Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Instead of simply attacking the suspended director-general, Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize must say how her son got involved in the department’s affairs. Yet another broadside against the hapless public protector, this time from Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba. True to its good governance pledge, Business Leadership SA has dropped Eskom and Transnet. In My Opinion Matters of debate Events of the past two weeks show that there is a stalemate in the Public Investment Corporation. Sikonathi Mantshantsha says most of the BEE deals of the past 15 years have ended up benefiting only the lawyers, the deal advisers and the bankers. But Sasol’s investors are among the luckier ones. Can you imagine, asks Daniel Kriel, what the effect that the failed R2bn equity deal that former acting South African Airways CEO Nico Bezuidenhout arranged with Emirates in 2015, might have had on the fortunes of SAA? Finding Alpha The long and the short of the m...

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