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Corporate apologies don’t come much stronger than Bain’s for its accounting complicity in the Zuptoid SARS capture.
December 19, 2018
Unfortunately for Ramaphosa, all the principal barriers to his success resides within the African National Congress itself.
December 19, 2018
Glencore’s billionaire head of copper trading, Aristotelis Mistakidis, was among executives fined and banned from being a director by Canada after admitting that its Congolese copper and cobalt unit misstated how much metal it mined.
December 19, 2018
A new book entitled 'Poacher' reveals the murky inner-workings of this illegal trade that has affected South African shores.
December 19, 2018
Jacob Zuma, the former South African president facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32m in legal fees, may see his woes deepen from beyond the country’s borders.
December 19, 2018
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is set to raise $500m, in a bid to help get its internet-service business off the ground.
December 19, 2018
The media spotlight is sharply focused on McKinsey, with journalists around the world piecing together its work for authoritarian and corrupt governments.
December 19, 2018
Brian Dames has raised concerns regarding a perceived conflict of interest relating to the scope of work and terms of reference of the Eskom Sustainability Task Team.
December 19, 2018
Naspers will start trading on South Africa’s A2X Markets for secondary listings next week, the greatest prize yet for the upstart bourse as it seeks to challenge the operator of the country’s main stock exchange.
December 19, 2018
The Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, has re-appointed Mark Kingon as Acting Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service for a further 90 days.
December 14, 2018
The South African Civil Aviation Authority said CemAir, which operates domestic flights, may no longer operate as an airline or air operator, or fly any of its 21 aircraft.
December 14, 2018
Edcon, owner of troubled retailers Edgars and Jet, is asking South Africa's big shopping mall owners to chop rent.
December 18, 2018
With Eskom, the neglect, inaction and short-sightedness date back well before State Capture. During Mbeki’s tenure, energy experts exhorted him to increase power-generation capacity.
December 13, 2018
Project Halo has submitted the winning bid of R3.05bn for three major assets of Tegeta Exploration & Resources, the Gupta family-linked mining company under administration since February.
December 12, 2018
While lots of ideas are floating around, the problem is that Eskom is fundamentally in trouble whichever way you look at it.
December 11, 2018
Whoever takes on the task must accept that Land Reform is not about turning the clock back and revenging the whites. It is about getting 9.5m unemployed citizens back to work.
December 18, 2018
Matthew Booth is proof that professional athletes can have happy, rewarding, and fulfilling after-lives, not just by capitalising on their heard-earned expertise.
December 14, 2018
Nike could have taken the politics as far as LeBron James, who co-founded the 240-pupil I Promise school. But they went to the heart of Mordor when they led with Colin Kaepernick.
December 13, 2018
Politics is 2018 was marked above all by the raucous and discordant national debate around Expropriation without Compensation (EWC).
December 13, 2018
The holiday season in South Africa means one thing: danger. Specifically, the danger of road accidents that could cost you and your family your lives.
December 19, 2018
McKinsey has actively nurtured the world's nastiest political leaders and helped entrench systems that suppress democracy and human rights.
December 18, 2018
The image of the upper echelons of the money-management business operating out of fusty private banks in Geneva or London’s Mayfair, with marble lobbies and fake country-house meeting-rooms, is out of date, says The Economist.
December 18, 2018
How General Electric, once America’s biggest company, the maker of power turbines, the seller of insurance, became a shadow of its former self.
December 18, 2018
In this interview, O'Sullivan explains why he believes that Andile and Cyril Ramaphosa are not corrupt with regard to alleged kickbacks from Bosasa.
December 14, 2018
In this fascinating interview, South Africa's ace crime fighter Paul OSullivan tells the story of how a call to the Forensics for Justice tip-off line resulted in the termination of a corrupt R4bn contract at Transnet.
December 10, 2018
Here's a brilliant assessment of the state of South Africa by one of the country's foremost analysts. Frans Cronje is the CEO of the Institute of Race Relations.
February 18, 2018
Here's a fascinating discussion with Nick Binedell, founder and former dean of GIBS, Africa's top business school.
February 16, 2018