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Probe: The Mpati commission investigated the Public Investment Corporation when Dan Matjila (centre) was chief executive.  (David Harrison/M&G)

Ayo report: CFO acted in the PIC’s interests

A disciplinary inquiry has cleared Matshepo More of all charges, but she remains suspended

Former PIC chief executive Dan Matjila. (David Harrison/M&G)

PIC commission – Matjila acted improperly in Ayo deal

The report by the commission that investigated the Public Investment Corporation says the fund manager’s former CEO lied about his involvement in its R4,3-billion investment in…

Pay back the money: Iqbal Survé says the thought of Independent Media collapsing gives him ‘sleepless nights’. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Will Independent sink with Survé?

About 1 500 media workers may lose their jobs if Iqbal Survé cannot service his companies’ debts

Former Fedusa general secretary Dennis George. (Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo)

Dennis George ‘shocked’ in the wake of Fedusa sacking

The federation’s former general secretary has been implicated in a dodgy Ayo listing deal which he claims is a ‘deliberate misrepresentation’

Ayo Technology Solutions had accounting adjustments made to their financial statements, but deny that they are involved in any wrongdoing.

Adjusted Ayo finacial statements being audited, PIC inquiry hears

The ICT company has denied wrongdoing, however, the JSE has ordered an audit of the financial statements

Not above board: In 2006, all the directors of the Stilfontein gold mine resigned to avoid being implicated on charges of reckless trading. A judge later found that this decision was not made in good faith.

Boards can’t simply quit en masse

Any decision by directors to leave as a bloc has consequences that go beyond issues of liability

Survé, testifying before the commission for two days last week, had said that AYO had done nothing wrong and the PIC’s R4.3bn investment was sound.(Lerato Maduna/Gallo)

Ayo financial tampered with on Survé’s instruction, says ex-chief exec

​Former AYO Technology Solutions CEO, Kevin Hardy, has testified that businessperson Iqbal Survé interfered in the running of the technology company

Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings denies it owes the PIC more than R1-billion it used to acquire the media group. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Survé set to testify at PIC inquiry

Survé is expected to testify after Kuben Naidoo, the deputy governor of the South Africa Reserve Bank

The commission, chaired by Justice Lex Mpati, has heard of the close relationship between former PIC CEO Dan Matjila and businessman Iqbal Surve, who holds an indirect stake in Ayo. (David Harrison/M&G)

PIC commission to continue as key Ayo repayment court order expected

Key judgement affecting Surve-linked Ayo is set to be handed down on Monday, as PIC witness identities kept under wraps due to safety concerns

Former PIC chief executive Dan Matjila. (David Harrison/M&G)

PIC given more time to recoup R4.3-bn Ayo investment

The CIPC has agreed on an extension of the time limit of that notice from 15 days to 60 days

Matjila further shrugged off allegations of favouritism against him and the PIC’s former chief financial officer and now suspended acting CEO, Matshepo More. (David Harrison/M&G)

Sagarmatha offered PIC cut-price deal, inquiry hears

When asked whether this was ethical, Lebogang Molebatsi said, unless the arrangement was disclosed to other shareholders, “it would not be correct”.

Former PIC chief executive Dan Matjila. (David Harrison/M&G)

How PIC officials managed ‘forced’ exposure to Survé deals

Investment team member testifies about Ayo and Sagarmatha transactions as having come from CEO Matjila

Former PIC chief executive Dan Matjila. (David Harrison/M&G)

PIC liquidated stocks to finance R4.3bn Ayo investment

Former chief executive Dan Matjila is alleged to have instructed the liquidation of stocks to settle the subscription of Ayo shares

How did a relatively unknown businessman and soccer club owner from Limpopo gain an inside track with Africa’s largest pension fund administrator and its chief executive, Dan Matjila (pictured)?

PIC going after R4.3-billion paid to Ayo

The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has distanced itself from any notion that it is working with Ayo Technology Solutions

On Wednesday, Matjila continued denying any wrongdoing, this time in the transaction between the PIC and mortgage finance company, SA Home Loans. (David Harrison/M&G)

PIC CEO has too much power, inquiry hears

The merger of the CEO and the chief investment officer roles at the PIC is a centralisation of power that exposes the PIC to huge risk

Former Fedusa general secretary Dennis George. (Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo)

Fedusa puts Dennis George on precautionary suspension over AYO deal

George had been placed on special leave on February 6

The investment saw PIC take a 25% stake in the Independent Media group.

PIC required to recover R4.3-billion made to Ayo by March 13

The PIC has confirmed that it received a compliance notice from the CIPC ordering it to recover the R4.3-billion made to Ayo Technology Solutions

Ayo Technology Solutions had accounting adjustments made to their financial statements, but deny that they are involved in any wrongdoing.

Ayo: No grounds for PIC to recover R4.3-billion investment

The PIC paid R43 per share for a 29% stake in Ayo, a company in which Independent media owner Iqbal Surve has an indirect stake

The investment saw PIC take a 25% stake in the Independent Media group.

More unnamed witnesses to testify at PIC inquiry

Here is what we know so far

Dr Iqbal Survé. (Lerato Maduna/Foto24)
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Listen: I’m an underdog person says Survé

In conversation with Mail & Guardian editor Khadija Patel last week, Iqbal Survé insisted that everyone who is critical of him has been unfair.