Now Honest Abe is trying to benefit from his professional misconduct.

Trademark attorneys D M Kisch get a well-deserved kick in the tochis.

Botswana’s government has shafted the Gana and Gwi Bushmen. Now it looks like they’re ready to do the same to the game reserve these people inhabited.

Successful businessmen come in pairs it is said. In the second part of our series on important relationships, lords of the advertising industry, Roger Makin and Brian Searle-Tripp, talk about their business partnership and - rather sweetly - about what they mean to each other.

Publish and you'll be damned, Shaun Johnson tells Sandra Gordon

When Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour's statuesque blonde typist needed a divorce lawyer, he roped in a passel of cabinet ministers, and the head of the United Cricket Board, Percy Sonn. Judging by what he told her, one might surmise that Sonn's advice must have been given after one of his famous lunches.

SABMiller: promotes scoundrel / Investec: showtime in smash-n-grab case / ABSA: bank manager misleads client / Corruption hotline: the heat is on for whistleblower / Detente with China: knackered.

SA's least disreputable banks are promoting microloans to the poor at huge interest rates. The deals are often financially disastrous for everyone concerned - except the banks of course.

On the eve of its New York listing the SA oil giant falls for an embarrassing multi-million rand con.

Cops demand Terrafin documents (This time Standard Bank must play ball or face prosecution).
Plus: A Trucker's Tale; it was fraud to the left and fraud to the right.