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EDITORIAL: The "what ifs" that Kieswetter leaves behind
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (276+ words) Given Ramaphosa's usual approach in dealing with such issues, he moved with remarkable speed to sort out Sars. He had suspended Moyane only a month after he was appointed president in place of Zuma. Based on Nugent's interim findings, Ramaphosa…...
Why paintings are the hottest things right now
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (511+ words) Art, like hemlines, moves in definite cycles, says fifth-generation dealer Trent Read, who owns Knysna Fine Art, the largest contemporary gallery space in the Western Cape. It celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. Read worked at Christie's in London, ran a…...
Behind Natie's R500bn jackpot "and what this says about SA entrepreneurs
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (1784+ words) Yet Natie Kirsh's sale of his US company, Jetro Restaurant Depot, for $29. 1bn (about R500bn) does more than simply leapfrog him to the top of the list of South Africa's billionaires. It bears remarkable testimony to the skills of local entrepreneurs on…...
DINNER PARTY INTEL: "Bulletproof Boy Scouts" get back from the army
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (159+ words) Financial Mail K-pop band BTS"s return has been compared to that of Elvis Presley, who served in the US army The return of Korean pop music (K-pop) group BTS with a live performance on Netflix was hailed worldwide. The…...
Focusing on rules for Airbnb in South Africa
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (705+ words) Property writer & columnist The department of tourism's new draft code of good practice for short-term rentals (STRs) has put the prospect of regulation for Airbnb-type properties under scrutiny as Cape Town's shortage of affordable housing escalates. France, Spain, the Netherlands,…...
Unofficial Swazi royalty
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (375+ words) Now, was the making of Natie Kirsh, even if South Africa was almost the unmaking of him. Kirsh cobbled together a consortium, intending to build a brewery in Swaziland. The Swazi government, however, persuaded him to buy a maize milling…...
DUNCAN Mc LEOD: How Chat GPT became my health coach
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (646+ words) For the past few weeks, I've been running a quiet experiment on myself. The app logs it. And slowly, without me filling in a single spreadsheet cell or using an infuriatingly slow traditional diet-logging app, a picture of how I…...
Transnet's blinding headache
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (288+ words) As the century-old Benguela railway hums back to life on the Lobito corridor to Angola's deep-water port, Transnet's collapse " from endless queues to sabotage on the Durban and Richards Bay lines " looks less like a local headache and more like…...
Jetro, and the deep value in being gloriously unglamorous
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (1249+ words) Former editor: Business Day The blockbuster sale of Natie Kirsh's US business, Jetro Restaurant Depot, offers three great lessons of entrepreneurship. Find a niche; serve it properly; and then just keep doing it, with religious consistency, for decades. That may…...
ROB ROSE: Iran, Trump and the narcissism trade
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (933+ words) Forget the flagrant insider trading taking place in Washington right now; once Donald J Trump figures out how to sell a memecoin backed by malignant narcissism, his self-dealing family will really be in the money. It'll be the "best coin…...
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