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Not the content, but the occasion of the “mini-budget” used to be more important. In the half-decade before Enoch Godongwana took the reins at…
Enoch pushes civil servants to the door
Though finance minister Enoch Godongwana, and his predecessor Tito Mboweni, made attempts in recent years to wrestle down the state’s wage bill, it still…
The water cooler budget brief
Behind the big numbers in the medium-term budget policy statement there are some less obvious, interesting stats. Brush up on your budget trivia here. …
How Capitec’s ‘seven dwarfs’ built a banking behemoth
When Riaan Stassen and the executive team from Boland Bank arrived at Stellenbosch’s Techno Park, the microlenders of the entity that would soon become…
Capitec: Everything, all at once
A quarter of a century ago, Henk Lourens was in charge of acquisitions at the PSG arm that would later grow into Capitec. His…
Can Naspers’s new CEO reignite the Bekker magic?
Table Mountain in the background, Cape Town’s business core a dozen storeys below, and Naspers’s newly minted CEO is lamenting how the tech giant…
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