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Concern over mainstream media influence amidst global election frenzy, 2024

12 January 2024 | The Stage

As 2023 gives way to 2024, the South Africa focused online news sites were chockful the usual dreck. Those among us who were unable to escape to the bushveld or coast over the holidays were subjected to countless reports of corruption, crime, cronyism and every imaginable form of political skulduggery, domestic and offshore. In this writer’s humble opinion, you will have to concentrate on your ‘reading for understanding’ skills this year, as the weaponised mainstream media dusts off their nuclear arsenal to influence 2024 opinion.

Hands up if you remember the “where Lambo” obsession?

13 December 2023 | Straight Talk

In the late-early days of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, youngsters with practically no investing know-how and even less in their ‘life skills’ war chests were reportedly making dollars hand-over-fist. The pervasiveness of these speculative digital assets – underpinned by smoke-and-mirror words and phrases like cryptography, distributed ledgers and peer-to-peer networks – spawned an entire generation that believes 10x and ‘easy money’ are part-and-parcel of the investing and savings landscape.

Yes, inclusion will fix our woes; provided we define it correctly

01 December 2023 | Straight Talk

The trouble with many political- and social-leaning inclusivity programmes is that they introduce exclusionary focuses to achieve their objectives. So, instead of defining ‘inclusion’ as the ‘the practise or policy of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for [all] people’, as the Oxford Languages definition begins, they append ‘who might otherwise be excluded or marginalised’ for a long, long list of reasons.

Jobs remain the missing piece in the financial inclusivity puzzle

20 November 2023 | Straight Talk

Over the past decade-or-so governments, the private sector and regulatory authorities have become increasingly focused on the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors across their respective areas of influence. ESG is now top-of-mind at the board level of financial services firms, with terms such as ‘carbon neutral’; ‘financial inclusivity’; ‘inclusive growth’; and ‘net-zero’ liberally seeded into their external comms, whether these be annual financial statements aimed at shareholders or media statements intended for the public.

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What’s inside… FAnews Magazine November 2023

13 November 2023 | The Stage

South Africa sinks deeper into a State debt quicksand

04 November 2023 | Straight Talk

Clickbait headline triggers an unfair swipe at medical schemes

20 October 2023 | Featured Story

What’s inside… FAnews Magazine October 2023

16 October 2023 | The Stage

Brokers brace for weather-related premium surges

12 October 2023 | Straight Talk

Five million sales versus 4.3 million lapses does not a good story make

06 October 2023 | The Stage

SA retirement fund industry faces multi-component challenge

03 October 2023 | Featured Story

If you ran your small business like the political elite

22 September 2023 | The Stage

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