
The Great Telephone Hacking scandal rocking the Murdoch media empire jogged vivid memories for Noseweek’s Jack Lundin in his Fleet Street days. The latest revelations of dirty tricks at the News of the World ...
It was love at first sight, but the handsome stranger had sticky fingers. Brenda Margach met Marney van Zyl at a Saturday evening dance club for lonely over-40s, and yes, when she set eyes ...
How to profit from the poor and vulnerable. Many moons ago, Jaco (Jakes) den Haan earned a living toiling away for Standard Bank as a director of wealth creation. So promising was he, one ...
Liberty Life and Discovery compete for most hellish insurer to work for award. It must be hell to work in insurance, but have you ever wondered which is worse: working for Liberty Life or for Discovery? ...
Sensational allegations of dirty tricks routinely conducted by Specialised Services Group (SSG), the controversial Gauteng private investigators headed by Warren Goldblatt, have been made by the spooks’ former logistics manager, Debra Smart. ...
Was luxury property construction group MKB driven into liquidation by Investec in order to protect the bank’s favourite – if massively-indebted – client Zunaid Moti? Yes, say Andrew Botha and Jonathan Killik, ...
Cape Town businessman Russell Burnett had been put through the wringer by Deloitte when one of the partners messed up a valuation of a business Burnett bought in 2002, but instead of admitting the mistake ...
Things have moved rather quickly since our last story was published. The members of the Hermanus Tourism Bureau called a special general meeting on 18 July to vote on a motion of no ...
The good news: as a result of our last article, a white knight rode to the rescue of Judy Jurgens, in the form of a Johannesburg town-planning firm which did her property rezoning ...
Last August a case was lodged with the Equality Court in Durban on the grounds that the Ethekwini Municipality is racist in its debt-collecting practices by writing off all sorts of debt incurred ...
We speak of power, sexuality, derring-do – and leadership. Mostly clout, actually, but opportunistic mention of raging hormones is more or less obligatory, if there is to be any hope of attracting readers in this ...
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