Suren is an award-winning business journalist, deputy editor of Moneyweb and host of the Property Pod. He has a keen interest in covering the property, retail, state-owned enterprises and tourism sectors.
Olympic swimming champion turned property developer speaks about his involvement as a shareholder and marketing director of the landmark Val de Vie Estate in the Western Cape’s Paarl valley.
Following a record budget deficit of 10% of GDP in 2020, SA’s consolidated budget deficit is expected to narrow to 7.8% in 2021/22 and to 4.9% of GDP in 2024/25.
‘Estates have been big in SA for quite a long time – since the early 1990s – whereas in places like the UAE and New Zealand and other parts of the world they’ve started to take off only in the last five years or so,’ says Andrew Amoils, wealth analyst at New World Wealth.