Financial Results
CA&S interim results: stronger earnings, capacity building and expansion
CA Sales Holdings posted resilient interim results and expanded into East Africa with the Tradco stake. The company is following an approach of targeted strategic investment to secure its long-term success.
Financial Results
RCL Foods FY25 results: improved sales mix and cost savings drive HEPS growth
RCL Foods released results for the year ended June 2025, with revenue from continuing operations up 1.8% and HEPS from continuing operations up 14.4%.
Financial Results
Rainbow Chicken FY25 results: building on momentum
Rainbow Chicken's results for the year ended June reflect delivery of the strategy as intended, with revenue up 9% and HEPS more than tripling year-on-year.
Dominique Olivier
How a boardwalk sideshow changed modern medicine
Coney Island had its peep shows, its freak shows, its barkers and rides. And tucked between them was an exhibit of premature infants in glass boxes, tended by trained nurses. This wasn’t entertainment - it was the beginning of modern neonatal care, smuggled in as a carnival act.
Podcasts
PODCAST: No Ordinary Wednesday Ep107 | A pivot to lower interest rates in South Africa?
Inflation is at 3%. The Reserve Bank wants to lock it there. Interest rates are edging down. But the bigger picture is far from settled, as discussed by Jeremy Maggs with Investec Chief Economist Annabel Bishop. Just what does South Africa's macroeconomic policy mean for all of us?
Capitec
The Finance Ghost Plugged in with Capitec: Ep 2 (A business glow-up with Rabia Ghoor from swiitchbeauty)
Rabia Ghoor, founder of swiitchbeauty and winner of multiple awards, is one of South Africa’s most celebrated young entrepreneurs thanks to her fascinating backstory of starting the business at the age of 14 and dropping out of high school shortly thereafter. But in the decade or so since then, Rabia has built a powerhouse of an eCommerce business – a business that deserves the limelight beyond its founder.
Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories #71: ETFs are like a box of biscuits – how do you pick a flavour?
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) offer diversified exposure through a single investment, just like buying a box of biscuits and getting to enjoy a variety of flavours inside. But if you don't know how to read a fact sheet or assess which ETFs you like, then there's no way of knowing what's in the box. Siyabulela Nomoyi of Satrix joined me to share not just his love of biscuits, but also of researching ETFs.
Dominique Olivier
A lesson in legacy (and courage) from Jo van Gogh
You don’t need to be an art buff to recognise Starry Night, or to know that Vincent van Gogh once famously chopped off part of his ear. More than a century later, van Gogh is a global household name, with his signature style instantly recognisable even to those who’ve never set foot in a gallery. And we have one woman to thank for that. Dominique Olivier tells a story of immense courage and belief through tragedy.
