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Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story Of Genius, Betrayal And Redemption
IN 2009, AUTHOR BEN MEZRICH WROTE A book named The Accidental Billionaires, chronicling the unholy birth of Facebook, the rise of Mark Zuckerberg, and the fall – well, the stumble – of Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the identical twins who believed that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for the social network from them.
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July 2019
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Free Homes For Select Few
Tshwane Metro lease agreements dumped at recycling plant during office move reveal council housing scandal
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July 2019
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To Helen Back
We catch up with the political powerhouse that is Helen Zille
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July 2019
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FNB's R800,000 For My Silence
ONE of the couNtry’s Best known rabbis has broken a 16-year silence to reveal to Noseweek an extraordinary deal in which he agreed not to “go public” with the revelation that his FNB safety deposit box had been plundered by a bank employee.
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July 2017
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MTN Ignores Court Ruling - Again
Call-centre staff fighting for R60m in salaries.
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July 2017
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Aerodynamics. Flights of Fancy
The ANNuAl export of muttoN from New Zealand is 34,380 tons per annum, declared Miss Ootle.
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July 2017
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Honey, They Smoked The City Hall
Explosive report exposes corruption, incompetence – and bad taste – in refurbishment of capital’s municipal HQ.
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January 2017
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Why South Africa should resist the power of Big Sugar
The proposed tax on sweetened drinks will help improve public health despite overwrought opposition from industry.
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December 2016
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Berlin And Beyond. Broken Promised Lands
Berlin And Beyond. Broken Promised Lands
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June 2018
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Go On Mamas. Make My Day!
Go On Mamas. Make My Day!
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June 2018
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Nkosazana Zuma's Evil Shadow
THE COMPANY THAT DISTRIBUTES millions of state social security grants has not only the govern-ment but all South Africa hanging from a cliff.
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March 2017
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On Wings Of Song
Cape Town’s Youth Choir plans to conquer New York.
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March 2017
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Angolan Tycoon's Frozen Funds Highlight KPMG's Role In Offshore Secrecy
Global accounting giant helped businessman move tens of millions of dollars offshore.
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July 2018
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Luxembourg Court Sets Aside Whistleblower's Conviction
PwC sought jail for its employees and a fine for journalist who spilled beans on tax avoidance
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July 2018
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How To Defuse SA's Ticking Time Bomb
A basic income grant is a necessity, not a luxury, if the country is to avoid a social catastrophe for all its citizens – according to DA MP Karen Jooste
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July 2018
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Tshwane Deals To Die For
Metro under the microscope for paying huge amounts for land in transactions that generate massive profits for speculators
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August 2019
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Cape Town's waste ends up in its fish
Scientists find that fish caught by small scale commercial fishers in Kalk Bay are contaminated.
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August 2019
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Deep Reconciliation
Wilhelm Verwoerd and his calling to ‘transform apartheid’
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August 2019
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Food For Thought
Clear bright future – an extract
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August 2019
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Not Rocket Science
The colour of bad science.
4 min |
August 2019
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They Lied!
What Investec and Peter Gray knew and lied about in South Africa’s second-biggest corporate fraud on record
10 min |
August 2019
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Books
Fighting for the dream
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August 2019
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Durban Metro Supresses Investigation To Win Court Battle
eThekwini in hot water after allegedly misleading Supreme Court of Appeal.
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December 2018
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Bitter Sweet In Kandyland
You can’t keep a good skellum down: Kandyland’s Pieter van der Watt is still at it. Jack Lundin tracks down the conman’s latest prey.
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December 2018
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How Safe Is SA's Morandi Bridge?
The designer of the Genoa viaduct that catastrophically collapsed in August also had a hand in several South African bridges, including the one that spans the Storms River.
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October 2018
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Don't Mention My Conviction, Says Fraudster Panday
VISHAM PANDAY, GOLD AND DIESEL DEALER, convicted fraudster and brother to the more infamous
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October 2018
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Talking Rhino To Vietnamese Kids
VIETNAM IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST RECIPIENT of illegal rhino horn from South Africa.
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October 2018
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Spiritual. Hell Is About Rocks
Well to be spIrItual You don’t have to be religious.
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October 2018
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Grasping The Nettle
A peek inside the life of DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen.
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February 2019
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SARS Rogue Unit – Secret Official Report Revealed
The SARS ‘rogue unit’ trial is scheduled to resume on February 14. Noseweek has uncovered a secret report by the Inspector-General of Intelligence that once more puts the spotlight on that murky affair.
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