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June 2013 ABSAlutely shocking
South African-born financier and diamond dealer Leonard Himelsein, long resident in California, has issued ...
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May 2013 Winnie's ghosts will always haunt SA
The extent of the conspiracy between apartheid police, prosecutors and the ANC leadership over the ...
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April 2013 Wonder Woman: Gauteng's last hope
She visits the mines in high heels, dressed to kill, but unlikely activist Mariette ...
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March 2013 What's cooking at Sasol?
Sasol uses World War II German technology to convert solid coal into crude oil – ...
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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 ...
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January 2013 Banking with sharks at Standard Bank
When a client had R30,000 skimmed off his account, Standard Bank claimed he’d taken ...
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December 2012 Louis Group stays mum over offshore collapse
The Louis Group, a family company, is licensed by the South African Financial Services ...
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November 2012 Howzit China?
In the last five years, more than 6,000 Chinese shops have popped up in ...
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October 2012 Terrible Twins
Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, is eager to favour a fellow ANC ...
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September 2012 When Johnny met Jenny
As multi-millionaire Johnny Feinstein settles into new-found nuptial bliss out at Mouille Point on ...
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August 2012 Puppet police
As, increasingly over time, shady businessmen and other criminal elements in pursuit of government contracts, ...
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July 2012 Dear Editor
Audi ads in noseweek ♦ Standard Bank's rotten debt collectors ♦ Strachan's delight ♦ Saambou/FNB bond ...
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June 2012 Jail Break
Lionel Greenberg is the ultimate comeback-man. An angry ex-wife had him arrested (unlawfully) 15 times ...
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May 2012 Don't bank on the ombudsman
In a dispute with a bank, can the ombudsman be relied on to be truly ...
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April 2012 Dead man fingers 'fuel cheats'
Winkelhaak Petroleum Distributors, established 10 years ago on a country road out of Standerton, ...
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March 2012 Lawyers on the take
Shady lawyers are at it again, demanding debt payments that have prescribed. Several aggrieved recipients ...
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February 2012 The judge and the stripper
Dennis Davis is the tough-talking television-show host who South Africans have come to identify with ...
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January 2012 DearEditor
• Bench marred • Proctor's petard • You go girls! • Castle is king • ...
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December 2011 Dear Editor
• Moral mix-up • Hillbilly Club • Break-down nerve • Censusless stats • ...
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November 2011 Drowning by numbers
A quick scan of just one day’s edition of any South African newspaper, gives a ...
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October 2011 Trapped in paradise
Three South African children under four were left stranded in Dubai after their parents were ...
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September 2011 Dear Editor
♦ Universal truth ♦ Singled out ♦ Thwarting thieves ♦ Slim facts or ficion? ♦ ...
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August 2011 Easy Pickings
Dicey state property deals are using racism to get the taxpayer to fund unlawful land ...
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July 2011 Dear Editor
Spot the difference Your cartoon figure enjoying a cushy prison experience on the cover of nose140 ...
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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 ...
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May 2011 Eastern promise
Has Zuma been taken in by China's seductive purr, or a fearsome predator? Money, money, money! ...
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April 2011 Who stitched up J Arthur Brown?
Four years after he was arrested for the first time on 192 criminal charges, Arthur ...
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March 2011 Who pulled the trigger?
Gossip is rife over the last days of the brilliant brain behind the 2010 World ...
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February 2011 Roque trader
In January the Financial Mail named its 16 “hot” picks on the JSE for 2011. In ...
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January 2011 Discovery's rude good health
Bennie Piek of Benoni took out a “Risk Transaction” with Discovery Life, which provided protection ...
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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 ...
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November 2010 Wailing and Gnashing at the SABC
The SABC is a shambles – everyone agrees on that. The truth behind a naive ...
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October 2010 Monstrous hatchlings
The apartheid regime and their ANC successors thought they had successfully put the lid on ...
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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 ...
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August 2010 Investec knows what you did last summer
Spies were paid to eavesdrop on clients and employees in a drama involving a R62m ...
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July 2010 Why al-Qaeda loves our passport
There are serious security questions about the new SA passport which was quietly introduced last ...
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June 2010 Dear Editor
The Fifa Famiglia If you really want to see how far back all the FIFA family ...
