Arts and culture in South Africa would seem to be on the way out, and with not even a bang.

Purdey: new top gun / Cliffie Saunders: coming home / Bureaucratic soustrain: getting steam up / ABSAlootly fabulous: ABSA's new source of profit.

Masterbond campaigner Don MacKenzie straightens us out on a few things. Allan Levin replies to Don's earlier letter plus: Levin sues Judge Fine for defamation!

Someone at the SABC asks 'who is Jani Allen?'. Quite the most satisfying question I’ve been asked in a long time, writes Maureen Barnes.

An unfortunate incident at the heart of the Sport of Kings.

M-Net's attorneys, Malcolm Freed and Paul Jenkins (of Webber Wentzel), ordered to be cut from Carte Blanche's broadcast of an interview with Julian Askin, all those parts in which Askin claimed ABSA knew, or ought to have known, about the crooked goings on in Tollgate.

Mendel Kaplan is a powerful and important figure in World Jewry, and is on personal terms with a number of world leaders. To Immanuel Suttner, however, Kaplan doesn't have the wisdom to use his power with dignity and restraint.

The interesting past of the influential new man in business, Liston Ntshongwana.

Inspectors of the UK Department of Trade & Industry last year concluded (in a 600 page report) that there had been a leak of insider information regarding Minorco’s plans to launch a £5bn bid for Goldfields. Now London brokers are speculating: have the SA authorities been bribed not to pursue this investigation, or is the JSE choosing not to open up the names of these crooks and prosecute, for fear of upsetting the investment community?