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Bheki Jacobs. Photograph: Laird Forbes/Independent

Master of information

Bheki Jacobs, who died last week at the age of 46, was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the liberation struggle.

Zille: Don’t give Chinese arms to Zim

Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday urged President Thabo Mbeki and national conventional arms-control committee chairperson Sydney Mufamadi to stop the transfer of…

Opposition grows to arms shipment for Zimbabwe

Opposition to a shipment of arms being offloaded in Durban and transported to Zimbabwe increased on Thursday when South Africa’s largest transport workers’ union announced that…

FirstRand loses court bid to gag noseweek

FirstRand Bank has lost a court bid to prevent noseweek magazine publishing the names of clients involved in allegedly shady offshore tax dodging schemes. Cape High Court Deputy…

FirstRand and noseweek battle it out in court

The legality of a FirstRand Bank offshore tax scheme came under scrutiny in the Cape High Court on Wednesday when the bank sought an urgent interdict to stop noseweek magazine…

Judge says FirstRand tax scheme was ‘suspect’

Judge Jeanette Traverso, hearing FirstRand’s urgent application for an interdict against the satirical magazine <i>NoseWeek</i> in the Cape High Court, said on Wednesday that…

Top law firm accused of ripping off millions of rands

Welz, the editor of <em>noseWEEK</em>, asked the Cape High Court this week to seize incriminating documents from the firm H Mohamed & Associates.