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Tanzania today is like Warren Buffett’s ‘Golden Era’, when Buffett was able to buy simple, high quality businesses in the United States back in the 1960s and 1970s for peanuts. Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. [Editor’s Note: Today’s Note from the Field comes from Sovereign Man Team Member Joe Jarvis who recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in…
From Lerisha Naidu and Angelo Tzarevski in Johannesburg*. African competition law on the continent is the subject of notable growth. An increasing number of jurisdictions have adopted laws and regulations, established authorities, secured membership to regional antitrust regimes and ramped-up enforcement of suspected violations of prevailing competition laws at both domestic and regional levels. Since…
By Jaston Binala. Legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway’s name should sound familiar to anyone who has read English novels focused on East Africa, Tanzania in particular. Through his novel The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hemingway has for years promoted Tanzania’s northern tourist circuit probably better than any marketing campaign could ever do; but with some consequential…
By Ivan Nechepurenko for The Moscow Times. When a young Vladimir Putin decided to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a spy, he headed to the local branch of the KGB in Soviet Leningrad. Wary of unsolicited applicants, the KGB officers turned Putin away, but not without some valuable advice: Go get an education, preferably in law. The current president was only in high school at the time. Putin went…
Volatility in financial markets and increased investor risk aversion are considered to be the main challenges brought about by a hard Brexit, not just for South Africa but sub-Saharan Africa as a whole…. But there is hope that Brexit could impact positively on investment between the UK and Africa From Morne van der Merwe* in…
