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Perhaps the weightiest thing Cyril Ramaphosa said was “We are at a moment in our history where we need to make difficult choices.”
Download Orson Welles’s classic movie Citizen Kane where you’ll witness the world’s first mass production of fake news by what we now call the Yellow Press.
The return to load shedding has been like a dumpster tipping muck over South Africa’s green shoots of recovery.
In business terms, Watson approved cash bribes of R6m a month to pay those who helped his Bosasa secure massively inflated State contracts.
Someone might consider sending some of these classics to Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolas Maduro who staggers from one crisis to the next.
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that Eskom would be split into three pieces – generation, transmission, and distribution – in a bid to turn things around at the struggling utility.
Those paying attention to such things will have noticed Biznews has upped its game in audio content.
In a way we can all understand, Magda Wierzycka unpacks what was going down at the PIC entrusted with managing the retirement savings of millions of State employees.
There’s a lot to be said for experiential exposure. Including the way it encourages an approach of striving to understand others before demanding to be understood.
There’s plenty to like about Clover as an investment. It’s great value even at a 77% premium the buyers have offered above the pre-deal share price.