The editorial desk
Who stands behind these pages
The Highveld Board desk, and not a personal byline. Three jobs are done on every page and they are kept apart: one person assembles the page from the measured base, a second decides whether it may be published at all, a third re-reads every figure against the source it came from. The split is the part that matters — whoever writes a broker page cannot change a number in it.
We do not print their names, and that is a deliberate choice rather than an omission. A name and a face you have no way to check are a claim we cannot support, and everything else here is built on the opposite rule: a figure with no source does not get published. So the page is signed by the desk that is answerable for it, and what the desk may and may not do is written out below.
Corrections are the fastest way to reach a person: corrections@brokerboardza.pages.dev. Say which page and which figure. Editorial questions go to editorial@brokerboardza.pages.dev.
How we counted this
| axes | weight | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Trader reviews | 25 % | reviews |
| Round-turn cost | 20 % | round_turn_cost_usd |
| Licence and entity | 20 % | measured |
| Withdrawal speed | 15 % | withdrawal_hours |
| Track record | 10 % | year_founded |
| Platforms and programs | 10 % | measured |
A score is the weighted mean of six axes, each on the same 0–5 scale, counted over the axes that have data. A broker with nothing measured gets no score rather than a low one. An axis with no data is dropped and the remaining weights are renormalised; below 55% of the weight the score is withheld and the reason is printed in its place.
A score may be shown on a card from any sufficient weight, but it enters a RANKING only with reviews, cost. Without a price a firm scores high precisely by not being measured on cost, and we have watched that put equity houses with no round-turn figure at the top of a brokers table.
Every figure is recalculated for all 104 brokers in the South Africa base at once, from the same axes, so a page cannot be written around a number. 81 of them publish a round-turn price; the rest are left unpriced and the blank is visible on the page.