Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist

Peter Bruce was editor-at-large at Arena Holdings (formerly Tiso Blackstar) and editor-in-chief of Business Day, Financial Mail and ABC, the broadcaster of the Business Day TV, Home Channel and Ignition channels. He was editor of Business Day from 2001 until August 2012. His previous roles include editor: Financial Mail; editor: Business Report; UK news editor: Financial Times; and Madrid correspondent, Bonn correspondent, industrial correspondent: Financial Times. He describes himself as a media junkie, a die-hard Proteas and Springbok fan and a hopeless Sharks supporter.

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | Smaller parties jostle for position as the ANC topples in slow ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa's inability to defend his state of the nation speech must be a milestone in the slow collapse of the ANC as a plausible ...

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | A Sona that even the World Bank can applaud

What was striking about the Sona was how much it resembled an obscure document SA agreed with the World Bank last year, writes Peter Bruce.

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | Ideology stands in the way of SA’s energy transition

Thanks to transparent briefing by Eskom, we know why we have spent the past week in rolling blackouts, writes Peter Bruce.

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | The delusions of turning on foreigners

Anyone who thinks getting rid of foreigners, documented or otherwise, is going to somehow produce a New Jerusalem here, a celestial utopia of jobs ...

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | Does what happens in Dubai stay in Dubai?

I am not for a moment suggesting our Lindiwe might have had tea with Atul. Heaven forfend, writes Peter Bruce.

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | A party desperately short of leaders might need to recycle its ...

Acting chief justice Raymond Zondo was within his rights holding a media briefing to admonish tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu the other day, writes ...

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | Cyril is ringmaster in our tragicomic national circus

President Cyril Ramaphosa ends the year on a precarious note with Covid still raging and Zuma's legal sagas building to a climax ahead of the ANC ...

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | Five reasons to be cheerful

The resilience of South Africans and some good news bring much needed hope

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | Is Africa turning into a Covid crybaby?

The vaccines complaint has become hollow and cheap, low-hanging fruit for activists and politicians, notes Peter Bruce.

Peter Bruce Editor-at-large & columnist
PETER BRUCE | This artery is going to give KZN a heart attack

The protesters may think they were making a point blocking the N3 but all they were doing was preparing someone else's dinner, writes Peter Bruce.