The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Small informal retailers are a ubiquitous feature of any developing country’s urban landscape, and are known as spaza shops in South Africa.
25th February 2020
A model since age 15, Maye Musk was in her 60s when her life took a turn for the fabulous.
26th February 2020
Biznews spoke to Kirsten Landman, who had a crash that almost ended her career, about how it feels to be the first African woman to complete the Dakar rally.
26th February 2020
Journalism is a fickle trade. But for some, this isn't a job. Indeed, there can be no higher calling like for the late Barry Sergeant, an LLB.
26th February 2020
Eskom is battling to keep all units of its power plant at Kendal open after being served with a compliance notice because of its high levels of air pollution.
26th February 2020
The residents of Makhanda may have won a Pyrrhic victory when a judge ordered the Makana municipality’s council to be dissolved for failing to do its job.
25th February 2020
World Sevens rugby returns to Los Angeles and the familiar format of three knockout games after the group stage.
25th February 2020
Analysts are fond of saying that when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. The same could apply to China.
25th February 2020
Sibanye-Stillwater, the world’s top platinum miner, is hoping to buy a North American gold producer for as much as $5bn in the next six to nine months.
25th February 2020
Eskom is battling to keep all the units of its biggest operational power plant open after being served with a compliance notice over high levels of air pollution.
25th February 2020
Retail stocks on the JSE will likely bear the brunt of tax hikes should Finance Minister Tito Mboweni target consumers with revenue-raising measures in his budget.
25th February 2020
SAP's Africa head said company is battling to complete investigations after allegations its employees paid kickbacks for government business.
24th February 2020
Dagga grows prolifically across South Africa - a point that hasn't gone unnoticed by astute business players elsewhere who are hoping to cash in on the world's new gold rush.
25th February 2020
South Africa's favourite market commentator David Shapiro is licking his lips at the value which South African shares are offering today's investors, especially Sasol and Discovery.
24th February 2020
Andy and Gary Cronje say that since yesterday there has been a hive of activity in Hangzhou.
24th February 2020
One could probably dub Andrew Feinstein – the feisty former African National Congress MP – as Mr World-Fighter-Against-Arms-Deal-Corruption.
24th February 2020
Helmoed Romer Heitman thinks it does and makes out a strong case that the defence industry could have a positive economic impact.
14th February 2020
With the implementation of the ANC’s policy of land expropriation just around the corner, concern is growing about the reach of the legislation.
14th February 2020
Expropriation without compensation, or EWC for short, has been put forward as a way to speed up the process of redistributing assets.
13th February 2020
The deadline to make written submissions on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill was extended by a month to the end of February.
13th February 2020
Solo rower John Dempster completed the 3,000 mile Atlantic crossing from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua in 63 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes.
19th February 2020
Nicole Wills writes in FirstRand’s Perspective of the case of Mesut Özil, a German-born footballer who is of Muslim Turkish origin.
18th February 2020
Itumeleng Lekomanyane took the last R800 he had that was supposed to go for maintenance for his daughter and started a sandwich business.
12th February 2020
It is not uncommon for people who are going through a life threatening disease to consider changing their lives. This is what Catherine Clark did.
8th February 2020
Pakistan could be put on an international black list for moneylaundering, with evidence that one of its banks took on as a client Duduzane Zuma.
18th February 2020
The battle between Old Mutual and its sacked Chief Executive Officer Peter Moyo is not over yet.
17th February 2020
Ramaphosa said in his 2020 State of the Nation speech last night that 2020 is the year that his government wants to fix the fundamentals of the economy.
14th February 2020
Kevin Shames has applied his business skills and financial knowledge to combine these advantages to offer a projected 21% after tax return.
12th February 2020
Kevin Shames says in response to numerous requests, Bright Light Solar has also dropped the minimum investment level from the previous R100,000 to R50,000.
24th February 2020
Sasol posted a 27% drop in adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to R19.6bn for the six months to 31 December 2019.
24th February 2020
It’s an ideal time to consider Luton town centre property investments such as the Orion. Completing in Q4 2020, prices start at £179,900 for a one-bedroom apartment.
20th February 2020
Bright Light Solar VCC offers a low risk, non-correlated and highly attractive cash generative investment targeted at high net worth Investors.
19th February 2020
The real state of the nation, Simon Lincoln Reader writes, took place last Friday, at Cape Town stadium, where over 51,000+ people attended a tennis match.
13th February 2020
Jacob Zuma’s glorious sick note reminds Simon of the story of an another peasant who badgered an Ugandan-Asian doctor, also in KwaZulu-Natal.
6th February 2020
A particularly nasty move by graft-tainted Zuma allies was to develop a narrative about a unit within the South African Revenue Service that had gone "rogue".
5th February 2020
Over the years, many South Africans have been able to claim British nationality thanks to historical links and family connections.
5th February 2020
South Africa’s fading gold industry has a new champion as AngloGold Ashanti has sold its last remaining assets to Harmony Gold Mine.
13th February 2020
Bloomberg reports that two South African trade unions have filed an urgent labour court application over planned job cuts at embattled SAA.
12th February 2020
Eskom brought an application for urgent relief against energy regulator Nersa to set aside a decision on the extent to which it can raise power prices.
11th February 2020
The administrators for SAA Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana have defended their decision to cut routes as part of a turnaround plan.
10th February 2020
The tax-free savings account is yet to be taken seriously as an investment option yet it offers a host of benefits that will complement any balanced portfolio.
24th February 2020
For the past decade the global technology industry was by far the best performing sector, delivering spectacular returns for astute investors.
17th February 2020
For more than 8 years now, Brenthurst Wealth has been advising a flexible global strategy invested across multiple geographies and asset classes.
11th February 2020
To get a clear vision of where you are headed, you need to know what and where the goalposts are. It’s the first step to every person’s financial plan.
4th February 2020
Werner Kok will play in his 50th HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series tournament for the Springbok Sevens team next weekend in Los Angeles.
19th February 2020
The Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok team of 2019 added another fantastic award to their impressive list of recent accolades when they scooped the prestigious Laureus Team of the Year Award.
18th February 2020
You can expect Newlands to be packed to the rafters when South Africa take on Scotland in their first rugby Test of the season in July.
5th February 2020
Losing finalists South Africa put on a much-improved performance at the Sydney Sevens compared with a week earlier in Hamilton where they finished 10th.
2nd February 2020
Cyril Ramaphosa came to power two years ago pledging a new dawn of reforms, economic growth and jobs.
12th February 2020
The first wave of state capture had its origins in the cadre deployment and transformation policies of the African National Congress.
11th February 2020
Rudi Dornbusch said about Mexico’s financial implosion in the 1990s, “a crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”
11th February 2020
Pressure is mounting on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to stabilise the government’s shaky finances and rescue an economy teetering on the brink of recession.
3rd February 2020