Garth Theunissen @WriteGarth

That we may know the truth is our only solace. Johannesburg, South Africa Joined February 2012

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Sanlam Financial Journalism Awards @SanlamAwards

3 days ago

Thank you to every journalist who participated in the 2025 #SanlamxSantamAwards and for your ongoing dedication to uphold the global and African standards of excellence in financial reporting. See you at the next edition of the awards.

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Sanlam Financial Journalism Awards @SanlamAwards

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@robrose_za @currencynewsza @WriteGarth @News24 , South Africa wins the Economy category at the #SanlamxSantamAwards.

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Currency @currencynewsza

4 days ago

📈 Graph of the week | Eskom is owed R110.5bn by municipalities, largely because broken billing systems and widespread illegal connections cripple revenue collection.

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Garth Theunissen @WriteGarth

4 days ago

Perhaps it’s time to put African Bank out of its misery news24.com/business/opini…

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Jacques Maree @JacquesMaree73

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How it started: How it's going:

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Garth Theunissen @WriteGarth

2 weeks ago

Building the J.P. Morgan of Africa: ABSA CEO Kenny Fihla outlines his vision for the banking group news24.com/business/compa…

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Garth Theunissen @WriteGarth

2 weeks ago

@Givarr_ @chrishartZA Why don’t you just post it here?

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Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, ABSA’s new Pan-African head of personal and private banking (PPB) on how he plans to unlock the power of SA’s township economy. news24.com/business/compa…

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The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv

2 months ago

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book." — Cicero, 43 BCE

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Dustin @r0ck3t23

3 months ago

Elon Musk just used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy. Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it. They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one. They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing. But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP. Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.” That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government. Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion. The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it. Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms. Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds. The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built. This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire. AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read. It just solves the problem. And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive. The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut. AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim. So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy. What they will never say is what it actually threatens. The illusion that activity equals progress. The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job. The machines are not coming for your purpose. They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

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James Carran @getpaidwrite

3 months ago

Shorter isn't better. Don't write: "He was mean." Write: "He'd cheat a widow out of her last coins, just because he could." Show, don't tell. Even if it takes longer.

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Garth Theunissen @WriteGarth

5 months ago

The Reserve Bank has outlined its plan to replace the prime lending rate news24.com/business/compa…

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George Friedman @George_Friedman

6 months ago

Why would the US demand that Denmark allow Greenland to become a US-held nation? If it simply wanted what was under the ground, like its rare earths, the US could have just as easily entered negotiations to mine its resources. Why Greenland Matters: geopoliticalfutures.com/why-greenland-…

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Garth Theunissen @WriteGarth

6 months ago

The beautiful, vacuous chaos of Davos news24.com/business/opini…

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Why Investec is building a fortress banking unit in Switzerland to service its high net worth clients news24.com/business/compa…

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6 months ago

“Snow is our oil”: Meet Switzerland’s godfather of snow polo news24.com/business/compa…

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Garth Theunissen @WriteGarth

6 months ago

The 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland gets underway today. Here’s a quick preview on what to expect with Investec’s chief investment strategist Chris Holdsworth.