Professor Owen Skae, director of the Rhodes Business School, says there is a “fantastic variety” of executive education courses available. “It provides a great opportunity to rethink, reboot and decide if you want to take the bigger step of plunging

the outlook for some of the JSE’s largest mining shares by value in 2021 may have more to do with as yet unnamed management, rather than the incumbents. That’s because a permanent change of management is imminent for two of the bourse’s largest gold

serial entrepreneur and lecturer of business strategy at the University of Cape Town, Rowan Spazzoli, has always been aware of how difficult it was for SMMEs to secure financing. He felt driven to do something about this after reading the results of

the Covid-19 recovery will be digital, reads the title of McKinsey& Company’s insights paper on how the pandemic has led to changes in customer behaviour and preferred interactions. Recent data shows that we have vaulted five years forward in consume

the wine industry was already in financial dire straits when the Covid-19 ban of alcohol sales started, with the number of producers declining from 4 360 to 2 778 and the number of wine cellars declining from 581 to 533 between 2005 to 2019, accordin

the key feature of a long-term portfolio is which assets you hold in it. But there are other considerations that you must also stay on top of. Firstly, how do you split the portfolio between passively and actively managed assets? I always advocate th

R70 to R90: Roodeberg, Alvi’s Drift  R50 to R70: Kleine Zalze Chenin Blanc or Hedgehog Below R50: Tangled Tree, Delush If you're looking for something different from Distell or KWV’s old faithfuls, try these: R800 to R1 200: Tokara XO Potstill Brandy

Sasol has burnt its pockets in its colossal chemical investment in Louisiana in the US, dubbed the Lake Charles chemicals project. A series of delays and cost overruns have been the biggest contributor to Sasol’s financial woes in recent years. Once

at the end of 2019, websites and e-catalogues were simply useful additions to art auctions where the real thing could be scrutinised, evaluated, admired, desired and eventually auctioned off. Direct contact was non-negotiable and when the hammer came

• The single-biggest advantage of buying a used car will always be value for money. One can get a used car for less, with more features. • A new car depreciates the minute it is driven off the dealer floor. It continues to do this year after year and

■ Focus on the electric vehicle market ■ Pivot from ride sharing to personal mobility ■ Generation Z’s new-found enthusiasm for learning to drive and owning a car ■ Virtual test drives, like Digi Cars’ Livestore ■ Dealership rightsizing and increasin

the JSE is on its way to closing the year at a much healthier level than it started at. This indicates that market players are anticipating a recovery of most of the bigger shares in 2021. Some 61% of the top 100 issuers on the JSE, as measured by ma

call it the seesaw year. Or a stop-and-go year. Or the year of the two dips. Or the year of the miraculous recovery. Whatever the choice of words, 2020 will be remembered as a year of exceptional volatility as the global pandemic wreaked havoc on glo

Naspers Limited (Registration number: 1925/001431/06) (Naspers or the group) JSE share code: NPN ISIN: ZAE000015889 LSE code: NPSN ISIN: US6315122092 www.naspers.com September 2020 marked the first anniversary of the listing of Prosus on the Euronext

the battered global economy is expected to begin its long journey to recovery from the impact of Covid-19 next year, provided that ambitious plans to roll out effective vaccines to billions of people stay on track, reducing the threat of renewed rest

as the finweek team put together the December 2019 issue a year ago, I distinctly remember how our markets expert, Maarten Mittner cautioned that we should “expect the unexpected” in 2020. Little did we know just how bizarre and devastating 2020 woul

as a journalist who has won an award for consumer education, having written countless articles punting good financial sense on behalf of the experts I regularly interview, the exercise of looking back on my personal investment portfolio’s performance

social media has changed politics. It is now much easier for leaders to talk directly to their followers. In the US, Barack Obama was one of the first presidents to use social media to bolster support. Donald Trump tweets almost daily to his more tha

in 2020, the agricultural sector’s export figures gave welcoming support to the country’s balance of payments. In addition, South Africa’s agricultural value chain has played a crucial role in stimulating economic growth and social stability in the c

just as I thought broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) policy had been relegated to the backseat of public discourse, it has stormed back into the front seat. Between 2010 and 2019, the policy went into a lull due to a significant reductio

running a small-, medium- or micro-enterprise (SMME) in South Africa has been an extreme sport for a few years now. Local SMMEs have been contending with a myriad of hurdles. Operating in a sluggish economy, lack of funding, crime, little or debilita

Acting Editor Jana Jacobs Deputy Editor Jaco Visser Journalists and Contributors Simon Brown, Jacques Claassen, Lucas de Lange, Johan Fourie, Moxima Gama, Mariam Isa, Glenneis Kriel, Schalk Louw, David McKay, Maarten Mittner, Johan Myburg, Brendan Pe

Businesses that were quick to diversify and move to industries and products or services that were in demand during this period will be in a better position as we venture into 2021, according to Dr Jabulile Msimango-Galawe, senior lecturer at the Wits