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Copper 360 describes its business as follows, "The Copper 360 business is focused on (a) processing historical mined copper rock dumps through a process of environmental clean-up, and (b) mining surface and shallow copper resources." The company has acquired (through SHIP) an extensive database from companies such as American Mining Conglomerate Newmont and Global...

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Gold Fields (GFI) is a relatively high-cost international gold mining house with a single mine in South Africa - South Deep. South Deep was bought by Gold Fields in 2006 and it has struggled to make the mine profitable, pouring in a total of R32bn (R22bn purchase price plus R10bn in development costs) into it over the past 14 years. Brett Kebble once described...

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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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Spear (SEA) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) which specialises in properties in and around Cape Town. It was started by Mike Flax and the CEO is Quintin Rossi. Both of these men have a very good understanding of property in the Cape area. At listing in November 2016, the company had a portfolio worth R1,5bn and that has grown to 32 properties worth about...

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SA Corp (SAC) owns a group of 199 industrial, retail, storage, residential and office properties in South Africa plus a 50% stake in a joint venture in Zambia with 3 properties. The bulk of this portfolio is in retail (43%) and industrial (28%). The company has problems across its portfolio, and especially in its office and industrial properties where it has been...

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Conduit Capital (CND) is a small financial services company, mainly in the insurance industry. It has two operating divisions - Investments and Insurance & risk. Through its subsidiary, Conduit Risk & Insurance Holdings, the company does underwriting, investments and earns commissions. It does both short- and long-term insurance. It offers a range of niche...

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KAP International Holdings (KAP) is a diversified industrial company which produces and markets timber, chemicals (PET and related chemicals), bedding and car parts. It also has a logistics division. The acquisitions of Safripol and Hosaf were integrated into a polymers business under the Safripol name. The bedding division showed strong growth with new investment...

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Transaction Capital (TCP) is a company which has three divisions - minibus taxis, risk services, and 75% of WeBuyCars. Its subsidiary, SA Taxi, specialises in financing, repairing, insuring and selling minibus taxis in South Africa. It completely dominates the entire value chain associated with the minibus taxi industry. The company listed in June 2012 and since...

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Sebata (SEB) is an investment holding company with four divisions - software solutions, water technologies, ICT support services and consulting. Their software solutions division consists of Sebata which offers IT services to municipalities and public entities, Freshmark which provides IT solutions to fresh produce providers, and Rdata which offers an accounting...

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Rand Merchant Bank Holdings (RMH) is a company which used to own 34,1% of Firstrand and, since 2016, has been investing in property. RMBH was started 41 years ago by GT Ferriera, Laurie Dippenaar and Paul Harris and listed on the JSE in 1992 and split off and separately listed Rand Merchant Investment Holdings in 2011. RMH Property was formed with the acquisition...

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MAS (MSP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) which invests in office, commercial, logistics, retail, and hospitality properties in Europe and the UK. This REIT was started by Martin Slabbert and Victor Semionov who are well known for establishing NEPI - which merged with Rockcastle. They are very highly regarded as European property experts. The company is...

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Italtile (ITE) is a franchisor of tiles, sanitary ware, flooring, and home finishing products - which it manufactures and wholesales itself. The company is controlled by the Ravazotti family. It has 206 stores and 6 online web stores. It also has a property portfolio of retail and industrial properties worth about R4,3bn. The company has acquired 95,47% of Ceramic...

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Ibex Investments is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ibex Topco B.V. and is the issuer of variable rate, cumulative, non-redeemable, non-participating preference shares with a capital value of R1.5 billion. The preference shares are listed on the JSE. In a trading statement for the year ended 30 September 2023, headline earnings per ordinary share is expected to be a...

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This is a black-owned investment holding company which is itself a subsidiary of Sekunjalo, a company controlled by Iqbal Surve and his family. Surve is a medical doctor who had very strong political contacts with various ANC stalwarts in the Zuma era. AEEI has spun off and separately listed AYO as a technology company but still holds 49,4%. This listing was...

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Nictus (NCS) is a furniture and electrical appliance retailer with three stores in South Africa. It also sells short-term insurance through Corporate Guarantee. In its financials for the six months to 30th September 2023 the company reported revenue of R15m, down from the previous period's R16,6m and earnings per share (EPS) of 6,93c compared with a loss of 0,71c...

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Murray and Roberts (MUR) is a large South African construction company which has suffered from the sub-prime crisis and then the slump in construction spending following the 2010 World Cup. This brought the share down from a massive double-top formation at around R100 per share to a low below R5 in May 2020. The company has been consolidating and reducing costs....

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Kumba (KIO) is a highly successful iron mining operation which is owned (79%) and controlled by Anglo American. The share price fell to as little as R223 in March 2020 because of COVID-19 but has recovered to R668 before falling on the March 2022 quarterly results. Importantly, exports make up 94% of the company's total sales - which means that it is not heavily...

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With Anglo American (AGL), the risk normally associated with commodity stocks is mitigated in two ways. Firstly, the company has diversity of different minerals which reduces the impact of any one mineral entering a bear trend. Secondly, the traditional mechanism to avoid risk is to have a very strong balance sheet with plenty of headroom. That way, if things turn...