The death of my sister was not a valid reason to postpone my SAA flight to London, according to a Voyager agent. 100 000 miles disappeared just like that. It was less about the miles. But the inhumanity of someone telling me that the death of my sister is not a good enough reason to postpone a trip. And why...

I have struggled to comprehend something since I was a child. With age, my bafflement around this has not faded. I remain aghast and appalled. I see it as the height of disrespect for another human being. I always wonder how people who do it make it okay. Because they never seem to feel bad. Don’t lose any sleep. Never...

South Africa’s ex­port growth fore­cast could be con­strained by world growth, which the World Bank is ex­pect­ing to slow to 2.9% this year and 2.8% in 2020. This an­tic­i­pated slow­down will af­fect South Africa’s for­tunes ad­versely if the trad­ing fo­cus con­tin­ues to be with our tra­di­tional mar­kets, such as China, Ger­many and the US. The head­lines for the past decade...