3+ hour, 24+ min ago   (556+ words) One recent Saturday friends came over to watch a Springbok rugby game, and I airily waved a hand at about 24 bottles and said: “Help yourselves.” They’re not massive wine drinkers, but it was interesting to enjoy a “fly on the…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (488+ words) If you haven’t discovered JCAF yet, here’s your excuse. Tucked just off Jan Smuts Avenue in leafy Forest Town, the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation occupies a beautifully restored former tram substation. It’s one of those places that surprises you, not…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (972+ words) Every year, boards approve insurance programmes designed to protect organisations against losses that may amount to hundreds of millions, and often billions, of rand. Those decisions are rarely made lightly. Yet, unlike acquisitions, financing arrangements and major capital investments, insurance…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (636+ words) Most people insure their homes, cars and lives, but overlook the asset that makes all of those possible: their ability to earn an income. “Our ability to earn income is quite a big asset, because that’s how we generate wealth…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (519+ words) That shift is hard to ignore in a category that has become the mainstay in local discretionary and retirement savings. Active managers still hold the lion’s share of the assets here. However, flows are where you see behaviour change first....

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (426+ words) In your political and economic week ahead, expect inflation data, rates news, voter registration and more drama at the Madlanga commission. Oh, and Phala Phala will be back in the headlines as the high court rules on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (361+ words) Four years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a column titled “Multiple Organ Failure”, in which I suggested that South Africa was approaching a failed state. It seems I was over-reacting to the circumstances that prevailed then, and here…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (548+ words) Judging by the latest upbeat trading figures reported by JSE-listed mall owners, these businesses have hardly been affected by interest rate and fuel price hikes, and the continued rise in e-commerce. It seems South Africans still have a penchant for…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (565+ words) It was The Table Bay for decades, but now the V&A Waterfront hotel has had a gigantic 10-month-long revamp (R1-billion gigantic, that is) and reopened as the very swishy InterContinental Table Bay Cape Town. Here’s what to expect. The…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1013+ words) US President Donald Trump once called cryptocurrency a “scam”. It’s now a major moneymaker for him: his just-released annual financial disclosure shows he made more than $1bn from cryptocurrency last year. This news has raised the ire of Trump’s critics. Juliana…...