Lionel Faull
Lionel is a reporter at the Mail & Guardian Centre for Investigative Journalism, Amabhungane.
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/ 4 March 2011

Ex-miners who yearn to breathe easier

In a bumpy backstreet in Mthatha stands the offices of the ex-mineworkers’ union, founded in 1987. There are seven stacks of dusty files in one corner, each the height of an adult, containing compensation applications and other paperwork for each of the union’s members in the Eastern Cape. “About 18 000 members,” says Zanele Mbuyisa, a […]

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/ 24 February 2011

Legal woes with ex-business partner

Trifecta director Christo Scholtz is embroiled in a legal battle with his ex-business partner’s widow, who claims he cheated her family out of her dead husband’s stake in the company. At the time of his death in a plane crash near Kimberley in March 2009, Sarel Breda’s Shosholoza Trust held 55% of Trifecta Investment Holdings […]

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/ 21 January 2011

How a rapist was caught

Hans Joachim Klaar has spent most of the past 11 years on the high seas, fleeing from justice. Accused of raping a Pietermaritzburg woman in 1996, the Swiss national was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by a Durban magistrate in December 1998. Klaar appealed to the Pietermaritzburg High Court and in August 1999 his sentence […]