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Alec Hogg’s regular column covering investment, economics, moneycraft and, occasionally, something very personal.
On Thursday, the UK and EU announced they had agreed on a new withdrawal deal that could, in theory, get the UK over the line on Brexit and out of the EU.
Metaco’s founders face a long and potentially ruinous legal battle to save what MD Barbara Walsh says is a shell of the business they owned before Comair arrived.
Not only did the Metaco founders watch their creation crumble, but Comair also pulled a number of painful moves.
When will we cease to be Africans, coloureds, Indians and whites and merely be South Africans asks the IRR’s Michael Morris.
Explosive documentary evidence offering a different side to the Bosasa scandal was finally presented to the SARS Tax Inquiry yesterday.
South Africa is undergoing the equivalent of lengthy chemo and radiation therapy treatment to painfully rid us of the cancer of State Capture.
It was in Davos that Cyril Ramaphosa first referred to the “nine lost years” of Zuma rule, returning home to a storm of criticism from his own party.
It all started with former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede being raided by the Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority in Durban.
There is also a call for BP to look at the example of Chevron which were “exemplary” in dealing with the sale of its South African assets.
It’s a different experience watching Strictly Come Dancing every week without having to snuggle up in rugs and jerseys. But much better, especially when smells of a braai are wafting through.