The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Thabo Bester is quite a character. The convicted murderer, rapist and con-man not only ran a successful business from his jail cell but he even had…
Good Prescience – Bad Prescience
Will Keys, Prescience: “The fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge”. I contrast and compare the 45th POTUS, Donald Trump, previously a NYC property developer with the South African born…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again Last Friday Business Day featured an editorial “SA spiralling and into a gangster state” The murders, rapes and robberies are simply too terrifying for words and…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The main news this week, and we were all expecting it, was on Monday when Julius Malema called for a day of shut-down. Malema called for…
The Week That Was,
Gerald Potash, Hello again, This has been a bad, bad week for us and next week threatens to be worse. This week a four year old child at a play-school…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, At last Cyril, after keeping us waiting for almost two months announced his cabinet changes on Monday evening with fully half of the country in darkness…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Last Thursday evening Andre de Ruyter was interviewed on one of our popular TV news channels. While he was being interviewed, he was still the CEO…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Eskom is a disaster. For the first time ever more than half of its generating capacity was out of service this week. Load shedding has been…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, SONA, the State of the Nation address by Cyril last Thursday night pushed Tottenham Hotspur and the proposed tourism deal right off the front pages of…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Tottenham Hotspur. Very often, OK nearly always, I end these newsletters mentioning the Spurs’ results but never have I started with a Spurs story. The English…