10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (554+ words) At a time when the country has been braced for violence from anti-immigrant protests, a strong whiff of xenophobia from parliament is deeply disappointing " and all the more insidious because it seems hardly to have been noticed. The portfolio committee…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (718+ words) Nicholas Crisp, a leading protagonist of the government's controversial National Health Insurance (NHI), is stepping down. But he's not likely to go away. Crisp was appointed head of the NHI well before the bill was passed by parliament in 2023. The…...

9+ hour, 56+ min ago  (1212+ words) Nobody can tell communications & digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi why equity equivalent investment instead of giving away 30% ownership is acceptable for multinationals in South Africa such as Microsoft and IBM, but anti-transformational in the case of Elon Musk's satellite internet…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (372+ words) Micron's shares have more than trebled in value this year, and it has used its position of strength to lock in 16 multiyear strategic customer agreements that guarantee it a cool $100bn of revenue through 2030. Customers scrambling to guarantee high-bandwidth memory supply…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (148+ words) Financial Mail Trump takes history lessons from a golf caddie US President Donald Trump, never one to spurn a compliment, was happy to be compared to some of history's worst tyrants. Trump says a historian told him that he is…...

9+ hour, 45+ min ago  (296+ words) Expect a tempestuous showdown about six weeks from now when a good number of miffed shareholders are expected to engage robustly " albeit virtually " with the management of the Rupert family-controlled Reinet. The Luxembourg-based investment vehicle has not exactly covered itself…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1154+ words) Senior journalist at Financial Mail and Wanted contributor South Africa's two biggest value retailers are both looking beyond their borders for growth, but they are going about it in different ways " and the market is watching both with some unease....

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1377+ words) Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, not usually known for his wisdom, once said: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." Similarly, every CEO thinks they have a crisis plan, complete with legal sign-offs and…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (486+ words) Some critics of value investing define it as "buying something nobody wants and then acting surprised nobody wants it. That is probably a fair criticism of buying a share simply because it looks cheap, then sitting back and hoping for…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (688+ words) The response of the Ramaphosa administration to this week's protests against undocumented foreign nationals has been laudable. Unlike in 2021, when the state was caught completely flat-footed by riots in Kwa Zulu-Natal and Gauteng, the threat of the June 30 "deadline" set…...