The luxury crown lies heavy on Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior
LVMH failing to deliver another blockbuster quarter should be a worry for the company - and the high-end sector as a whole.For the first...
Organised crime can corrupt civic honesty
Study shows a rise in civic dishonesty in countries with high levels of organised crime in the private and public sphere because citizens more...
Jail for selling loose smokes
The National Informal Traders Alliance of SA has warned that thousands of livelihoods are at risk because people can be jailed for selling a...
Tenderpreneurs misunderstand the goal of BEE
OPINION: It is a fact that many politically-connected tenderpreneurs who have been awarded many government-linked contracts have just been in it for themselves without...
A small, but telling, blow against Big Man politics
CARPING POINT: It wasn’t the video of the VIP protection unit officers beating and kicking their victims, while armed to the teeth, that was...
Steinhoff debacle raises questions of governance
OPINION: The big question that the Steinhoff International debacle raises is whether the corporate governance requirement for having non-executive and independent directors to exercise...
Can the SA Reserve Bank reverse its course?
OPINION: The SA Reserve Bank says its mandate is to protect the value of the rand, but that approach is not working given the...
The EFF has reason to celebrate
OPINION: In the main, the EFF has been on an upward trajectory. The results of local government elections and student leaders at tertiary institutions...
In a world afraid of music, Sinead O’Connor didn’t flinch
PERSPECTIVE: Her voice was strong enough to stop time. Many wanted it silenced, writes Chris Richards.By Chris RichardsSINÉAD O'Connor sang in a voice big...
When ‘no, we can’t’ just won’t do
It’s high time that retail companies learn that they need to properly train their staff who deal with customers face to face.MORE and more...
