Thanks for a thoughtful posting.
It is interesting how our two spin doctors for the "heirs" regulary switch context, use incomplete information to bamboozle, mislead, etc. and then lack understanding as to why most others are frustrated by their propaganda. I thought that perhaps it was the same person using different log-ins, but the huge difference in grammar and sentence structure points to two different shills. (Infoman, that was a backhanded compliment)
I have a copy of Maduna's speech from last week, but no scanner, so I emailed the DME for an online copy. Here is the response:
"At this time, the Minister's budget speech is not in a format to be
e-mailed to you. I am not only busy with the corrections and
changes to the speech but also making arrangements with our IT section to have the speech available on the internet. I will let you know what the address to this is as soon as we have it available. Please be patient until early next week."
While this seems very slow to most Canadians, perhaps it reflects a different pace of life in RSA; Here we can find information like today's Financial Post online and easy to access; in RSA it seems as if there is a more "methodical" way of doing things. Maybe this goes to explain a lot of the recent developments regarding SUF: both sides are ready for court action, both sides drop their actions together, De Beers appears to have an agreement to pay the "heirs" but is holding off paying, SUF puts out a press release and suggests that shareholders "read between the lines", that the "heirs" are "non-plussed", Maduna makes a very important speech to parliament emphasizing the very situation in which SUF finds itself......and we wait. Most Canadians probably begin to think "no news is bad news", but I believe that things are happening at a different pace than we are comfortable with.
For those who are long term shareholders, what trouble is a couple more weeks?
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