
Some call it the Zulu empire, some call it the Durban mafia. Noseweek's latest organogram – a work in progress – shows in startling detail how Jacob Zuma has sought to hold all the levers ...
Within one of Joburg’s swankiest apartment blocks, a drama of Shakespearean proportions is unfolding, with a cast of characters well known to the city’s monied intelligentsia. Glenhof Gardens, in Riviera, Johannesburg is described ...
Silence reigns. Money went missing after luxury cars were sold on commission – but the NPA is taking ages to act. Motorsport South Africa, the national governing body for motor racing, issued an extraordinary ...
‘The first thing that strikes one as one reads the pages of Nelson Mandela’s speeches, letters and transcripts collected in No Easy Walk to Freedom is that he and his generation of ANC and ...
A tiny, but critical, design flaw in certain models should have been corrected, or at least have been pointed out to owners. Instead Mercedes SA chose to stay mum, do nothing – and profit from ...
Sophisticated new prescription delivery service has advantages – and disadvantages. When last did you go to an independent pharmacy, one that wasn’t located inside a Clicks, a Dis-Chem, a Checkers or a Spar? They are ...
A Vodacom customer is not amused after Vodacom reneged on a special deal. Business consultant Stephanie Budlender of La Lucia visited Vodacom’s website to see what cell phone packages were on offer, as she knew ...
I have a confession to make. I have probably exterminated more animals than Melissa Bachman. I love animals. I love loving them as pets. I love admiring their majesty and diversity. I also ...
Noseweek readers will be familiar with the frustrations of hotelier Nigel Owles who lives in the hamlet of Rhodes in the northern part of the Eastern Cape. He sold his business in 2009 ...
Told you so (in October 2012): Now the Public Protector, too, has found Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson guilty of maladministration and improper and unethical conduct. ...
Stuart Grant, owner of the controversial development at 1 Bompas Road, Dunkeld, Johannesburg, which featured in nose170, has offered the objecting neighbours a compromise whereby he reduces his plans by one level and ...
It is becoming clear that the cost of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s (Zanu-PF’s) July electoral victory is the loss of the financial credibility built up by Tendai Biti of the Movement ...
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