Daan’s Snippets 17th of 2019
Economy
Silver bullet economics: post-election economic debate has centred on job creation and the Reserve Bank. Calls are made by a variety of worthies for...
Daan’s Snippets – 18th of 2019
Economy
The SA BER index remained unchanged in Q2 at 28 points. RMB opined that a technical recession for the first half of this year...
Did SA Express finally face financial reality or did government blink?
Did government blink in the face of SAX demands? It had been reported that, finally, there was a voice of reason within government regarding...
Daans Snippets – 21st of 2019
Economy
Moody’s reports that South Africa has the highest private sector debt to GDP ratio in sub Saharan Africa at 148%. The next highest is...
Daan’s Snippets – 27th July 2020
The Pietermaritzburg Deeds Office has, yet again, closed, owing to the need for CV19 sanitation. I had said that deeds offices cannot close for...
Daan’s Snippets – 13th June 2022
News:
· From 15 June, a legal Ombud (headed by retired judge Desai) will serve members of the public who have fallen victim to ‘injustices...
Daan’s Snippets – 22nd March 2021
Legal farce:
the ANC has decided to support an enquiry to our PPs fitness to hold office. Just this sentence encompasses the problem: the party...
Daan’s Snippets – 11th October 2021
News:
The SIU, weighed down by a dire shortage of forensic and other investigators, has called for more money…The Master’s officers are increasingly dysfunctional and...
Daan’s Snippets – 36 of 2019
Gentle Reader,This will be the last Snippets for this year – I will resume late in January. Do enjoy the festive season, take a...
Daan’s Snippets – 35th of 2019
Economy - Tito Mboweni says that SAA is a vanity that we cannot afford: I cannot help but hope that the mother of all...
Daan’s Snippets 34th of 2019
Economics
Flatlining. On Friday I was again privileged to attend an economic presentation by Nedbank’s Nicky Weimar. She says that our GDP growth, oscillates between...
Daan’s Snippets – 19th of 2019
Economy
The week before last it was reported that Zimbabwe would be releasing its own currency by year end. It’s interim currency, the RTGS $...
