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THICK END OF THE WEDGE: #Gupta: An affair to remember

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Peter Bruce: Mcebisi Jonas's bombshell makes the entire Optimum acquisition moot

‘Spoils factionalism’ will ensure Zuma stays in place

President Jacob Zuma’s defiance in Parliament shows still he feels untouchable after damaging disclosure, writes Natasha Marrian

STREET DOGS: Reprehensible Mr Miser

Michel Pireu: What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?

THE INSIDER: Mentor for minister of speaking truth to power

Vytjie Mentor.  Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

We have established that Vytjie Mentor will not be bought, now we know she won’t be ‘raffled’ either

Selling a DA/EFF coalition to the voters

Polls show Democratic Alliance faces a tough sell to an audience deeply distrustful of a coalition with unsuitable EFF, writes Gareth van Onselen

How to explain former president’s denialism

Mbeki’s continuing failure to see the obvious is so puzzling that one is compelled to wonder what is happening inside him, writes Jonny Steinberg

HALF ART: Art is not a blank canvas for protesters’ outrage

We are at risk of turning the gallery space and the city street alike into stages for elaborate tit-for-tat pageants, writes Chris Thurman

LIQUID INVESTMENTS: You can’t make great wine from young vines

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There is now an entire generation of wine makers who have never tasted properly mature wine, writes Michael Fridjhon


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UNEMBARGOED: Leaner SA needs policy reorientation and real sacrifices

The days of leaving everything to the Treasury appear to be over. Our problems are not about fiscal management, but about politics, writes Songezo Zibi

Mentor just one of ANC’s inconvenient women

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President Jacob Zuma’s callous lack of recall unlikely as ANC caucus chairwoman Vytjie Mentor looms large in collective memory, writes Lindiwe Mazibuko

The hours demanded suck the life out of you

Great ideas may not keep office hours, but exhaustion and stifled creativity are not the solution, writes Suhana Gordhan

Knowing the price of a share is easy, but its value is trickier to ascertain

If picking winners was as easy as buying shares trading at under their net asset value with a high dividend yield, everyone would be as rich as Warren Buffet, writes Robert Laing

Do we want a system that allows a judge to separate justice and the law?

Steven Friedman

If people who murder in the hope of starting a racial war do not have to serve their full sentence, who does, asks Steven Friedman

THE INSIDER: Wine allocation for former wife

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The former wife of UK hedge-fund manager claims R231,000 a year for wine in a child-maintenance case

EDITOR’S NOTE: One at a time — how difficult can that be?

SA’s financial hub should probably be renamed Constructionton, writes Mark Smyth

STREET DOGS: Is it sustainable?

Michel Pireu: Credit seems to have morphed into something destructive as opposed to growth enhancing, says Bill Gross

THE INSIDER: Zuma’s jaundiced cops watched like a hawk

Jacob Zuma. Picture: GCIS

Gunning for Gordhan has implications for President Jacob Zuma’s ‘time in court’ after all

AT HOME AND ABROAD: What should happen when Jacob Zuma takes a walk?

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Recalling Jacob Zuma as president will not suffice to get us out of the hole he’s dug, writes Allister Sparks

A country downgrade would be utter misery for all

Particularly worth watching are SA’s big five banks — a downgrade is likely to affect them disproportionately, writes Hilary Joffe

Crisis offers occasion for all to achieve interests

Democracy in South Africa may be harder to maintain than it was to bring into reality, writes Xhanti Payi

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