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Dear Investors, I need your help to make a small contribution to my crowd-funded film project.

This is the film project I'm developing to share the story of Jesse February, a chess champion from Port Elizabeth. Recently this project was featured in the Weekend Post newspaper.



== PRESS STATEMENT ===

Film-makers in Nelson Mandela Bay have launched a new crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding allows people to contribute small amounts via the Internet to reach a goal amount for projects. They plan to raise about R25,000 for a documentary about Chess champion, Jesse February from Port Elizabeth. The money will be used to cover additional interviews and post-production costs. In 2013 some preliminary footage was filmed at the annual Uitenhage Chess Festival.

The director and producer, Ramon Thomas, started filming in 2013 after completing a Video Production course at The Media Workshop in Port Elizabeth, now known as AFDA Film School.

"Jesse is an amazing young woman and she leads by example," says Thomas. "She travels overseas every few months representing South Africa and I want to tell her story to the world."

Even former-president Jacob Zuma was an avid chess player and supporter. He opened the Commonwealth Chess Games with grandmaster's like Gary Kasparov at the Boardwalk, Summerstrand, in 2013. All these events have contributed to the development of a story rooted in Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth, also known as Nelson Mandela Bay.

The funds will cover additional filming and post-production costs. The film will be distributed via Youtube and Vimeo, free to the world. And it will be submitted to film festivals worldwide to raise awareness of the unbreakable spirit of Miss February. If you're unable to make an online contribution, feel free to contact Mr Thomas on +27814399555 (WhatsApp).

You may support this crowdfunding campaign here: http://bit.ly/jessefebruary

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Shares / Avoiding Sagarmatha Technologies private placement
« on: April 10, 2018, 10:32:25 pm »
After reading that Jim Rogers is a consultant on Iqbal Survé's new venture, I've lost all respect for him. Business Day ripped them to pieces and I quote the introduction here...

The full extent of the destruction at Independent Media since the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) placed the company at the disposal of Iqbal Survé has been laid bare — ironically through Survé’s outrageous attempt to use other people’s money to plug the R2.3bn hole in his media balance sheet.

On March 28, a company 73% owned by Survé’s family trust issued a remarkable "prelisting statement" inviting selected investors to subscribe for a "private placement" of shares ahead of a planned JSE listing. The company is Sagarmatha Technologies, a grandiose reference to the Nepali name for Mount Everest, and the statement represents a desperate bid to portray it as a hi-tech start-up in the mould of an African Google or Amazon.


read the details here...

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Shares / Media24's Welkom Yizani trading platform
« on: February 27, 2018, 11:09:53 am »
My mom holds some Welkom Yizani shares. We were very happy with the dividend paid out a few months ago when Novus was unbundled. However, the process for registering on their trading platform is very onerous. So I'm looking for someone who has successfully registered, to give me some tips.

Sincerely
Ramon

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Off topic / When did Magda Wierzycka become a Billionaire?
« on: February 17, 2018, 04:57:55 pm »
Recently there's been few articles referring to Sygnia CEO, Magda Wierzycka, is a billionaire like this one and this one.

Sygnia's market cap is currently R1.9 billion. And according to their 2017 annual report she owns 22,691,333 shares, and at Friday's closing price that's R277,968,817. She's also not listed in any of the "richest in South Africa" lists published in various news media.

Help me confirm whether Ms Wierzycka is indeed a Rand billionaire or not.

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Off topic / Advice about merging two companies
« on: January 10, 2018, 04:21:46 pm »
Maybe there are some people here with experience using CIPC and doing company registrations. I have one Closed Corporation and one (Pty) Ltd. I want to sell the assets of the CC to the (Pty) Ltd. What are the basics steps for doing this without using an Accountant?

Thank you
Ramon

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The Investor Challenge / Investor Challenge fees
« on: January 02, 2018, 01:04:50 pm »
Happy new year!

Please clarify the fees for buying and selling equities on the Investor Challenge. If you are using some averages, it would be good to know the details for planning trades.

Thanks
Ramon

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The Investor Challenge / Pravin Gordhan’s JSE investment portfolio
« on: February 24, 2017, 01:48:32 am »
Just in time for his 2017 Budget Speech, here's a gem for all of us: Pravin Gordhan JSE Portfolio.

Naspers stands out.

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Shares / Nandos listing on LSE
« on: January 31, 2017, 04:01:28 am »
Sharenet carried a story about Nandos coming back to the stock market. The Telegraph carried a more detailed story about Nandos including the obvious benefit of raising funds in GBP instead of ZAR.

I will be buying if there's a duel-listing on JSE. What were the reasons they un-listed from the JSE in 2003?

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Off topic / Water Utility as investment option
« on: November 09, 2015, 01:28:34 pm »
Good evening fellow investors. I'm a keen researcher of ecology and one of the topics that sparks my interests from time to time is the so called "Water Wars" that's coming. Dr Vandana Shiva has written a book about it. And in a recent TEDx Talk, the speaker Aii Mufuruki, made an off-the-cuff remark about the shortage of fresh water globally. And the area around Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika and third one, contains 30% of the world's fresh water.

Anyway I can only think of Rand Water, which is a private utility along the lines of Eskom but privatised somehow. So my question to all you wise wizards of the stock markets is this: What companies own directly or indirectly a water business? I want to invest in them long term.



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