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/ 23 March 2001

South Africa outperforms global markets

Belinda Anderson Investec research has shown that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) all share index has outperformed most major global indices when measured over two years in US dollar terms. The JSE has grown by 10,5% over the past 24 months this considering the 22% depreciation in the rand during that time. Its closest competitor […]

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/ 23 March 2001

Shuttleworth joins top fund manager

Belinda Anderson In his spare time, charismatic fund manager Peter Major dons his hang-glider and jumps off mountains in Cape Town. Now he’s taking another leap away from the world of big institutional fund management, to team up with South Africa entrepreneur-turned information technology billionaire Mark Shuttleworth. Major joins Shuttleworth’s newly formed company HBD (Here […]

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/ 5 March 1999

Betraying the ‘people’s report’

Indications that the African National Congress is intent on having the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report rewritten is one aspect of last week’s parliamentary debate on the report which the media appears to have overlooked. A clear hint of this was the repeated reference made in President Nelson Mandela’s speech to the […]