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Dividend Declaration

DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT M&G Equity Investment Trust P.L.C. announces that at a meeting of the Board of Directors held today, it was resolved to declare a first interim dividend of 1.25p (2007: 1.2p) per Income Share, in respect...

Julius Neave: general manager of Mercantile & General

Julius Neave was a leading figure in the postwar reinsurance business. He joined a small family company called Mercantile & General in 1938 and, after serving with distinction in the Second World War, returned to it in 1946....

Will Snuki be snuffed?

MMANALEDI MATABOGE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - The ANC, Cosatu and the South African Communist Party also want the chief executive of SABC news, Snuki Zikalala, replaced after the board has been dissolved. They allegedly...

M&G founder member gets achiever award

Barbara Ludman, super editor, coach, novelist and a founder member of this newspaper, has won a Vodacom Lifetime Achiever award for her "invaluable contribution to South African journalism". "That's Barbara with three 'a's" she...

Low-risk bonds come to the rescue for fed-up savers

Interest rates have already fallen to their lowest level in half a century and Bank of England governor Mervyn King has made it clear that he is prepared to cut further as recession bites. That may be good news for (some)...

Another award for M&G's Ncube

Mail & Guardian proprietor Trevor Ncube, also the owner of The Zimbabwe Independent and a Zimbabwean Sunday newspaper, The Standard, has received the illustrious German African Award 2008 in recognition of his fight for media...

Gilts are looking good after interest rate cut

Last week’s dramatic interest rate cut has prompted fixed-income fund managers to buy into gilts in the belief that they will offer more attractive returns than other asset classes. Jim Leaviss, fixed income manager at M&G,...

Time will pay dividends

Published Date: 15 November 2008 OVER the long term, most of the returns to investors come from dividends and the reinvestment of that money. A sum of £100 invested in equities 108 years ago in 1900 would now be worth £209 in...

Vietnam embassy in rhino row

YOLANDI GROENEWALD | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - A Vietnamese embassy staff member has allegedly been caught red-handed on film in an illegal rhinoceros horn transaction in front of the embassy building in Pretoria. This year...

Can Shikota Cope?

MMANALEDI MATABOGE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Nov 14 2008 07:21 A month before its formal launch Mosiuoa Lekota’s Congress of the People (Cope) is facing internal tensions, according to sources in the movement. Supporters...

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