After enjoying standing ovations in Oxford, the Afrocentric incarnation of Julius Caesar is now playing in Johannesburg, writes Thebe Mabanga.
The Comedy Blackout festival at the Market Theatre is a combination of the brilliant and the promising, the hilarious and the mildly funny, writes Thebe Mabanga.
Thebe Mabanga reflects on the state and status of gospel in South Africa.
Bear Khumalo adopts what can only be called an inverted pyramid approach to empowerment and a maverick, high-risk approach to investments. His modus operandi is to focus on…
The current world economic volatility should be no cause for concern for emerging markets investors. That is according to Rejane Woodroffe, an economist at Metropolitan Asset…
With the recent announcement that MTN Group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko is to purchase R266-million-worth of his company’s shares, he has — as an analyst who declined to be named put it…
The South African economy has shown resilience by withstanding a 144c petrol price increase over the past two years, but production costs threaten a benign outlook, figures…
Vusi Khanyile is one of the most unflappable defenders of an unorthodox empowerment strategy you are likely to encounter. The 55-year-old founding MD, now chairperson and CEO of…
Over the past decade, Gold Fields and AngloGold have entered Ghana respectively through the purchase of mines in Tarkwa, a town about 45 minutes by plane north-west of the…
It is, to be sure, a time like no other. On Wednesday the JSE touched a record high of 21 000, at one point trading at 21 150. When the JSE started its current rally two Octobers…
Steel giant Mittal came under pressure from academia and the government recently in its continuing battle over steel prices. Mittal reacted with legal and tactical aggression in…
The events of the past month serve to remind us that the path to economic prosperity is a precarious one, filled with all manner of shocks and disruptions. The events also show,…
After 120 years of convincing companies of the merits of listing and being publicly traded, the JSE will on June 5 list on its own main board, joining peers including the London…
One of the more eyebrow-raising, intriguing executive moves of recent times has been that of Peter Moyo, who last November gave up his position as deputy MD of Old Mutual South…
First National Bank (FNB), the country’s largest vehicle and one of the four largest retail banks, is being sued for R145-million over one of banking’s most innovative products.…
South Africa’s latest skills recruitment drive is an initiative infused with a sense of urgency by its driver, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Set to be launched later…
The South African business and mining landscape has just witnessed a low-key move by a giant in continental, or rather, global business. Sam Jonah, former executive president of…
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel understandably celebrated South Africa’s economic fortunes and placed a surprisingly high degree of faith on the global economy. Unveiling his 10th…
Recently, one of empowerment’s youngest veterans, if one may call him that, put together a relatively small and simple deal, but one that launches his company to an important…
Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni kept interest rates unchanged, with the repo rate at 7% and in turn a prime rate of 10,5%. And this week the JSE breached the magical level of…
