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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.

ROB ROSE: UCT and the limits of free speech

UCT could expel a councillor for his views

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — Helen Zille on the warpath

The DA veteran explains why Wednesday is crucial

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — SA and USA go poll dancing

What the local government elections mean for the Government of National Unity

Mteto Nyati at The Uncomfortable Truth event in Johannesburg.

ROB ROSE: Nyati’s next task: softening Eskom’s tariff blow

After returning Eskom to profitability, Nyati targets high prices

Exclusive: Heineken under fire for ‘apparent breach’ of Distell merger terms

New owner of Strongbow hits back at broken deal conditions

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — The button that saved the ANC

Rob and Zuks agree to disagree

ROB ROSE: Pepkor takes the wrong road over CEO’s deal

Pepkor’s Shop2Shop deal raises eyebrows

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — Zuma’s unfinished revolution

MK Party's future, ANC court battle, Formula One and the Nobel peace prize

Jurie Strydom.

Inside Jurie Strydom’s plan to make Old Mutual great again

Will he be able to deliver?

ROB ROSE: Didata case now wide open after exec jumps ship

Goodall’s shock admission relates to a huge BEE fronting case

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PODCAST: Herman Mashaba tells Sharp Sharp: Helen Zille is the red line

How will ActionSA leader turn his promises into action?

Magda in crosshairs over ‘enrichment’ scheme

Shareholders balk at Sygnia’s R600m ‘free shares’ scheme

ROB ROSE: Crime, punishment and the King code

South Africa needs ethics, not new laws

Jeremy Ord.

R209m confession reshapes Dimension Data Campus case

Former Didata exec Jason Goodall in bombshell deal, implicating Ord & Co

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — The dark art of election polling

How to tell good research from bad numbers

ROB ROSE: Lights dim at Joburg’s City Power clown show

A new report points to a way out of City Power’s doom loop

No more making nice with Trump

South Africa pushes back against Trump's aggression

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — End of the road for Fikile Mbalula?

In episode 26 of Sharp Sharp, Rob Rose and Zukile Majova explore mounting pressure on ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, inner-city crises.

ROB ROSE: The Rand Club, dry and in the dark, attests to Joburg’s collapse

Two weeks without services; and for others, it’s worse

Violence against women won’t be fixed by hashtags

GBV needs action, not another round of empty promises