Wednesday is a busy day, with July’s inflation figures and results from Bid Corporation and Blue Label Telecoms. Market watchers also have a flurry of Sens statements released after the JSE closed on Tuesday to digest.Brait informed shareholders at 5.30pm on Tuesday that Deloitte had resigned as its auditor with immediate effect."Deloitte has confirmed in writing that there are no circumstances to be brought to the attention of the members or creditors of the company in connection with it ceasing to hold office," Brait’s statement said.Deloitte was the auditing company that refused to sign off Steinhoff International’s interim results for the six months to end-September 2017, and Steinhoff and Brait are related through sharing Christo Wiese as a major shareholder and former chairman.Brian Joffe’s Long4Life announced at 5.15pm that its proposed acquisition of footwear chain Rage — which was to be paid for with R3.9bn cash plus 270-million shares, which would have made Rage’s owners J...
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