Classic Business

Law Feature: Bill gives clarity on expropriation of land

There’s been lots of movement on the land question in the last two weeks. Two weeks ago the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DLRD) announced that members of the public will be able to apply to lease 700 000 hectares of underutilized or vacant state land in…

12 Oct 2020 12PM 10 min

View from the market

Nick Kunze, portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth & Charl Bester, wealth & portfolio manager at Kruger International

12 Oct 2020 12PM 11 min

View from the C-Suite

In this weekly feature Michael Avery gets up close and personal with South Africa’s business and political economy leaders, to uncover what makes them tick, keeps them up at night and keeps them going through the Covid storm. Michael Avery’s guest this week is now arguably the most senior and…

9 Oct 2020 12PM 25 min

Is the JSE becoming less investable?

Keith McLachlan, fund manager AlphaWealth

8 Oct 2020 12PM 12 min

Load shedding to derail SA's economic recovery path

Mark Swilling, professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University

8 Oct 2020 12PM 18 min

Property investment of almost R14bn underpins the Cape Town CBD’s resilience

Rob Kane, board chairperson of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID)

8 Oct 2020 12PM 10 min

Brandfather

In this week’s episode of The Brandfather, Jeremy Sampson MD of Brand Finance Africa, rails against corporate avarice in the face of massive shareholder value destruction. Avery says he likes CEO Ian Moir, always found him approachable, but he made possible the worst ever foreign acquisition in this country’s business…

8 Oct 2020 12PM 14 min

Covid 19 Dashboard

Prof Adrian Puren, head of the Centre for HIV and STIs at NICD

8 Oct 2020 12PM 4 min

Retirement feature: Is the threat of prescribed assets overblown?

The President announced that the Nedlac partners have agreed to an historic economic compact but the details are still to be released but no doubt infrastructure will be a core pillar. And in April we had calls from the private equity industry to increase prudential limits on asset allocation imposed…

8 Oct 2020 12PM 11 min

View from the Market

Martin Smith, portfolio manager at Anchor Capital & Nadir Thokan, portfolio manager at Corion Capital

8 Oct 2020 12PM 13 min

Roundtable: Business process outsourcing offers post Covid growth potential

As the country looks for growth engines in the wake of the Covid 19 cataclysm we often talk of infrastructure as the major lever we have to pull. But another industry is flying quietly under the radar and could offer some more hope in a country desperately searching for small…

7 Oct 2020 1PM 23 min

Philanthropy feature: Corporate SA should think differently about how it engages with NPOs

Bianca Lima-Boekhoud, group head of transformation at Blue Label Telecoms

7 Oct 2020 12PM 5 min

SA consumers can now own US mega-tech shares for as little as R10

Sizwe Nxedlana, CEO of FNB Wealth and Investments, & Ashburton

7 Oct 2020 12PM 4 min

Real Economy

Cobie Legrange, co-founder of Rexsolom Invest

7 Oct 2020 12PM 6 min

Education Feature: How to radically transform education in SA

Amnesty International’s recent report, Broken and Unequal: The state of education in South Africa, points out that South Africa is still failing too many of its youth when it comes to education. But the question remains, have we made progress in widening access to education while forgetting that access and…

7 Oct 2020 12PM 8 min

Wealth Feature: Covid-19 to spur innovation

The one thing that seems most likely to emerge from this pandemic is that it will unleash a wave of Creative destruction that can best be described as the dismantling of long-standing practices in order to make way for innovation. Creative destruction was first coined by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter…

7 Oct 2020 12PM 8 min

Cosatu embarks on a nationwide protest

Public sector workers downed tools and stayed at home to protest against the government’s failure to implement wage increases on Wednesday. Union leaders in three of the largest federations, Cosatu, Fedusa and the National Council of Trade Unions have been on a collision course with the government after it backed…

7 Oct 2020 12PM 7 min

View from the Market

Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager, FNB Wealth and Investments & Martin Harris, premium clients manager at IGSA

7 Oct 2020 12PM 17 min

Roundtable: Powering SA Mining

In 2020, the total market cap of JSE listed mining companies increased to R1,28 trillion from R840 billion. A R439 billion or 52%, YOY, increase from 2019, largely attributed to the increase in market capitalisation of companies within the gold and PGM sectors. This is one of the key highlights…

6 Oct 2020 1PM 26 min

Innovation and competitiveness: Funding innovation in a re-aligned Covid world

Moeketsi Marumo, associate director Cova Advisory

6 Oct 2020 12PM 7 min