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The town of Harrismith gets a reprieve for now

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Noseweek.                         SA National Roads Agency’s (Sanral) determination to […]

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State-owned enterprises drag SA to the brink of junk

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Finweek.   SA’s persistently weak growth and the stench of failure in its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has dragged the country […]

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The medieval state of SA’s home repossessions industry

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Moneyweb.                         A recent study of home repossessions puts […]

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Did Standard Bank lie and cheat to get its hands on computer programme?

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Noseweek . Did Standard Bank lie and cheat to steal an idea worth billions? When atm and internet fraud started […]

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Residents fight back against banks’ eviction tactics

December 8, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

This article first appeared in Groundup. A group called Lungelo Lethu Human Rights Foundation is preparing a class action suit against the four major banks […]

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How SA slept through the BEE revolution

December 8, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

This article first appeared in Moneyweb. When the term Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) first floated into the South African business and political lexicon in the […]

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Is there a better tax system than the monstrosity currently in place?

October 31, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

This article first appeared in Moneyweb. Is there a better tax system than the monstrosity currently in place? Stephen Meintjes, analyst at Momentum SP Reid […]

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White expat South Africans returning in record numbers

October 31, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

More than 400,000 white expat South Africans have returned to the land of their birth since the apex of the financial crisis in 2009, according […]

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The story of SA in two depressing charts

October 31, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

Two charts tell the story of South Africa Inc. One shows that SA companies cannot invest outside the country fast enough, and the other shows […]

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Lessons for SA from South America

October 12, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

Two South American countries – Colombia and Venezuela – offer lessons in governance that we would do well to heed. Colombia is now one of […]

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