Newsmaker of the year: Zweli Mkhize
As SA’s first responder to the event that defined 2020, health minister Zweli Mkhize has had a brutal year, involving very little sleep
Can new Woolworths CEO Roy Bagattini be ‘the difference’?
Woolworths CEO Roy Bagattini has one of the toughest jobs in retail: fixing a business that has gone badly off the rails over the past few years. It’s trial by ...
Business newsmaker of the year: EOH’s Stephen van Coller
Stephen van Coller, CEO of EOH, has hit the headlines for the immense corruption he found at SA’s one-time tech wunderkind. He tells the FM about his two core ...
Society newsmaker of the year: Glenda Gray
Glenda Gray may have ended up in a spat with Zweli Mkhize this year over lockdown rules, but it says much about the respect she commands that he was the one ...
Political newsmaker of the year: Ace Magashule — Cyril’s wild card
The secretary-general of the governing party dominated political news this year. But, he tells the FM, he’s just being ‘targeted’ because people want to ...
International newsmaker of the year: Elon Musk’s genius muscle
There is no international business figure who came out of 2020 with his fortunes so radically enhanced. Despite the glut of short-sellers betting on his ...
Checkers vs Woolies: Battle of the trolleys
Woolworths has always taken the lead in high-end food shopping, but Checkers is increasingly snapping at its ankles
NATASHA MARRIAN: Bain’s bid to muzzle whistleblower
The company has yet to come clean about the full extent of former managing partner Vittorio Massone’s machinations in the state capture project
Natasha Marrian Financial Mail deputy editor & columnist
ROB ROSE: What’s Tongaat CEO Gavin Hudson’s secret?
Unlike Steinhoff, EOH and the Kebble companies, Tongaat has sprung back from an existentially threatening fraud. What’s Gavin Hudson’s secret?
Rob Rose Editor: Financial Mail
JUSTICE MALALA: The year of big man gone loco
Our politics, like the virus, is a long-term game with ups and downs; ignore the noise and frustration and look ahead
Justice Malala Columnist
TRACEY DAVIES: Bank bonuses screw the planet
Standard Bank’s climate policy is more than just hypocrisy; it shows financial institutions pay only lip service to climate goals
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MARC HASENFUSS: Resting on Rupert laurels
Very few punters, as far as I know, have rattled the cage at Reinet Investments, the offshore company controlled by the Rupert family and managed by Johann ...
Marc Hasenfuss Investors Monthly editor, writer & columnist
Hidden hand behind truck attacks?
In recent months, a wave of attacks on truck drivers has brought SA’s cement industry to a halt. A new union tells the FM it’s about ‘foreign drivers’, but it ...
EDITORIAL: Beach rules echo logic of tobacco ban
Ramaphosa was right that South Africans need to pull together and act responsibly. But shouldn’t the government set the example?
SA’s best and worst Reits
If you ignored the naysayers and bought Stor-Age, congrats. But nothing in 2020 was obvious for SA’s property stocks
British American Tobacco: Thank you for not smoking
The group’s Jack Bowles believes it can generate £5bn from new category brands like Vype, Vuse, glo and Velo by 2025
Reversing Trumpism
After four years of diplomatic failures, relations between the US and Africa are set to deepen come January when US President Joe Biden and Vice-President ...
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Wrapping up a turbulent year
Dear reader, I can only say a heartfelt thank you for staying with us during this time — even when you disagree with us
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Ramaphosa was right that South Africans need to pull together and act responsibly. But shouldn’t the government set the example?
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ROB ROSE: What’s Tongaat CEO Gavin Hudson’s secret?
Unlike Steinhoff, EOH and the Kebble companies, Tongaat has sprung back from an existentially threatening fraud. What’s Gavin Hudson’s secret?
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