Rational Perspective

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Flash Briefing: Trade truce cracks; Glencore ructions; Tencent listing; Eskom loadshedding.

In today’s global headlines…. Asset prices rebounded overnight with the major US indices...

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Flash Briefing: Qatar dumps OPEC; Mboweni targets investment grade; US/China Trade War truce

In today’s global headlines…. As was telegraphed in the run-up to the G20 meeting in Buenos...

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Flash Briefing: Deutsche Bank raided; US Blue Wave; Trade war truce?; Intu price collapse

In today’s global headlines…. The reputation of once mighty Deutsche Bank hit a fresh low...

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Flash Briefing: US Tech stocks; Unilever's Pohlman; Brexit's new fan; KPMG and SA

In today’s global headlines…. US stock markets bounced back strongly last night, the...

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Flash Briefing: Trump tantrum; ending SLPs; MSFT v AAPL; Vitality's global breakthrough

In today’s global headlines…. US President Donald Trump is back into his feisty mode,...

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Flash Briefing: Battery plant for SA; GM; Mrs May's rebound; Goldman Sachs; Rossing

In today’s global headlines…. The reality of the US-instigated trade war has started coming...

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Flash Briefing 26 Nov: Crypto Crash, G20, TenCent, BDO, Brexit divorce

In today’s headlines…. It took just 38 minutes for the dissolution of Britain’s 45 year...

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Flash Briefing: Brexit, Ghosn, Huawei, EFF and Majestic

Three stories dominate the global headlines this morning: From London, Brexit enters another...

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Ursel Barnes' Yabonga, the Cape project transforming young lives

Life is full of paradoxes. Among them, that the greatest of those who walk among us are rarely...

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Denis Worrall: Secrets of the top Apartheid-era diplomat

For three years during the watershed period of apartheid, Dr Denis Worrall was the hardline...

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Biznews Global portfolio: After October's 14% wipeout, what now?

With the four year old Biznews Global Share portfolio peaking at an annualised return of 41% in...

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Long4Life: Brian Joffe second act is a bet on SA's Rama-recovery

It’s exactly 30 years since chartered accountant Brian Joffe created Bidvest, a multinational...

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Reviving memory of SA WW2 hero and activist that Nats wrote out of history

It’s over a decade since David Rattray was murdered at his famous Fugitives Drift Lodge....

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VBS: A sickening Third World Ponzi scheme fuelled by politicians

Uncovering of the VBS scandal is a marvellous example of how the sophisticated, first world side...

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Biographer Anthony Butler: Decoding enigma that is Cyril Ramaphosa

Biographies account for at least half the books I own, a legacy of long held fascination for...

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Prologue to a Crash: Nene on why he resisted Zuma's nuclear folly

Listening to yesterday’s testimony by South African finance minister Nhlanhla Nene was riveting....

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Adrian Lackay: How Tom Moyane used lawyers, media to capture SARS

When future historians chronicle the beacons of resistance during South Africa’s destructive...

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Unpacking unintended consequences of Elon Musk's $7bn Tesla tweet

It’s been an insane six weeks for South African-born-and-bred super entrepreneur Elon Musk....

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Next week 10% tariff, next year 25% - Trump's trade war gets real

Most analysts had discounted the prospect of a trade war between Donald Trump’s America and his...

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Peter Hain on Mandela, Ramaphosa and white South Africans

It’s always special to visit with Peter Hain, the anti-apartheid icon who had a highly...

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