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Smoke and mirrors on the JSE
In the space of less than a week there has been a flurry of remarkably upbeat-looking trading statements from the listed corporate community. All,…
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The great Anglo American semigration
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South32 headquartered in Australia, owns and operates the largest aluminium smelter in the southern hemisphere, Hillside in Richards Bay. More to the point, Hillside…
Markus did the crime – now this man is doing the time
All of a sudden, prosecutors have got serious about Steinhoff. For seven years after the retailer imploded in December 2017, having copped to “accounting…
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Table Mountain in the background, Cape Town’s business core a dozen storeys below, and Naspers’s newly minted CEO is lamenting how the tech giant…
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