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5 days ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Michael Avery
It has been a few weeks since Prime Kapital Investments (PKI) last upped the ante in its siege of MAS Real Estate. Since then the air has grown thicker with shareholder disquiet. A fresh volley arrived last week in the form of another Sens announcement, another sugar-coating of what remains at its core a bid for control without accountability. This time, PKI has raised the cash component of its voluntary offer to €1.20 per share.
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5 days ago | 
shorturl.at | Michael Avery
It has been a few weeks since Prime Kapital Investments (PKI) last upped the ante in its siege of MAS Real Estate. Since then the air has grown thicker with shareholder disquiet. A fresh volley arrived last week in the form of another Sens announcement, another sugar-coating of what remains at its core a bid for control without accountability. This time, PKI has raised the cash component of its voluntary offer to €1.20 per share.
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2 weeks ago | 
coastalview.com | Michael Avery
Technology (Tek) has reshaped the modern world at an astonishing pace. From artificial intelligence to biotechnology, the innovations of today set the stage for the transformative advancements of tomorrow. In this article, we’ll explore the current technological landscape and what the future holds. The 21st century has witnessed unparalleled technological breakthroughs across multiple domains. Here are the domains I have been following and researching at a high level.
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2 weeks ago | 
pubs.acs.org | Zixin Wang |Michael Avery |Brian Derby
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2 weeks ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Michael Avery
There was a time, not so long ago, when the Competition Tribunal was a credible institution. Under the stewardship of former chair David Lewis it was a respected forum of law and reason. A place where serious minds deliberated on the economic consequences of mergers & acquisitions, balancing nuance, evidence and statutory mandate. That era is over. Today the tribunal is a taxidermic version of its former self.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorturl.at | Michael Avery
There was a time, not so long ago, when the Competition Tribunal was a credible institution. Under the stewardship of former chair David Lewis it was a respected forum of law and reason. A place where serious minds deliberated on the economic consequences of mergers & acquisitions, balancing nuance, evidence and statutory mandate. That era is over. Today the tribunal is a taxidermic version of its former self.
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3 weeks ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Michael Avery
If you were watching the MAS Real Estate boardroom drama for pure corporate entertainment, grab your popcorn. Because just when it looked as if Prime Kapital was going to quietly squeeze MAS’s minority shareholders in a slow-burn takeover worthy of Machiavelli, along came Hyprop CEO Morne Wilken and suddenly the room smells less like resignation and more like a fight.
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3 weeks ago | 
shorturl.at | Michael Avery
If you were watching the MAS Real Estate boardroom drama for pure corporate entertainment, grab your popcorn. Because just when it looked as if Prime Kapital was going to quietly squeeze MAS’s minority shareholders in a slow-burn takeover worthy of Machiavelli, along came Hyprop CEO Morne Wilken and suddenly the room smells less like resignation and more like a fight.
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1 month ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Michael Avery
When mineral & petroleum resources minister Gwede Mantashe gazetted the Draft Mineral Resources Development Bill (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2025-05-20-overhaul-of-mining-law-gazetted-for-comment/) last week it was presented with all the usual platitudes: transformation, beneficiation, sustainable development, investor confidence. The type of stock phrases that now hang limply over the mining sector like Mantashe himself.
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1 month ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Michael Avery
SA doesn’t have a transformation problem. It has a growth problem. And until we begin with that obvious, unavoidable truth, every new policy paper, every lofty acronym, every “R100bn” silver bullet aimed at fixing our economic past will simply yield the outcomes we have always got over the past 30 years of trying.
