ICYMI: đź“Ł What's up in the VAT?
Stand Up! BusinessInvestment banker Mark Barnes and Business Maverick editor Tim Cohen unwrap the news. A new edition of StandUp!
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ICYMI: đź”” Three possible ways to reduce state expenditure to avoid the VAT increase
One of the most extraordinary aspects of Budget 2025 was how little work Treasury had done on the expenditure side
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I.am.not.making.this.up💥: VAT’s all, folks! The hot mic that exposed Treasury’s tax turmoil
Thank goodness for the occasional hot mic. What politicians say all over the world is now so scripted, and controlled,
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ICYMI: 🔔 Gold vs Bitcoin – a crucial arm-wrestling match still to be decided
his year at the World Economic Forum there was a fascinating interaction between South Africa’s Reserve Bank governor Lesetja
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I.am.not.making.this.upđź’Ą: Chainsaws, weirdos, and the shrinking state - why maverick leaders are winning
Or... why is reducing the size of government becoming a vote-winner?
If there was an iconic image of elections worldwide
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ICYMI: đź”” Making bribery great again
or observers of international news, the past three weeks have felt like a never-ending series of shock waves with each
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ICYMI: đź”” The harsh mathematics of land reform in SA
President Donald Trump’s executive order on Friday offering to resettle Afrikaner “refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination” invites the question:
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ICYMI:đź””What would positive land ownership legislation look like?
After the Bell: What would positive SA land ownership legislation look like?In order to confiscate land, the Constitution had
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I.am.not.making.this.upđź’Ą: Sun Tzu vs the two-headed Hydra, or How does SA outmanoeuvre Trump and Musk?
What should South Africa do in the face of the sudden emergence of the two-headed Musk/Trump hydra from the
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I.am.not.making.this.up💥Behind the Blackout: The paranoia fuelling SA’s latest load-shedding crisis
Just when South Africans thought load-shedding was a thing of the past, it has returned. It's like the
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ICYMI đź“Ł : Is there enough common ground in the GNU in the year of the snake?
Stand Up! BusinessInvestment banker Mark Barnes and Business Maverick editor Tim Cohen unwrap the news. A new edition of StandUp!
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ICYMI 🔔 : Will the ANC’s throw-money-at-it solution work for Transnet?
After the Bell: Will the ANC’s throw-money-at-it solution work for Transnet’s dire straits?Now that Eskom has managed
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