Tiger Brands’ second disaster in a decade stems from skewed priorities. The lengthy risk management section of its 2017 annual report ranks “Product quality” last of nine listed risks to the business.
Seeing up close the pressure the UK is under to maintain its National Health Service makes one wonder whether the proposed South African equivalent was ever anything more than a promise to catch votes.
It is unclear whether the staunch opposition to the axing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will lead to a SACP walkout of cabinet as widely speculated, but Zuma may have thwarted it by keeping in place key communists in the cabinet.
Take some deep breaths between eating all that traditional turkey because if my “usually reliable source” is right, the New Year will bring fresh challenges.
Azar Jammine frets that the fresh evidence of political turmoil in SA may trigger the last of the three ratings agencies to report, S&P, to drop the country’s debt to junk on Friday.
Will the proposed National Health Insurance system be placed on hold now that health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has publicly clashed with President Zuma?
John Kane-Berman says the cumulative effect of Government bullying needs to be seen holistically to be fully appreciated.
Team South Africa said it concluded a successful programme at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
RW Johnson says while Pravin Gordhan may be stronger than before in relation to the President, he is considerably weaker in relation to the markets.
President Jacob Zuma is to lead a South African delegation of Cabinet Ministers and business leaders to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland on 20-24 January 2015.