Roy Cokayne

South Africa

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Standard Bank’s ‘disproportionate’ attempt to foreclose on Vavi’s home fails

1 week ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

Standard Bank has failed in its attempt to obtain authorisation for the foreclosure of a mortgage bond it granted over the Sandton primary residence of South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and his wife Noluthando.
Standard Bank’s ‘disproportionate’ attempt to foreclose on Vavi’s home fails

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Roy Cokayne

1 day agoThe home goods retailer At Home will close "underperforming" 26 stores by the fall after it filed for bankruptcy on Monday. At Home, a furniture and home decor retailer based in Coppell, Texas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, June 16 as a result of "broader economic and retail-specific …
RAF and its comms head found to have defamed Sunshine Hospital

2 weeks ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) and its head of communications McIntosh Polela have been found by the High Court in Pretoria to have defamed Sunshine Hospital in Benoni. Acting Judge Johann Hershensohn declared the allegations and statements made about and concerning Sunshine Hospital on 15 March 2024 on the news channel eNCA defamatory and false.
RAF and its comms head found to have defamed Sunshine Hospital

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Roy Cokayne

3 hours agoBefore Rachel Reeves’s first spending review, a palpable sense of trepidation had spread across Britain. During her 11 months in office, few have emerged unscathed from the Chancellor’s quest to plug the £22bn black hole she claims to have inherited from the Conservatives. Just weeks after Labour’s …
PPC: Why is it so expensive to produce cement in SA?

2 weeks ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

JSE-listed cement and building materials producer PPC believes the government should pay attention to why it’s so costly to produce cement in South Africa – despite its confidence that the new R3 billion cement plant it’s building in the Western Cape will enable the company to increase its competitive edge against cement imports.
PPC: Why is it so expensive to produce cement in SA?

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Roy Cokayne

2 hours ago PPC sees earnings surge amid strategic shifts and market challenges Tawanda Karombo PPC CEO, Matias Cardarelli, said on Monday that the cement manufacturer has worked hard to control underperformance within the group, … 13 hours ago Sacramento Poor People's Campaign Opposes ICE Raids and Trump's call for National Guard in LA The Sacramento Poor People's Campaign (Sac PPC) issued this statement today regarding the Trump regime’s ICE raids and repression of protesters in LA … 22...
State capture allegations come back to haunt RAF acting CIO

2 weeks ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) board placed its acting chief investment officer (CIO) Sefotle Modiba on precautionary suspension following allegations that parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) was given misinformation about Modiba’s departure from the City of Johannesburg (CoJ).
State capture allegations come back to haunt RAF acting CIO

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Roy Cokayne

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) board placed its acting chief investment officer (CIO) Sefotle Modiba on precautionary suspension following allegations …
Two law firms get lion’s share of RAF’s R103m legal services spend

3 weeks ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) paid 84% of the total R103.1 million it spent on corporate legal services in its 2024 financial year to Malatji & Co Attorneys Inc and Maponya Ledwaba Attorneys – just two of the 43 legal firms on its panel. Malatji & Co was paid R55.87 million by the RAF in 2024 and Maponya Ledwaba R30.75 million. The RAF revealed this in a presentation to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) last week.
Two law firms get lion’s share of RAF’s R103m legal services spend

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Roy Cokayne

6 hours agoJINJA, Uganda (AP) — Simon Tigawalana dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his family sick. But in a rural area in one of the world’s poorest countries, making them over with concrete was simply out of reach. Then a company called …