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Peter Bruce was editor-at-large at Arena Holdings (formerly Tiso Blackstar) and editor-in-chief of Business Day, Financial Mail and ABC, the broadcaster of the Business Day TV, Home Channel and Ignition channels. He was editor of Business Day from 2001 until August 2012. His previous roles include editor: Financial Mail; editor: Business Report; UK news editor: Financial Times; and Madrid correspondent, Bonn correspondent, industrial correspondent: Financial Times. He describes himself as a media junkie, a die-hard Proteas and Springbok fan and a hopeless Sharks supporter.
If the party hopes to improve on, or even equal, its 2024 result, it must accept the racial redress imperative – for starters, writes Peter Bruce
It will be a long, long time before apartheid’s legacy fades — meanwhile people like Trump add their toxins and our politicians fail to show leadership
Governments often make industrial or energy policy not only for their economies but also for themselves and their friends. This was abundantly clear in electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s Sunday announcement that the 2025…
SA is exporting its human capital en masse while scratching around in the fog of US trade talks
The party could see its vote fall below 30% nationwide in next year’s election, well beyond recovery
Nothing can be done with this country without absolutely enormous fixed investment — and we’re not even close
An imaginary crisis when there is plenty of dead steel lying around in the country
Shakedown of IDT CEO and spokesperson shows how easy corruption is here
Working around Trump’s tariffs will take far longer than it ought to, thanks to the amateurs in the Union Buildings
SA kept in the dark on Ramaphosa’s special envoy to the US, Mcebisi Jonas
Special envoy Mcebisi Jonas, as far as we know, has not once set foot in the US
What really happened in last year’s election was the vote for corruption, unemployment and low growth was split
Our biggest problem is surely the complete lack of taking responsibility at all levels of government
Can the DA seriously not craft a way to use our economic calamity as an opportunity to sell an alternative?
Conversations about actual growth won’t take place inside either the ANC or its coalition partner
