The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Politics is not for sissies. Helen Zille is back in our body politic but she has needed a backbone of iron to survive what she went through.
15th November 2019
Not only did Faf de Klerk start the SA flag speedo trend when shaking hands with Prince Harry, he’s now joining the fight against testicular cancer.
16th November 2019
Cape Town offers some exceptional diversions - often at first-world prices, from swoon-worthy hotels to the rolling valleys and vines of the Cape winelands.
15th November 2019
“If some tough decisions need to be made, we’ll make them,” Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said. South African Airways is “not too big to fail.”
15th November 2019
Hugo Mercier has written an article on the effect that trust has on us and has come to the conclusion that “giving people a chance isn’t only the moral thing to do. It’s also the smart thing to do.”
15th November 2019
While hosting last night's webinar with Orbvest, it struck me how much South Africa's investment spectrum has widened.
15th November 2019
The upheaval at SAA is likely to be a precursor to labour action at other state-owned enterprises who are trying to trim their bloated wage bills.
15th November 2019
I’m aware some people don’t believe in climate change. But I cannot, for the life of me, understand why people object to climate action.
14th November 2019
Shoprite chairman Christo Wiese will retire from Africa’s biggest grocer by next year’s annual general meeting, putting an end date on a tenure that has spanned almost three decades.
15th November 2019
South Africa Airways extended flight cancellations to four days as a strike over pay and job cuts at the loss-making state carrier got under way.
15th November 2019
The upheaval at SAA is likely to be a precursor to labour action at other state companies that are trying to trim their bloated wage bills.
14th November 2019
South African Airways has cancelled nearly all its flights scheduled for Friday, 15 November and Saturday, 16 November.
14th November 2019
Many of our mothers have told us that money does not grow on trees. But apparently all of these mothers have got it wrong.
12th November 2019
Language is a living, thriving thing; no matter how, like, the purists might try and confine our use of words to the straight and narrow.
8th November 2019
After chatting to a group of expats (trying hard to enjoy a braai in overcast, rainy London weather), Dean Gerber wrote these 20 reasons to stay in South Africa.
7th November 2019
The company behind the world’s first industrial-scale maggot farm based on organic waste plans to kick off its international expansion with a plant in California next year.
31st October 2019
Parties in the UK will soon be releasing their manifestos to rally support from the public. What will their policies towards the property market be?
13th November 2019
MultiChoice says it remains on track to pay a maiden full-year dividend amounting to R2.5bn following a strong start to its 2020 financial year.
11th November 2019
It is highly recommended that prospective EB-5 investors speak with experienced EB-5 immigration counsel before moving forward with the investment decision.
6th November 2019
Waste Want is an excellent example of how solving real-world challenges is central to success for enterprises. A model for enterprise development going forward.
1st November 2019
With the quest to be real, open and vulnerable, there has been an increase in anxiety expressed on social media platforms.
14th November 2019
Job-sharing started as a way to help working mothers juggle jobs and family. Nowadays, some potential executives are using the 2-for-1 job arrangement to climb the leadership ladder.
13th November 2019
Reading the piece by the Institute for Race Relations’ Frans Cronjé, it’s clear he is not impressed by the media coverage of the DA leadership changes.
13th November 2019
Here’s a rational, enthusiastic expatriate’s view of Cape Town, balancing the dismal train service and high crime rate with the Mother City’s vibrant tech scene, laid-back friendliness and as she terms it “breath-taking outdoor mix.”
12th November 2019
Around the world there has been a massive increase in demand for doctoral education. This mostly stems from the idea that the “knowledge economy” requires high-level skills.
13th November 2019
Self-partnering has its upsides, especially if you improve your relationship with yourself; often the font of rich, deep and meaningful companionships with others.
11th November 2019
Portugal’s Golden Visa allows you to live and work in Portugal and also affords you the right to visa-free travel throughout the European Schengen Area.
5th November 2019
Simon Lincoln Reader hones in on Totalsports’ ill-timed removal of Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth’s image in its branches - and its clumsy justification.
31st October 2019
Accessing foreign markets should be a natural next step for South Africans looking to diversify their investment portfolio and balance risk against reward.
14th November 2019
SAA, the beleaguered state-owned airline has started a restructuring process that could see its workforce cut by almost a fifth, says Bloomberg.
12th November 2019
British billionaire Richard Branson said at the Business is an Adventure conference in Johannesburg that he would look at buying a stake in struggling national carrier South African Airways.
11th November 2019
Most analysts following South Africa expect it to lose its final investment-grade rating, but they disagree over when that might happen.
8th November 2019
Springbok captain Siya Kolisi thanked South Africans from all walks of life for coming out in their hundreds of thousands to congratulate the Boks on winning the Rugby World Cup in the last week.
11th November 2019
Aimee Barrett-Theron was 12 years old, watching the Sydney Olympics on TV, when she turned to her mom and said: "One day, I'm going to be there."
11th November 2019
The first big-name Springbok to call it a day for Test rugby was Beast Mtawarira. Now the man known as Flo, Francois Louw, says a 10-year international adventure has to end.
10th November 2019
When the view from your garden is of the H-shaped posts that beckon the bouncing ball, you begin to see just how rugby can shape a nation.
7th November 2019
In my letter to the community last night, Orbvest CEO Martin Freeman was referred to as a co-founder of Transaction Capital. I got it wrong and apologise for the sloppiness.
14th November 2019
If you have to send somebody in as a salesman for South Africa; Cyril Ramaphosa surely fits the profile. Open, friendly, approachable and oh boy, such an improvement on his predecessor.
11th November 2019
A serious multi-year drought in parts of South Africa’s Northern and Eastern Cape provinces has seen a number of small towns threatened by total water supply failures and livestock farmers facing financial ruin.
8th November 2019
There are multiple reasons for there being an estimated total of R42bn in benefits owed to more than four million pensioners and pension fund members.
8th November 2019
South African municipalities’ inability to provide consistent power is exacerbating supply disruptions by the debt-stricken state electricity utility, hobbling efforts to revive the nation’s economy.
14th November 2019
Worryingly, important constitutional changes around land expropriation are set to be pushed through when most of South Africa is on their annual summer holiday.
14th November 2019
The statistics prove that it is high time for urgent intervention in education in South Africa. A generation of children have been failed and it should not be allowed to continue.
14th November 2019
Money is meant to set us free, yet the more we earn, the more we seem to need - and that means we have to keep working ever harder to keep pace with our bills.
14th November 2019