JSE bounces back but will remain vulnerable in 2021
The bounce-back in the world’s stock markets, after the crash in March, is no indication that global economies are now back on track
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Hot stocks 2021: The fear and loathing edition
The markets did not escape the ravages of 2020. Despite some pockets of optimism, a rocky start has left investors less than upbeat about 2021
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Business newsmaker of the year: EOH’s Stephen van Coller
Stephen van Coller, CEO of EOH, has hit the headlines for the immense corruption he found at SA’s one-time tech wunderkind. He tells the FM about his two core ...
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Newsmaker of the year: Zweli Mkhize
As SA’s first responder to the event that defined 2020, health minister Zweli Mkhize has had a brutal year, involving very little sleep
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Political newsmaker of the year: Ace Magashule — Cyril’s wild card
The secretary-general of the governing party dominated political news this year. But, he tells the FM, he’s just being ‘targeted’ because people want to ...
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International newsmaker of the year: Elon Musk’s genius muscle
There is no international business figure who came out of 2020 with his fortunes so radically enhanced. Despite the glut of short-sellers betting on his ...
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Society newsmaker of the year: Glenda Gray
Glenda Gray may have ended up in a spat with Zweli Mkhize this year over lockdown rules, but it says much about the respect she commands that he was the one ...
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SA’s top suburbs: where you should be buying, and selling
As home-buying patterns shift on the back of the Covid-induced ‘Zoom boom’ and record low interest rates, up-and-coming suburbs could replace tried-and-tested ...
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Can new Woolworths CEO Roy Bagattini be ‘the difference’?
Woolworths CEO Roy Bagattini has one of the toughest jobs in retail: fixing a business that has gone badly off the rails over the past few years. It’s trial by ...
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Sasol: When will the Lake Charles nightmare end?
The company’s recent AGM was a long, grim affair, with difficult questions raised. But CEO Fleetwood Grobler remains upbeat about the future of the ...
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Paul Hanratty’s plan for Sanlam
Where is Sanlam CEO Paul Hanratty planning on taking Africa’s largest insurance company in the next five years? The deal with Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow ...
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Covid positive: South Africans who’ve defied the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into terrible turmoil, but some rays of light have emerged from the darkness ...
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Fear and loathing at audit watchdog Irba
Is the new CEO’s past at Tongaat Hulett hurting the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors’ ability to clean up SA’s struggling auditing industry?
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Tongaat: what happened behind closed doors
Did Jenitha John fail to ensure adequate oversight at Tongaat Hulett, or should she be lauded for helping to expose the scandal at the company?
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Inside the big DA showdown
Interim DA leader John Steenhuisen seems certain to cement his position in the party at its elective congress this weekend. But he will be taking the reins of ...
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Are SA’s banks facing a bad-debt crunch?
One concern is that civil servants may start to fall victim to retrenchments as the government seeks to cut costs, resulting in many more people (and their ...
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House of cards: Is Hermione Cronje hiding an ace?
Cronje’s investigating directorate has contracted some of SA’s best legal minds to ensure the effective prosecution of state-capture kingpins
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STORE WARS: The battle for wallets goes digital
Covid-19 has prompted a ‘once in a generation’ shift to online retail — but have SA companies been caught napping?
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How SA lost a decade of jobs in four months
How four months wiped out 10 years of jobs growth, and created millions of new grant recipients
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