Lockdown exposes SA’s mom and pop shops – Piet Viljoen
Piet Viljoen joined the BizNews Power Hour where one of the topics discussed was lockdown, particularly with reference to its burden on the restaurant industry.
Piet Viljoen joined the BizNews Power Hour where one of the topics discussed was lockdown, particularly with reference to its burden on the restaurant industry.
Alec Hogg reflects on the time he met Atul Gupta at Media HQ, giving him a pretty good idea why the Gupta boys are now bailing out with such rapidity.
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Welkom Yizani had its first positive trading session today. The shares gained 55c in the session to end at 1005c – fractionally higher than the issue price of R10. Shareholders can be pleased, however, that they are actually able to trade. The Equity Express platform has coped well – in the first day trading twice the … Read more
In this interview, I refer to Re:CM’s founder and chairman Piet Viljoen as “Mr Rational”. It’s an appropriate description for this student of the Warren Buffett/Charlie Munger way and, not surprisingly, committed deep value investor. So using that as a base I asked him for his view on whether, if he lived in Gauteng, he … Read more
It’s popular right now to paint a gloomy picture of the SA economy. But reality is different. Today’s release of the Kagiso PMI shows manufacturers are still positive – and as the long-term graph shows, their mood is miles better than it was five years ago. In this interview, Kagiso Asset Management’s head of research … Read more
Every Monday on CNBC Africa’s Power Lunch I get to chew the fat on one of my favourite subjects – investments – with the extremely well informed Sasha Naryshkine, a director at Vestact. In this week’s discussion we unpack the decision by cigarette and luxury goods baron, Remgro chairman Johann Rupert, to seal a partnership … Read more
The media industry is a tough place right now. Many of its chief executives have become somewhat less humane. But the chief executive of AOL, Tim Armstrong, raised the bar to a new level when addressing around 1 000 staff on his group’s struggling hyper-local publishing business Patch. During the discussion he noticed that Patch’s … Read more
Alec Hogg (53) is a South African financial journalist and media entrepreneur. His career kicked off in 1980 when he was employed as a trainee financial journalist at The Citizen newspaper. After progressing through senior positions at national newspapers and magazines, Hogg started his first business, a financial news agency, in 1988. After an unsuccessfully publishing … Read more