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Joburg property market rebound. Rawpixel/Currency collage

Is Joburg’s property market on the mend? 

A dramatic drop in the number of properties on offer may finally herald a change in Joburg’s long property recession

Gold vs bitcoin in world on fire. Rawpixel/Currency collage

The big split: why gold is acting like a reserve asset and bitcoin isn’t

The market clearly isn’t ready to grant bitcoin ‘safe haven’ status just yet, thanks in part to its youth and former volatility

Curro school. Photo by Gallo Images/Papi Morake

Curro’s slam-dunk deal leaves Moutons in the dollar seats  

Investors overwhelmingly backed Jannie Mouton’s philanthropic share swap, which leaves the Moutons with a tax-efficient windfall

Kenneth Makate: Photo by Gallo Images / City Press / Leon Sadiki / Rawpixel / Currency collage

Makate’s ‘Please call me’: when R47m isn’t enough

‘Please Call Me’ inventor Nkosana Kenneth Makate saw his R28bn hopes turn into a R13m bill – a sobering story of ambition and the cost of expectation

The Art of Spending Money: Morgan Housel

A lot of spending makes no sense until you peel back the layers of someone’s personality to identify what they’re trying to accomplish.

Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos attend the F1 Grand Prix Of Monaco on May 25, 2025 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/FilmMagic)

Bezos, bubbles and bad taste: the billionaire wedding no-one wanted

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez throw a foam party on a $500m yacht before their Venice wedding – they are the billionaires we love to hate

Money marriage

Talk about money – or the divorce

Money silence can ruin relationships; you need to talk openly about finances, from budgets to debt to shared goals

Jean Pierre Verster. Protea Capital Management. Picture: supplied

How I spend my currency … with Jean Pierre Verster

The hedge fund manager on shorting shares, the problem with the dopamine rush, and how to build wealth