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South Africa: Public Protector Lays Criminal Charges Over Leaked Absa Report
News24Wire, 18 January 2017
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has laid criminal charges with the police over the leaking of its draft Absa report, her office said on Tuesday. Read more »
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South Africa: ANC Slams Madonsela Over Absa Apartheid Bailout Report
News24Wire, 18 January 2017
The ANC wants the Public Protector report linking Absa to billions of rands in bailout funds from the apartheid government made public. Read more »
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South Africa: Madonsela Conducted Absa Probe Mostly On Her Own
News24Wire, 16 January 2017
Former public protector Thuli Madonsela did most of the work on the Absa R2.25bn bailout probe by herself because staff were against it and already overworked, she told the Cape… Read more »
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South Africa: R2K Statement On Absa Report and Apartheid Secrecy
R2K, 16 January 2017
Right2Know welcomes the next step of the Public Protector's much-delayed investigation into apartheid-era looting from the SA Reserve Bank. On Friday it was reported that the… Read more »
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South Africa: Absa Statement on Media Reports Following the Public Protector's Provisional Report
Absa Blog, 16 January 2017
Barclays Africa Group notes media reports today regarding a provisional report by the Public Protector (12 of 2016/17) dealing, in part, with the financial assistance Bankorp… Read more »
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South Africa: Absa, SABC and the Documentary That Never Aired
Daily Maverick, 15 January 2017
In a preliminary report, the Public Protector has recommended Absa pay back over R2-billion it benefited from in apartheid's dying days. As the fallout continues, GREG NICOLSON… Read more »
South African Bank Probed Over Apartheid Bailout
A leaked provisional report by Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has recommended that Absa Bank pay the government R2.25-billion for an unlawful apartheid-era bailout of Bankorp, which was acquired in 1992 and received assistance from the South African Reserve Bank.
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16 January 2017
Report of the Governor's Panel of Experts to Investigate the SA Reserve Bank's Role With Regard to the Financial Assistance Package to Bankorp Limited
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- South African Government
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From 1985 to 1992 the South African Reserve Bank provided assistance to Bankorp and, for the period 1992 to 1995, to its new owner, ABSA. After the ... see more »
