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Why Kganyago’s stingy rate cut was exactly right
The Reserve Bank’s hammer may be a blunt tool, but it’s the wiser move.…
The autocrats club
You can’t claim South African politics is without irony. There’s corruption-accused Jacob Zuma, once the face of the “moral regeneration movement”. A public protector…
South Africa and Iran: The love-in that Trump will be watching
Did the ANC receive a large amount of money from Iran to take the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice? …
The glass is half full
My nephew (who is only 12 years younger than me) sends me a message a couple of months before his son finishes high school.…
Finally, errant municipal officials must pay back the money
Another day, another story of dodgy government contracts. Local government contracts, to be more specific. The scene is Nelson Mandela Bay, 2014. As court…
Rating the AGMs: Shoprite good, Sasol okay, Truworths woeful
It’s impossible to know how many Shoprite shareholders live in the town of Brackenfell in the northern suburbs of the Western Cape. It’s not…
The tragic farce of the Dalí in the JAG filing cabinet
You can almost imagine Salvador Dalí striding into the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and clapping eyes on his much-lauded 1930s work, Aphrodisiac Telephone. The almost…
What’s worse: Doctoring your CV or stealing billions?
South Africa is such a strange country. You can run a transparent actual fraud on actual pensioners, in which you take their actual savings…
Be polite to AI – it might save you from the end of days
I went to a good girls’ school that specialised in knee-jerk politeness. “Please”, “May I”, “Thank you” and “Excuse me” reverberated across classrooms, hallways…
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Is the organisation being drafted in to help fix the…
Can SuperRand hang onto its hero year?
The rand’s gains are largely a story of dollar weakness,…
Tax first, investments after
Be smarter about your tax affairs before you invest and…
The Art of Spending Money: Morgan Housel
A lot of spending makes no sense until you peel back…
