Cowries, Gold and Bitcoin Hindsight has both benefits and drawbacks. If only we had invested a couple of Millions in gold in the third week of March and sold it in the second week of April, we could have turned a cool quarter Million in profit! If only … such is the plight of speculation – simply getting the timing…

Move over, Midas. South Africa’s largest privately owned gold refinery is giving gold bullion a facelift. Humankind has always had a strange relationship with gold. Our arcane obsession with “all that glitters” is certainly informed by lucid, capital-driven preoccupations, but it is also somehow visceral; the enduring legacy of a primal instinct. Natanya Van Niekerk, the zealous product development manager…