Rate the AGMs: Shoprite outstanding, Truworths indifferent
Truworths’ AGM is as woeful as its share price performance, while Shoprite shows retailers how it should be done…
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Not a single South African company has been charged with non-adherence to the King codes of governance. A new version may change that…
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Digging up the Barloworld holdouts
Barloworld's buyers need to find another 3.26-million shares from investors - or their delisting plans are over, for at least 12 months…
Johnny Copelyn, the union and the activist investor
HCI’s long-term boss has tightened up the firm’s knot with trade union Sactwu – but one activist investor says it’s not to outside shareholders’…
R48m for doing nothing: How the RAF lost control of itself
An inquiry into the shambles at the Road Accident Fund begins today with the cost of 34 suspended staff. MPs reckon it’s the tip…
Latest: Victory for Barloworld investors
Barloworld’s bidders have been forced to stump up a full R120 per share after trying to deduct the June dividend from their offer…
Barloworld’s bulldozer bid is on the home stretch
The complicated and controversial bid to buy JSE stalwart Barloworld is all over, bar a final upset from dissenting shareholder Silchester…
Retailers and the myth of the ‘independent’ director
Dis-Chem, Mr Price and TFG may not have performed exceptionally in the AGM stakes – but that doesn’t mean their events weren’t worth attending…
Shoprite CEO: Wage talk too ‘emotional’
The Shoprite CEO’s dismissal of the debate around its minimum wage as ‘emotional’ has drawn the ire of critics…
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