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South32 headquartered in Australia, owns and operates the largest aluminium smelter in the southern hemisphere, Hillside in Richards Bay. More to the point, Hillside…
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Lesufi’s legacy: half-built schools and hospitals
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When Cyril met Elon: it was written in the Starlink …
The meeting looked distinctly cosy. Two of the greatest salesmen around – Elon Musk, hawker of satellite broadband service Starlink, electric carmaker Tesla, rocket…
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…
Post-shedding: does the post office have a future?
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…
Inside Joburg’s heart of darkness
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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