Timely reminder why life should be divided into three stages – learning; earning; then serving.
Whatever the truth of this particular deal, there will always be conflicts of interest when business and politics mix in an overly-familiar cocktail.
Alec Hogg’s regular column covering investment, economics, moneycraft and, occasionally, something very personal.
Whatever the truth of this particular deal, there will always be conflicts of interest when business and politics mix in an overly-familiar cocktail.
The Financial Mail’s Ann Crotty was at the centre of legal threats from Independent Newspapers’ chairman Iqbal Survé’s lawyers Webber Wentzel.
Of the three threats Independent Newspapers’ chairman Iqbal SurvĂ©’s lawyers Webber Wentzel sent Biznews, the one republished here is the most bizarre.
Biznews awaits the Cape Times’s detailed response to what its lawyer terms “each and every untrue and defamatory statement” and will publish them with equal prominence.
Financial Mail’s Ann Crotty unpacked Iqbal SurvĂ©’s apparent scheme to hive a profitable division out of the debt-burdened Independent. SurvĂ© responded by firing off a series of legal threats, including three targeting Biznews.
Jack Miller’s Cape Party might have only attracted 10,000 members in its first decade. But UKIP, which called and eventually took credit for Brexit, was only created in 1993 and had a modest 39,000 members at the time of the shock EU referendum.
Since arriving in London Alec Hogg’s managed to find a ready supply of SA products but Red Cappuccinos haven’t made it across the Atlantic.
“Panic is a form of hubris. It comes from a feeling that one knows exactly where the world is heading. Bewilderment is more humble and therefore more clear-sighted.”
Bloomberg quotes “five traders familiar with the matter” saying the world’s biggest oil merchant, Dutch group Vitol, is offering to sell and ship some 4m barrels of its Saldanha-stored oil – almost half of what used to be SA’s strategic reserves.
If political leaders are serious about uplifting citizens from poverty by helping them create wealth, these worthies should study and replicate examples of those who have achieved it.