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Capitec’s chair shoots down questions in another aggressive AGM

The catering outshone the governance at Capitec’s AGM, unlike Ninety One’s more informative shareholder meeting

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Rating the AGMs: FirstRand and Aspen 

The case of FirstRand board’s missing founders, and no time to ask Aspen questions: why these two top firms could do better

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Rate the AGMs: Shoprite outstanding, Truworths indifferent

Truworths’ AGM is as woeful as its share price performance, while Shoprite shows retailers how it should be done

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Did Capitec’s Gerrie Fourie really fumble the first-ever AGM question? Why, yes

The CEO shot down an entirely fair question about a share split, before tearing up about his 11 years at South Africa’s fastest-growing bank

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AGMs: JSE is tops, Sanlam isn’t

The JSE and Absa have shown how an AGM should be handled; Sanlam needs a serious overhaul

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AGM watch: Old Mutual and Nedbank show up shoddy MTN

MTN could take a leaf out of Nedbank and Old Mutual’s books in how to conduct a decent shareholder meeting

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Rating the AGMs – how the old Barlow’s unbundlings stack up  

It’s AGM season for the old Barloworld stable of companies; Spar and Nampak get top marks but the original scores a ‘fail’

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Shareholders stonewall RMH non-execs’ pay

A group of disgruntled shareholders have blocked RMH non-executive directors’ pay – for only the third time in JSE history

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Spar doubles down in bid to nail ex-execs

The dubious decisions of its previous leadership continue to haunt Spar. But it hasn’t given up its efforts to reclaim damages from them

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Shareholder revolt rocks Barloworld’s AGM

Barloworld’s board has been slammed for its handling of a controversial buyout bid. Its AGM provided a glimpse into just how angry shareholders are

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How to stay off the AGM sh*t list

You don’t want to get onto Ann Crotty’s corporate sh*t list. So here’s the Currency guide to holding a better AGM in 2025

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Rupert’s class-act AGM

Currency’s AGM scoring system gives Remgro an ‘A’ but FirstRand a ‘D’.

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Rating the AGMs: Shoprite good, Sasol okay, Truworths woeful

It’s impossible to know how many Shoprite shareholders live in the town of Brackenfell in the northern suburbs of the Western Cape. It’s not much of a destination but it is near…

How Sasol went rogue on its climate ‘plans’

Has Sasol gone rogue? And more importantly, do its major shareholders even care? On Friday, the petrochemical giant endured another tense AGM – though, at one hour and 27…

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The death dash

It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when shareholders and consumers didn’t care a jot about fatalities in the mining sector. Today an accident, particularly one…

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Democracy by a thread — fear and fascism at the sectional title AGM

There is nothing to sour you on the concept of democracy quite like actually having to live in one. Look, before you get the wrong idea, obviously democracy is wonderful and…

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Pitch up, speak up – and rate the AGM

It’s sad to see that Shoprite has joined the ranks of JSE-listed companies that are prohibiting their shareholders from pitching up in person to attend their AGM. This year,…

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Naspers: new CEO, old grievances

It wasn’t quite the Paris Olympics, but Naspers set a few records of its own at its AGM in August. Record levels of opposition to the reappointment of directors, to the…