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The R800-billion mistake hollowing out the JSE | SA News

25 May 2026 by Guest
The R800-billion mistake hollowing out the JSE - Duarte da Silva
The author, Duarte da Silva

I write this not in anger, but in sorrow. And with the weight of 30 years spent in markets that made South Africa exceptional.

I have spent that time at some of the largest investment banks in the world – Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Macquarie – and across those years I have seen capital markets function at their best and at their worst. I know what a healthy market looks like. I know what a dying one looks like.

  • I was there for the technology boom of the 1990s, when the JSE briefly became a destination for global capital and South African tech businesses dared to imagine themselves as world class.
  • I watched the rise of the South African property…

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