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.

Parks Tau.

TIM COHEN: Has Parks Tau accidentally invented an escape route from BEE?

Now here's a delicious irony

Alexa, what’s an existential crisis?

AI mavens are saying their baby might kill us all

Acsa’s post-Covid comeback hits the runway

Acsa gets back to pre-Covid traffic, with a rather large staff bill

Transnet has been struggling to provide adequate services due to underinvestment.

Transnet: from operations to capital crisis  

How Transnet will finance the next phase of its turnaround is anyone's guess

Malcolm Marx

Can Marxist economics conquer Baltimore?

The Boks and All Blacks take their rivalry to the US

TIM COHEN: A genius idea for a pot of boodle

How to Solve SA’s R51bn unclaimed pensions problem

Africa Bitcoin Corporation’s Warren Wheatley. Picture: Supplied.

Behind the ructions at Africa’s first Bitcoin treasury firm 

Regulator hits founders with thumping sanctions and debars them for 20-years

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PODCAST: ListenUP! The final countdown

Mark Barnes and Tim Cohen say cheers and thanks for the fish

TIM COHEN: If it doesn’t work, do we still need it?

Do we still need the Financial & Fiscal Commission?

Ralph Mupita. Picture: Freddy Mavunda

After years of de-risking, is MTN at the start of a new era? 

MTN enters its expansionary phase, again

Soz, Sez. Why South Africa needs to do a Shenzhen with its Special Economic Zones  

South Africa needs to redesign its SEZ obstacle course

Image: Siphiwe Sibeko

TIM COHEN: Eskom’s bog-standard revolution

South Africa’s electricity reform is neither novel nor ideological, but it does seem necessary.

Another CEO, another SAA mystery

Turbulence at the top for SAA as another leader departs.

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PODCAST: ‘ListenUP!’ — what’s the word, Johannesburg

The city is due for a reset in November, but for better or worse?

The great diamond divide

You are going to have two separate diamond markets, says National Jeweler editor Michelle Graff

It’s the end of diamonds as we know them (but lab-growns are fine)

The diamond industry faces a crisis as lab-grown stones destroy prices and threaten the economics of natural-diamond mining. But the value of scarcity may save natural diamonds.

Fifa’s fandangos

Fifa President Gianni Infantino faces a major challenge to his authority. With an endorsement from Trump, his re-election bid hangs in the balance.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable business tool

TIM COHEN: Separating signal from slop

The FM is defying the conventional wisdom by not only continuing its print edition, but expanding it. One reason is that the need for the filter of reputable journalism grows…

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PODCAST: ‘ListenUP!’ – Fifa’s fables, foibles and fraud

The football governing body is learning a tough lesson about sport and money. Talk about an own goal!

FSCA

Criminal syndicates may be infiltrating licensed financial firms

The FSCA has levied R2.9bn in penalties, with Banxso, the licensed financial-services business linked to deepfake advertising, leading the way