Nick Wilson Senior reporter

Nick Wilson is a senior reporter for Business Times (Sunday Times), covering JSE-listed companies, and parastatals such as SAA. He has 22 years' experience, having worked for several Arena Holdings publications including Business Day, The Herald and Daily Dispatch. He won an award in the court reporting category for the first Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award in the Eastern Cape in 2001 for his coverage of the liquidation hearing of businesswoman Maureen Clifford’s pyramid scheme. He also covered property for Business Day for five years, during which time he won two Sapoa property journalist of the year awards. In his spare time, he is a singer and guitarist in a Johannesburg rock band.

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
New wings for SAA as Takatso Consortium sale confirmed

The deal comes eight months after the government first announced the group as its preferred strategic equity partner for the airline.

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Deal for Takatso to become SAA's new majority owner to be signed 'by the end of ...

The public enterprises department says it hopes to finalise an agreement with private consortium Takatso about the acquisition of a 51% interest in ...

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Suspicion of fishy statements focus of regulator's Oceana probe

SA’s market conduct regulator will investigate JSE-listed fishing group Oceana for possible breaches of the Financial Markets Act involving false ...

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Experts back immigrant jobs plan, but say it needs a moral balance

Business and economic experts say plans to safeguard local jobs with foreign employment limits in some categories is a step in the right direction

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Fourways Mall owners take on insurers over business interruption claims

The joint owners of Fourways Mall, SA’s largest shopping centre, are taking their main insurer AIG South Africa and others to court in a bid to be ...

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Analysts hail prosecutions in Tongaat Hulett scandal

With criminal prosecution of white collar corporate crime rare in SA, analysts took heart this week when six former executives of JSE-listed Tongaat ...

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Can ArcelorMittal SA's dramatic upswing be sustained?

ArcelorMittal SA, the country’s largest steel producer has seen its share price increase almost tenfold over the past year as its fortunes improved ...

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Tennis shoes, iPads and new car tyres have one thing in common ...

Struggling to find your favourite pair of tennis shoes, an iPad, or even new car tyres? You will need to patient because some business bodies expect ...

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Retail investors are biting at Steinhoff, while institutional investors nibble

The company is slowly emerging from under the dark cloud of the 2017 collapse and abrupt departure of Markus Jooste.

Nick Wilson Senior reporter
Pepkor makes retail investment in Brazil in what experts call a good strategic ...

While the value of the deal was not disclosed, Pepkor said the acquisition of the group was less than 4% of its market capitalisation, which on ...