Alec Hogg’s regular column covering investment, economics, moneycraft and, occasionally, something very personal.
The 20-year old Futuregrowth Community Property Fund has focused on providing retail facilities to previously disadvantaged communities, especially in areas characterised by a lack of infrastructure and services.
It took more than 2 years to produce the findings from the Marikana Commission of Inquiry and then a further 3 months for President Zuma to ‘mull over it’, before it was made public. Here it is.
In honest moments, game-breeding South Africans admit they’re playing a hunting-driven bubble where prices of their stock have doubled at regular intervals.
Dylann Roof grew up in an environment which was ideal for instilling his archaic view on the role of sexes – an area sociologist Lisa Wade explores here.
When U.S. soccer evangelist Charles “Chuck” Blazer admitted he took bribes tied to the World Cup, he did so knowing he had a deal with the U.S. government to help bring charges that would shake the highest ranks of the sport
South Africa had violated international law not once but at least three times with its treatment of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has left South Africa, a Sudan minister said on Monday, defying a Pretoria court order for him to remain in the country until it ruled on an application for his arrest.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is the only head of state worldwide wanted for arrest by the International Criminal Court. The charge is genocide. For the past six years al-Bashir has stayed home or travelled only to other “friendly” countries.
“The key difference is that, in the past, there were no binding sub-targets for African, coloured, or Indian representation.”
SA is asked to swallow the story paying bribes to the FIFA executives was the only way to land the showpiece. If Morocco offered $7m, we needed to pay $10m.