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14/10/2022

09/09/2022

The latest issue of Noseweek is out now, Go to www.noseweek.co.za and read the latest

28/07/2022

Eastern Cape MEC secretly permitted the capture of 3 free-roaming Cape leopards (an endangered species) in the Baviaanskloof (a world heritage site) and their translocation to a game farm involved in trophy-hunting (the Buffalo Kloof Private Game Reserve). Publication would infringe on the parties “right to privacy”, he claimed in court papers lodged at the Grahamstown high court.

But earlier this week, Judge Govindjee ordered the MEC to reveal all his department’s leopard trapping, culling and relocation permit records since 2017 to the Landmark Foundation (a wildlife conservation trust) within 14 days. "Access to information is the norm, rather than the exception,” the judge said.

For more on this, go to https://bit.ly/leopardLandmark

17/03/2022

Billionaire ex Abax asset manager Tim Allsop pulls the plug on R80m Landmark project in the Karoo, triggering a grim legal war of attrition. Read part 2 of the saga here https://bit.ly/karooshowdown

In August 2018, Tim Allsop had lots of good things to say about the Landmark Foundation’s Shepherding Back Biodiversity Project (SBBP).

16/03/2022

Billionaire ex Abax asset manager Tim Allsop sued for R80m after he pulls the plug on 25-year, R100m farm bio-diversity project in the Karoo. Says SA politics gives him the heebie-jeebies, so he'd now rather invest his money in a charming hotel he's found on a Greek island. Read about it here: https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2022/03/15/karoo-biodiversity-research-project

Five years into a groundbreaking biodiversity research project in the Karoo, its main sponsor lost interest and pulled the plug on it all.

02/03/2022

The latest issue of Noseweek, available online only, is out now. To view click here: https://noseweek.co.za/wp/

Home Issue 252 February 2022 No articles Found Baboon and the Porcupine case now headed for the ConCourt The title of a scientific paper by a weather scientist in 1972 springs to mind: Might the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? First the high court, then the Suprem...

12/01/2022

Herman Botha says he has permit to kill baboons, porcupines & “other vermin” in cruel traps on his farm Varsfontein near Alicedale. R20 for the piece of paper and they’re all yours? Supreme Court of Appeal says we don’t have to be polite when debating the subject https://bit.ly/crueltyouted

12/01/2022

Animal rights activist Bool Smuts did a great job exposing cruel animal trapping & Supreme Court of Appeal has endorsed his right to identify the guilty party. But routine issuing of such permits seriously discredits nature conservation authorities. Explain yourselves! https://bit.ly/crueltyouted

Animal rights activist Bool Smuts won an important appeal case before the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday.

15/09/2021

Jeff Bezos, just back on Earth, says his ultimate goal is to build a road to space so that future generations can take all heavy and polluting industry up into space, “to keep this gem of a planet as is, instead of ruining it.”

https://bit.ly/spacebop

Wait till you hear the Bezos plan to save humanityAccording to The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has come down ...

14/09/2021

The Paradise Papers – docs leaked from a Bermuda law firm – revealed that ex South African Ivan Glasenberg/Glencore was rewarding Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler for acting as its intermediary with the Congolese government. See Noseweek https://bit.ly/bribes4africa

14/09/2021

Bribes for Africa: DRC State stands to lose $3.7bn [R52 billion] from “middleman arrangements” involving Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler and Glencor (a mining company also well connected in SA) say anti-corruption group Congo is Not For Sale. go to https://www.noseweek.co.za/article/4542/Bribery-for-Africa-3

Glencore and Gertler in the Paradise Papers Glencore and Gertler’s dealings in the DRC (here referred to as Congo-Kinshasa) ...

14/09/2021

In new Noseweek meet Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler (who denies all wrongdoing) & join the dots: Court records in Geneva, New York & Tel-Aviv reveal the vast sums international companies (incl Glencor) were paying politicians in exchange for mining rights https://bit.ly/congodan

13/09/2021

Netcare face a R20m claim after Bernard Katz, a patient at the Netcare Rosebank hospital died after he was given organo-phosphate poison by an unknown person at around breakfast time on 6 April. Netcare deny liability. See https://bit.ly/SeptNoseweek (online only)

03/04/2021

"The calibre of the person being appointed...to positions of power in the SANDF is...substantially below grade. Many of these senior officers are thugs, thieves and criminals who should be wearing orange overalls," a Noseweek reader writes. Click here to read all the latest letters: bit.ly/NWLettersApril2021

02/04/2021

Jacob Zuma and Ace Magashule feature in this cartoon by graphic artist Stacey Stent published in the latest issue of Noseweek. Will the Constitutional Court jail Zuma for his Zondo commission no show? What does the future hold for Magashule? Click here to read the new Noseweek: bit.ly/NoseweekApril2021

01/04/2021

After hiding out in South Africa since last year, a Namibian lawyer has turned state witness in the case involving the "Fishrot" scandal. Wikileaks files showed that Iceland seafood firm Samherji allegedly bribed Namibia state officials to gain lucrative fishing quotas. Click here to read the full story: http://bit.ly/FishrotTellAll

08/01/2021

SAA is a goner. Its 49-plane fleet cut to just nine - the rest reclaimed by their owners, who leased them to the failed airline. How serviceable the last planes are, is questionable. The jobs of all those people who manned and serviced them gone too.
Click here to read Noseweek Editor Martin Welz's editorial: http://bit.ly/NoseDec2020Editorial

08/01/2021

New Noseweek features an epic murder mystery.
Zaheera Boomgaard is central to the tale. Police charged her with two murders, two counts of kidnapping and theft, but she is suspected of complicity in seven murders.
She is a convicted fraudster, and her two husbands died in odd ways.
Click to read the full story here: bit.ly/Murder1Mystery

07/01/2021

The Giannacopoulos family, owners of 45 Spar shops, alleges that the Spar Guild applies its rules and policies in a discriminatory manner. Spar CEO Graham O’Connor has also many times threatened to “take” their businesses “for free”, the family alleges.
Click here to read the full story: http://bit.ly/SparWars1

07/01/2021

An ex-SANDF man in a Zondo Commission report blew the whistle about a R79m army deal awarded to UHNU IT Solutions. He was alarmed by invoices with no timelines or delivery plans. “We were pumping millions into this company without it delivering anything.”
Click here to read the full story: http://bit.ly/RottenSANDF

06/01/2021

Ace is on the run! Run Ace run!
What do you make of his running style? Will he get away or be nailed? Should he step aside or be allowed to sidestep?
Noseweek graphic artist Stacey Stent ponders these thoughts.
Click here to read new Noseweek: bit.ly/NoseweekDec2020

06/01/2021

What happened to Police Minister Bheki Cele?
Did his face mask slip from its correct spot during the 'beach fiasco' in Cape Town in December?
Noseweek graphic artist Stacey Stent ponders that thought in this cartoon.
Click here to read the latest Noseweek: bit.ly/NoseweekDec2020

05/01/2021

A Vryheid lawyer faked his death to avoid criminal charges and the disgrace of being struck from the roll of attorneys. He hatched a plan to use a R25m life insurance payout to run off to Mauritius. But police arrested him at his Durban beachfront hideout.
Click here to read the full enthralling story: bit.ly/Risenfromthedead