When a reader threatens any restaurateur with noseweek, we are naturally curious. And when the restaurant complained of is Parks – whose restaurateur is none other than our own winewriter, Michael Olivier – we were even more intrigued.

Arnold Kalk wonders - is all the Y2K hysteria really necessary or should we rather ignore the frightening headlines?

Our readers have, of course, for many months already known the story of Chris Hofmeyr’s sorry experiences with the Pretoria legal profession. Now an enquiry has begun to discover whether Advocate Ferdi Preller SC, who was ostensibly acting for Hofmeyr, failed to serve the interests of his client.

Is it a coinicidence that the World Wildlife Fund was launched in 1961 – the same year that British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan declared in his famous “Winds of Change” speech that the drive to independence by Europe’s colonies in Africa was unstoppable?

The Cape Town City Council goes green for top-secret on an off-colour deal with an all-white union.

Hard-arsed Hollander Piet den Boer gave bundles of shares in Brainware to some hot-shot young recruits. Unfortunately, he ommitted to bind them to the company in any way.

. . . with its bum in Jersey butter.

When Nedbank declares in its booklet that its “green affinity” accounts have been “designed for people who care about our natural environment, who don’t want to see rivers polluted, indigenous trees cut down” etc – why, that’s a lie.