Peter Bruce was editor-at-large at Arena Holdings (formerly Tiso Blackstar Group) and editor-in-chief of Business Day, Financial Mail and ABC, the broadcaster of the Business Day TV, Home and Ignition television 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.
Does anyone have a plan for SAA?
OpinionThe history of executives and ministers keeping the national airline aloft is a record of nauseating follies
What if Cyril Ramaphosa’s silver bullet misses the mark?
OpinionAs lockdown is his last medical shot, the financial package is also his final sovereign economic volley at the virus
Here’s to the health of the nation — and the business it needs
OpinionCovid-19 has brought home the true function of the state: it's health, not education
Pass the witblits and save us from the fools
OpinionI would be interested in a credible survey of South African attitudes to the coronavirus.
ANC stealing money to throw at nosediving SAA
OpinionThe airline serves no strategic importance other than providing cadres and their families with free flights
Ramaphosa faces expropriation Rubicon
OpinionIn all of the world’s most successful economies, property rights are sacrosanct. The moment a minister or an official ...
Ramaphosa faces his expropriation without compensation Rubicon
OpinionIn all of the world’s most successful economies, property rights are sacrosanct. The moment a minister or an official ...
Cabinet’s fear of the unions means we’re screwed
OpinionTito Mboweni had a chance to ensure we wouldn’t get a Moody’s downgrade, and he fluffed it, as did Pravin Gordhan
Bloodless e-election will rob DA of ideas
OpinionParty will repeat its 2019 mistakes if it elects leaders without vigorous campaigns