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Noseweek
Inside SARS Rogue Unit
Confidential papers suggest that Ivan Pillay misled former Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and that the unit was illegal from the start.
10 min |
May 2018
Noseweek
Wild Coast Warriors Stand Their Ground
AmaMpondo defy mega-bridge row pressure.
6 min |
August 2017
Noseweek
Down And Out - Pell Melee. Cardinal Sins
Down And Out - Pell Melee. Cardinal Sins
3 min |
August 2017
Noseweek
Plan Z
The social grants crisis is a secret machination to get Nkosazana Zuma elected president.
8 min |
April 2017
Noseweek
Courting Disaster
Pietermaritzburg advocates to mark the seventh anniversary of a notorious brawl at the Bar with another round in court.
10+ min |
April 2017
Noseweek
The Big Stink
Criminal charges pending in KZN waste management battle.
9 min |
April 2017
Noseweek
Suave Charmer. Mum's the Word
TREVOR NOAH Born a Crime and Other Stories.
2 min |
April 2017
Noseweek
The Road Less And Less Able To Be Travelled
Previously in Noseweek, Riversdale farm owner Stephen Pain described how he had been vilified by his neighbour, former DA MP Theuns ‘Leuens’ Botha, who for years accused him of a litany of crimes and even had him arrested. Botha also used his position and influence to have a weir and piping installed to deliver water to his property at taxpayers’ expense. Likewise he had an electric fence erected and used his bodyguards to do his bidding in the feud with his neighbour.
10 min |
April 2017
Noseweek
Jailbreak. Serving Time
WE RECENTLY HEARD FROM A friend about the Pollsmoor Prison restaurant called Idlanathi (We eat together) which is staffed by prisoners.
2 min |
April 2017
Noseweek
Was Vytjie Taped By A Spy?
Audio clips and ‘stolen’ recordings of Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture interviews are washing up at media houses as party factions fire salvoes in PR war.
8 min |
January 2017
Noseweek
Ups And Downs Of Bouncing Rates
At last – major clean-up looms in Joburg administration.
10+ min |
January 2017
Noseweek
Petrol Consumption Figures Pour Fuel On Ford's Fire
Doughty widow challenges advertising claims.
5 min |
March 2017
Noseweek
Hot Stuff. The Wall Game
HUNGRY? FANCY A CRISP GRASSHOPPER shank? What about a dainty ball of fat that has been knocking around in your backpack for a week or two? No?
2 min |
March 2017
Noseweek
Dr Munsamy, I Presume ...
He’s been called ‘A crook and a fraudster. An animal and a disgusting waste of skin and bones’.
10+ min |
February 2017
Noseweek
Draining Tshwane's Swamp
Mayor Solly Msimanga wants to focus on service delivery.
4 min |
February 2017
Noseweek
It's a giant international scam
Brits are losing millions to UK’s biggest con while the government stands by.
10 min |
December 2016
Noseweek
Food, Travel And Design. Cape Town To Sydney
After the summer hols IN Cape Town, it’s back to the land of the “lounge room”. Other than a diabolical new government plan for Australia to become a top global arms exporter (almost AU $4 billion in support to local weapons manufacturers is being mooted), Adani coal mine resistance continues, private school fees have rocketed as happens perennially (they have hit the $37,000 mark), Australia Day (Invasion Day to Aboriginal people) protests were duly held, and the iconic koalas and leadbeater possums have less and less habitat because of tree clearing.
3 min |
March 2018
Noseweek
Radio Nose. Daysed And Confused
PLEASE, PLEASE NO MORE DAYS. No, I am not calling for the end of time – I’ll explain my plea shortly – but first, let us see what’s happening in the musical charts.
4 min |
March 2018
Noseweek
In For A Zweli, In For A Pound
Questions keep rolling in over a succession of dodgy loans involving former KZN premier and his wife.
4 min |
March 2018
Noseweek
Corruption Net Closes In On KZN Big Boys
How tens of millions of rands were siphoned off under the guise of bringing the North Sea Jazz Festival to Durban.
7 min |
March 2018
Noseweek
Death Do Us Part
Armed and organised syndicates are muscling in on Durban’s funeral industry to exclude white and Indian-owned businesses from operating in KZN townships and rural areas. Jonathan Erasmus reports
4 min |
April 2018
Noseweek
A Pain In The BMW
Dealership’s sloppy work wrecked owner’s 316i then they slapped him with a R362,000 quote for repairs
3 min |
April 2018
Noseweek
Vodacom's Fraudulent Charges - The Saga Continues
Vodacom's Fraudulent Charges - The Saga Continues
4 min |
April 2018
Noseweek
Anti-fracking Forces Triumph Again
VICTORIES ARE ROLLING IN FOR THE anti-fracking lobby in KwaZu-lu-Natal. State entities along with murky prospectors have attempted to bulldoze through exploration rights, deliberately breaking the law and making it difficult for the public to object.
3 min |
June 2017
Noseweek
A 19-ton Truck In The Gardens Of The Afterlife
You’ve pored over the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Der Spiegel online, now dip into the monthly ISIS publication on the dark web.
7 min |
June 2017
Noseweek
Liz McDaid Of The Nuclear Victory
Triumphant anti-nuclear campaigner believes courage works wonders.
9 min |
June 2017
Noseweek
Physician, Heal Thyself
LAST MONTH, THE PRESIDENT OF THE Health Professions Council of South Africa, Dr Kgosi Letlape, described medical aid schemes as “a crime against humanity” and suggested they should be abolished as they cannot co-exist with the government’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.
3 min |
May 2017
Noseweek
Once Celebrated, Since Disgraced - Dines Gihwala To Pay Up Big Time
DEAR READER, this story begiNs way back in 1998, but listen patiently and keep in mind: the sting is in the tail.
5 min |
May 2017
Noseweek
King Shaka International - An Airport In Search Of Passengers
FIRST COSTED AT R3.15 BILLION, by the time Durban’s King Shaka International Airport was completed in 2010, it had cost any-thing between R7.6bn and R9bn.
6 min |
May 2017
Noseweek
Goodness Me. Keep Trying
IN A DO-GOODER FRAME OF MIND, Noseweek’s intrepid correspondent [Please God, not another one! – Ed.] last year ventured out of Sydney’s eastern suburbs to see if she could be of any use at the Asylum Seekers Centre in the somewhat less salubrious Newtown.
3 min |