Meet the man who tried to arrest the board of Standard Bank
Jonathan Buckley of Centurion in Pretoria may be the first South African in history to win six judgments against Standard Bank in one day. When […]
Absa gets snot-klapped in the Pretoria High Court by women’s army
Absa’s troubles in its mortgage division just got a whole lot worse. Barely two months after losing two similar cases in the South Gauteng High […]
How one man’s life was ruined when he took on the bank
Durban-based Nav Chan started questioning FNB’s eBucks rewards calculations. They just didn’t make sense. Weeks later his accounts were cancelled and he found himself listed […]
Fraud accusations fly over Nedbank liquidation of guest lodge
A Johannesburg guest lodge was liquidated by Nedbank this week despite accusations of fraud and perjury. Why would the bank shut down a lodge over […]
To understand your future, study Zimbabwe
A new book out by two economists of the Austrian persuasion is a wake-up call for those who believe Zimbabwe’s well-documented plunge into the abyss […]
Joburg man defends himself in court against the bank – and wins
Johannesburg businessman Damon Greville defended himself in the South Gauteng High Court this week against Sasfin Bank, which liquidated his 67 year-old business in 2012 […]
I was liquidated over fictitious R7 million loan, says Durban businessman
In what must rank as one of the most bizarre legal cases in recent times, Durban-based businessman Ian Brakspear had his family business liquidated in […]
Mass civil disobedience over e-tolls could sink the ship
Despite the recent Supreme Court of Appeal victory for government over its plans to introduce e-tolls, the matter seems likely to go before the Constitutional […]
South Africa’s silent revolution
In 1990 John Kane-Berman of the SA Institute of Race Relations wrote a book called The Silent Revolution in which he detailed the extent to which apartheid […]
The surveillance state is fighting for its life
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has criticised NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden for “misuse” of government data. Excuse me? What about the galactic-scale misuse of private data by […]