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Past articles by Adele:

A R2bn E-Prix boon for South Africa

Blackouts were the most challenging aspect of planning the first-ever ‘renewable grand prix’ in Sub-Saharan Africa → Read More

Is this as good as it gets for Woolworths?

The retailer has done the fixing it needed — now what? → Read More

Spur is back in the saddle

Spur is going at a gallop, but it might be time to rework its ageing franchise model → Read More

Bring on the competition, says Takealot about Amazon

The online retailer is facing various headwinds, among them a Competition Commission report on the e-commerce sector and the imminent launch of global behemoth Amazon. CEO Mamongae Mahlare remains quietly confident, however → Read More

Catching the Kloof Street zeitgeist

This part of Cape Town has so many restaurants it’s easy to get confused. Here’s a brief guide → Read More

Auction of a lifetime

Auction raises millions for Gaynor Rupert’s Imibala Trust → Read More

The revitalisation of Rosebank

Amid a general sense of decay in Joburg, some suburbs are making a go of things. Substantial private investment, together with a focus on providing live-work-play precincts, have helped Rosebank bounce back from an early 2000s slump → Read More

Who’s winning the apparel game?

There’s been an ocean of difference between the performance of South Africa’s clothing retailers. We look at why → Read More

Dark days for Mr Price

A raft of deals flatters the retailer’s top line, but organic growth is going backwards and the market is worried → Read More

Ditching Kruger’s thatched rondavels

For years, visitors to the Kruger National Park had few options but the bare-bones accommodation in the camps. Kruger Shalati has changed the game → Read More

The great semigration: Should you join the exodus?

The Western Cape is stealing Gauteng’s lunch as the pace of semigration to the coastal province accelerates. At this rate it will overtake Gauteng’s GDP per capita by 2040, if not earlier → Read More

There’s new life at Woolworths after David Jones

Woolworths has a new lease of life after its ruinously expensive Australian experiment → Read More

Has the retail romp ended?

The festive season will be make or break for SA's well-stocked retailers, especially those who've staked their fortunes on low-cost shoppers → Read More

The darkest of Black Fridays looms

As SA retailers prepare for Black Friday, load-shedding looms large. Rolling blackouts will cost retailers R122bn in lost sales this year, by some estimates, and R5.4bn in forgone Black Friday sales → Read More

TFG is bringing it home

The retailer is banking on a multibillion-rand push into the local homeware market, even as endless power cuts dim South Africa’s overall appeal → Read More

Whitey Basson’s Thuma Mina offer: ‘I can help fix SA’

The man who created Africa’s largest retailer has no master plan to fix SA’s economy — but says a good place to start would be getting permits issued on time, and insisting officials are available to the public. It’s a focus on the economy’s ‘broken windows’ that could make all the difference → Read More

Dis-Chem is growing up, in fits and starts

The retailer, say analysts, is getting better at what it does. Pity about the staff memo, then → Read More

Famous Brands’s anniversary to forget

At one point in serious debt danger, the group has ridden out the pandemic mostly intact and with cash to spare → Read More

Reviving the Winchester Hotel

Built 100 years ago, the hotel has been overhauled to tap into the revival of Cape Town’s Sea Point area among the young and trendy → Read More

Making sense of Pick n Pay’s puzzling market moves

Shares in the retailer have seesawed wildly since it first released a trading update in early October, and analysts are split over its prospects → Read More