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An obscure group of security personnel have been embedded in PRASA, giving them influence over the agency’s huge security budget – and more. Who put them there and why?

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Analysis: Iqbal vs the banks — behind Survé’s conspiracy theories

In a desperate attempt to regain access to the banking system the media mogul has cast the net of his alleged enemies ever wider and more wildly. But even if there’s not really an economy-wide plot against him, the de facto boycott threatening his shrinking empire still raises real questions about the power of the banks.

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Strike three: Is Iqbal Survé finally unbankable

Nedbank has joined other banks and put Iqbal Survé and his entire Sekunjalo empire on notice. The bank is closing the accounts of 43 different related entities. Among the reasons are “odd” transactions ranging from donations to Carl Niehaus and others, through to what was tagged as a R25-million divorce “settlement” paid from funds held by the struggling African News Agency.

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Update: Another bank abandons Iqbal Survé

FNB has followed Absa’s cue and cut ties with Survé. It is entirely possible other banks will follow suit – or have already done so.

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Absa does a Gupta on Iqbal Survé

The bank has cut ties with 24 companies directly or indirectly controlled by Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings. The move is reminiscent of the beginning of the end of the Gupta empire.

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Betting on the banks in a time of Covid-19

Dewald van Rensburg
May 5, 2020

Government’s major stimulus measures rely on the financial sector – banks in particular – to support real economic activity in exchange for unprecedented (temporary) deregulation and other support. How’s that working out so far?

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Absa does a Gupta on Iqbal Survé

Betting on the banks in a time of Covid-19

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