Noseweek 67 - May, 2005 News you're not supposed to know

AFRICA CONFIDENTIAL

Issue # 67 - May 2005

Nigeria: will oil leaks cause a conflagration?

Sue Goodman - wife of flamboyant racehorse trainer James - paid for her share of the family home, and paid transfer fees to her husband's attorney, Raymond Hack, who was recently appointed to head the South African Football Association in the runup to the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Shortly after signing the transfer docs, however, James Goodman issued secret instructions to Hack . . .

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TELLING TALES

Issue # 67 - May 2005

As his brief spell as noseweek guest editor comes to an end, James Sanders ruminates on the state of the SA media .

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TAXPAYERS GET NUKED

Issue # 67 - May 2005

Whenever management of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Project is asked tough questions about the financial viability of the pocket nuke, they say they can't answer because the questions are "commercially sensitive". Yet the project is already 11 years behind schedule - and a fortune in taxpayers' money has already been sunk into what looks more and more like a massive white elephant.

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CAN FAY SAVE HER BACON?

Issue # 67 - May 2005

The prawn recipe that's causing a shtink at the shul.

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LAGER LOOT

Issue # 67 - May 2005

When cheap Castle turned up in the Seychelles by the containerload over Christmas it turned the island paradise into - well - a paradise, for beer drinkers. How did it happen, and who was behind it?

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