Creator
Kevin Davie
Kevin Davie is M&G's business editor. A journalist for more than 30 years, he has worked in senior positions at most major titles in the country. Davie is a Nieman Fellow (1995-1996) and cyberspace innovator, having co-founded SA's first online-only news portal, Woza, and the first online stockbroking operation. He is a lecturer at Wits Journalism. In his spare time he can be found riding a bicycle, usually somewhere remote.
Copies of rock art treasure trove a homage to magnificence
Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, will this rock art collection be taken out of storage for South Africans to see? This is the final…
Between lunacy and scholarship: being Leo Frobenius
A captivating and absorbing three part journey into the southern African rock art images, their journey from caves, to museums all over the world, their role in shaping avante…
Rediscovering Southern Africa’s rock art treasures
Part one of a three-part story about Southern African rock art’s journey from caves to museums all over the world, its role in shaping avant garde and its return to Africa
‘Be bold, take risks’ to fix economy
Everyone has different solutions, but they all agree that time is running out — and Eskom is the priority
Cosatu has a plan to save Eskom
The union federation says urgent, bold action is needed to keep the state-owned utility (and South Africa) going
Netflix and the smash hit tax dodge
‘The Laundromat’ is a film about corporates and the superrich using tax havens, something the streaming service itself allegedly excels at
Asset manager culls coal
South African giants in the firing line as investor decides to drop carbon-heavy companies
Free up energy before the budget
Cyril Ramaphosa wants to do the right thing – bring independent power producers on to the grid. He must act despite opposition from top ANC members
Move to renewables already here
The electricity crisis has spurred the government on to use independent power producers to boost the grid
Cosatu suggests an Eskom solution
The union federation offers unprecedented concessions on job protections
Whatever happened to Ramaphoria?
“Overall it seems not only is Ramaphoria dead [it was never alive] but the long arc of reform potential is being lost in the discourse."
SAA rescue ‘least of worst options’
Government has taken the business rescue route in a bid to halt an ‘uncontrolled implosion’ of the airline
Women are fixing the planet
Female bosses at the IMF, ECB and EU are putting climate at the heart of policymaking
King Coal defies his energy plan
Gwede Mantashe needs to shift from costly, climate crisis-inducing fossil fuels to renewables
Is your cash fuelling the climate crisis?
The record of South Africa’s banks and its top 10 carbon emitters in disclosing steps to mitigate climate-related risks is poor