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Some of those Proteas had been world champions before and it helped in the Lord’s final

Celebrating Creative Capital: enter the 2025 FM AdFocus Awards

These prestigious annual awards honour agencies and individuals who’ve mastered the art AND business of creativity

JAMIE CARR: Whiz-bang Wang

The economies of Scale prove tempting for Meta

NATASHA MARRIAN: Political party funding: can spending caps deliver more transparency?

Will parties still splash as much cash to woo voters when there is this kind of scrutiny of their finances?

JUSTICE MALALA: Cry, the blah, blah, blah country

Any hopes we might have had for the national dialogue have been dashed by Ramaphosa’s plan for yet another protracted imbizo that’s unlikely to produce ...

THE FINANCE GHOST: Temu and Shein raise risk for local retailers

South Africa is likely to be targeted for greater consumption by China’s budget-friendly online marketplaces

U-turn on Nutun as silent admirers appear

36One is among those who are taking a clear-eyed view of the former Transaction Capital — and acting accordingly

PGM miners delight in new platinum dynamic

With a recovery driven by supply and demand, the sun is shining on platinum group metals — for now

BACKSTORY: Charlene Louw of the Beer Association of South Africa

The FM chats to Charlene Louw, CEO of the Beer Association of South Africa

SIMON BROWN: Why free cash flow is king

Headline earnings can be a useful metric to determine a company’s worth, but it can be tweaked. Cold, hard cash, on the other hand, often tells a more honest ...

Can Spar deliver against the tide of low-cost competition?

The retailer made more out of every rand it sold in the half-year to March, but it will have to regain the volume it lost in the South African market

CHRISTO DE WIT: DeFiant crypto applications

Financial rule writers could never have imagined self-executing software code displacing traditional financial players

BROKERS’ NOTES: Buy Bidcorp, sell Aspen

William Meyer, founder of Fenestra Asset Management, on what the smart money is doing

Two fashion retailers … two different styles

It’s been the best of times for both TFG and Mr Price, with sales buoyed by GNU optimism, among other things

LETTER: How Rally to Read inspired me

A bursary alumna shares her journey from school to university success

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