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Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story Of Genius, Betrayal And Redemption
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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
Free Homes For Select Few
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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
To Helen Back
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To Helen Back

We catch up with the political powerhouse that is Helen Zille

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July 2019
FNB's R800,000 For My Silence
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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
MTN Ignores Court Ruling - Again
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MTN Ignores Court Ruling - Again

Call-centre staff fighting for R60m in salaries.

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July 2017
Aerodynamics. Flights of Fancy
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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
Honey, They Smoked The City Hall
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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
Why South Africa should resist the power of Big Sugar
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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
Berlin And Beyond. Broken Promised Lands
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Berlin And Beyond. Broken Promised Lands

Berlin And Beyond. Broken Promised Lands

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June 2018
Go On Mamas. Make My Day!
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Go On Mamas. Make My Day!

Go On Mamas. Make My Day!

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June 2018
Nkosazana Zuma's Evil Shadow
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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
On Wings Of Song
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On Wings Of Song

Cape Town’s Youth Choir plans to conquer New York.

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March 2017
Angolan Tycoon's Frozen Funds Highlight KPMG's Role In Offshore Secrecy
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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
Luxembourg Court Sets Aside Whistleblower's Conviction
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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
How To Defuse SA's Ticking Time Bomb
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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
Tshwane Deals To Die For
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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
Cape Town's waste ends up in its fish
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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
Deep Reconciliation
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Deep Reconciliation

Wilhelm Verwoerd and his calling to ‘transform apartheid’

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August 2019
Food For Thought
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Food For Thought

Clear bright future – an extract

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August 2019
Not Rocket Science
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Not Rocket Science

The colour of bad science.

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August 2019
They Lied!
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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

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August 2019
Books
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Books

Fighting for the dream

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August 2019
Durban Metro Supresses Investigation To Win Court Battle
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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
Bitter Sweet In Kandyland
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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
How Safe Is SA's Morandi Bridge?
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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
Don't Mention My Conviction, Says Fraudster Panday
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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
Talking Rhino To Vietnamese Kids
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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
Spiritual. Hell Is About Rocks
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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
Grasping The Nettle
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Grasping The Nettle

A peek inside the life of DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen.

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February 2019
SARS Rogue Unit – Secret Official Report Revealed
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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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February 2019