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BRUCE WHITFIELD: Seven lessons from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
The Berkshire Hathaway double act fundamentally influenced our understanding of money, wealth creation — and relationships
BRUCE WHITFIELD: ‘We are a land of winners, led by thieving dunces’
I wish that was my headline, but it’s not. It’s a frustration expressed by tech guru Herman Singh ahead of South Africa’s record-breaking fourth Rugby World Cup victory
New brooms cross FirstRand
It's a wholesale executive overhaul with a new CEO, new fintech head and a new chair at Africa's most valuable banking group
BRUCE WHITFIELD: Pick n Pay hires pensioner as CEO
Sean Summers — the CEO who once led the retailer to the top of the pile, is back, in a desperate bid to save the former blue chip company
BRUCE WHITFIELD: Yes, South Africa is miserable and Sona is meaningless, but …
Feeling hopeless after yet more presidential platitudes and promises? Try this
BRUCE WHITFIELD: Why the Spurs sponsorship is a good idea
South African Tourism cannot fix potholes or supply electricity. What it can do is encourage people to consider South Africa as a place to visit
BRUCE WHITFIELD: Ramaphosa is guilty of this one thing
The president’s manifest naivety in structuring his financial affairs is to blame: they should have been run in accordance with the strictest governance principles to ensure that nothing could ever be used against him
BRUCE WHITFIELD: More pay? Now? Seriously?
Civil servants have been beneficiaries of above-inflation increases for years even as the size of the real economy has shrunk
BRUCE WHITFIELD: Jacob Zuma is a mumpsimus
The former president’s relationship with the truth has always been tenuous, at best
BRUCE WHITFIELD: It doesn’t have to break
SA’s SOEs: how solid businesses have been mismanaged to the point of extinction





















