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Sanral’s mysterious and wishful accounting

January 10, 2017 Ciaran Ryan 0

When will the roads agency admit that most of its e-tolls debt is unrecoverable? This article first appeared in Moneyweb. Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) […]

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Airports Company of SA minorities sue for fair value buyout

January 10, 2017 Ciaran Ryan 0

Minorities say they are economic hostages to the company This article first appeared in Moneyweb. It seems like a lifetime ago, but there was a […]

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Presidential housing project mired in fraud and corruption

January 10, 2017 Ciaran Ryan 0

Hundreds of residents of Gauteng townships cheated out of housing This article first appeared in Groundup. A 2010 presidential project intended to house shackdwellers in […]

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The town of Harrismith gets a reprieve for now

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Noseweek.                         SA National Roads Agency’s (Sanral) determination to […]

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State-owned enterprises drag SA to the brink of junk

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Finweek.   SA’s persistently weak growth and the stench of failure in its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has dragged the country […]

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The medieval state of SA’s home repossessions industry

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Moneyweb.                         A recent study of home repossessions puts […]

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Did Standard Bank lie and cheat to get its hands on computer programme?

October 17, 2016 Ciaran Ryan 0

This story first appeared in Noseweek . Did Standard Bank lie and cheat to steal an idea worth billions? When atm and internet fraud started […]

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Residents fight back against banks’ eviction tactics

December 8, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

This article first appeared in Groundup. A group called Lungelo Lethu Human Rights Foundation is preparing a class action suit against the four major banks […]

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How SA slept through the BEE revolution

December 8, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

This article first appeared in Moneyweb. When the term Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) first floated into the South African business and political lexicon in the […]

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Is there a better tax system than the monstrosity currently in place?

October 31, 2015 Ciaran Ryan 0

This article first appeared in Moneyweb. Is there a better tax system than the monstrosity currently in place? Stephen Meintjes, analyst at Momentum SP Reid […]

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