rich pickings for unscrupulous network providers. It appears that pre-paid subscribers are ...

Issue # 117 - July 2009
Dear Editor
ANC's mother of all spin ...

Issue # 116 - June 2009
Dear Reader: Stormy weather
Want to know which way the wind blows in South African politics today? Whether to ...

Issue # 115 - May 2009
STENT
Here comes a bumpy ride ...

Issue # 114 - April 2009
Evita Bezuidenhout interviewed Mr Nose
at the Baxter Theatre on Tuesday 14th April 2009 ...

Issue # 113 - March 2009
Mugabe's billionaire fag king
Robert Mugabe’s next best friend, sanctions buster, tobacco broker, arms dealer and “investor in many ...

Issue # 112 - February 2009
Bringing home the poison
Food and deadly substances are often close together in your friendly supermarket - sometimes within ...

Issue # 111 - January 2009
Dear Reader: Supping with the devil
‘These guys are bad news,’ Rob Gillespie, chairman of the Lonehill residents’ association told noseweek ...

Issue # 110 - December 2008
Who got the arms deal gold?
International auditing firm KPMG is in possession of a potentially explosive top secret list said ...

Issue # 109 - November 2008
Fashion, passion and the shrink
The breakdown of Stuart and Sylvia Ireland's marriage, and the role of her psychiatrist in ...

Issue # 108 - October 2008
National Library going up in smoke
The management and finances of our National Library of South Africa are in such utter shambles. Employees ...

Issue # 107 - September 2008
Saints or sinners?
What was Trevor's role in Investec and Fedbond's pension fund shlenter? Did Investec and Fedbond ...

Issue # 106 - August 2008
Dear Editor
Give PMBR a chance Afgri's parting shot Buchanan Boyes beneath whores ...

Issue # 105 - July 2008
Too Slick Operators
How some careless name-dropping by Sahara Holdings wrecked an Angolan oil deal. Leverage is what they ...

Issue # 104 - June 2008
Investec on a plate
How one of South Africa's biggest financial institutions conspired to defraud British investors.Investec and the ...

Issue # 103 - May 2008
Dear Editor
Fee, fi, fo, fumRe Investec employee benefits that weren’t (nose102): I don’t see what the ...

Issue # 102 - April 2008
Investec's multi-billion rand pension rip-off
Directors 'assumed' thousands of elderly were dead - so they could grab their cash. The banking ...

Issue # 101 - March 2008
Dear Editor
Mazeltov Congratulations Biggest fish yet to be fried Losing sense ...

Issue # 100 - February 2008
Dear Editor 100
Bogus Bonds Bogus Rennie Reckless Driving Road Legislation Can't ...

Issue # 99 - January 2008
Looping the Duisberg loop
Last year (in nose95) we reported how, late in 2000, Eunanda Grobbelaar in Ansbacher’s Joburg ...

Issue # 98 - December 2007
Wolves at the door
Investing in property finance is not as safe as houses. Fedbond has been breaking the ...

Issue # 97 - November 2007
The ones that got away
In an in-depth investigation into FirstRand's offshore dealings, noseweek talks to some of the clients ...

Issue # 96 - October 2007
noseweek squares up to FirstRand
Bank's claim to be acting on behalf of its high net-worth clients gives new meaning ...

Issue # 95 - September 2007
FirstRand pirates hit the rocks
Until recently FirstRand would have had us all believe that the frauds perpetrated a decade ...

Issue # 94 - August 2007
Rand Water pulls the chain
The Board of Rand Water, largest water utility in the Southern Hemisphere, and supplier of ...

Issue # 93 - July 2007
The faces that launched a thousand shops
Notorious Joburg rogue developers, the freewheeling Theodosiou brothers have amassed a gigantic fortune parking flagrantly ...