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International investors think it is increasingly likely that South Africa’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan will be replaced as President Jacob Zuma and his faction within the ruling ANC continue with a plan to take full control of the National Treasury.
One of South Africa’s best currency forecasters believes the rand is in fact about to change direction, ending a trend that has seen it lose more than 50% of its value against the greenback over the past five years.
Insights from South African entrepreneurs Kenton Fine, Bernard Kantor, Douw Steyn, Sean Summers and Roy Ettlinger on how to succeed in business in the UK.
Kenton Fine is the London-based executive chairman and founder of Servest, a R10 billion turnover, 45 000 employee multinational group.
Inflation adjusted house prices in South Africa are still very expensive, according to property analyst Erwin Rode.
Prime Minister Theresa May said she’ll start pulling the U.K. out of the European Union in the first quarter of 2017 and hinted that she’s tending toward a so-called hard Brexit.
The rand fell as much as 1.2 percent to head for its biggest weekly retreat this month as increased risk aversion among global investors and a possible reweighting of South Africa in a JPMorgan bond index.
British sociologist Richard Tutton says it is time to start having serious conversations about who should go to Mars and what kind of future humankind wants.
It would be a “natural development” for international retail group Steinhoff to take over Shoprite, Africa’s biggest supermarket chain, says South African retail tycoon Christo Wiese.
Elon Musk laid out a vision of travel to Mars that was heavy on both technology, and on the dangers that await those first explorers just a decade from now.