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Previously known as "Go Life International" (GLI), Numeral is a company listed in Mauritius with a secondary listing on the JSE's Alt-X market. Its focus is in "nutraceuticals" which are products associated with alternative medicine. In other words, they are not pharmaceuticals directly, but claim to offer consumers health benefits. The company was formed to...

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Workforce (WKF) is a labour broker that also does recruitment, specialist staffing, training, consulting, employee health management and sells financial and insurance products. The Constitutional Court decision known as the "Assign" case found that a tri-partite relationship existed between the labour broker, the employee and the client and that temporary...

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Previously, Kaap Agri, the KAL Group is an agricultural company owned 40,9% by Zeder, which is, in turn, 43,7% held by PSG. The company operates through over 190 retail outlets offering a wide range of products and services mainly to the farming community. Kaap Agri has seven divisions: (1) Pakmark offers a wide range of packaging materials for the local and...

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Richemont (CFR) is the world's second-largest supplier of luxury goods controlled by the Rupert family in Stellenbosch. Its sales are entirely located overseas so it is an excellent rand-hedge. Its luxury brands include Mont Blanc, Cartier, Lancel, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Van Cleef and Piaget. It has boosted online sales to 21% of turnover by acquiring Yoox-Net-A-Porter...

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Motus (MTH) was unbundled from Imperial (IPL) and separately listed on the JSE on 22-11-2018. It is a company that owns motor dealerships in South Africa, the UK and Australia. The company has four divisions - import and distribution, retail and rental, motor-related and financial services and aftermarket parts. It imports and sells more than 80 000 vehicles per...

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Kore (KP2) is a potash mining company which owns 97% of Sintoukola Potash which has the Kola and Dougou (DX) mining leases in the Congo. Kola has a resource of 508m tons and Dougou has a resource of 1,1 billion tons of lower grade material. On 29th January 2019, the company announced the completion of a definitive feasibility study (DFS) done by a consortium of...

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BHP is a world-wide commodities company with its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. It processes minerals, oil and gas and it has 62000 employees, mostly in the Americas and Australia. It produces copper, iron, coal, oil, and gas. BHP owns 57,5% of the Escondida mine in Chile which is one of the world's largest copper producers and also produces some gold and...

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Northam (NPH) is a fully empowered platinum mining company which operates in the Bushveld complex. In the current difficult legislative environment where the 3rd mining charter is regarded as unfriendly from an investment point of view, Northam is probably the only mining house which is buying up new properties. It has come to an arrangement with Anglo American to...

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Tongaat (TON) is two businesses - land development and sugar. The company owns 17600 hectares of land of which 9100 hectares along the Natal coast can be developed. The property is valued at R11,7bn. A strategy was developed to own developed properties that can generate rental income - instead of selling them off. 57% of the land between Ballito and Umhlanga known...

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This is a ferrochrome operation controlled by Glencore which operates mines, furnaces and smelters in Mpumalanga and Limpopo. The Glencore-Merafe joint venture can produce up to 2,3m tons of ferrochrome per annum. Merafe gets 20,5% of the proceeds and the balance goes to Glencore. The problem is electricity supply, because smelters require huge amounts of current....

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Renergen (REN) describes itself as an "...integrated alternative energy business" which invests in renewable energy projects in Africa. The company listed on the JSE in June 2015 and has been losing money every year since. This is reflected in its falling share price. Renergen is investing in liquified natural gas (LNG) and helium. The R125m rights issue was fully...

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MultiChoice (MCG) is a leading entertainment company in Africa and one of the fastest-growing pay-TV broadcast providers in the world with 21,1m subscribers in 50 countries. The company's 90-day subscriber base is split 42% (8,9m) in South Africa and 58% (12,2m) in the rest of Africa. The share was spun out of Naspers and separately listed on the JSE on 27th...

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Tharisa (THA) is a mining company that mines and beneficiates platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome. The company is listed in London and on the JSE. The Tharisa mine on the south-west limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) is an open pit operation with an estimated life of 17 years. The company owns a subsidiary, Arxo Metals, which beneficiates chrome to...

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Tongaat (TON) is two businesses - land development and sugar. The company owns 17600 hectares of land of which 9100 hectares along the Natal coast can be developed. The property is valued at R11,7bn. A strategy was developed to own developed properties that can generate rental income - instead of selling them off. 57% of the land between Ballito and Umhlanga known...

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African Rainbow Capital (AIL) is a BEE investment company that was formed in 2015 and listed on the JSE in September 2017. Since it was formed, AIL has invested in more than forty listed and unlisted investments in a wide range of industries from telecommunications to mining, construction, energy, property, agriculture, insurance, asset management and banking. ARC...

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CA Sales listed on the JSE on 27th June 2022 and traded 34 deals on the day opening at 505c and closing at 745c. The company supplies food, health, alcohol and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) to a wide range of companies. It is involved in warehousing, distribution, marketing and point-of-sale. In its results for the six months to 30th June 2023 the company...

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Renergen (REN) describes itself as an "...integrated alternative energy business" which invests in renewable energy projects in Africa. The company listed on the JSE in June 2015 and has been losing money every year since. This is reflected in its falling share price. The company is investing in liquified natural gas (LNG) and helium. Now it is planning to list on...

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Nepi-Rockcastle (NRP) is a R124bn real estate investment trust (REIT) which operates more than 56 shopping malls in 9 central and eastern European countries, mostly in Poland (24%), Romania (35%), Slovakia (9%), Bulgaria (8%), Croatia (5%) and Hungary (11%). The share fell with the rest of the Resilient group (as a result of the 360ne report in January 2018) from...