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Bernard Swanepoel offers a rational perspective of where South Africa is today; offering some very powerful alternative views, including criticising Big Business’s approach on Nenegate and specifically its blind support of fired finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
Cutting ties removes the motive to gather outside Bell Pottinger’s London offices on Saturday. Who the Guptas recruit to replace them is anyone’s guess.
Attending this week’s Fintech conference in London took me back 20 years to a period of excitement, renewal and revolution – the early days of the Internet.
Since 2002, S&P has been keeping score of active versus passive funds and results show the 183 actively managed equity funds in SA are performing poorly.
For a brief moment last week, South Africans everywhere pulled together against the common enemy of corruption, including here in London.
On a day when every South African will make a conscious personal decision to either protest or carry on with business as usual, my BizNews colleague Jackie Cameron shares something of what is at stake.
In trying to understand South Africa’s turbulence, yesterday I sought guidance from RW Johnson’s masterpiece.
Current events in South Africa are a stark reminder of a warning delivered in 1974 by Brazilian economist Edmar Bacha.
Thinking South Africans were shocked after their corrupt President removed a respected Minister of Finance (and deputy) for the sole reason he is incorruptible. ANC stalwarts, the business community, church leadership, organised labour and most of the media are furious. They have started to mobilise, with the first of planned rolling mass actions yesterday building … Read more
Honesty in a society is dependent on “good institutions that limit cheating and rule violations – crucial for prosperity and development.”