As this is the last edition of IM for 2024, I’m reminded that it is the eighth year I have contributed to the magazine as a guest columnist — though after eight years I’m probably more of a squatter than a guest.

My first column was written in February 2016, when I postulated that small-cap chicken counter Sovereign Foods, which was in a flap as activists quizzed its contentious management pay performance and BEE structure at its AGM, might indeed be a buyout candidate...

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