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Grammaticabobble Rammed Down Our Throats
I SUFFERED SORE DISMAY AT THE AGE of ten-or-so upon learning that language was not for pleasure, it was for discipline.
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March 2019
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Hanging Out With Sharks
On Tuesday 5 February 2019 The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture was hearing evidence from its own investigator Frank Dutton.
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March 2019
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‘Outlier' Plastic Surgeon Gets On Hospital's Tits
A DURBAN HOSPITAL has decided To cut the cord with a plastic sur-geon whose past, it would seem, has finally caught up with him.
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March 2019
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Proudly Raise And Wave Your Mzansi Flag
UNLIKE TOO MANY OF OUR FELLOW Mzansi citizenry I like to think of myself as one of the most positive people when mulling over our current status of national affairs – political, economic and social.
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March 2019
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The People Vs Eskom
IT’S UNANIMOUS: ESKOM IS THE MOST hated organisation in South Africa.
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March 2019
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The Last Resort?
Mossel Bay woman defends her Mauritian dream in face-off with suspicious investors.
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March 2019
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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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How Nedbank Lied, And Lied, And Lied
Widow, 83, faces off bank in Jersey court.
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May 2018
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Accidental MP
At 28, Gwen Ngwenya hadn’t intended entering politics – just yet. She’d imagined herself following some other career path first. But this year the Master’s graduate and former COO of the SA Institute of Race Relations was appointed the DA’s Head of Policy and took up a seat in Parliament. Sue Segar talks to the woman some see as a future leader of the party.​​
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May 2018
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Love And Loss
Karina was his fifth bride – and the love of André Brink’s life. Now she celebrates his memory.
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August 2016
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Chinese Laundry
South Africa pockets R190m illegally destined for Beijing.
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April 2017
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Tshwane After The Da Takeover - What's Changed?
We have launched programmes and mechanisms to save the City money. Chief among these are the strategic sourcing of goods, an open tender system, e-procurement systems, which are all, in one way or another, aimed at curbing leakages in the supply chain process and maladministration... Fraud cases have been instituted against corrupt officials. This is to avoid occurrences such as the notorious “shoe polish” debacle which saw millions of rand lost when goods were purchased at hugely inflated prices that otherwise could’ve been procured at wholesale rates.
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April 2017
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Ambivalence. What's Good Is Bad
As ONE of those seriously unresolved South Africans who longs for “home”, I always promised myself that by the time I’d been in Australia half my life, I would know what I was doing.
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April 2017
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Not Rocket Science
Road Deaths. A Data Blackout
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April 2017
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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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February 2019
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What A Kid!
Fortunately, nosey ones, I have never been in a car accident, certainly not a fatal one – or I would not be here writing this column now, would I? However if I were to be involved in one (not fatal of course), I would want to be accompanied by this remarkable kid I happened upon in early December. For I know that with him at my side, our chance of surviving would be that much greater.
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February 2019
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Is Cleverest Of Us All?
Vanity awards give a veneer of erudition to fake achievers with the gall and cash to flaunt them
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February 2019
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Shark Mystery: Where Have All The Cape's Great Whites Gone?
Is the culprit man or beast?
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February 2019
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Property & Plagiarism
Developer Tongaat-Hulett under fire for blatantly using another firm’s plans.
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February 2019
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Health Cheques For ‘GP'
‘Kind and loving’ con-doctor has been at it for years, while HPCSA dismissed a 2012 complaint
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February 2019
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Changing The Game
Wits student Kamal Ramburuth-Hurt is driving a campaign to revolutionise the ‘irrelevant’ economics curriculum taught at South African universities. It’s called Rethinking Economics for Africa (Refa) – and it’s gaining traction.
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January 2019
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A Stink About A Stink
Environmental offender given green light.
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January 2019
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Xolobeni: An Assault By The State
The assault by the state on the community living at Xolobeni, Mbizana, in the Eastern Cape drags on as the Amadiba people are again compelled to seek the protection of the courts.
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