Boland Bankers Behaving Badly

The author lost the price of a house betting against Capitec Bank, South Africa's most celebrated bank. Not once, but four times. Each bet was leveraged. Each bet was wrong, or at least early. He spent the next seven years finding out whether he was wrong, or the market was.

This book is the result.

Capitec is, by every metric the market watches, the most successful South African company of the post-apartheid era. Twenty-five million customers in twenty-five years. A share price that has co...