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TJ Strydom is a business author and journalist. He has written and reported for Reuters, the Sunday Times, Financial Mail and Beeld. He is the author of Christo Wiese: Risk & Riches, Koos Bekker’s Billions and Capitec: Stalking Giants.
Yuppiechef co-founder Andrew Smith unpacks ‘Handwritten’, the memoir built from decades of journals and one very pink business
Sasol shares are up 50%, to R215, since the start of the war. A year ago they were trading at less than R60. What’s the prognosis?
The retailer is keeping suppliers and shoppers on board thanks to a ruthless handle on its selling costs
It’s a windfall for savers and investors countrywide as Treasury lifts the annual contribution limit, for the first time in half a decade
This year’s budget is the most pro-wealth and pro-growth it has been in years, thanks to higher tax brackets, VAT thresholds and CGT exclusions
Gambling, grants, ghost workers and more …
A lyrical journey through Pablo Neruda’s Isla Negra home, exploring the poet’s curiosities, politics, solitude and Chile’s unforgettable food and drink
Not too long ago, Naspers’s e-commerce businesses were burning cash. Now they’re almost all profitable, while the Tencent juggernaut soldiers on
South Africa’s fiscus has been saved by the incredible run in gold prices
National Treasury is on the warpath for almost 9,000 ghost workers on government’s books
There’s more than AI-hype to its credit scoring models, says the JSE’s newest fintech listing
Will a tie-up with Capitec – the banking Midas – help Dis-Chem leapfrog rival Clicks in the market share wars?
A company raising primary capital on the JSE is a rare thing – but Optasia reckons the local market is primed for its fintech offerings
Its teal-coloured scooters are emblematic of Shoprite’s great run, and the latest set of financial results delivered, again
Naspers and Prosus’s sprawling business is in the black – even without Chinese investment Tencent
Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie will leave the bank in September. He’s had a sterling 25-year run at the business
‘Money’ author David McWilliams isn’t writing South Africa off yet – but it needs to shake off its emerging-market curse and kickstarts its factories again
Opening up on credit, investing big in tech and paying out more cash: Capitec is on a roll
Amazon’s Sub-Saharan Africa MD on healthy competition, ‘making a plan’, and South Africans’ optimism
Old Mutual Investment Group is banking on an underwhelming performance by US stocks, and a strong showing by some JSE majors
