Tim Cohen

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Tim Cohen

Tim Cohen is the editor of Business Day. He began his journalism career on Dome newspaper, the official student newspaper of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, whose production schedule was largely dependent on the availability of beer. He graduated to the last outpost, The Natal Witness, which was fuelled by tea, but was subsequently lured to the coffee-infused domain of Business Day. On Business Day, he was political correspondent, finance editor, London correspondent and editor at large, among a variety of other posts. It was probably the coffee.

Anthropic: The straw you clutch at, or the one that breaks the camel’s back?

Should you go for it? Four investors, four answers

The enclaves that may keep South Africa afloat

South Africa's growing escape from local government

TIM COHEN: Ramaphosa’s arc from hope to despair

Ramaphosa started out so well, but now …

A poster from the ANC hangs along a road in Soweto, Johannesburg.

Why has Ramaphosa, SA’s most promising president, failed?

The perpetual consensus builder has failed to grasp the nettle of reform

TIM COHEN: Satan, shareholders and the sudden generosity of billionaires

Corporate philanthropy: commendable or just conscience laundering?

Luiz Inácio Lula da  Silva.

Bolsonaro gets waxed in a Brazilian paradox

Lula triumphs, markets panic

The ETF industry is flourishing amid fillip for fund managers

ETF boom as fund managers jostle for a piece of the pie

The price of being a South African supermarket

Shoprite's relatively modest valuation is a big reason to buy

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PODCAST: UncoveringIT! Is Harmony in tune?

Financial Mail senior editor Giulietta Talevi discusses the latest FM cover story

West Wits  underground  operations.

Why South Africa isn’t striking it rich from record gold prices

Gold is at $4,200. So where are the new mines?

TIM COHEN: Postbank’s R2.5bn question: what exactly are we buying?

Does Postbank deserve R2.5bn from taxpayers?

TIM COHEN: Something new out of Africa’s debt

Africa launches an indigenous credit rating agency

South Africa’s water boards are awash with cash while the taps run dry

Excellent balance sheets do not equate to good investments

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PODCAST: UncoveringIT! How activist investors Value Capital Partners perform their turnaround magic

Giulietta Talevi discusses the unusual activist strategy behind Value Capital Partners

TIM COHEN: Diplomacy by frying pan

SA-US diplomatic spat lacks all sense of proportion

Didata's BEE deal. Image by Financial Mail

Jeremy Ord and Co. lash back

The former Didata execs have slammed Jason Goodall's confessional

Jeremy Ord.

R209m confession reshapes Dimension Data Campus case

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

The R21bn extravagance of Sanlam’s simpler corporate structure

Ultimately, Sanlam wants all of a very good business

Waseem Carrim.

Carrim takes on the RAF’s unpaid claims

Incoming RAF CEO Waseem Carrim faces the challenge of a R22.18bn backlog

Stuck in the middle: Observations from a South African tourist in Mexico

First things first: The food is fabulous