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Corporate Citizenship
How are we going to uplift the unacceptable levels of vulnerable people in our society? The Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy was designed to redress the economic imbalance caused by...
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Know Your Client
The global fight against corruption, money laundering and terrorist funding activities has seen the obligation to ‘know your client’ become an inexorable international trend, which has been brought even closer to home with the Gupta, VBS, Steinhoff and Bosasa delinquencies. To bring South Africa in line with international efforts and to meet our commitments to the G20 in this regard, government promulgated The Financial Intelligence Centre Act (Fica) of 2001 (amended in 2017) to create the Financial Intelligence Centre, which has become one of the most effective institutions fighting corruption and crime in our society.
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Department of Public Enterprises Should Be Planning its Own Demise
An opinion piece by Who Owns Whom’s MD, Andrew McGregor, looks at the unintended impact of giving a single minister control of the largest state-owned entities (SOEs) back in 1999....
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Small Business – Big Talk but Little Commitment
Who Owns Whom’s MD Andrew McGregor says that, despite president Cyril Ramaphosa reaffirming government’s commitment to promote small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and create jobs, efforts to support SMEs in...
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South Africa: We Need Sunlight To Disinfect Capital
In an article published on The Africa Report, Who Owns Whom Managing Director Andrew McGregor calls on the public to reject the questionable morality of the private sector and asks...
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Manufacturing Leads Growth
Dear WOW User The South African economy pulled itself out of its second recession since 1994 in the third quarter of 2018 with a quarter on quarter GDP growth of 2.2% with contributions from the following sectors; Manufacturing – 7.5% Agriculture – 6.5% Transport – 5.7% Trade – 3.2% Finance – 2.3% State – 1.5% Personal Services – 0.7% Of the 12 industries research by Who Owns Whom in December 2018 and January 2019 six where in the high performing manufacturing sector; The Confectionery Industry South Africa has a sweet tooth with the chocolate market valued at approximately R6.4bn and sugar confectionery at between R12.5bn and R13.5bn.
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Advocacy: A Call for Disclosure of Beneficial Owners
Who Owns Whom Managing Director Andrew McGregor calls on South African citizenry to join those in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria who are holding their governments accountable for rising state debt....
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Land Restitution
The ANC’s land summit decision to expropriate land without compensation has raised concerns for a negative impact on property valuation and a consequent risk to the banking sector but it should be viewed in context. Land restitution in South Africa is an imperative if we are to live in a just society. When South African soldiers returned from the second world war the white soldiers were given farms and the black soldiers bicycles. The forced removals of black people from areas such as District Six and Sophiatown shredded the social fabric of those communities and is one of apartheid’s greatest crimes.
