EDITOR’S NOTE: The world beyond Ramaphoria
The curve balls are coming fast ... land expropriation jitters, an unexpected digging-in around the mining charter and a last-minute attempt to switch off the long-delayed renewable energy surge
There’s nothing i enjoy more than the vagaries of the monthly publication. (That’s sarcasm, by the way.) There’s a lot that can happen between writing a story and the day the magazine is finally in the clutches of readers. So far (touch wood) we have not had any major disasters, and we do our best to limit "time sensitive" risks to our stories. But as it happens, I had just sent our Pick of the Month on Hammerson down to the printers when big news dropped about a takeover bid that was pitched earlier in the month. IM, which has a fair lag time between writing and actual production, is vulnerable to such developments. And it costs big bucks to pull back pages and reprint. But, if anything, it shows that our expert property writer Joan Muller’s intuition around the value residing in Hammerson was spot on. And for that I am grateful. I hope readers still read the report in the context of these new developments. Moving on, it seems to me that "Ramaphosaphoria" burnt off rather quickly, ...
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