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Dec 23, 20235 min read
#31 Who is Manipulating The ZAR?
In April 2015 or thereabout (I wasn’t there), it came to the attention of the Competition Commission of South Africa that some banks had...
Nov 28, 20239 min read
#30 Somalia’s Economy
There exists, in the eastern most part of continental Africa, situated right at the tip of the protruding horn, the Federal Republic of...
Sep 3, 20237 min read
#29 BRICS
This one is about BRICS; not the South African entertainer but the five nations that became friends just because the first letters of...
Aug 6, 20238 min read
#28 Retirement
The entire self-help industry boils down to this one thing: delaying gratification in the short term in favour of the promise of a larger...
Jul 16, 20239 min read
#27 The End of the Internet
There are but a dozen websites that are synonymous with the word internet. Google, Youtube, Facebook and Wikipedia, by the sheer scale of...
Jun 18, 20239 min read
#26 Work - Life Balance
The pursuit of the proverbial “work-life balance” has been a feature of the human condition since the advent of organised work. The human...
Feb 5, 20236 min read
#25 No English Fans Arrested at the World Cup
The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be remembered for many things, but the British government will remember it for being the first time in the...
Nov 6, 20226 min read
#24 Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
According to Credit Suisse, there were about 5.2 million people that became first time millionaires last year. The source of their wealth...
Sep 27, 20225 min read
#23 The Merge
Crypto bros have had it as bad - if not worse - as everybody else this year. Crypto assets, particularly bitcoin, has long been touted as...
Sep 11, 20227 min read
#22 Let Go… of Handshakes
To my dismay, handshakes are back. The unceremonious return of handshakes happened so suddenly. It took me by rude surprise. I wasn’t...
Aug 28, 20225 min read
#21 How Bad Can it Get?
The people of Earth have faced a global pandemic, extreme weather and a senseless war in quick succession and the economy is buckling...
Aug 21, 20225 min read
#20 Pakistan turns 75 Years Old
This week’s blog was conceived in April when I came across an interesting piece of trivia that Pakistan has never had a prime minister...
Apr 17, 20228 min read
#19 Snack-size Therapy
If therapy were a stock, It’d be ticking up right now. You can’t escape the myriad of mental health posts and hashtags on the internet. ...
Apr 10, 20225 min read
18 It’s All Connected
It’s not really possible to look away from what’s happening with Russia at the moment. Spanning 2 continents, Russia is the largest...
Mar 27, 20228 min read
#17 How much money do you make?
The title question is probably the quickest way to become the most unpopular person at a party. People avoid the conversation about their...
Mar 18, 20224 min read
#16 The Sanctioned Union
Russia is the most sanctioned nation on planet Earth. This is quite the achievement because the previous record holders, the likes of...
Feb 20, 20227 min read
#15 Eswatini’s 2022/23 Budget Speech
The Hon. Minister of Finance delivered His Majesty’s Government’s budget for the financial year beginning April 2022. Let’s not drag with...
Feb 6, 20227 min read
#14 Partygate
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been dealing with backlash for his participation in a series of parties that took place...
Jan 30, 20227 min read
#13 Fan Subscriptions on Instagram
Instagram is piloting a subscriptions feature with a number of content creators and influencers that places a pay wall between followers...
Jan 16, 20225 min read
#12 What is Putin Up To?
IT’S PANIC STATIONS! President Vladimir Putin is accumulating hordes of Russian soldiers around the Russia-Ukraine border. Ukrainians,...
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