SA Shares is a financial media group focusing on financial news in South Africa.
We focus on producing independent, high-quality investment information on various platforms, including the internet, video, newsletters, and through our various event activations.
All our information is 100% free of charge to our readers.
Our team is made of 10 journalists ensuring you get the most relevant breaking news, every time.
Lynette Spencer
Lynette is a freelance content writer and teacher. This former newspaper editor has a background in journalism, photography, information science and teaching. She also has a keen interest in archaeology, loves everything outdoors and is passionate about the African Bushveld. Today she does financial and investment writing part time while teaching full time.
Mariana Balt
Mariana is a retired editor and journalist with more than 20 years’ experience in community journalism (South Africa) as well as national media (Namibia). Before that she followed a career first as home economist, and later as public relations practitioner in advertising, which inadvertently led herto the media world. For the past year she and her husband (and partner in crime) travelled South Africa and Namibia, their country of birth, with her freelance copywriting and photography subsidising said travels.
Liezel Thorne
Liezel is a content writer with a passion for writing about the financial industry and corresponding markets. Herfavorite topics include Forex, Stocks and Indices, Cryptocurrencies, and anything relating to trading technology - news, newest and latest tips, tricks, and trends. She has done extensive reviews on brokers, trading platforms (web, desktop, and mobile), and various other concepts involved with trading.As a student of Environmental management, she has a keen interest in geography, environmentalism as well as conservation of both fauna and flora.
Wahl Lessing
Wahl Lessing is a subeditor, content creator and second-hand bookseller in both English and Afrikaans. He is an avid reader, and his hobbies include spending time in nature and playing, and writing about, modern tabletop board games.
Marlie Rosset
Marlie is a Freelance Graphic Designer and Creative Writer with her main focus falling on the Global Forex Market. Marlie has 15 years’ experience in the Graphic Design industry, with Creative Writing and Social Media Management adding to her interests for the past 3 years. Her hobbies include Animal Activism, Tattoo Design and Reading Criminal and Paranormal based literature.
Naomi Roebert
Naomi is a freelance journalist, content writer and developer. With a background in media and marketing, both nationally and abroad, today she specializes in Fintech and investment writing. She is interested in the socio-economic effects of market movements, and on the investment potential of market developments.Naomi lived abroad as a travel writer where she worked as a dedicated Bangkok city guide writer for Trip.com and curated a successful lifestyle blog covering the expat experience in Asia. She has also travelled separately to India and Europe.
Chris Louw
Chris Louw has been a journalist in various capacities for the past 20 years. Chris specialises in online strategy, and content solutions for news and commercial partners. Chris has a passion for training, public speaking, storytelling on various platforms, and the universal access to online information. Chris has served on the IAB, Sanef, and has spoken at various conferences, both locally, and internationally. Chris enjoys fishing, being in nature, and reading.
Gayle Davies-Webb
Gayle is a professional financial writer based in South Africa. Her role in SA Shares is to produce detailed education content on a wide scope of sophisticated financial instruments. Her financial content offers in-depth insight into the fundamental and technical components of retail trading; covering forex, crytocurrencies, shares, commodities, indices, options and ETS. Gayle also produces comprehensive learning guides for new traders.
Olumide Adesina
Olumide Adesina is a France-born Nigerian. He is a Certified Investment Trader, with more than 15 years of working expertise in Investment trading. Follow Olumide on Twitter @tokunboadesina. He is a Member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Society.
Tafadzwa William Mutsika
Tafadzwa William Mutsika is a journalist based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a journalism and media studies lecture, journalism and media studies facilitator, Interpreter and translator, Court interpreter and also a Public Relation practioner.
Louis Schoeman
Louis is a freelance writer that has been featured on investing.com, entrepreneur.com, marketwatch.com, benzinga, seekingaplha. Louis focusses on helpful news and tips on cfd’s, forex trading and crypto. When he is not writing world class articles, he is an avid trader in crypto.
Simbarashe chen Williams
A young and energetic communication expert withan unrivalled ability to understand how to pitch stories objectively for financial publications and the arts. Multimedia skill with a proven ability to use the web and social media to engage newsreaders.
Charles Mkula
Charles Mkula, a journalist with over 12 years of experience in newsroom news gathering, content developing and editing. He has also had more than 5 five years of practical experience as a development journalist and public relations officer a number of local and international NGOs and government agencies. Currently, he freelances when opportunities arise. His studies in Financial Management at the Malawi College of accountancy triggered in journalistic interest to venture into financial reporting where he has written on banking, insurance, stock market and general trade and investment.He has previously written for local and international media e.g Times and the Nation newspapers as well as Newstime Africa, Southern Times, Urban Africa, Citiscope and Ooska News. He is affiliated to the Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA) and the Southern Africa Journalists Association (SAJA) where he is the Secretary General and Executive member, respectively.
Skerdian Meta
Skerdian Meta FXL’s Heading Analyst is a professional Forex trader and market analyst and has been actively engaged in market analysis for the past 10 years. Before becoming our leading analyst, Skerdian served as a trader and market analyst at Saxo Bank’s local branch, Aksioner, the forex division and traded small investor’s funds for two years.
Arslan Butt
Experienced Finance Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Analytical Skills, Equities, and Financial Markets. Strong finance professional with a Master's degree focused in Accounting, Auditing and Finance from UT.