Jim Jones
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Veteran Anglo watcher Jim Jones offers unsolicited advice to new chief Cynthia Carroll.
Kebble had partners in crime
The African National Congress Youth League and Brett Kebble’s other political clients must face facts: the vast scale of the murdered businessman’s crimes has become…
Desperate Harmony pulls out the stops
The wry Jo’burg adage "save face, not money" is again coming true as Harmony Gold extricates itself from its fast-failing bid for Gold Fields. The conundrum that Harmony now…
Scales tip against Gold Fields
The dust had hardly settled on Tuesday this week before the squabbling started. Had the vote of Gold Fields’s shareholders truly represented the majority view? Did the vote,…
Gold Fields: D-Day approaches
The increasingly desperate struggle sparked by Harmony’s hostile bid climaxes in a shareholders meeting this week. Gold Fields’s shareholders will vote on the proposal that their…
It’s Russian roulette
Harmony’s Bernard Swanepoel and Gold Fields’s Ian Cockerill are determined men — determined not to lose in the corporate world. Neither could count on inherited wealth or…