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The Amsterdam-listed company will have a free float of up to 27%, which Naspers believes will attract more investors to its global internet assets. Naspers plans to list its global internet assets under a new company on Amsterdam’s Euronext market on 19 July.

South Africans are surging towards the popular United States EB-5 Immigrant Investment Visa program ahead of possible price increases that will likely place the EB-5 program out of reach for many other than for the uber-rich.  NES Financial, the leading EB-5 financial brokerage in the U.S., has estimated a 600% increase in EB-5 petition filings from South Africans this fiscal year from three years ago. 

The Protection of Foreign Investment in Africa –a first-of-its-kind short course in foreign investment law on the continent – could help investors make the most of increasingly attractive opportunities in Africa.

While the bank’s West African-associate weighed on 2017 earnings, a turnaround last year helped mitigate challenging conditions at home. Nedbank has benefitted from a turnaround at its Ecobank Transnational International (ETI) associate as growth in its home market continues to stagnate.

The food producer says there’s an oversupply of chicken in the market due to imports, while high levels of imported sugar remain even after the government increased tariffs.

S12J refers to a section of The Income Tax Act. This section allows an investor to deduct the full cost of their investment into an approved s12J company against their taxable income. This benefit is available to individuals, companies and trusts and can be utilised against normal income as well as Capital Gains tax.

The unbundling and listing of MultiChoice will result in Naspers shareholders holding a direct interest in the video entertainment business. Naspers expects to unbundle and list its MultiChoice business on the JSE by the end of February if all goes according to plan. In a pre-listing statement, the global internet and media business said shares in the video entertainment business would start trading on the JSE on 27 February.

The video entertainment group says it will focus on returning its loss-making operations outside of South Africa to profitability as it prepares for a February listing. MultiChoice will list on the JSE at the end of next month in a move that will position Africa’s biggest pay-TV operator for further growth across the continent.

Shareholders in SA, Zimbabwe and Malawi will be paid out this week, while UK shareholders will receive payment at the end of the month.

Shareholders affected by the odd-lot offer will receive R276.48c per share, to be paid out in the next few weeks. Nedbank has set the price at which it will buy back shares from the hundreds of thousands of Old Mutual shareholders who received equity in the bank as part of the break up of Old Mutual Plc.