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.

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.

A Flawed Court Process That Puts Victims At Risk

NOSEY ONES, I MUST SINCERELY apologise to you all.

Nigeria: Partisan Politics Runs Riot

President Buhari will struggle to gain the upper hand on corruption and security while party rivalries block economic change.

Valuable Friends

Jozi DA embraces ANC crony with R100m tender.

Mabuyakhulu Accuses ANC Bosses Of Political Interference

KZN ANC deputy chairman claims foul play in R27m development scandal.

Sars Helps Mpisanes Duck And Dive – Again

The Durban-based tender tycoons get a helping hand from the taxman.

Rogue Unit Skills For Sale

SARS spooks are (discreetly) at large again, with new clients and new masters.

Tshwane Capture

The world’s third biggest metro municipality is still on a corruption ride to nowhere.

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

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

Dispatches From The Front

A low-intensity civil war is grinding on just north of Pretoria.

Mob Boss's Attorney Sues Namibian Paper For Defamation

Case will be important test for country’s media freedom.

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.

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.

Bheki Cele Heads Investigation – Of Himself

Police minister uses state-funded legal advisor in fight with own ministry.

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.

A Curious Undervaluation

Why Would Johannesburg’s city council settle for an undervaluation of the property at 100 Grayston Drive?

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.

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.

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.

Free State capture and the ‘cattle thief'

An extract from Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh

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.

A Landslide Disaster

Mossel Bay homeowners sue authorities over wrecked homes

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

The People Vs Eskom

IT’S UNANIMOUS: ESKOM IS THE MOST hated organisation in South Africa.

The Last Resort?

Mossel Bay woman defends her Mauritian dream in face-off with suspicious investors.