Rating the AGMs – how the old Barlow’s unbundlings stack up
It’s AGM season for the old Barloworld stable of companies; Spar and Nampak get top marks but the original scores a ‘fail’
CEO stays as Barloworld bid drags on
Barloworld’s compromised CEO isn’t going anywhere – even though his buyout offer will only be resolved by end-September
How Joburg set fire to your money
Given the City of Joburg’s cavalier attitude to other people’s money, it’s no wonder it keeps pushing through crippling increases
Elon Musk: Worth every dollar he didn’t get
A block to Elon Musk’s $56bn pay award – thanks to Tesla’s ‘impossible’ milestones – could carry an even bigger cost hit if it’s
A mystery, wrapped in an Exxaro enigma
Behind the mystery suspension of Exxaro’s CEO lies a story of rampant factionalism at a company that, analysts say, has done nothing for years
I quit! Time to sharpen the JSE’s resignation rules
The JSE’s allowance of bland director resignation statements is doing no-one any favours
Rupert’s class-act AGM
Currency’s AGM scoring system gives Remgro an ‘A’ but FirstRand a ‘D’.
Municipal meltdown: Now it’s workers’ pensions at risk
South Africa’s municipalities are in arrears with employee pension payments, underscoring a huge governance problem at the local level
The curious case of the resignation that wasn’t
The board of Quantum Foods is embroiled in a furious attempt to fire a director who insisted governance rules be followed.
Rating the AGMs: Shoprite good, Sasol okay, Truworths woeful
It’s impossible to know how many Shoprite shareholders live in the town of Brackenfell in the northern suburbs of the Western Cape. It’s not