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Rob Rose

Rob Rose is the editor of Financial Mail and the author of The Grand Scam: How Barry Tannenbaum Conned South Africa’s Business Elite. He previously reported on financial fraud and corporate governance at Business Day.

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — Trump’s Fake South Africa

Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential

Jurie Strydom.

Old Mutual’s zero-to-million banking surprise

Can the 181-year-old company revive its glory days?

ROB ROSE: Is South Africa’s business-government collaboration just a comforting ruse?

Accountability is sorely needed

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — Beware the death of the ANC

Rob and Zuks talk succession

ROB ROSE: OMG, what is TFG doing?

Investors lose patience with the clothing giant

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — How low can we go?

Of flyovers and failures

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PODCAST: How SA’s competition authorities are throttling investment

Is South Africa’s unique anti-trust regime stifling investment and throttling business?

Anti trust: How South Africa’s inept competition authorities are throttling business

Competition watchdogs face a crisis of credibility

ROB ROSE: Who dares apply to run SAA?

SAA is searching for a new leader to navigate financial fragility, audit disclaimers and factional battles

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — The curious case of the ANC’s missing mayors

Rob and Zuks pick apart the ANC’s election manifesto

Kastelos in the sand: The DA’s Burke dilemma

Inside the party’s Burke bind

Sean Summers. Photo: SUPPLIED

ROB ROSE: We banned no-one from AGMs, say Rupert and Summers

Following confusion over media exclusions at recent AGMs, Pick n Pay's Sean Summers and Reinet's Johann Rupert affirm that journalists are welcome

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — Zambia’s election nobody believes

Also: SA’s zama zama crisis and a brewing DA scandal

ROB ROSE: Industry isn’t in the twilight because of magic, Mr President 

President Cyril Ramaphosa laments South Africa's industrial decline, yet his government's policies are causing it.

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — Joburg ready to dump the ANC

Has the city finally lost its place as the party’s political heart?

Picture: 123RF / PIOTR ADAMOWICZ

A case of c’est l’Afrique for Canal+?

Canal+ Africa CEO David Mignot reveals the unexpected cost increases embedded in MultiChoice's structure post-acquisition, but remains confident.

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — The white party winning black votes

The typical FF+ voter might not be the oom you think he is, the Ceuta backstory, and Zuma family fun

The airport that caused all the fuss

Lanseria airport is at the centre of a PIC row involving millions of rands, a suspended CEO, the board being replaced and high-level political clashes

Dan Marokane, Eskom group chief executive at the SAIC2026

ROB ROSE: Is Dan Marokane worth R11.7m? Or far more?

Giving Eskom’s CEO a R765,000 bonus seems a small price to pay for ending loadshedding, even if it’s true that his job was made easier by many in the private sector building…

The Mpati commission’s report provided 308 recommendations, all of which have been implemented — save for what may have been the most crucial one.

ROB ROSE: Ghosts of Mpati past haunt PIC

The ANC missed the opportunity to fix the PIC once and for all by not implementing the Mpati commission’s recommendation that the board be chaired by someone outside the…