Ismail Lagardien

The JSE dropped for the fourth consecutive session with the all share down 0.66% and the top 40 0.59% on the day

Competition for lovers of luxury puts Instagram’s Reels in ring with TikTok

Instagram is betting its new Reels feature can help it stay relevant to sellers of the hottest handbags, shoes and watches

Mozambican leader Filipe Nyusi meets Total CEO about worsening violence

For more than a month, militants have occupied a town about 60km from where Total is spending $20bn to extract natural gas from below the ocean

Labour
Law

GARETH VAN ONSELEN: The devolution of our constitutional democracy

The ANC exists only to serve itself, and with zero appreciation for the separation of party and state, the state has become its play thing

Competition for lovers of luxury puts Instagram’s Reels in ring with TikTok

Instagram is betting its new Reels feature can help it stay relevant to sellers of the hottest handbags, shoes and watches

Innovation

BUSINESS DAY SPOTLIGHT

PODCAST | Economic news of the week: SA needs to rethink its place and relevance in the global economy

As the country prepares to enter level 1 of the national lockdown, we talk to Martyn Davies of Deloitte

Be sure to scrutinise your tax auto-assessment before accepting it

Your employer and several third party providers are now sending information to Sars to prepopulate your return

STEPHEN CRANSTON: Life insurance sector remains in good health

The industry has more than double the regulatory buffer required by the new solvency capital requirements

Once again Muzi Yeni is on a countrywide search for winners

When it comes to hard work, the popular jockey gets full marks with 116 races in the first six weeks of the new campaign

The week in pictures

Devastating wildfires in the US; a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in Europe; Donald Trump claiming a win as the 'Abraham Accords' are signed; and the death of an anti-apartheid stalwart

Ismail Lagardien Columnist

Lagardien, a visiting professor at the Wits University School of Governance, has worked in the office of the chief economist of the World Bank, as well as the secretariat of the National Planning Commission.

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