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Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
FROM BEING THE ENFANT TERRIBLE of British writing, producing such shockers as The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, earning him the soubriquet Ian Macabre, McEwan has become something like the grand old man of British letters, producing 17 books, winning multiple awards, including the Booker (for Amsterdam, one of his least convincing novels), with at least five, by my count, of his novels being adapted for the screen.
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September 2019
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Fears Fish Factory Might Stink Out Mossel Bay
School feeding scheme loses out as processing plant switches to importing pilchards and sardines for animal feed.
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September 2019
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A Flawed Court Process That Puts Victims At Risk
NOSEY ONES, I MUST SINCERELY apologise to you all.
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September 2019
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Eden. Pawpaws The Size Of Rugby Balls
I HAD A LOVELY BIG GARDEN BACK THEN, narrow but long, street to street, and in there I had flora burgeon-ing so you’d imagine this was the 100% Fruit Juice rack in a supermarket: Tropical Temptation, Fruits of Paradise, Berry Blaze.
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March 2018
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‘I first knew there was a problem in my department when I read about it in Noseweek ‘– minister
AN INQUIRY MANDATED BY THE Constitutional Court into whether Social Development minister Bathabile Dlamini should be held personally liable for legal fees in the grants crisis, turned up at least one unassailable truth: only after reading Noseweek did Dlamini realise that there was a serious problem with her department’s planning programme.
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March 2018
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Medical Aids: Who's Scamming Whom?
Doctors and pharmacists say evidence is being fabricated to strong-arm money out of them for purported fraud.
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April 2018
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No Sacred Cows
Analyst and researcher Gareth van Onselen is even-handed with his tongue lashings of all South Africa’s major political parties.
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April 2018
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Mabuyakhulu Accuses ANC Bosses Of Political Interference
KZN ANC deputy chairman claims foul play in R27m development scandal.
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April 2019
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Sars Helps Mpisanes Duck And Dive – Again
The Durban-based tender tycoons get a helping hand from the taxman.
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April 2019
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Rogue Unit Skills For Sale
SARS spooks are (discreetly) at large again, with new clients and new masters.
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April 2019
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Tshwane Capture
The world’s third biggest metro municipality is still on a corruption ride to nowhere.
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April 2019
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Tech's Online Exploitative Relationship With Children Is A Health Risk
A report submitted to the UK Parliament outlines the damaging effects on children of ‘persuasive design’ on the internet
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August 2019
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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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Time Warp Estate Battles To Hold Clock Back
Fierce rules, tough fines and a ferocious code of conduct keep the residents of this Gauteng paradise in order, while their tranquil way of life is under threat from all sides. Jack Lundin dropped in
10 min |
November 2018
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Dispatches From The Front
A low-intensity civil war is grinding on just north of Pretoria.
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November 2018
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Mob Boss's Attorney Sues Namibian Paper For Defamation
Case will be important test for country’s media freedom.
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November 2018
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The King's Speech. Peanut Gallery
I CAN’T RECALL EXACTLY WHEN, BUT somewhere about 1936 when I was eleven-or-so years old, here in English Middle-Class Colonial Natal, we were all told at school to be sure to listen to the wireless at eight o’clock one certain night because the King was going to speak to his Empire.
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November 2018
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The Killer Quantums Stalking SA's Roads
Toyota and authorities knew for three years about unsafe jerry-rigged taxis, but did nothing to stop the carnage.
8 min |
August 2018
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Bheki Cele Heads Investigation – Of Himself
Police minister uses state-funded legal advisor in fight with own ministry.
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August 2018
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American Tribes. Lessons For South Africa
Amy Chua is best known for Her 2011 best-seller, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a highly controversial mani-festo of zero-tolerance parenting, Chinese style.
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August 2018
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A Curious Undervaluation
Why Would Johannesburg’s city council settle for an undervaluation of the property at 100 Grayston Drive?
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May 2019
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Fake News And Gaddafi's Loot: Two Great Pre-election Spoilers
NoseWeek didn’t get the $30m (R417,000,000) version of the Zuma/King Mswati III/ Muammar Gaddafi / Nkandla treasure story.
6 min |
May 2019
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Rian Malan Told You So...
The other day, I Was Woken from my afternoon nap by a thunderclap of stunned silence emanating from the United States, where special prosecutor Robert Mueller had just handed over the results of his probe into the allegedly cosy relationship between Donald Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.
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May 2019
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Who Called Iqbal What?!
It Was late afternoon on the 27th of November 2014 and Tony Weaver paused and looked back at the Cape Times newsroom which he was leaving after having served as one of its most respected reporters and columnists for close on a quarter of century.
3 min |
May 2019
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Free State capture and the ‘cattle thief'
An extract from Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh
7 min |
May 2019
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The Ace Of Arts
On page 10 you Will find an extract from Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book: Gangster State – unravelling ANC Secretary General Ace Ma-gashule’s web of capture.
3 min |
May 2019
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A Landslide Disaster
Mossel Bay homeowners sue authorities over wrecked homes
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