The Biznewz community is well aware of concerns around our society’s slide to disinterested mediocrity. Russell Loubser’s warning about what he described as Drift was one of the site’s best read articles. Last week former Finance Minister and now head of National Planning Trevor Manuel picked up on the theme. But Manuel’s speech, borrowed from … Read more
Sometimes one gets the opportunity to dig really deeply during an interview. That happened  in my discussion with Morne Wilken, CEO of today’s new listing Attacq, which hit the market at R16.75 providing a quick profit for IPO investors offered the stock at R14.50. Its big play is in the Waterfall development between Johannesburg and … Read more
Lots of really intriguing stuff happening in the hotels sector right now. As CNBC’s Samantha Loring writes  below, two of Tsogo Sun’s top four will be leaving the R30bn group tomorrow. Since aggressive young CEO Marcel Von Aulock (38) was promoted from financial director into the hot seat in September 2011, both Tsogo’s head of marketing Rob … Read more
Warren E Buffett sure knows how to toss a cat among the pigeons. True to form, in August the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway wrote an op-ed headlined “Stop coddling the super rich” for America’s leading newspaper, The New York Times. It was a full frontal attack on a tax system that favours the wealthy.Buffett’s well-argued and entirely logical proposals have become the rallying call for “wealth tax” agitators around the world.Including here in Sunny South Africa.