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- The arms deal and the home loan: how Fana Hlongwane helped Siphiwe Nyanda score his R4-million Bryanston home with cash from the arms deal.
- Making a killing: Menzi Simelane and the quashing of the arms-deal investigation that keeps on giving.
- Face-off: Vavi, Blade and Gwede go head-to-head in the battle over the soul of the alliance.
- Tortured: The high-profile honeymoon murder saga has the gunmen crying foul with allegations of police torture in custody while lawyers brawl over touting in court.
- Lindiwe lashes out: The M&G‘s Q&A with Lindiwe Sisulu.
- You see, they actually are bloody agents: Zanu-PF and Mugabe’s WikiLeaks godsend.
- The Museveni rap: Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni reaches out to the youth with hip hop.
- Be afraid, be very afraid — especially if you are Zimbabwean without papers. With the December 31 deadline looming large, anxiety over the deadline is reaching fever pitch on both sides of the border.
- A country of rapists: What is it about the national psyche that allows our rape statistics to be one of the highest in the world?
- Busted: Greenpeace sues Sasol over spying allegations.
- Summer Sounds: The M&G’s annual summer music special goes proudly South African.
- Die Antwoord eats the apple: The zef masters do New York. And do it well.
- Drink up: Tim James on the Swartland revolution.
- Nikiwe Bikitsha weighs in on how Waity Katy got her man.