Bruce Whitfield Keynote Speaker
Connecting the dots between Big Tobacco and Big Oil

Connecting the dots between Big Tobacco and Big Oil

From the Financial Times this week, following a negative trading update from tobacco behemoth British American Tobacco: “BAT, which makes...

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One of the biggest minds in money has died

One of the biggest minds in money has died

Batman had Robin, Fred Astaire had Ginger Rogers, John Lennon had Paul McCartney, Steve Jobs had Steve Wozniak (but both...

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How to destroy a business in one weekend

How to destroy a business in one weekend

The OpenAI board would have had its reasons for sacking founder Sam Altman - but as my late grandfather would...

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How you leave a job is important

How you leave a job is important

David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary and his elevation to the House of Lords will be a comfort to failed...

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Why do you do what you do?

Why do you do what you do?

The word “purpose” is becoming as over-used as “innovation” was a decade ago.Few people will ever find real meaning in...

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We are a land of winners, led by thieving dunces

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...

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Avoid paying this tax

Avoid paying this tax

"In this world,” wrote American statesman Benjamin Franklin to French physicist Jean Baptiste Leroy as the French Revolution kicked off...

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Flying – like insurance is a grudge purchase

Flying – like insurance is a grudge purchase

Flying – like insurance is increasingly a grudge purchaseI can say without fear of contradiction that flying has lost its...

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New brooms across FirstRand

New brooms across FirstRand

Africa’s most valuable banking group FirstRand has announced sweeping leadership changes which take place over the next six months which...

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Pick n Pay hires pensioner as CEO

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...

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The man who brought global super marketing principles to South Africa – Raymond Ackerman

The man who brought global super marketing principles to South Africa – Raymond Ackerman

The man who brought global super marketing principles to South Africa has died. Raymond Ackerman bought four small Cape Town...

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20 years of financial journalism

20 years of financial journalism

I’d worked in radio as a general news reporter and (far too young) as an editor in South Africa and...

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