About David Gleason
David is recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost financial journalists and his Torque column appeared weekly in Business Day until he had a run-in with editor Peter Bruce. He is also the principal shareholder in Gleason Publications and publisher and editor of three successful niche publications DealMakers, which covers mergers and acquisitions and general corporate finance activity, Catalyst, which covers the private equity industry and without prejudice, a corporate law magazine designed to bring the law into the ambit of business people. When he’s not busy publishing and writing David is stirring things up on his weekly current affairs radio programme, The State of the Nation, on Classic fm 102.7.Website: http://www.gleason.co.za
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Vavi’s Political “vastrap”
The key event last week was the threat, implied and real, that Cosatu will leave the Tripartite Alliance if its general secretary, the ebullient and outspoken Zwelinzima Vavi, is charged [...]
Read MoreBamboo Curtain
There is, by and large, a good deal of justified talk these days about conflicts of interest. Generally, people don’t like it when it appears that an individual or company [...]
Read MoreGive Him Enough Rope
In this column on March 15 (“The summer of our discontent”) I signalled what I thought was a discernible hardening of attitude on the part of the wider Afrikaans community. [...]
Read MoreThe Summer Of Our Discontent
“Everything is about politics,” said the late Helen Suzman. And, yes, it is, which is why it is impossible to review commerce, businesses and the economy while pretending that the [...]
Read MoreThe End of the Party
Steel is an essential element in any modern economy. In one in which a major infrastructural build programme is well under way it is impossible to underestimate the role of [...]
Read MoreToyi-toying with their Cheque Books
Sicelo Shiceka, whose ministry carries a long title but is effectively responsible for local government, should stop complaining about ratepayers’ associations which have created, in his view, “parallel governments.” Instead, [...]
Read MoreNew Broom Wanted
I am concerned about Murray & Roberts. Its latest interim result was frankly poor. Some analysts will say that was to be expected in the circumstances of a major retraction [...]
Read MoreWhatever Happens, Hide the Truth
There is rather more to the electricity price increases granted to Eskom and announced recently by Nersa, the National Electricity Regulator. And it doesn’t make for comforting reading.
Very roughly, Eskom [...]
The Hedonistic Champion of the Poor
It has become clear that The Star (Independent Newspapers) and Sunday Times (Avusa) have launched a campaign to unseat ANC Youth League president Julius Malema. Both newspapers have devoted many [...]
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