🔒 Apple won the $1trn sprint but Amazon won’t be second for long – The Wall Street Journal
Amazon is on track to be tech’s largest company in both market value and sales after trailing Apple in the race to a trillion.
Day: 5 September 2018
Rand leads EM sell off; lowest level in more than 2yrs
The rout in emerging markets showed no sign of letting up, with most currencies weakening and an index of stocks nearing a bear market. South Africa’s rand led the sell-off.
Agbiz on ELWC: Fiddling with Constitution poses huge risk to SA banking sector
More opposing voices are emerging in the battle over whether South Africa should change its Constitution regarding the expropriation of land without compensation.
Paul O’Sullivan: Police, Hawks, NPA remain captured by corrupt sleeper cells
Despite a series of changes at the top of the Hawks and NPA, Paul O’Sullivan says there are still a number of corrupt lieutenants who are intent on serving their old bosses and continuing the rot at these organisations.
Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste insists: I did NOTHING wrong – points finger at German partner
Steinhoff ex-CEO Markus Jooste said he wasn’t aware of any financial irregularities and quit as head of the global retailer after disagreeing with the board on how to deal with a dispute with auditors Deloitte.
Political ballet in the minefields of land expropriation – John Kane-Berman
John Kane-Berman says both Patrick Gaspard and Cyril Ramaphosa wax eloquent about land reform without ever actually saying the words land expropriation without compensation.
🔒 Who to blame for the rand slump?
The rand fell out of bed on Tuesday, trading well below R15 to the US dollar as Stats SA announced that the country is in a technical recession.
Mantashe’s revised Mining Charter illegal – here’s why; Anthea Jeffery
Institute of Race Relations policy chief Anthea Jeffery paints a comforting picture here. She contends that what Gwede Mantashe is doing is illegal and unconstitutional on just about every point you care to name.
🔒 Amazon follows Apple to the $1 trillion mark – The Wall Street Journal
DUBLIN — Amazon has followed Apple to the $1 trillion mark – its market cap hit $1 trillion on Tuesday. Amazon is a very different company from Apple. While Apple is a mature business with a stable suite of popular products and a few growth segments, Amazon is primarily a growth machine, venturing into new … Read more
The maverick journey of Marianne Thamm, storyteller, standup comedian, and bearer of witness
As a journalist and author, Marianne Thamm is a storyteller herself, bearing witness to pain and violence, as much as to hope, resilience, fortitude and determination, in a country shaped by constant change.