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May 2010 Sepp Blatter's Great FIFA ripoff Circus
"Ladies and gentlemen, meet the 2010 Circus Strongman." Sepp Blatter and Jérôme Valcke ripped off ...
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April 2010 Bullets over the Big Hole
Kimberley may still be a big hole, but at least it’s a hole that’s going ...
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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 ...
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February 2010 Dear Editor
You’re write, off course I submit the following in support of my application for the post ...
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January 2010 Justice at knockdown prices
A thriving business in fake court orders is being run under judges' noses. Judge President ...
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December 2009 O, Tannenbaum
The gold waren’t in them thar pills. How Barry Tannenbaum and Dean Rees exploited the rich ...
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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 ...
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October 2009 Siemens greases the palms
Reinhard Siekaczek was half asleep in bed when his doorbell rang early one morning in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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June 2009 Dear Reader: Stormy weather
Want to know which way the wind blows in South African politics today? Whether to ...
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April 2009 Evita Bezuidenhout interviewed Mr Nose
at the Baxter Theatre on Tuesday 14th April 2009 ...
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March 2009 Mugabe's billionaire fag king
Robert Mugabe’s next best friend, sanctions buster, tobacco broker, arms dealer and “investor in many ...
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February 2009 Bringing home the poison
Food and deadly substances are often close together in your friendly supermarket - sometimes within ...
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January 2009 Dear Reader: Supping with the devil
‘These guys are bad news,’ Rob Gillespie, chairman of the Lonehill residents’ association told noseweek ...
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December 2008 Who got the arms deal gold?
International auditing firm KPMG is in possession of a potentially explosive top secret list said ...
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November 2008 Fashion, passion and the shrink
The breakdown of Stuart and Sylvia Ireland's marriage, and the role of her psychiatrist in ...
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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 ...
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September 2008 Saints or sinners?
What was Trevor's role in Investec and Fedbond's pension fund shlenter? Did Investec and Fedbond ...
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August 2008 Dear Editor
Give PMBR a chance Afgri's parting shot Buchanan Boyes beneath whores ...
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July 2008 Too Slick Operators
How some careless name-dropping by Sahara Holdings wrecked an Angolan oil deal. Leverage is what they ...
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June 2008 Investec on a plate
How one of South Africa's biggest financial institutions conspired to defraud British investors.Investec and the ...
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May 2008 Dear Editor
Fee, fi, fo, fumRe Investec employee benefits that werent (nose102): I dont see what the ...
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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 ...
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March 2008 Dear Editor
Mazeltov Congratulations Biggest fish yet to be fried Losing sense ...
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February 2008 Dear Editor 100
Bogus Bonds Bogus Rennie Reckless Driving Road Legislation Can't ...
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January 2008 Looping the Duisberg loop
Last year (in nose95) we reported how, late in 2000, Eunanda Grobbelaar in Ansbachers Joburg ...
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December 2007 Wolves at the door
Investing in property finance is not as safe as houses. Fedbond has been breaking the ...
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November 2007 The ones that got away
In an in-depth investigation into FirstRand's offshore dealings, noseweek talks to some of the clients ...
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October 2007 noseweek squares up to FirstRand
Bank's claim to be acting on behalf of its high net-worth clients gives new meaning ...
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September 2007 FirstRand pirates hit the rocks
Until recently FirstRand would have had us all believe that the frauds perpetrated a decade ...
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August 2007 Rand Water pulls the chain
The Board of Rand Water, largest water utility in the Southern Hemisphere, and supplier of ...
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July 2007 The faces that launched a thousand shops
Notorious Joburg rogue developers, the freewheeling Theodosiou brothers have amassed a gigantic fortune parking flagrantly ...
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June 2007 Numbers game
A bonus: Glenrand could plead ignorance and good faith - and, with a bit of ...
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May 2007 Why the Israeli Mafia hit Winnie's friend
The woman sitting next to Hazel Crane when she died in a hail of bullets, ...






























































































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