South African university makes the global top 10 in new QS rankings
The University of Cape Town has excelled, along with other South African tertiary institutions, in the QS World University Rankings for 2015.
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Rehabilitated, rejuvenated Greg Blank, stockbroker-turned-jailbird, back in mainstream
Greg Blank was the sharp end of a front-running syndicate that included Old Mutual portfolio managers. He alone stayed to face the music, and years in jail.
Xenophobia: Zwelithini offers to help after tossing the grenade
Initiatives to snuff out the simmering xenophobic violence will be spearheaded by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini’s imbizo with traditional leaders in Durban on Monday.
First SA woman in 14 years to win Two Oceans – and she’s a CA (SA)
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) congratulates Caroline Wostmann on being the first woman over the line of the 2015 Two Oceans Marathon.
Sappi, Edcon opt for youth in new top teams
Sappi, the R19bn paper and pulp multinational headquartered in South Africa, has appointed 46 year old chartered accountant Steve Binnie as its new CEO. Binnie, who joined Sappi as its financial director from Edcon in July 2012, succeeds Ralph Boëttger (53) who is stepping down for health reasons. Prior to his decade as Edcon CFO, Binnie … Read more
Behind the construction industry’s collusive veil. Ex-Aveng Roger Jardine reveals all.
Roger Jardine, who was a Director General in the public sector while in his 20s, left construction group Aveng in a hurry. In such a hurry that when some awful financial results were subsequently published, we were among those who wondered whether he had been pushed rather than jumped. There’s no more room for conjecture on … Read more
Video: Talent v Capital comes to media – my talk to the students at the Wits Journalism School
It’s not as well known as it should be, but the real online publishing pioneer in South Africa is Kevin Davie, consulting business editor of the M&G. Kevin launched the country’s first news portal, WOZA, in the mid 1990s and built it into the Goliath of the early web age. He gave me my entry … Read more