Goodbye Prof Matthew Lester – all of SA, Biznews especially, misses you already
Yesterday’s email from the director of Rhodes Business School was like an unexpected stomach punch. Owen Skae wrote that the inimitable Matthew Lester had passed away.
Yesterday’s email from the director of Rhodes Business School was like an unexpected stomach punch. Owen Skae wrote that the inimitable Matthew Lester had passed away.
It is an especially important Budget. Leading the challenges for the Ramaphosa Administration is how to plug a R50bn hole in the accounts.
Despite his best efforts, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has been blocked from getting his hands onto SARS.
For Pravin Gordhan the Budget is first and foremost an instrument of political policy – a view he reiterated at various times during and before Wednesday’s Budget address in Parliament.
Matthew Lester explained at a BDO-sponsored post-Budget presentation that hidden in the Budget’s small print is a facility for businesses to give bursaries of up to R60 000 for university students and R20 000 for school.
At first glance, it appears that there is little comfort for the #FeesMustFall cohort in the medium term budget policy statement, writes Matthew Lester.
We all seem to have forgotten about the biggest stakeholder in the #feesmustfall debate, the South African family, says Matthew Lester.
John Maynard winds back the clock and compares the economic growth achieved by all South African presidents since 1994. The numbers may not surprise.
Are directors of an insolvent company in any way held personally liable if they are still acting as directors when such an event occurs?
The reported departure of two of the Gupta brothers from South Africa would have little effect in alleviating their current business problems, says Mathew Lester.