With more than two decades in business journalism and as an author of Steinheist and The Grand Scam, Rob knows his way around a balance sheet. While editor of the Financial Mail for eight years, the title bucked the trend of falling circulation, producing award-winning news.
For months, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has been sounding the alarm of an existential crisis for state power provider Eskom: sharply escalating municipal debt. …
“There is greater cynicism and scepticism of democracy,” said Patrick Gaspard, the US ambassador to South Africa during Barack Obama’s presidency, on factors that…