Peter Bruce was editor-at-large at Arena Holdings (formerly Tiso Blackstar) and editor-in-chief of Business Day, Financial Mail and ABC, the broadcaster of the Business Day TV, Home Channel and Ignition channels. He was editor of Business Day from 2001 until August 2012. His previous roles include editor: Financial Mail; editor: Business Report; UK news editor: Financial Times; and Madrid correspondent, Bonn correspondent, industrial correspondent: Financial Times. He describes himself as a media junkie, a die-hard Proteas and Springbok fan and a hopeless Sharks supporter.
Nice words ‘inclusive growth’, but where’s the growth?
OpinionConversations about actual growth won’t take place inside either the ANC or its coalition partner
Better to build with steel than make it
OpinionWe don’t want to stop making steel, but it won’t matter if one day there are no more blast furnaces in SA
ANC industrial policy a case study in wilful obstinacy
OpinionGovernment’s attempts to save ArcelorMittal SA ignore the inconvenient fact that it destroyed the steel industry in the ...
Time for Steenhuisen to squeeze seriously hard
OpinionSA’s agriculture minister has policy leverage to wrestle BEE reform out of the ANC like he may never have again
DA may finally have found its mojo
OpinionBudget postponement gives party chance to press on with proposals for growth-enhancing reforms
Musk living proof BEE bars SA growth
OpinionHardly any foreign investment comes into greenfield projects any more
Chilling warning from the CEO of Toyota
OpinionDespite money thrown at a black-led wave of industrialisation, deindustrialisation is speeding up
World on tenterhooks as Trump has one last shot at power
OpinionPresident’s cabinet appointees are going to take their jobs seriously, which is not necessarily good news for SA
Digging a deeper hole won’t rescue racial jobs profiling
OpinionSocial engineering contained in Employment Equity Amendment Act admission that 30 years’ affirmative action has failed
Fact is BEE is a cruel joke on the poor
OpinionCan the DA seriously not craft a way to use our economic calamity as an opportunity to sell an alternative?