Merchant banker Mark Barnes and journalist Tim Cohen shoot the breeze about the key events in South Africa and the world every week. We aim to be entertaining, interesting, informed ... and brief! Now with Special Guests!
In this our final episode, Merchant Banker Mark Barnes and Financial Mail journalist Tim Cohen, say cheers and thanks for the fish. This show, we think, has run its course, and we just want to say a quick goodbye. Along the way, by a rough estimate, we have reached over 300000 listeners and viewers over the past three years, which is pretty cool. We are extremely grateful for those who endured our ramblings, and the fish were great!
25 Aug 2026
The ANC and the Bokke: each snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
South Africa doesn’t need a municipal election popularity contest; it needs a survival strategy. So says merchant banker Mark Barns in conversation with Financial Mail journalist Tim Cohen and former Goldman Sachs Partner and now Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School Colin Coleman. In this lively discussion, we talk about the November 4 elections not as a political event but as an opportunity to remedy municipal bankruptcy. Perhaps the answer is not a new centrist party but to create an enduring “calibrated equilibrium” between the ANC and the DA, says Coleman. Also, the rand and the global bond market. Because merchant bankers.
24 Aug 2026
ANC and the Bokke: each snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
South Africa doesn’t need a municipal election popularity contest; it needs a survival strategy. So says merchant banker Mark Barns in conversation with Financial Mail journalist Tim Cohen and former Goldman Sachs Partner and now Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School Colin Coleman. In this lively discussion, we talk about the November 4 elections not as a political event but as an opportunity to remedy municipal bankruptcy. Perhaps the answer is not a new centrist party but to create an enduring “calibrated equilibrium” between the ANC and the DA, says Coleman. Also, the rand and the global bond market. Because merchant bankers.
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