The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Alec Hogg 
There are 257 municipalities in South Africa. However, just 38 (15%) received a clean, unqualified audit for the past calendar year.
There is much to admire about activist Ian Cameron. Smart, brave and articulate, he is best known for standing up to grandstanding police minister Bheki Cele at a public meeting in July last year.
There’s been plenty of good news in the past month for the BizNews model share portfolios, boosted by the surge for Nvidia.
André de Ruyter uncovered many issues in his bestseller. And despite what his detractors suggest, he provided plenty names.
This week I received my invitation to the World Economic Forum’s Summer Davos meeting in China at the end of June. The economics of modern publishing being what they are, drinking in the knowledge that will be abundantly ditributed at the event is only possible if we find a sponsor.
Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter reminds me of politician Gayton McKenzie. Both were very obviously passed over when diplomacy genes were handed out.
With geopolitics so critical for open economies like South Africa’s, it behoves someone in my line of work to access various international sources.
Johann van Loggerenberg entered the public consciousness during the Gupta era of State Capture when fighting the defanging of an investigative unit he headed at SA Revenue Services.
Anyone who has read Andre de Ruyter’s book, would be deeply disappointed that Ramaphosa gives a higher priority to his Ukraine War Peace Mission than addressing the Eskom mess.
The ANC is trying to downplay SA’s full-blown crisis caused by the ruling party’s arms-to-Russia debacle. Big League countries, however, aren’t buying it.