“Tasha” Sideris borrowed from loan sharks and worked punishing hours to get her first store started, proving the point that successful entrepreneurs need 99% perspiration along with 1% inspiration. In this fascinating interview, she tells her story to Biznews.com’s Alec Hogg.
SA’s favourite stockbroker elaborates on a view that the JSE will boom in 2015 – he reckons Naspers and Steinhoff will outperform and explains why here.
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius will embrace the five-year prison sentence handed down by the High Court in Pretoria, his uncle Arnold said on Tuesday.
Convicted paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius may end up spending only 10 months in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a justice department spokesman said on Tuesday.
Judge Thokozile Masipa rejected a suggested sentence of house arrest and community service for paralympian Oscar Pistorius in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.
By Alec Hogg I went on a bit about courage yesterday. How it’s a considered decision to do what is right only after assessing all the facts. An action, a choice of the tougher route rather than the easier, softer way. As fate would have it, two of my studio guests yesterday personified such bravery. … Read more
At Bob Miles’s annual Omaha Value Investor’s Conference preceding the Berkshire AGM, one of the presenters offered a list of the world’s great capital allocators. Warren Buffett, of course, was among them. So, too, John Malone of Liberty Media and the late Henry Singleton of Teledyne. But also on the short list was a name … Read more
With a market cap approaching R100bn and sales close to R200bn, financial results from Brian Joffe’s Bidvest are always something of an event among Johannesburg’s investment professionals. Sasha Naryshkine among them. In this interview Naryshkine explains why he’s such a big fan of the man his Vestact colleague Paul Theron has dubbed “The Magician of … Read more