by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 25, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics Mr Godongwana debunked the notion of using pension funds to bail out SOEs this week past. This pleased me immensely as, on checking, the only SOE that is making a profit, appears to be SAFCOL ; investing in trees is hardly a great pension move. The idea is...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 20, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics South Africa is reportedly in the 80th month of a weakening economic cycle, of which only the last three can fairly be attributed to CV 19. Self-made? Certainly. I was intrigued to hear a political commentator decline naming Zimbabwe as a failed state,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 17, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics Economic news in Africa, and closer to home, is not great, as may be seen from the following: the average share of African government revenue that goes towards external debt service has tripled over the past 10 years to 13%; Angola, Africa’s second-largest...
by Daan Steenkamp | May 18, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious …. Last week I attempted to entertain you with bos-sums, which led to rather dismal conclusions and the usual unfortunate comparison with Zim. What now? An SA economist pointed out that only two avenues of...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 9, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice A short article, written by Judge Cameron, deals with our prisons system: he says that instead of the retributive approach under the previous regime, this country embraced a restorative approach to offenders and their punishment. This demanded prison...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 2, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice Broke? RAF attorneys were reportedly asked to hand back their un-finalised files by Thursday last week in what appears to be a cost-cutting exercise by the RAF. Insourcing is a theoretical exercise as the expertise to handle this simply does not exist within...
