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What’s inside… FAnews Magazine November 2021

15 November 2021 | The Stage

Our last edition for the year is out… packed with articles you want to read. We have close to 20 000 registered CPD users, and with this mail we are reminding you to make sure you stay up to date with your CPD hours. We’ve touched on content and issues that are topical and relevant, and ultimately written for you, to empower you. The articles are written by industry experts and FAnews journalists, so if you have specific issues or questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

Just eight crazy stages to catapult SA back into the stone age

12 November 2021 | Straight Talk

Yesterday I watched some entertaining YouTube footage of a Cayman croc attempting to take a bite out of an electric eel. Big mistake, for the croc that is! “This is not South Africa, croc,” I chortled. “The eels in South America are fully-charged and ready to shock an attacker senseless, 24/7, 365”. According to the Google, an electric eel can zap you with up to 800 volts, which is enough to cause you to jump in pain, or in extreme cases lose consciousness. And that, dear reader, is the lightest introduction I could contrive for the rather sombre topic of Eskom’s decades-long struggle with power generation.

Technicolour dream coat? Not if you’re weaving with South Africa’s ‘hard fact’ fibres…

30 October 2021 | Straight Talk

It there was a competition for setting up commissions of enquiry, talk shops, think tanks or globe-trotting private-public partnership ‘sorties’ to solicit foreign direct investment from wide-eyed offshore investors, then South Africa would scoop gold every time. Unfortunately, the country offers irrefutable proof that talk is cheap. Action, not words, will accelerate the country’s economic growth; move us up or down the global Gini rankings; or tackle our unemployment crisis.

SA’s SMMEs face a slow strangle as red tape litters the business environment

15 October 2021 | Straight Talk

The administrative burden facing small, medium and microenterprises (SMMEs) plying their trade in South Africa continues to grow, discouraging many firms from expanding operations and forcing countless others to trade ‘under the radar’ in the informal sector. South Africa excels at bureaucracy and red tape despite the well-documented negative impact of hostile regulatory environments on small business. In fact, it is impossible to find an ‘ease of doing business’ index that features our beautiful country near the sharp edge of the wedge.

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14 October 2021 | Featured Story

Opportunities in SA’s retirement dilemma

06 October 2021 | Straight Talk

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01 October 2021 | The Stage

Can coal-fired anything survive climate change?

22 September 2021 | Straight Talk

On ice ages, great expectations and the timelessness of investment returns

17 September 2021 | The Stage

Creating ambassadors for South Africa’s non-life insurance industry since 2015, Part II

06 September 2021 | Straight Talk

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