ANOTHER WEEK

AT HOME Tito Mboweni cuts interest rates by 150 points, taking the repo rate to 8,5% and commercial bank prime rates to...

WAKING UP TO A WORLD WITHOUT INFLATION

A whole generation of SA business flourished on the back of inflation. You could pay 25% or 30% too much for assets, and within a year or two double-digit inflation would take care of it. If this was combined with negative real interest rates (that...

GETTING THE MILITARY INTO PROPER SHAPE

Few SA institutions have had to face up to as many transformational challenges as the military. The need was apparent as far back as 1990 and escalated in real and symbolic terms after the first democratic election of 1994. The various armed for...

EDITOR'S NOTE
e-mail: fmeditor@bdfm.co.za
There was a sense of euphoria at the unveiling of the financial services charter in Pretoria last Friday. Everybody who was anybody in financial services was there. The briefing room was packed. Standing room only. But the broad smiles and palpabl...

HASTE MEANS TEARS
Ian Forbes, Hermanus, Western Cape.
I read your Editorial (October 10) on CEOs with horror. How on earth can business leaders be appointing aspirants to the position of CEO in a decade? The business community has taken note of change. It is happening, but...

THE TRUTH ABOUT ZIMBABWE
Dingaka Zulu, dingaka@lycos.com
Your Current Affairs section, which employs the ever predictable Tony Hawkins, could do with your reality check (Editor's Note October 10). As you share his views on Zimbabwe with your Pearson sister paper the F...

THE STATE WE'RE IN
By Peter Wilhelm
RUGBY: A SINISTER AURA PERVADES THE SUBURBS To observe the great game of thugby, a swollen clan of parasites is dribbling in: Knuckles McDuck (not his real name), Vic & Tex Breinontploffing, assorted wheel-tappers, and academic fluffies (their d...