The final instalment: Prof De Crespigny tells how he lied, first to UCT, then to his national intelligence interrogators. ...
Secret documents show that the British secret service, MI5, was deeply involved in setting up and training South Africa’s notorious Special Branch from the earliest days of the apartheid system. This while the British Government ...
President Mbeki’s ideal of the African Renaissance has been hyped like a white heavyweight boxer. But where’s the beef? Supposedly in the Millenium Africa Plan, appropriately known as MAP. Drawn up in consultation with foreign ...
Sol Kerzner tried one of his Bantustan-style deals with the Mohegan tribe and their casino in Connecticut. But now that deal may come back to haunt him, and Sun International. The Mohegans are after Sol’s ...
Audrey Sidebotham was a great party gal, a generous spirit, with oodles of joie de vivre and a tidy nest egg. She was also fond of whisky, a taste she shared with the vet who ...
Many of those involved in Cell C’s bid for the third cellular operator licence have also featured in noseweek’s coverage of the arms deal, the Shaik brothers, Yusuf Surtee, and Lambert Moloi among them. And ...
Just because the President is paranoid doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t a plot. Steve Tshwete’s extraordinary outburst was, after all, the result of an intense power struggle and propaganda war within the ANC. ...
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