Ian Kilbride: What is democracy?
Can you visualise Jacob “protector of the constitution” Zuma, being thrown off his constitutionally destructive perch just because he lied, cheated and stole the people’s money?
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Bloomberg View: Meet “eBond” McQuown (80), bond market revolutionary
John “Mac” McQuown yanks on a chain and hoists open a metal roll-up door with a clang. In a flowery aloha shirt, shorts and sandals, he looks like a retiree with little more on his mind than sipping a mai tai by the pool.
Peter Wilhelm speculates: Juju in the nip, Lady Godiva and a Banting spider
JuJu fails to grasp that those selfsame colonial monsters invented the proud habiliments in which he postures like an old wino dressed like Santa Claus.
Investment 101: Invest for income
When investing, rather like losing weight, there is a simple set of rules that will work over time; or there is the typical approach of chasing the next exciting fad or fashion and chopping and changing from one investment to another, and the outcome will be arbitrary.
Lucy Kellaway: How to deal with Silent Treatment on email. And avoid going mad.
The FT’s brilliant columnist tackles how she thinks one should respond to silent treatment on email. Without going crazy. With practical advice, too.
Cees Bruggemans: Our SA cat has nine lives?  Â
The Anglo-Saxon banking crisis of 2008 didn’t kill us even if it forced some of us onto our bare knees. It did give the world a deep recession as 30% reduction in order levels sets in motion its own recessionary logic.
FT – Being childless…by choice
Why are we so intolerant of those who choose not to be parents? A childfree life is as good as any other – and often better
Cees Bruggemans: Risk 2015 reconsidered
We tend to handle complexity through organisation and planning. In the process, much becomes familiar and expected, to the point of believing we have the situation under control. Meanwhile, only a small corner of a much greater universe of events have been so contained.
Ownership takes centre stage under updated BBBEE code
The updated codes essentially mean that the days of achieving suitable BBBEE compliance (level 4 or above) without doing some sort of ownership deal “are dead.”
Matthew Lester: January woes and Cape Town sushi skimming scams
January is always a lousy month. Bills, bills and even more bills. Slow cash flow. Follow that with a top up payment for any tax left from 2014 and a second provisional due at the end of February for the 2015 tax year.