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The meeting was over and all but a few stragglers had headed off into the late afternoon Cape Town traffic. They included the CEO,…
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“It was October 1987: a mad time for stockbrokers because we were in the middle of a global listings boom. It made subsequent booms…
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It’s ironic that Ian Moir’s near destruction of Woolworths may have helped to bump up the remuneration package paid to Shoprite’s Pieter Engelbrecht, as…
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As investments in new ventures go, it’s hard to imagine Elon Musk being interested in developing a golf course or building a hotel, which…
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Most people struggle to save due to poor financial literacy, often lacking essential money-management skills like budgeting. Others grapple with self-control, driven by the…
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