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Behind South Africa’s incredible shrinking GDP

Q3 contraction reflects poor figures from nearly all sectors, particularly agriculture

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NATASHA MARRIAN: Pollsters’ predictions for the 2024 elections are in

The reputable pollsters are unanimous that the ANC won’t win a majority next year — but the predictions for the DA and the EFF are all over the place

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Making cents of the rand-rigging scandal

The preliminary hearings in the case have wrapped up, and it seems likely that the Competition Commission will finally get to prosecute at least some of the 28 ...

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SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Inside the City of Joburg’s R2.6m party

A R2.6m party the mayor knows nothing about, managed by an IT company in the City of Joburg’s transport department. What could possibly go wrong?

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Chris Griffith, diehard metals man

From gold to base metals, Chris Griffith is back — this time as CEO of Vedanta Zinc. But he’s hanging on to his Gold Fields shares, as well as his personal PGM ...

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EDITORIAL: Karpowership deal hits iceberg

Turkish company told to return shares to local partner

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No consequences yet, years after Sars’s destruction

It’s six years since criminal investigator Ronel van Wyk was hounded out of Sars. To date, no-one has been held responsible — not for her departure, nor for ...

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TRACEY DAVIES: Twisting the truth about Komati

Politicians have conveniently ignored the facts around the decommissioning of the Komati coal-fired power station to score political points ahead of an ...

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Alexforbes shakes off its dinosaur image

A new focus seems to be paying off for the 88-year-old financial services firm, notwithstanding the mature market and lacklustre economy in which it operates

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JEAN PIERRE VERSTER: The ultimate long game

Charlie Munger was close to being one of more than half a million centenarians alive today. With that in mind, we round up a handful of companies taking ...

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Safety tips for Table Mountain

Cape Town’s higher reaches have never been safe — especially now

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THE FINANCE GHOST: Buy low (multiples), sell high

2023 has served up hard lessons for investors, not least of them being that valuations always matter

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CHRIS ROPER: I’m right, so you must be wrong

Our world is becoming increasingly binary, where people take a stand not for rational reasons but to define themselves against the other

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JUSTICE MALALA: The problem with ‘me, me, me’ politics

If a candidate cannot bring themselves to work with others in a political party they dominate, how will they bring a nation together?

EDITORIAL: Why Transnet’s bailout had to happen

Think of the bulk commodity rail links to the ports as arteries carrying South Africa’s lifeblood

PODCAST: A Rubicon for big business

“Business needs to cross its own Rubicon,” Freedom Front Plus chief whip Corné Mulder tells Peter Bruce

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Making cents of the rand-rigging scandal

Claire Bisseker

The preliminary hearings in the case have wrapped up, and it seems likely that the Competition Commission will finally get to prosecute at least some of the 28 banks charged with colluding to manipulate the currency a decade ago

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Johann Rupert flays the asset managers

Marc Hasenfuss

An obsession with Remgro's discount to NAV and its dividend yield are short-termist obsessions from an overpaid professional management class, argues Johann Rupert

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BOOK REVIEW: Assad: An underestimated tyrant and merchant of terror

David Gorin

‘Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny’ covers the savage conflict of the Syrian civil war and how Bashar al-Assad has used terror to maintain his grip on power

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JEAN PIERRE VERSTER: The ultimate long game

Jean Pierre Verster

Charlie Munger was close to being one of more than half a million centenarians alive today. With that in mind, we round up a handful of companies taking advantage of our increasing longevity

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Rob Rose Editor: Financial Mail

ROB ROSE: How advisers scored R335m from floundering Nampak

When a company finds itself up a creek, the only people who have a paddle can set the price for their fees

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Ann Crotty Writer-at-large

ANN CROTTY: Spar’s whodunnit needs a sequel

The retailer’s financial statements read like a crime mystery, but there may never be a courtroom denouement

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Natasha Marrian Financial Mail deputy editor & columnist

NATASHA MARRIAN: Pollsters’ predictions for the 2024 elections are in

The reputable pollsters are unanimous that the ANC won’t win a majority next year — but the predictions for the DA and the EFF are all over the place

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