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Statement: The Financial Services Board (FSB) is disappointed with the sentence handed down to Mr J Arthur Brown by the Western Cape High Court today. The FSB believes that the fine of R150 000.00 or 36 months in prison does not acknowledge the extent of the damage caused by Mr Brown’s actions.
Nothing beats a good burger. While there’s a time and place for a speciality burger, an everyday burger on the run can’t be scoffed at. Finweek contributor James-Brent Styan took it upon himself to find the best burger in the country. We thank him for his public service.
“Tradition is alive and well, especially in Swaziland, where King Mswati calls the shots. Being an absolute monarch, means Mswati has the power to choose Swaziland’s prime minister and other top government posts. The Swazi King is, however, especially notorious for his opulent lifestyle,” says Finweek government spy Statecrafty of King Mswati’s traditionalist views at the World Economic Forum.
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“Despite massive interest in Africa from the global real estate industry, little is being done to proactively market the continent abroad,” says Tony Galetti. Africa is still regarded as a comparatively underdeveloped continent, being one of the last remaining regions that can allow for a significant amount of future growth. But actively attracting direct foreign investment in local properties and development remains severely lacking.
Job security? Jobs haven’t been a form of security in decades, writes Douglas Kruger
The new proposed racial demographic representation clause in the new draft BEE Codes will have a dramatic impact on the business world and the people most affected by this will be the Indian population, explains Dean Oberholzer. [Read more]
Finweek editor Marc Ashton sets the record straight about Capitec [Read more]
Preoccupation with the preservation of traditional South African knowledge has led to potentially damaging proposed changes to local intellectual property law, argues Dr Sadulla Karjiker of Stellenbosch University. [Read more]
On Tuesday a private jet touched down upon the landing strip of the Waterkloof air force base – a national key point. But the passengers aboard the aeroplane were neither South African cabinet ministers nor our head of state President Jacob Zuma as one would have expected. [Read more]
