Question: We recently sold a property and want to invest the proceeds offshore. Our children are living in England, so we are thinking of buying a property there. We can use it when we go and visit the grandchildren and when we are in South Africa, we can rent it out as an Airbnb. What do you.
There is no conclusive view on just how much a CEO’s input can affect the performance of a company. Studies flip-flop between huge impact (50% of revenue) and almost no impact at all. Given the number of variables that go into such studies, and across so many industries, it’s understandable.
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In the last few weeks, Covid-19 has hit Durban extremely hard. Many families have had to contend with a number of bereavements and the difficulty of holding funerals under current conditions.
It is a time of generalised crisis. There is a lot of academic work that shows that in times of general crisis – wars, earthquakes, floods and the like – there are often amazing forms of solidarity that emerge in society.
Rebecca Solnit’s important 2010 book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, bears testimony to that. It was published after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
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The long-awaited SANEF-commissioned report on media ethics and credibility has surfaced, with some far-reaching recommendations. But the report, which is more than 300 pages long, has one big flaw, or gaping hole, or lacuna, to use legal parlance, if you like: the Independent Newspapers group was hardly covered. This is the country’s biggest print company and it does not belong to the Press Council of South Africa.
The impetus for the inquiry into ethics and credibility was The Sunday Times debacle of three sets of stories between 2011 and 2016: the SARS “rogue unit”, the Cato Manor “death squads” series and the Zimbabwe “renditions” pieces – for which it had to retract and apologise. The Sunday Times, which subscribes to the Press Council, abided by the Ombud’s decisions and its then editor, Bongani Siqoko, apologised in 2018. The brief to the panel was to cover all news media (except for the SABC, which was already engaged in an inquiry) and n