Journalism

Jonathan Buckley of Centurion in Pretoria may be the first South African in history to win six judgments against Standard Bank in one day. When […]

Absa’s troubles in its mortgage division just got a whole lot worse. Barely two months after losing two similar cases in the South Gauteng High […]

Durban-based Nav Chan started questioning FNB’s eBucks rewards calculations. They just didn’t make sense. Weeks later his accounts were cancelled and he found himself listed […]

A Johannesburg guest lodge was liquidated by Nedbank this week despite accusations of fraud and perjury. Why would the bank shut down a lodge over […]

A new book out by two economists of the Austrian persuasion is a wake-up call for those who believe Zimbabwe’s well-documented plunge into the abyss […]

In what must rank as one of the most bizarre legal cases in recent times, Durban-based businessman Ian Brakspear had his family business liquidated in […]

“Do you believe in black magic?” asked Tinus, a well-educated Ghanaian who has travelled abroad and now worked as an accountant for one of the […]

If history teaches us anything, it is that inflation usually ends in violence. The Johannesburg-based economic research house ETM Analytics, which has a strong Austrian […]

NEW research appears to show a direct link between inflation and South Africa’s social violence. In the months before the Marikana massacre, in which more […]

More than 20 years have passed since Nelson Mandela was released from prison, yet many – if not most – South Africans still labour under […]