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Whilst I can probably The Kendal Group , Howick, KZN afford a fraudulent R100pm charge, I reel when I think that this may also Scrambled eggs be happening to impoverished South Africans for whom such a fraudulent I AGREE THAT MAJOR MEDIA IS inFECTED collection will probably mean the by vested interests, but Noseweek is difference between having and not not always completely objective either. having bread at home for the second Sometimes reporting on a story soon half of the month. leaves you with egg on your face – your Mauritz Robertson reporting on the KPMG debacle being 4C Group, Cape Town a case in point. When that story ends, the real truths will emerge and you will We have forwarded your letter and find you were quite wrong in some of contact details to Mr Douglas. –Ed. your assertions. Right now, you need some sensationalism to sell your rag. n JUST SENT VODACOM A STOP ALL TO Lance Hurly 30050. The sms cost me nothing. Back Namutoni Gate, Oshikoto, Namibia Thank you so much came the immediate response: I was not subscribed to any WASPS! So We’ve reported on KPMG’s shady deal- I AM LACTOSE inTOLERANT AND FOR MANY Noseweek’s advice works. (Oct 2017). ings for over a decade and they have years suffered from painful allergic I’m also sending the “Big Pharma is yet to challenge us. Their handling reactions to dairy products – but no making us sick” article to my doctor, of the Gupta account is a clear indi- longer! Having learned from your dentist, opthalmologist, etc, advising cation that there exists a culture of exposé (“Bad Milk”, nose212) that cows them to subscribe to Noseweek. lawlessness within the organisation. carry either the A1 or A2 protein, I did I’ve just done my dance with death If anything this “rag” has been vindi- some research and discovered Gay’s because of antibiotics that cost me cated. KPMG has been exposed as Guernsey Dairy in Prince Albert that around R700! Threw most of them out nothing more than a hired gun that produces A2 milk, yoghurt and prize when I realised why I was so ill. knowingly takes part in criminal winning cheeses – which are now Pam activity along with their high rolling Cape Town delivered to us in Rondebosch every customers. The only egg on anyone’s Friday by Doorbell Deli. After decades face right now is on theirs (and maybe of abstinence, I am once again able to Wayne be praised a little on yours?). – Ed. enjoy dairy products. I recommend that anyone with lactose intolerance make WAYNE DUVENAGE’S COMMENT (in THE this change for the better. profile “Action Man” by Sue Segar, Research before you write Carol Henshilwood nose217) that business and the corpo- Cape Town rate world are reluctant to challenge YOUR JOURNALISM in “JSE inVESTIGATORS the State, is 100% correct. assess Bonamour’s offshore frolics” Vodacom’s thievery It’s high time that large corporates (nose217 online edition) is terrible. and their leaders grew a backbone, Research before you write. Even when AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, LIKE WILIAM along with some balls, and challenged statements are factual the context is Douglas (nose217), I too have the State whenever the latter steps so derived it amounts to misrepresen- discovered that I am being billed out of line, because as fellow taxpayers tation. Perhaps the author can share by Vodacom at R100 per month, in this country, it’s up to all of us, big the secrets of his investment success including VAT, for “content” from and small, to pull errant and wayward (considering his clearly superior MobiTeacher – for which I never politicians into line. understanding of company valuations subscribed. I also feel a simple refund Regarding the various charges and concert parties and share swops). does not appreciate the fact that I had which OUTA has laid at various Consider how many TMG shares the been defrauded to begin with. Police Stations against certain corrupt PIC still owned before swopping into I am very keen to get in touch with individuals mentioned in the above Tiso Blackstar and how many they Mr Douglas to see where he stands article, can Wayne please give us some must have sold thereafter before with regards to the class action law feedback on what’s happened with making statements about its holding. suit he proposed. these cases and how far they have WTF? Thanks for your good work. It is progressed? Sandton 4 Jack Lundin replies: I note that you in revealing the real facts and for month and expend data that I could fail to mention that your firm, the bringing the sordid goings-on at Tiso use to download “adult content”? The “boutique” corporate advisory company Blackstar to the attention of the otherwise quandary of it all!! One Capital, acted as sole corporate public. One wonders what WTF?’s Raymond Murray advisor and transaction sponsor to connection is with the evil empire. Springs Blackstar SE on its acquisition of the Is this yet another public relations And here we were thinking Noseweek remainder of Times Media’s share exercise? only publishes adult content! Except, capital in February 2015. And as sole Jimmy Mould it now transpires, occasionally on its corporate advisor to Tiso Investment Diep River, Cape Town letters pages. – Ed. Holdings and the Tiso Foundation Charitable Trust on their disposal of their 22.9% interest in Kagiso Tiso Fishy business Bidvest still to support e-tolls? Holdings to Blackstar Group SE in RICHARD GOUDVIS (NOSE217): BLOODY I MUST ASK: ARE BIDVEST AND OTHER HIRE December 2014. So it’s easy to see where hell – you’d have to be a halfwit to car companies going to continue to your misplaced loyalty lies. invest with this bloke. He screams charge clients e-toll fees? E-toll fees are con-artist! unconstitutional and therefore illegal, so the companies are charging clients n GIVEN ANDREW BONAMOUR’S PERSONAL Adrian Stevens illegal fees. If it weren’t for hire car history (as quite brilliantly revealed by Cape Town companies and some other companies Noseweek) I am simply amazed that and a handful of individuals e-tolls WTF? (whose response first appeared Hobson’s choice I REALLY LIKE THIS MAGAZinE, ESPECIALLY would have been scrapped. It’s only in the nose217 online edition) dares when I was able to read it at my through them that e-tolls survive. to come to his defence. Jack Lundin mate’s, who bought it religiously. Noel Brady deserves a medal for his persistence Now I have to spend over R20 a Johannesburg Stent NOSEWEEK December 2017 5 C Editor Editorial Martin Welz [email protected] Assistant Editor Jonathan Erasmus Zuma: the tipping point Special Correspondent Jack Lundin ACQUES PAUW’S THE President’s Keepers provide the ultimate cover for the criminal Designer and Adriaan Basson and Pieter du Toit’s subversion of legitimate intelligence gathering Tony Pinchuck Enemy of the People – have had media and and law enforcement by Zuma and his allies. Sub-editor citizens riveted for weeks. Deservedly so. Several paragraphs from that Noseweek Chas Unwin Much of what they contain is not report deserve repeating: news; they have simply loaded the scale to “The Crime Intelligence Division of the Contributors J tipping point with an agglomeration of stories, police performs a highly sophisticated func- Len Ashton, Warren Blunt, Sibusiso Biyela, contextualised and catalogued in shocking tion, collecting often sensitive information Paul Kirk, Sue Segar, Anne Susskind, detail, one event after another. They each about high-level crime and criminals. But Harold Strachan provide a perfect demonstration of what a book a secret report that has been buried in the Cartoonists – or a long-form magazine such as Noseweek – files of the National Intelligence Service since Stacey Stent, Dr Jack can achieve, that, with rare exception, other November [2011], shows that the SAPS Crime Accounts media cannot.