The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Yet in her messy report, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane manages to botch even this potentially weighty contribution to political accountability.
22nd July 2019
Naspers was looking for the best option to address the share price gap and knew it was frustrating for all its stakeholders.
22nd July 2019
Your employer may know a lot more about you than you think. The tone of your voice in a meeting. How often you’re away from your desk. How quickly you respond to emails. Where you roam in the office. What’s on your computer screen.
22nd July 2019
Within the space of a few days, we have been subjected to bizarre but carefully staged performances by US President Donald Trump and former South African President Jacob Zuma.
22nd July 2019
Many South Africans who have relocated abroad, or are thinking of doing so, are concerned about the change to the Income Tax Act in March 2020.
22nd July 2019
Bevan Robert Jones is looking at alternative ways to deal with the environmental problem linked to mining.
22nd July 2019
Cyril Ramaphosa was grim-faced. Chose his words carefully. And delivered the most rational of responses to her wild allegations about his integrity.
22nd July 2019
Corruption and mismanagement are far from a uniquely public sector problem, as the tales of scandal-tainted EOH and badly managed Hulamin show.
20th July 2019
South Africa will ramp up support for its ailing state-owned power utility Eskom with an additional R59bn spread over two years.
22nd July 2019
South Africa’s top court ruled that the nation’s anti-graft ombudsman acted in bad faith and was personally liable for a portion of the legal fees incurred by the central bank when it sought to review her findings that questioned its mandate.
22nd July 2019
Weekend murder statistics for the metro region have shown a decline from previous weekends, as the South African National Defense Force arrived on the ground in various communities this weekend.
22nd July 2019
It is essential that the Public Protector enjoys the confidence of South Africans, that it acts impartially - without prejudice or favour - and that it is above reproach.
21st July 2019
Moeletsi Mbeki is not scared to speak out against the policies of the party that his father Govan Mbeki built with Nelson Mandela.
19th July 2019
It's not only South African savers who have warmed to ETFs; the global trend is towards investors rejecting old-fashioned money managers in favour of passive investments.
18th July 2019
We all make plenty of mistakes when it comes to our money. But there’s one simple mistake that - in my opinion at least - is the worst of the bunch.
18th July 2019
Chris Logan has been one of the strongest critics of Tongaat, but is now more occupied with its Pietermaritzburg-based former subsidiary Hulamin, which was unbundled in 2007.
18th July 2019
Simon Lincoln Reader's column is a classic juxtaposition of what makes South Africa brilliant against what almost brought her to her knees.
18th July 2019
After resigning, Juan Lerena reported Sime Darby Hudson and Dutch multinational Unilever to the South African competition authorities.
16th July 2019
Simon Lincoln Reader, a South African based in London, points at misogyny and slut-shaming fuelling the hysteria.
11th July 2019
Whether you’re starting university or thinking of a career change, if your goal is to migrate to Australia, these in-demand careers can pave your way to Australian citizenship.
9th July 2019
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has requested an urgent judicial review into a report by the country’s Public Protector which he termed “fundamentally and irretrievably flawed.”
22nd July 2019
Barry Wood was recently in China, and reports back from Shanghai, uncovering the weird world of innovation in a communist state, and the battle to be the globe’s largest economy.
19th July 2019
The South African Reserve Bank has cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time since March 2018 as it almost halved its economic growth forecast for the year.
19th July 2019
The Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture was adjourned after former president Jacob Zuma objected to being cross-examined.
18th July 2019
Lyndsey Duff returned home to help introduce the revolutionary What3words system into a country that desperately needs to extend benefits of the formal economy to millions excluded from it.
20th July 2019
It was only in January that Alec became acquainted with a supercharged version that is now being marketed globally by a company called well, Veldskoen.
16th July 2019
South African motorcycling star Brad Binder is joining an elite group of Red Bull rookies next year.
13th July 2019
The Iqabungelihle garden project in KwaMashu was started by a group of seven unemployed matriculants and registered as a cooperative in December 2017.
11th July 2019
Jeremy Gordin reckons the former president and Zuptoid-in-chief, Jacob Zuma, is happily and bizarrely subverting the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture into a spy novel plot.
17th July 2019
For a plus size woman, shopping for clothes can be something of an emotional roller-coaster but sometimes what you see can be a revelation.
12th July 2019
It’s money you hope you’ll never need, and never have to spend. But if things go wrong in a relationship, it could be the key to survival in the toughest of times.
9th July 2019
The recent squabble over the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank has very little to do with real economic policies.
8th July 2019
Internet giant Naspers aims to list its international internet assets on Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange on 11 September.
19th July 2019
Alarm bells are ringing within the US EB-5 Investor Visa community in the United States and around the world.
15th July 2019
Hearing Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos talk confirmed a view shared by many at Baillie Gifford, that there are people out there who are much smarter than we are.
10th July 2019
In an effort to give cancer patients immediate access to life-saving treatments following diagnosis, ICON Oncology developed its proprietary SAAS (software as a service), e-Auth®.
24th June 2019