EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: The unruly rand has finally taken a chill pill
Gupta-tainted Garry Pita quits Transnet, and has Arthur Fraser been moved to the prisons portfolio because he knows too much?
Stories of note Bytes from the digital world Transnet chief financial officer Garry Pita, who signed off various dodgy payments to Gupta family-linked entities, has resigned. Both Intelligence Inspector-General Setlhomamaru Dintwe and the DA are challenging former State Security Agency director-general Arthur Fraser’s appointment as national commissioner of correctional services. In my opinion Matters of debate Why has President Cyril Ramaphosa shifted Fraser from spy boss to prison boss instead of firing him ? Perhaps Fraser knows too much. Having a land crisis in SA may ultimately be far less hazardous than not having one, argues Anthony Butler. Finding alpha The long and the short of the markets Astral shareholders voted against a resolution to approve R1.1m annual remuneration to chairperson Theuns Eloff. Absa has denied it has any responsibility for losses suffered by investors in Steinhoff, as claimed by Dutch investors’ association VEB. Oh, very twitty The lighter side of the...
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