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The Oceans Not Oil coalition and its lawyers are ready to block Shell's Wild Coast gas exploration, including controversial seismic surveys. The alliance is planning protest marches and a boycott of Shell petrol stations. @Martin_Welz @BizNewsCOM biznews.com/undictated/202…

If you’re cruel to animals on your private property, is that your private business? A judge has ordered animal rights activist Bool Smuts to keep his mouth shut about cattle farmer Herman Botha’s trapping of baboons and porcupines. bit.ly/privatekill @Martin_Welz @BizNewsCOM

The second set of SA lawyers are ready to block Shell's Wild Coast gas exploration, including seismic surveys. "Facilitating gas infrastructure development...is not an insurance policy, but rather an unjust and high-stakes gamble.” @Martin_Welz @BizNewsCOM biznews.com/undictated/202…

Can animal cruelty be a private matter, or does freedom of speech allow people to speak out? A judge ordered an animal rights activist to mute his outrage about a farmer's trapping of wild animals, but the activist filed an appeal. bit.ly/privatekill @Martin_Welz @BizNewsCOM

Forget space, Mr Bezos! There’s still Namibia for the oil industry to pollute and exploit! See the story in the latest Noseweek for an update on the environmental – and human - horrors that greedy Canadian schemers and local politicians are planning there: bit.ly/Nabsidedown

Jeff Bezos says his space trip was step one to building a highway into space ­– "so we can dump all our heavy and polluting industry there, to keep this gem of a planet as is, instead of ruining it.” Really! See the latest edition of Noseweek here: bit.ly/spacebop

Netcare faces a R20m claim after Bernard Katz, a patient at the Netcare Rosebank hospital, died after an unknown person gave him organo-phosphate poison around breakfast time on 6 April. Netcare denies any liability. Click here to read the full story: bit.ly/SeptNoseweek

New Noseweek features a story about Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler (who denies all wrongdoing). Join the dots: Court records in Geneva, New York & Tel Aviv reveal the vast sums global companies (incl Glencore) paid politicians in exchange for mine rights. bit.ly/congodan

Netcare faces a R20m claim after Bernard Katz, a patient at its Rosebank hospital, died after an unknown person gave him poison. Someone also plundered Katz's bank account before he was murdered. Netcare denies liability, but it has withheld info. Why? bit.ly/SeptNoseweek

The Paradise Papers – docs leaked from a Bermuda law firm – revealed that ex-Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg rewarded Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler for acting as an intermediary with the Congolese government. Click here to read the full Noseweek story: bit.ly/bribes4afric

Netcare faces a R20m claim after Bernard Katz, a patient at its Rosebank hospital, died after an unknown person gave him poison. Someone also plundered Katz's bank account before he was murdered. Netcare denies liability, but it has withheld info. Why? bit.ly/SeptNoseweek

Bribes for Africa: The DRC stands to lose $3.7bn [R53bn] from “middleman arrangements” involving Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, and Glencore (a mining company also well connected in SA) say anti-corruption group Congo is Not For Sale. Read more here: noseweek.co.za

Netcare faces a R20m claim after Bernard Katz, a patient at the Netcare Rosebank hospital, died after an unknown person gave him organo-phosphate poison around breakfast time on 6 April. Netcare denies any liability. Click here to read the full story: bit.ly/SeptNoseweek

New Noseweek features a story about Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler (who denies all wrongdoing). Join the dots: Court records in Geneva, New York & Tel-Aviv reveal the vast sums global companies (incl Glencore) paid politicians in exchange for mine rights. bit.ly/congodan

To see the full settlement agreement between Leonard Katz and the defendants, Noseweek editor Martin Welz and Chaucer Publications, which owns Noseweek, click here: bit.ly/KatzWelzSettle

Leonard Katz’s defamation case against Martin Welz and Chaucer Publications has been settled: Defendants withdraw their appeal, retract their defamatory statements and apologise unreservedly to Mr Katz. See full retraction and apology attached to this tweet.

UCT’s Professor Lesley Green probes the Facebook trolls that defend the DA-led City of Cape Town’s sewage disposal and water supply policies. These arrogant, elitist trolls try to deflect criticism of the city’s mismanagement of those services. @Our_DA bit.ly/CityofCTTrolls

Albert Grundlingh’s biography provides a reminder of Frederick van Zyl Slabbert’s role in SA politics in the 1970’s and 1980’s when his mission was to broaden democracy and facilitate negotiations between white and black South Africa. “A worthwhile read.” bit.ly/FVanZylSlabber…

"The calibre of the person being appointed...to positions of power in the SANDF is...substantially below grade. Many of these senior officers are thugs, thieves and criminals who should be wearing orange overalls," a Noseweek reader writes. Read more here: bit.ly/NWLettersApril…

@PresJGZuma and @Magashule_Ace feature in this cartoon by @StaceyStent published in the latest issue of Noseweek. Will the @ConCourtSA jail @PresJGZuma for his Zondo commission no show? What does the future hold for @Magashule_Ace? Read new Noseweek here: bit.ly/NoseweekApril2…