A look at Jurie Strydom's leadership role and the strategic hurdles ahead as expectations mount ...

On Mustek’s latest earnings call, CEO Hein Engelbrecht made clear that the group no longer sees itself simply as an IT hardware distributor. Over the years it has expanded into training, software, ...

New vehicle buyers are changing the way they structure their loan finance, says WesBank senior economist Thanda Sithole. They are buying cheaper vehicles over longer periods to minimise monthly ...

One of the terrible curses of journalism is that you often tend to think you know more than you do. I’ve just come back from a trip to Mexico, and I have things to say. But are they useful, or merely ...

In her recent FM column, Ann Crotty makes an argument that deserves a serious answer. The JSE’s problem, she writes, is not that raising capital is hard, but that there is little demand for it. One ...

Solar Industries India’s share price slumped an unprecedented 9% on the BSE (formerly the Bombay Stock Exchange) the day after it announced a firm intention to acquire JSE-listed chemicals powerhouse ...

I spent 38 years in the South African motor industry and therefore read David Furlonger’s article with a lot of interest. David is to be complimented on an outstanding overview of the key challenges ...

For farmers, memories of Southern Africa’s 2014–2016 drought are sure to linger. The two-year crisis saw cattle, goats and sheep die across the country as farmers struggled to feed them due to limited ...

For most of this year grocery bills have been the one expense in which South African households caught some kind of break, with food inflation easing to its lowest level since 2010. Fuel costs — and ...

Safe assets are meant to be dull. Yet the world’s central financial market has lately supplied much of the excitement. Long-dated US Treasury yields have climbed as investors weigh persistent deficits ...

It’s not something that South African investors are accustomed to, but globally there is a proliferation of instruments — real estate investment trusts (Reits), specialist investment entities and ETFs ...

At the stroke of a pen — and without a significant injection of new capital — the government could create a powerful, sustainable mechanism to channel wealth towards South Africa’s poor and ...