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Needed: a skilful solution

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When racial matters arise in South Africa, they invariably provoke a great deal of visceral reaction. This is eminently understandable, though it often obscures subjects

Of businesspeople and politicians

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It’s been almost a month since Rob Hersov climbed the stage at a BizNews event to denounce President Ramaphosa, his cabinet and the government in

BOSA: an interesting idea, but can it work?

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Something I can say with depressing regularity these days is that ‘I’m old enough to remember…’ I have traded youth and vigour for experience and

Time for an early election?

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A lot has been said recently about the 2024 elections, and whether – or not – this will be the moment at which the ANC’s

Not a crisis of inertia, a crisis of choices

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Last week, Business Day ran an editorial entitled ‘Ramaphosa’s crisis of inertia’.  On the one hand, it claims that Ramaphosa has shown some unabashedly reformist

A risk in the coming week

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In the coming days, on the 14th to be precise, the Parliamentary Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure will decide on the wording of the

The EWC agenda continues

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Fixed property – a house, a farm, business premises, or some other sundry variant of real estate – is a significant investment for anybody. To

Fake news: history, evolution and consequences of a dangerous “thing”

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In thinking about this topic, I struggled to settle upon a noun to describe fake news. The adjective was easy: it is dangerous. But is

What do we do with Small Business? (Part 2)

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Last week, I took issue with a widespread view of small business as being something other than business – that is, small business as a

Small businesses are businesses. We need to realise this – Part 1

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This month – August – Pope Francis has asked the Catholic faithful to pray for small- and medium-sized businesses. In a video appeal, he described