{"id":338959,"date":"2025-12-11T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338959\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:04:08","slug":"piet-viljoen-why-mr-prices-r10bn-germany-gamble-could-blow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338959\/","title":{"rendered":"Piet Viljoen &#8211; Why Mr Price\u2019s R10bn Germany gamble could blow up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Value investor Piet Viljoen breaks down Mr Price\u2019s German gamble, Spar\u2019s costly EU exit, Famous Brands\u2019 offshore stumble, and why HCI\u2019s buybacks make far more sense than chasing \u201cexpensive fairy tales\u201d abroad. From Eskom\u2019s industrial rescue talks to Transnet\u2019s slow turnaround and the ANC\u2019s political bluster, Viljoen gives Alec Hogg a brutally honest roadmap for where South Africans should \u2013 and shouldn\u2019t \u2013 put their money.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Register\u00a0<a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3is4b7l\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support South Africa\u2019s bastion of\u00a0independent journalism, offering balanced insights on investments, business, and the political economy, by joining\u00a0BizNews Premium. Register\u00a0<a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/steadyhq.com\/en\/biznews\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0for updates, sign up to the BizNews channel\u00a0<a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Vb0ohuHLY6d7SuoacT2d\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Value investor Piet Viljoen breaks down Mr Price\u2019s German gamble, Spar\u2019s costly EU exit, Famous Brands\u2019 offshore stumble,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[148605,45,49,48,148600,46,148604,85262,148602,148599,148601,148603],"class_list":["post-338959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-african-national-congress-anc","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-directors-cut","tag-economy","tag-eskom","tag-hci","tag-mr-price","tag-piet-viljoen","tag-spar","tag-transnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}