
De Groot vs UCT: Arbitrator finds that UCT’s thoracic surgery professor's unfair dismissal was probably engineered by senior colleagues in response to a letter he wrote to the head of the department criticising the poor ...
The Health Professions Council refuses to be specific about how it is dealing with fraudulently registered or incompetent doctors and medical specialists on the grounds that the matter is “too sensitive” and ...
The man whose midnight wails frightened the neighbours and who became known as the ‘Monster’ of Haraldene Road, has his “day in court”: Press Council Appeal Judge assesses the evidence led at a ...
In mid-January Michael Young, senior partner at Fairbridges attorneys Johannesburg branch, and trustee resident of posh Glenhof Gardens in Riviera, threw caution to the wind and wrote to lawyers representing his nemesis ...
Dr Feelgood plunges from Hollywood scandal to Cape Town strife: bricks and brickbats fly as the highlife GP now does battle with his Sea Point neighbours. By Helen Grange Twelve years ago Dr Jules Lusman ...
After a nightmare year of bungling and maladministration, it turns out that Educor-owned Damelin and Intec’s private matriculation courses are not accredited by the national education authorities. Nicole Garbet hoped to enter university in ...
Top motorcycle importers shun superbike racing as SA organisers dither over controls. MSA’s latest crisis involves national championship superbike and supersport racing – usually crowd-drawers. The motorcycles are basically production machines – 1000cc ...
Insurers provide contradictory advice on accident claim for a common enough scenario: the car behind focuses on oncoming traffic, sees a gap and takes off on the assumption that the car immediately in ...
By mid-January more than 25,000 people had signed an online petition sponsored by US civil rights campaign group RootsAction, calling on the Washington Post to “be honest about a big conflict of interest.” The ...
In June 2012 Noseweek reported how, at the instigation of his angry ex-wife, various policemen (and women) with a deficient knowledge of the law had arrested and detained Johannesburg businessman Lionel Greenberg ...
Rica* is the act that makes it compulsory for everyone in South Africa to register their cellphone number. It is one of the government’s key crime prevention initiatives towards making South Africa a ...
In December Noseweek revealed that the Competition Commission has found a new angle to pursue on the colluding road-construction industry (Editorial nose170). Now they are out to nail the two main suppliers of asphalt ...
Why are we waiting ... and ... waiting ...? What dirt might the major construction companies, that rigged tenders to defraud the public purse of billions, have on the government and its agencies? Dirt ...
Deals that trade mining concessions for arms from Russia and China were arranged privately during the period of the coalition government by Zanu-PF leaders, who kept them from their partners in government, the ...
Afrocynicism is swelling. The government’s failure to act against crooked public servants has made South Africa one of the most cynical nations on the continent, according to a new opinion survey. In 2005, ...
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