

Viv Vermaak
Viv Vermaak is an award-winning investigative journalist, writer and director. She was the most loved and hated presenter on South Africa’s iconic travel show, “Going Nowhere Slowly’ and ranks being the tall germ, “Terie’ in Mina Moo as a career highlight. She does Jiu-Jitsu and has a ’69 Chevy Impala called Katy Peri-Peri.
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The fable of the cash cows
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Apr 6, 2025
Once upon a time, there were fields in which the cash cows grazed. The cows did not produce cash, but they produced milk, which could

TDS is real, and it goes both ways
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Mar 2, 2025
I was at a dinner event during which Trump came up as a topic of conversation. “Biden would have been a better President as a

EWC: Don’t panic! (But if you have to, do it like this)
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Feb 2, 2025
When I heard President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signed the EWC (Expropriation Without Compensation) Bill into law, I was deeply disturbed. A great sadness crept over

This New Year, ignore the light at the end of the tunnel
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jan 5, 2025
Let’s talk about New Year’s resolutions and the light at the end of the tunnel that is your destiny in 2025. Having studied the nature

How to think like a Jaguar exec
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Dec 8, 2024
I am not a luxury brand consumer, nor one of electric vehicles. but I might be one day, so it’s perfectly fine for me to

(Why) are Joburgers friendlier than Capetonians?
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Nov 3, 2024
In my keynote presentation, The great trek back, I reflect on my move to Cape Town from Joburg, highlighting some of the main differences I

Pianos on the patio and a poo on the pavement
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Oct 13, 2024
I cannot recommend more highly that you do what I recently did – remove homeless people from their homes, forcibly if you have to. It

Solar might not be that green, but it got us out of the red
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Oct 11, 2024
Free markets are sometimes thought to be better at the “how” of solving problems, rather than “what” the actual problem is to be solved. Mechanically,

Before you give up smoking, think again!
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Sep 1, 2024
In 1946, tobacco companies used medical professionals to promote their product, going so far as to place an ad that read: “More doctors smoke Camel

I am not a conspiracy theorist, but …
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Aug 18, 2024
Have you noticed how many people, when discussing the assassination attempt on former US Donald Trump, start the conversation with: “I am not a conspiracy