Patrick Bulger

South Africa

Executive Editor at Business Day

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Articles

PATRICK BULGER: Secret PIN for the down at eel

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

After years of being a burden on the taxpayer, the national airline goes smaller but better, with plans for sustained profitability
PATRICK BULGER | Sudden death or genocide: Golf’s other Presidents Cup

1 month ago | timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

It’s a clear day at the White House in Washington DC, a sumptuous setting for the long-awaited White Genocide Invitational, headlined by that most gilded of golfers, Donald Trump, versus some of the great names in South African golf and/or genocide.
PATRICK BULGER | Sudden death or genocide: Golf’s other Presidents Cup

1 month ago | timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

PATRICK BULGER | Sudden death or genocide: Golf’s other Presidents Cup With two major-winning golfing golfers in tow, Ramaphosa & Co take on Trump in a duel over white genocide and fake-news videos, and even if the golf wasn’t sublime, the chatter between shots helped sort the amateurs from the pros 26 May 2025 - 04:30 With two major-winning golfing golfers in tow, Cyril Ramaphosa & Co take on Donald Trump in a duel over white genocide and fake-news videos, and even if the golf wasn’t...
PATRICK BULGER: Ill-considered equity law is no tonic for growth, jobs

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

While all around us South Africa falls apart, be assured that if nothing else the one-eyed campaign for the promised land of equality by legislative coercion is alive and kicking. I refer here to the Employment Equity Amendment Act, now the subject of a court challenge by the DA, predictably criticised as a rearguard action to resurrect apartheid.
Ill-considered equity law is no tonic for growth, jobs

1 month ago | timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

Ill-considered equity law is no tonic for growth, jobs With millions unemployed, enacting another measure to obstruct and racialise the workplace is not the way to grow the economy or raise people out of poverty 11 May 2025 - 00:00 While all around us South Africa falls apart, be assured that if nothing else the one-eyed campaign for the promised land of equality by legislative coercion is alive and kicking.
PATRICK BULGER: Politics and the papal bull

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

NONE THE WISER It didn’t take that long, growing up Catholic in the strictest sense of the term, to realise the pope was a big deal. And in an age decades before social media, a remote and awful figure. Saturnine Latin face framed in a fuzzy black and white picture. He was our father in Rome, we were told. Italian. Similar in a way to a Mafia boss, but even closer to God. Not to be trifled with. Besides, he was infallible. Human, too, obviously, but in an incidental way...
PATRICK BULGER: Portrait of a pensioner

2 months ago | businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

THE GHOST TRAIN Take an overdose of Trump, add some tariffs, bring to a boil, and voila — a hot mess in consumer stocks
PATRICK BULGER: Few businessmen take the trouble to go and inspire schoolkids

Mar 30, 2025 | businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

At the rundown government school in a dorp in the Free State where I occasionally try to impart the endless trickery of the English language to a grade 7 class, one of my favourite exercises is asking the pupils what they want to be when they leave school. The most chosen occupation is often security guard, presumably because of the uniform and aura of authority that comes with the job. For a poor, black kid this is the summit of achievement.
Few businessmen take the trouble to go and inspire schoolkids

Mar 29, 2025 | timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

At the rundown government school in a dorp in the Free State where I occasionally try to impart the endless trickery of the English language to a grade 7 class, one of my favourite exercises is asking the pupils what they want to be when they leave school. The most chosen occupation is often security guard, presumably because of the uniform and aura of authority that comes with the job. For a poor, black kid this is the summit of achievement...
PATRICK BULGER: If the cap fits ...

Mar 5, 2025 | businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger

NONE THE WISER A libertarian friend recently got grumpy with me, on ideological grounds, for wearing a Ernesto “Che” Guevara peak cap with a red star in front. It’s just a souvenir I bought from a stall on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 10 years ago. The very font of liberty. It’s also my only peak cap, but I wouldn’t admit that for fear it would muffle my fashion statement.