If someone came to you tomorrow with R100m to invest in one company, which would it be? Capital & Counties. Iconic bricks and mortar should outlive Brexit, if you have the patience and liquidity to wait it out. If you could fix one thing in SA today, what would it be? The lack of public transport infrastructure. Watching people walk to work on the side of the road for hours before daybreak to do manual labour, to just end up repeating the journey past nightfall on their return, is heartbreaking. Among the many issues that need resolving, this is a major cause of economic inefficiency and a general hindrance to the marginalised who are not able to conveniently access the social services that they so desperately need. How much was your first pay cheque and what did you do with it? From my temping days, it was depressingly minimal and pretty much paid for a textbook and spectacles and not much else. I saved up my pay cheques from my first formal job and went with my family for haj (pil...

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