Three months ago I was in a rather chilly Edinburgh. Approaching my 12th year in the UK, coming back to SA wasn’t exactly high on the agenda. As I neared my 45th birthday it did dawn on me how much I had aged and that it was probably still a good 20 years before I could look forward to a retirement somewhere in the Cape. So I’m probably more surprised than anyone else to find myself sitting here writing my first column as the editor of Business Day. The cliché about life being what happens while you’re making other plans may have a ring of truth to it. It’s taken a couple of weeks to digest being back, followed by some thinking about what I should write about in this column. After all these years I felt like something of an outsider. As much as I’ve kept in touch and sometimes agonised about what’s been happening in the country over the past decade, did I really know enough about it? For now, I’ll stick to something I know a bit about, though it’s not a subject I feel most comfortab...

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