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Angola Too Small for Four Phone Operators, Dos Santos Says

LUANDA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Angola’s plan to allow a fourth telecommunications company to enter the market will make life tougher for existing operators and probably lead to consolidation, according to Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and a shareholder of local wireless carrier Unitel SA. “Four licences in a 24-million-people market is a non-sustainable scenario,” Dos Santos, the former Angolan president’s oldest daughter, said in an interview during a conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm…

Teetering Steinhoff Prepares to Shop Around Its Retail Assets

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Steinhoff International Holdings NV, which sells $89 mattresses to Americans and two-for-a-pound cans of tomato soup to the British, faces a potential fire sale of its global retail holdings as it battles for survival. After a week in which its shares collapsed and its bonds were downgraded to junk amid an accounting scandal that prompted Chief Executive Officer Markus Jooste to quit, the owner of U.S. furniture chain Mattress Firm…

Africa’s Richest Woman Prepares New Deals After Losing Oil Post

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LUANDA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Less than a month after being fired as head of Angola’s state-owned oil company, Isabel dos Santos says she is studying new deals. Dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman, said two major Angolan banks she has links to are preparing to sell shares as part of plans to strengthen their operations at home and abroad. She also said Friday she remains committed to her investments in Portuguese oil company Galp Energia SGPS…

Allianz Maroc announces management change

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Casablanca, December 11, 2017 – Dirk De Nil, CEO of Allianz Morocco has decided to step down from his current role for personal reasons on 7 December 2017. Coenraad Vrolijk, will assume the role of Interim CEO of Allianz Morocco, in addition to his current responsibilities as Regional CEO Africa of Allianz. With over 25 years of insurance experience, Dirk De Nil came to Morocco in 2014 to lead Zurich Assurances Maroc until the company was…

Zinc, Copper Outlook Key When Glencore Speaks to Investors

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) The commodities world will be scrutinizing Glencore Plc’s annual investor day on Tuesday for clues on when the top metals trader will restart shuttered zinc and copper production, as well as its plans to expand in agriculture. Here’s a few things to look out for: Zinc Zinc has rallied 86 percent since Glencore curtailed output at some mines two years ago to revive languishing prices. With the metal now near the highest…

Threat of Split Looms as South Africa’s ANC Picks New Leader

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JOHANNESBBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – As delegates from South Africa’s ruling African National Congress gather this week to pick a new leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma, they face a challenge that’s threatening to overshadow the contest: to stop the party from splitting. The likelihood of a breakup is probably the biggest in the ANC’s 105-year-old history, especially if Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the president’s ex-wife and favored contestant, beats his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the vote for party leader,…

EOH Says Directors’ Margin Calls Caused Stock-Price Plunge

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – EOH Holdings Ltd. said forced stock sales due to margin calls involving two directors caused a 35 percent plunge in the stock on Dec. 7. The decline was “triggered by the forced sale of shares by financial institutions against equity-financed transactions to various individual shareholders including two EOH directors,” the Johannesburg-based technology services company said in a statement on Monday. Jehan Mackay, the chief executive officer of the public…

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