Chasing the ANC’s ‘renewal’ unicorn
Waiting for Godot: the ANC renewal version. Think Ntshavheni’s potentially pending corruption charges, Simelane’s new ministry and Mbaks’s yacht…
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Parks Tau vs Sandton’s legal titans
The government is on a collision course with SA’s largest law firms over a new Black empowerment code. Will it back down before the…
How Stilfontein spiralled out of control
There are many issues feeding into the humanitarian crisis at the North West mine. But there’s no doubt the state’s iron-fist response made things…
Taking South Africa’s temperature: Some sun, many clouds
It’s not all doom and gloom, as Vrye Weekblad’s Ali van Wyk found out when he canvassed prominent South Africans for their opinions on…
Thirteen years later, the Gaddafi billions are still missing
In 2011, billions of dollars were flown into SA from Libya. To date, no-one knows what’s happened to them…
Joburg’s Teflon tannie
Helen Botes is said to be in the running to be municipal manager. Surely the city deserves someone without serious questions swirling around them?…
US envoy Brigety leaves South Africa with hope – and a warning
The US ambassador on South Africans ‘finding each other’, the price of being free, and constructive international relations. But no word on the Lady…
McKinsey’s rehabilitation tour bombs
McKinsey’s $122m US settlement for state capture in South Africa is drawing sharp criticism from critics, who say it’s pocket change for the consulting…
The SACP: Going the way of the dinosaurs
Once a vanguard, now a rearguard party, the SACP is likely to disappear with a whimper rather than a bang…
GNU blow as South Africa’s GDP shrinks
The economy’s shrinking, not growing. Can reforms at Eskom and Transnet turn the tide?…
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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…
Keeping his shorts: Hedge fund OG Jean Pierre Verster
The founder of Protea Capital Management made his name shorting…
Now the party is over, who washes the G20 dishes?
The G20 event was marked most by US and Chinese…
