Inside MK’s success
Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party remains the great unknown in South African politics. Questions persist over whether it is merely a personality cult, what it really…
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Boom. That’s the sound of another parastatal imploding. This time, it’s the post office, which earlier this month said it would need R3.8bn from…
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Last week I was a guest at Woolworths’ annual Christmas event in Cape Town. Once a year, the company rounds up media, influencers, clients…
The incredible pointlessness of EU elections
In June, an estimated 350-million Europeans got the chance to participate in what would generally have been written off as one of the more…
Entertaining the madness around the US election
It’s hard to pay attention to spreadsheets when there’s so much fun happening out there. In this instance we don’t mean Donald Trump’s near-death…
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Africa: A continent of limitless potential
Standard Bank’s Keep Growing campaign is a promise to embrace…
Why halting SA’s debt binge is a huge win for the GNU
For the first time in fifteen years, South Africa’s debt-to-GDP…
Now the party is over, who washes the G20 dishes?
The G20 event was marked most by US and Chinese…
Keeping his shorts: Hedge fund OG Jean Pierre Verster
The founder of Protea Capital Management made his name shorting…
