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The legislation around Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is considered in some quarters to be the the real cancer that has eaten into the South African economy.
Ryk de Klerk puts the MTN Zakhele Futhi JSE debut under his microscope, concluding that uninformed investors were taken to the cleaners in an opaque arrangement.
‘If you look at BEE in totality in South Africa, unfortunately, it hasn’t worked because it should be there to help all South Africans and unfortunately it has only helped a couple of people.’
The surprise announcement of Andre de Ruyter as the new CEO of Eskom was soon followed by Eskom’s dismal half-year report.
Tongaat will institute both criminal and civil actions against those involved, and named all the ex-senior executives involved in the accounting fraud.
In my letter to the community last night, Orbvest CEO Martin Freeman was referred to as a co-founder of Transaction Capital. I got it wrong and apologise for the sloppiness.
If you have to send somebody in as a salesman for South Africa; Cyril Ramaphosa surely fits the profile. Open, friendly, approachable and oh boy, such an improvement on his predecessor.
A serious multi-year drought in parts of South Africa’s Northern and Eastern Cape provinces has seen a number of small towns threatened by total water supply failures and livestock farmers facing financial ruin.
There are multiple reasons for there being an estimated total of R42bn in benefits owed to more than four million pensioners and pension fund members.
The world of alternative stock exchange 4 Africa Exchange (4AX) has been turned upside down and inside out.