Angus Douglas
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Simplifying complexity in finance, governance and policy
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Investor Relations • Executive Writing • Presentations
Simplifying complexity in finance, governance and policy
Let's work together
Annual reports, integrated reports, sustainability reports and investor presentations.
Books, articles, speeches and thought-leadership pieces written in your voice.
Clear, persuasive copy for websites, marketing materials and newsletters.
Keynote speeches, conference presentations and corporate workshops.
Whispers of romance, hidden letters, and a controversial legacy
Frederica of Hanover (Queen of Greece from 1947 to 1964) was an intriguing royal figure who was exiled in South Africa during the Second World War. "Freddie" was hosted by none other than General Jan Smuts, prime minister and advisor to Winston Churchill. "Jannie" became something of a guru figure to her. Opposition parties spread rumours of an unbecoming romance...
Writer and speaker Angus Douglas delves into the mysterious relationship between these two historic figures and what it portends for South Africa.
Smuts was the man who made South Africa — the pivotal figure behind Union in 1910 and a leading political figure for most of the next 40 years.
Smuts was no ordinary politician. He was a philosopher and romantic, a close friend to extraordinary women of the day including Emily Hobhouse, Oliver Schreiner and Queen Frederica of Greece.
His philosophy of Holism imagined the human personality as the harmonising principle of the universe.
In 1948, two years before he died, the victory of apartheid plunged South Africa into political tragedy...
Writer and speaker Angus Douglas plumbs the personality of Smuts to offer hope and meaning for what it means to be South African.
State Capture under President Jacob Zuma, followed by the devastating riots and looting of July 2021, shook the foundations of South Africa’s liberal order. An unpalatable truth now haunts the rainbow nation: African majority rule has pushed the country to the cliff-edge of collapse.
Those who should speak out against a failed principle remain silent, fearing they will be on the wrong side of a progressive ideology that weaponises race, undermines institutions, and saps our moral energy.
In this book, disillusioned liberal Angus Douglas reinvigorates the moral cause of the West. He argues that we cannot fix South Africa without affording some honour to those who created it — and to those who, today, still protect our communities.
American economist Glenn Loury called it “a great book”.
After a critically acclaimed run of his theatrical show Going Gooding: A Play on Radio, Malcolm Gooding brings us his memoir: Confessions of a Voice Artist. His story rollicks through a golden era in radio, when shows like Squad Cars and Jet Jungle held young and old spellbound. His vocal talents brought him in contact with icons like Vorster, Madiba, Kerzner and Kriel, Eugène Terre'Blanche and Sean Connery.
Malcolm evokes a bygone era as he confesses to his misadventures growing up in Germiston (while his classmates became electricians, he took elocution); of selling apartheid for the gay-cabal-ruled SABC, selling ciggies for the Ruperts, and arms for Armscor. But wait there’s worse, selling potato-peeler-corer-shredders for Verimark. The book is whimsical, charming and at turns downright funny: a must-read for anyone who remembers the days when ‘After action satisfaction’ was the closest we got to porn.
