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If you want to see an interesting article then read
www.iol.co.za/news/politics/is-the-writing-on-the-wall-for-zuma-2080113

What I find extraordinary is the list of ministers making up the ministerial task force looking into student unrest at the uni's - the only missing acolyte seems to be Zwane - wonder if he is going to be reshuffled out of the cabinet. Where is Des van die rooi een

I see the termites are once again gnawing away at the ANC tree - I wonder if they will even be a creditable opposition party after 2019.Can't recall a single terrorist organization that turned to politics actually surviving the long term haul

Moon - you are absolutely right the tie up will undoubtedly happen. My contention still stands that Christo Wiese is trying to emulate Brain Joffe by creating an international conglomerate. The big curiosity for me is what will happen with Brait as it is heavily invested in Wiese controlled entities and he sits on the board as a non ex. There are some interesting directors at Brait - Jabu Moleketi who was Finance MEC for Joburg Metro before he saw the political light, Chris Seabrooke who was with Massmart, and Herman Troskie whose family pretty much owned most of Bloemfontein, and Leon Porter who used to COF for Nedcor Bank - so some movers and shakers in this grouping
Still undecided about Steinhoff as if acquisitions continue it is going to take years to bed down and restructure the enlarged conglomerate and my investment horizon doesn't align with how long it will take to settle the dust

According to my personal holding DBXWD paid dividend on July 21st 2016

I think Ellies were hurt when they couldn't roll out their set top boxes with the TV migration, and then their quality assurance on their products became non existent - I today will not buy any of their products because they are worse than the imports ex China. I don't believe they will ever return to their former glory days - I am glad I exited their shares when they were around R 6.10 - but still made handsome profits

PTXTEN - last night I attended a talk on wealth creation at the JSE. One of the counters that came up was this Property tracking counter. My broker/JSE platform gives very little detail on this counter other than its quarterly distribution which seems fairly erratic with dividends ranging between 11 cents and +/-32 cents over 2015/6. Looking at SENS they listed 150,000 securities on 16/8/2016 only to delist 200,000 on 2/9/2016 - there are quite a number of occasions where securities are listed/delisted.
Can anybody throw some light on this index and whether they are holders in their own portfolios (not competition portfolio)
Thanks

I too bought MPR with my Sept allocation in the competition and in my real portfolio am trying to sell some shares in other companies to enable me to buy more MRP - so far their drop has cost me +/- R 138,000 in profits. I have no doubt they will return to previous prices - it may just take 6 months or so