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Simon says in an era where leadership is ‘defined by travel voucher scandals, or Gold Field’s troughs, or Louis Vuitton bags stuffed with cash”…it’s best the stuff should just stay in the ground.
The rand is back on its perch as the world’s most volatile currency as investors price in the risk of a credit-rating downgrade while awaiting details of the government’s rescue plan for Eskom.
Heineken is throwing down a gauntlet to Anheuser-Busch InBev in some of the emerging markets the Budweiser maker has long dominated.
There probably aren’t two more notable economic and humanitarian disaster zones in the world today than that of Syria and Venezuela.
South Africans have been so gripped by Angelo Agrizzi and the Watsons, that we may have forgotten for a moment about the Guptas.
A long-simmering feud between Trump and Bezos took a bizarre turn after the billionaire accused allies of the president of brazenly trying to extort him.
Diarist Simon is looking at retrenchments at Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post and says he doesn’t buy the excuse that “Facebook and Google are devouring even more market share”.
Cyril Ramaphosa will stay calm – he’s managing a divided ANC, split by blind adherence to outmoded ideology and a chasm over whom its rulers choose to serve.
Powerful, rich countries have urged Ramaphosa to do something to get the prosecuting authorities moving on getting corrupt business players and their political accomplices behind bars.
Just like SA, India also has an election this year. And the politicians are putting in place some dramatic regulations to try shore up their voter base.