White expat South Africans returning in record numbers
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 […]
The story of SA in two depressing charts
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 […]
Lessons for SA from South America
Two South American countries – Colombia and Venezuela – offer lessons in governance that we would do well to heed. Colombia is now one of […]
How SAA shot down its rivals with taxpayer money
Competition never sat easy with SAA, which used R30 billion in taxpayer-funded bailouts over the last decade to shut down a string of competitors, from […]
How the banks are targeting black home owners in Cosmo City
The financial crisis has percolated down to first time home buyers in Cosmo City near Johannesburg, many of whom claim they have been evicted irregularly […]
Ostrich farmer from Eastern Cape shows court his mortgage loan is now in Taiwan
An ostrich farmer from Grahamstown has thrown the local court into a spin by apparently proving that his mortgage loan with Standard Bank has been […]
Meet the man who tried to arrest the board of Standard Bank
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 gets snot-klapped in the Pretoria High Court by women’s army
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 […]
How one man’s life was ruined when he took on the bank
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 […]
Fraud accusations fly over Nedbank liquidation of guest lodge
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 […]