Davos Diary Day Four: Hitting the Twitter Leaderboard, engaging Iqbal Surve – and more

  [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/187606822″] An album of pictures and captions of our Davos adventure can be accessed by clicking here.  By Alec Hogg* Saturday at the WEF is my favourite. The professional networkers pack up and leave the day before, cutting queues and generally reducing the strain on facilities. The frenetic pace of the previous three … Read more

SA film-maker Anant Singh’s triumph continues – local financial backers set to reap handsome rewards

A hangover from the history of isolation has left South Africans with an unfortunate habit of not paying enough attention to those who make it in the far more competitive international arena. Pretoria Boys High matriculant Elon Musk, rated by many as one of America’s top living entrepreneurs, is an obvious example. Durban-based film-maker Anant … Read more

Priceless: With Nelson Mandela in Qunu for his first New SA Christmas

This year, the great Nelson Mandela died. His death has seen an outpouring of reminiscences and recollections among those who were lucky enough to spend time with our country’s first democratic president. We are all, in effect, trying to reconfigure the world without him. But Christmas was always a special time for Mandela. He treasured … Read more

Bogus sign interpreter into mental asylum

The bogus sign language interpreter at former president Nelson Mandela’s memorial service on December 10 has been admitted to Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital, The Star reported on Thursday. According to the report, Thamsanqa Jantjie’s wife Siziwe took her husband to the hospital in Krugersdorp for a check-up on Tuesday, where it was suggested he be admitted … Read more

Activists stepping up to defend Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois after her firing by new CEO Iqbal Surve’

Journalism is an interesting business. It is simultaneously a profit-making enterprise and a crucial support structure for democratic governance. Journalists seek to please audiences, but their salaries are paid by advertisers and they answer to owners who are sometimes subjects of the stories they write. All in all, it’s an awkward business, as the recent … Read more

New property baron Tito Mboweni: Intends turning Fourways into Manhattan of Africa, surpassing Sandton City

Former SA Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has taken well to business. This morning he ushered in the JSE’s newest listing, Accelerate Property Fund, whose R6bn portfolio is dominated by the Fourways Mall, an enormous development north of Sandton. In this engaging and wide ranging interview, Accelerate chairman Mboweni moves from Nelson Mandela’s turnaround from … Read more