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They call them QSFIs in FSC speak and use the old codes, awdozn’t that sound nice

It's a strange business this BEE business, we all keep our little schlenters to ourselves and leave the rest of the world in the dark.  I can assure you dear reader that there are a number...

Is there any ANC left to organise a piss-up in a brewery?

This is an updated version of an earlier post Recently (actually 2011 but the sentiment remains and the language is much stronger) my friend  Kevin announced that the ANC couldn't organise a...

POPI and the SANAS pencil test

The pencil test here refers to the OTHER test (I get sniggers every time I mention the pencil test – I think I know why, I can't be sure that I would pass the former test) What is POPI: The...

Watch gigaba go big – FSC content

Tougher implementation of transformation in the financial-services sector is on the cards if the recommendations of a draft report by Parliament’s finance and trade and industry committees are...

Delinquent, or absent shareholders and ownership – repost

This post was originally published in April 2013.  Please excuse the indulgence of the repost.  What is interesting is that certain links in the original post are now dead. I've had to...

What the brigadier taught me (and what bolshie bob has yet to learn)

Church hasn't been my thing for years.  I went to a church school and when I left I thought that I'd pretty much done my church time.  Alas the army was ridiculously insistent that...

NEEEF debate heats up. Don’t do what we did Nam, it’ll cause more unhappiness than you can handle

A plan by Namibia, among the world’s most economically unequal nations, to better distribute wealth among its citizens may end up the way neighboring South Africa’s has — benefiting an elite minority...

What if your company is really small but your turnover is ridiculously high?

This is a scenario that we come across all the time.  I have a number of clients that fall into these broad categories They do a lot of business outside of South Africa and this impacts their...

A reader writes. QSEs are falling by the wayside. Compliance is now out of the question

First Paul writes These emails are very appreciated.  I sense that a largish court case could make its way in her direction soon. They are going to have to something about these codes – another...