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“tj strydom”

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  • Capitec: Stalking Giants

    by TJ Strydom ...
    A plucky team of South African entrepreneurs in the early 2000's transformed a network of microlenders (or 'loan sharks') into a bank -- Capitec -- that succesfully challenged the country's established instititutions. Capitec's exponential growth is a case study in innovation with clear lessons about doing business in Africa. ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Koos Bekker’s Billions

    by T.J. Strydom ...
    Koos Bekker has amassed one of the largest fortunes ever by a South African. Just how did he do it?Under Bekker, Naspers made several bad investments, a few mediocre ones, a few good ones … and one that shot the lights out. A modest bet on Chinese technology startup Tencent changed Bekker’s destiny. Was this genius, strategy or just plain old good luck?In Koos Bekker’s Billions, T.J. Strydom ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Christo Wiese

    Risk and Riches

    by TJ Strydom ...
    Christo Wiese - once the owner of a diamond mine, a wine farm and the most expensive house in Cape Town. Former chairman of South Africa's largest retailer, director of the Reserve Bank and the richest man in the country. As a young man, Wiese cut his teeth at Pep Stores. Over the years he built a mighty business empire, which included Shoprite and a number of other enterprises. His recipe for ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • Fortunes

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    by Ebbe Dommisse ...
    A handful of Afrikaners have risen to the very top of the business world in South Africa in the past three decades, some of them now dollar billionaires with vast global business interests. With Koos Bekker at its helm, media group Naspers grew to dominate the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and was transformed into a global consumer internet group. Johann Rupert boldly extended Richemont's share in ... Read more

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  • Brett Kebble

    The Inside Story

    by Barry Sergeant ...
    In September 2005, corporate South Africa was rocked by the violent murder of mining maverick Brett Kebble. In life, he was known as a billionaire patron of the arts, compassionate philanthropist, champion of black economic empowerment, urbane raconteur and generous host. But within six months of his death, Kebble was exposed as the architect of one of the biggest and most convoluted frauds seen ... Read more

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  • Mass Disruption

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    Drawing on his thirty years in newspapers, the former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail examines the crisis of serious journalism in the digital era, and searches for ways the invaluable tradition can thrive in a radically changed future.John Stackhouse entered the newspaper business in a golden age: 1980s circulations were huge and wealthy companies lined up for the privilege of advertising ... Read more

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  • The Pay Off

    How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

    by Natasha de Teran, Gottfried Leibbrandt ...
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  • Over Here and Undertaxed: Multinationals, Tax Avoidance and You

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  • Facts are Sacred

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    What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly?Facts are Sacred, the Guardian's award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency - to bring its readers astonishing revelations about the way we live now. It reveals how data has ... Read more

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  • Jannie Mouton: And then they fired me

    by Carié Maas ...
    Jannie Mouton is one of South Africa’s greatest success stories. Here is the inside story of how he started PSG from scratch after getting fired at age 48 and turned it into a triumphant success in 15 years. Today it has interests in companies with a market capitalisation of R61 billion. In this book Jannie Mouton talks openly about what went on behind the scenes – even the most controversial ... Read more

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