
“Congratulations, you’ve won a free holiday – all you have to do to claim your prize is come to our offices on Wednesday at 6pm.” The timeshare industry makes suckers of the public. Now one company ...
At about the same time that Groote Schuur’s world-famous heart transplant unit came unstuck in June last year, another of the country's symbols of optimism and scientific progress, the deep space radio telescope at Hartebeeshoek, ...
Hard to believe – but early last year ABSA Commercial Property Finance rushed to lend Joburg’s notorious Theodosiou brothers close on R900m, secured by bonds registered on their various illegally-built shopping malls! Absolutely predictably, the ...
R4.1-million-worth of luxury yacht turned out to be an unseaworthy dud. The yacht, declares a marine expert, has “unacceptable boatbuilding flaws that are potentially life-threatening”. Laurence Steytler of Bigfoot Trading Trust spent almost four pages ...
With a shocking post-operative survival rate, South Africa's pioneering transplant unit is on the brink of collapse. During the first half of last year two of the three patients given heart transplants died. The small number ...
It won't be easy to claim rights to ancient knowledge of natural medicines like geranium extract. The 'new deal' regarding intellectual property rights is that developing countries may now seek to protect their indigenous knowledge. For ...
What's an out-of-work-minister-in-the-presidency to do? Essop Pahad has recently found his way onto the Sahara board – having resigned from his political job in the wake of his boss, Thabo Mbeki, being turfed out of ...
Are any members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) embarrassed? In November, astonishingly, they honoured Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko for his “outstanding contribution to the Olympic movement”. Not a month later his KGB thugs were beating ...
The shit is steadily hitting the fan at Insurance Sector Training Authority (Inseta) – CEO Mike Abel and his sidekick, Shirley Steenekamp, senior manager learnership, have both been suspended (noses108 &110). The Inseta council, however, is ...
Where on earth were the auditors and accountants? When large sums go missing it’s a question that’s all too often not even asked, never mind answered. It certainly wasn’t addressed when it was discovered that, for ...
“Share the magic of our region.” These were the words Max du Preez scribbled for me when autographing his Of Warriors, lovers and prophets, his first book of “old tales”. ...
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