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We are a land of winners, led by thieving dunces
South Africa has survived bad leaders for generations, and it will the current lot. What the 2023 Rugby World Cup has again demonstrated is that South Africans are so much more than those that manage to ooze their way into positions of political power, and, in too many cases, abuse the trust of long-suffering voters.…
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Avoid paying this tax
“In this world,” wrote American statesman Benjamin Franklin to French physicist Jean Baptiste Leroy as the French Revolution kicked off in 1789, “nothing can be certain, except death and taxes.” It’s as true today as it was 234 years ago. You are subjected to tax from the moment you are born till after you are…
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Flying – like insurance is a grudge purchase
Flying – like insurance is increasingly a grudge purchase I can say without fear of contradiction that flying has lost its allure since Covid. Despite the emergence of some feisty new competitors there is little joy to be had in pretzelling oneself into the sardine-can conditions of economy on either domestic or international routes. For…
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Pick n Pay hires pensioner as CEO
South Africa’s once-dominant food retailer Pick n Pay has gone back to the future and hired a former CEO, who at the age of 70, is relishing a return to the fray. Sean Summers, whose resignation as CEO of Pick n Pay 17 years ago, was followed by a decade and a half of underperformance by…
