The autocrats club
You can’t claim South African politics is without irony. There’s corruption-accused Jacob Zuma, once the face of the “moral regeneration movement”. A public protector
The Currency cool list: What got us through this week
Let’s face it – between the crazy ongoing Johannesburg Art Gallery revelations and the wretched updates on the illegal miners in Stilfontein, we are
South Africa and Iran: The love-in that Trump will be watching
Did the ANC receive a large amount of money from Iran to take the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice?
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Claire Dinhut
A truly global citizen (she splits her time between London, France and the US, where she was raised), Claire Dinhut studied culinary history at
What we’re drinking this week
The end of year is so close we can practically smell it, so we’re rubber-wristing Babylonstoren Chenin Blanc to get into the swing of
Inside the tie-up of South Africa’s biggest asset managers
Ninety One and Sanlam are teaming up in a move that will effectively end any rivalry the two firms have enjoyed over the past
The glass is half full
My nephew (who is only 12 years younger than me) sends me a message a couple of months before his son finishes high school.
Finally, errant municipal officials must pay back the money
Another day, another story of dodgy government contracts. Local government contracts, to be more specific. The scene is Nelson Mandela Bay, 2014. As court
Rating the AGMs: Shoprite good, Sasol okay, Truworths woeful
It’s impossible to know how many Shoprite shareholders live in the town of Brackenfell in the northern suburbs of the Western Cape. It’s not
The tragic farce of the Dalí in the JAG filing cabinet
You can almost imagine Salvador Dalí striding into the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and clapping eyes on his much-lauded 1930s work, Aphrodisiac Telephone. The almost