Giant pylons carrying cables from a proposed nuclear plant will trample some of the country's ecologically most sensitive areas.

A government IT tender has been quietly awarded for an outrageous R153m – more than double the next-best tender – to a tiny, little-known company, on the understanding that 5% of the total (R7.65m) will be slipped into the coffers of the African National Congress.

The IT upgrade tender bypassed the final adjudication committee completely.

Usually, home-owners who can’t pay their bonds have their houses repossessed and sold by the sheriff. Today there’s a fast-growing alternative: bulk auction.

Speculators are picking up repossessed homes for a song at 'rapid auctions' being pioneered by Absa.

Douw Steyn insists she's a Miss, she insists she's his Missus. 

After he had given his evidence, magistrate Boshoff asked him: “Mr Steyn, was the circus really necessary last time?”

Developers ignore the council rules and neighbours' protests.

Gordon's Bay has another rogue developer who appears to have defied just about every council by-law pertaining to development.

Dave Dahlmann, featured in nose113 for his role in fiddling the figures in construction work at the exclusive Machangulo development in Mozambique, has disappeared from the scene – and is believed to be somewhere in Malawi.

But it turns out there’s another side to the story..

By now you’ve been on Facebook and clicked on what looks like a fun online invitation to test your IQ, to see how it compares with that of the likes of President Barack Obama. Big Mistake.

Beware, after making that fateful click your account will be debited with an extra R50 per week.
 

The best way to deal with pushy telesales 'consultants' is to politely say 'bye' and hang up.

The Premier Growth Group (PGG) are still using unscrupulous telesales people to sell to victims who are often not aware that they have “bought” anything at all -- only to discover, in due course, that their bank accounts are emptying faster than usual.

Supermarket removes toxic products from shelves but continues to sell environmentally hazardous rat poison.

Dieter Sauerbier scrawled a note to noseweek. “Pity that we never met,” he wrote. “Kevin has the full story. Never have I seen a corporation [Vodacom] act so deliberately in bad faith over a prolonged period in time.”

Exclusive St Benedict’s College, in Bedforvdiew, Johannesburg, seems blessedly unperturbed that its “donation” scheme, allowing parents to claim tax deductions on half the school fees, is illegal, and, in effect, defrauds the Receiver.

Hokey Pokey