Property development may appear complex because of the many environmental and social conditions that must be met – but actually it’s quite simple. All developers need is a slippery grasp of the law, as the highly controversial Checkers development in sleepy Hermanus has proved.

The super-sized centre is nearing completion but people are saying it bears little resemblance to the drawings they were shown, in terms of either scale or architectural style.

Justice has prevailed in the outrageous case of the Bantry building developers who told one story to the council and another to prospective buyers. On 23 September Judge Louw found for the plucky residents of Bantry Bay who took on Gregor Plotz and Adriaan Marais.

Graydon Ilderton’s story gets weirder and weirder. He’s the guy who lost two motorbikes, worth some R210,000, when he sent them to the Cape from Gauteng with Time Freight, and the truck caught fire at Three Sisters.

Time Freight was paid out and Phil Hayes offered Ilderton R75,000 on condition that he pay R25,000 of that over to a social responsibility programme.

There has been much interest, and not a little amazement, at Mr Nose’s revelations regarding the many thousands of Cipro-registered companies and CCs that bear the names of but a few auditors. 

So Mr Nose decided it was time for a little footwork, and took himself off to Sunnyside, Pretoria, where the Cipro offices are located. There he spent a pleasant few hours observing the comings and goings in Meintjies and Esselen Streets, where, it seems many of the dubious registrations are transacted. 

Attorney Mike Murphy, the man who first brought Investec’s alleged illegal phone tapping to the attention of the police in a long and detailed report has gone over to the enemy: he recently accepted an unusually well-paid job at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs (ENS) in Johannesburg

Following our report on the death of 23-year-old Ntokozo “TK” Mahlangu, Metro cop Alvin Naidoo and and Vicky Maharaj appeared in court charged with murder and assault with intent to do grievious bodily harm.

A couple of slaps, harassment, victimisation and unfair suspension are some of the charges levelled by a 43-year-old legal secretary against her former boss, a senior director at the Sandton City offices of one of the world's leading law firms.

Is the South African Rugby Players’ Association (SARPA) in meltdown? Or are certain individuals simply stirring the pot for their own ends? Broedertwis basically.

You may be surprised to hear that there is a union for rugby professionals and guess what, there is a dispute over the control of the union's funds.

Another day, another ponzi. Compared to Tannenbaum’s massive operation this one is small-fry, but that’s hardly consolation for the good people of KZN who’ve lost their “investments”. The Public Prosecutor finds nothing wrong with the KwaZulu-Natal ponzi scheme.

Eric Sacks was, until recently, a tenant of the Colosseum shopping centre at Century City in Cape Town, where he ran a Postnet-like business called CopyPrint. Now he’s almost destitute, and blames the Rabie property company for his woes.

Head honcho, John Rabie, seems to have forgotten a promise he made when he said: "Don't worry, we're from the same tribe, we won't let you go down."

They intrude on you from every side and at any time of the day – or night. Their voices are on your phone, their text messages flood your cell, their personalised mail arrives unsolicited in your po ...

You’re off to New York for a crucial one-day meeting, but with late air bookings you end up with two days to spare in the capital city of the world. You cannot possibly do New York in a day or two, exclaim those who know - the Metropolitan Museum of Art alone will take you two days!

Join Martin Welz as he nibbles on the Big Apple.

Economic growth has taken us to the brink, writes Hilary Venables.

Cities decimated by disease, famine, and violence, sluggish rivers choked with filth, farmland turned to dust, coastal waters empty of life, forests plundered to extinction, social and economic chaos - this is the future Finance minister Pravin Gordhan is unintentionally wishing upon us.