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EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: ‘Cosatu’s march will be meaningful if it targets the Gupta’ Saxonwold home’
Tennis ball-sized diamond is finally sold, and is Bok coach Allister Coetzee channelling Fikile Mbabula?
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba has a point about the planned Cosatu march. It is harder than you might expect to sell the second-largest diamond ever mined. Canada’s Lucara has just managed to do that. Here’s to the Guptas’ amazing sweet tooth — at taxpayers’ expense.
In My Opinion Matters of debate Iraj Abedian and Simon Mantell weigh in on the KPMG saga. They argue that the notion that the big four audit firms have specialised banking knowledge has a hollow ring when none of them raised any concerns in their audit reports before the 2008 banking crisis. The rand might be unable to escape future turmoil. For one, US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s pending departure might signal the end of the party for emerging markets. Neva Magetla says government-funded small business support initiatives have been a patchwork of fairly small programmes centred on funding and skills. This approach ignores the need for a large-scale effort to ta...
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