The amount of white-collar crime in South Africa is surprising. The press is rife with incredible accounts of blatant, mad-dash-to-the-border embezzlement and fraud. All of it is sloppy, but the sloppiest of all wind up in prison, such as J Arthur Brown, the former CEO of Fidentia Asset Management, a formerly giant Cape […]

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This is the debut post of what is obviously going to be a very, very, very long series of posts.
One tough thing about riding on the left side of the road after you’ve spent your whole life riding on the right, besides the whole holy-crap-I’m-going-the-wrong-way-on-the-freeway-again thing, is turning.

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