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
What’s worse: Doctoring your CV or stealing billions?
South Africa is such a strange country. You can run a transparent actual fraud on actual pensioners, in which you take their actual savings
Give great gifts: L’Occitane and the Citrus Road
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, we’re sharing our favourite gift ideas with you. From luxurious and bling, to smaller stocking-fillers, let us
The great Joburg art grift – part 1
In 2016, Wilhelm van Rensburg had just started his career as an art curator at Strauss & Co. While working at the auctioneers one
How Sasol went rogue on its climate ‘plans’
Has Sasol gone rogue? And more importantly, do its major shareholders even care? On Friday, the petrochemical giant endured another tense AGM – though,
A pleb’s guide to spending your year-end bonus
Not everyone is a top exec. The countdown to that long-awaited year-end bonus feels like it drags on forever, especially as payday approaches. You
Joburg’s Art Gallery ‘can’t survive’ another season of ruin and rain
New and unseen images of the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) reveal increasing ruin, while irreplaceable artworks, including pieces by South African greats like Irma Stern, may