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How to build a PIC dream board

There is a deep pool of South African talent that finance minister Enoch Godongwana should look to when he forms the new PIC board

Louis van der Watt, Atterbury. atterbury.co.za

RMH lives on – so does the fight

RMH has undergone a board overhaul. But the new, slimmer body could see tensions around director independence

Lazy non-executive directors. Rawpixel/Currency collage

Who is watching the NEDs watching the execs?

Are non-executive directors worth what they’re paid – and can anyone tell? South Africa’s boardroom failures and a UK governance review suggest not

AGM. Image by Currency News

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

Albie Cilliers; Herman Bosman RMH

Did RMH overpay its executives? 

RMH executive bonuses may have been based on problematic computations that could have added an unjustified 15% to their value

Fat cat salary scale. Rawpixel/Currency collage.

How rubber-necking execs gamed the JSE’s pay disclosure system

The past 23 years have seen an outlandish increase in executive pay, where what others earn is what really counts

Directors’ independence. Picture: currency

The trouble with the King codes’ toothless director recommendations

You wonder why the drafters of the King V director codes bother, with plenty of governance escape clauses for directors who are anything but independent

Director resignations and firings. Image supplied.

I quit! Time to sharpen the JSE’s resignation rules

The JSE’s allowance of bland director resignation statements is doing no-one any favours

Thabi Leoka. Image by Gallo Images

What’s worse: doctoring your CV or stealing billions?

South Africa is such a strange country. You can run a transparent actual fraud on actual pensioners, in which you take their actual savings and put them in your actual pocket.…