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Lennie The Liquidator Faces R500,000 Defamation Suit
After losing his cool when his fees were questioned
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September 2020
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Panel Beater De Luxe
Danmar Autobody and its erstwhile directors get a serious panel beating in court papers. Corruption and theft are said to have destroyed the firm chaired by Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, leaving 200 workers destitute and threatening to kill.
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September 2020
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Meet Covid Diarist Ronald Wohlman
Ronald Wohlman – EX SOUTH African copywriter, author, and actor – never dreamt that his lockdown diaries, written on Facebook and followed by people all over the world – would become his “life’s work”.
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September 2020
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A Picture Of Peace?
Beware: Appearances can be deceptive
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September 2020
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Flogging A (Battery-Driven) Dead Horse
Why plug-in vehicles are not all they’re cracked up to be– and, likely, never will be
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September 2020
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Everybody Drinks Corona
I am hesitant to go Into the pub today. Not because it’s illegal, but there is a crème colored 1985 Mercedes 300D parked behind the pine tree. This means the devil is inside; that’s what we call Dr. De Villiers. You don’t know whether you will encounter the good doctor with the charming bedside manner or the violent, bipolar bully. The problem is, most of the time, you can never be sure which it is, so it’s best to always keep a social distance.
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May 2020
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Never Take A Hypochondriac To A Pandemic
From Ronald Wohlman’s New York Corona Diary
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May 2020
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The money train
Transnet in court battle with liquidators of Gupta-linked audit firm over R57m in ‘corrupt’ payments and invoices
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May 2020
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‘He's no pharmaceutical genius, he's a vulture'
Pharma con seeks prison release to ‘help find Covid cure’
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May 2020
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Bush school – A memoir
OUR SCHOOL WAS IN THE MIDDLE of the bush, ten miles from the nearest town in the harsh beauty of the Zimbabwean highveld. It started life in World War II as No 26 EFTS Guinea Fowl, a Royal Air Force elementary flying training school and I arrived there in 1954, just seven years after it became an all-white co-ed state boarding school.
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May 2020
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Arch on the march
‘We will overcome this and we’ll realise we are a communion of nations more than we think,’ says Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Dr Thabo Makgoba
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May 2020
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A childhood made up
Living with my mother’s madness
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May 2020
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Dubai's Loan Scams For Africa
Multi-million-dollar loans are, it seems, just a mirage
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April 2020
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The Subtle Art Of Changing Minds
I have always wanted to be a science communicator, someone who helps other people understand complex or technical information about our world before I even knew it was called “science communication” or understood it to be a viable career.
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April 2020
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On the light side
The life of a newspaper (or in this case) magazine columnist is not an easy one, particularly for one’s state of mind.
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April 2020
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The flying activist
Fêted aerial and underwater photographer Jean Tresfon trains his focus on the City of Cape Town’s contamination of its coastal waters
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April 2020
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SPAR WARS
Owners of 44 Spar shops go head-to-head with HQ
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April 2020
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Ponzi accomplice cheekily accused Investec of fraud for calling in loans
Tannenbaum’s top agent, Dean Rees, tried unsuccessfully to block bank’s R34m in mortgage claims by accusing it of devious dealing
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April 2020
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George mayor's War on Waste raked in illicit profits for pals
DA initiates probe which reveals host of transgressions in Eastern Cape municipality – which NPA has ignored
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April 2020
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Sound The Alarm On Roundup's Cancer Risks
To powers that be of our esteemed Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development I must ask: with all the nonstop re-configuration of how to deal with this enormous “land restitution” challenge, can you take a moment to communicate the threat posed by the widely used and popular herbicide Roundup?
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March 2020
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Strachan: the final word
Harold Strachan, Noseweek’s much-loved columnist of 20 years, died in Durban on 7 February 2020, aged 94
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March 2020
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‘Looming sewage catastrophe'
Effluent pumped into waterways poses ‘real danger’ to health, warns Dr Jo Barnes, dubbed the Erin Brockovich of South Africa
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March 2020
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Wonderboom officials can run airport themselves, says judge
Court suspends consulting firm’s appointment
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March 2020
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SA doubles down on double standards
The state was the biggest beneficiary from the collapse of the Tannenbaum Ponzi scheme
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March 2020
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When fair comment is foul
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU called your wife beautiful?
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March 2020
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Exposed: Zuma ‘bodyguard' was link man in international fishing conspiracy
Noseweek’s Susan Puren dives deep into the WikiLeaks Fishrot Files
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March 2020
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Binary Options Scam Operators Jailed In US
Scamster ‘cost investors their homes, savings and even marriages’
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February 2020
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We won't take this sh!t anymore, says Milnerton
When he thinks back 25 years Richard Allen, chairman of the Milnerton Canoe Club, remembers Cape Town’s Milnerton Lagoon as a little paradise where you would see children jumping off the wood bridge into the clear, deep water.
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February 2020
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Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
Not rocket science
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February 2020
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Coins for the car guard
Piet struts the streets Of Germiston barefoot and with his shirt open, except for one button near the bottom which he closes up lopsided.
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