EDITORS' LUNCHBOX: A bizarre media briefing, and some first-class double speak

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First Lady’s right-hand man says he will resign if appointed to the SABC board. But what if he’s not appointed?

Mzwanele Manyi’s bizarre media briefing. Journalists attending the event were made to sit in the ANN7 studio as an audience while the television channel took the briefing live.

Forget state capture and the Guptas, this "investigation" will keep the Hawks busy, at least until after the ANC conference.

SA Express sells two of its aircraft and leases them back for R1.7m a month!

SA poultry producers accused of extreme protectionism, but the US has managed "to put SA somewhat in its place" by using Agoa.

In my opinion

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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s surprising double-speak. Her delivery at the Gordon Institute of Business Science was vastly different from the written speech distributed afterwards.

Enduring lessons from Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Mike Muller wants to know why a project to build a dam on the Mzimvubu River is going ahead while budgetary constraints are growing and the finance minister is promising greater discipline to control the government’s rising debt.

Finding alpha

The long and the short of the markets

Strong sales help Steinhoff look beyond damaging claims of accounting fraud.

Acquisitive AB inbev is still looking to grow, and is targeting doubling annual revenue to $100bn by 2022.

Stantam picks up the pieces after the Knysna fires, describing this as the worst catastrophic event in South African insurance history.

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