Hi there, Yesterday was big for CNBC Africa. Our TV broadcast partner launched its new high-tech studio at the JSE. I was privileged to be a part of it, co-hosting an extended Power Lunch show and a pre-recorded interview with Sanlam CEO Johan van Zyl. It’s been a privilege to partner with the continental broadcaster … Read more
One of the reasons why Africa has failed to develop a vibrant manufacturing sector and other markers of a modern economy is that far too many of Africa’s best and brightest see a career in politics as the best and even only way to make money, have influence, and exercise power. If the African century … Read more
Former President Thabo Mbeki was obsessed with creating Black business “role models”. Well and good. But instead of focusing on producing the kind of examples a developing country needs – bootstrapping, hard-working entrepreneurs who create jobs and build industries – he went for a quick fix. Whatever his intentions, Mbeki’s ideas encouraged Big Business to … Read more
By Alec Hogg South Africans watched with fascination and then horror at the nuclear-type fallout after  Cape Town-headed New Yorker Justine Sacco’s inappropriate tweet about HIV/Aids, Africa and being White. Justine Sacco, high profile Public Relations executive, achieved global notoriety after she tweeted from Heathrow en route to Cape Town for Christmas with family. The … Read more
This week’s UNDICTATED focuses on a very special man, the late Bill Lynch. A humble, undramatic, focused person, he was made in the mould of great business leaders immortalized in Jim Collins’ classic Good To Great. Lynch would make any list of SA’s top five entrepreneurs of the modern era. Indeed, he is the only … Read more