A takeover gone wrong shows why South African companies are facing their toughest IR challenges yet.
Despite what he’s been through in the first half of this year, Ferdi Dippenaar, who heads the IR function at South Africa’s largest gold producer, Harmony Gold, has his sense of humor intact. ‘We’ve grown a lot older and a lot wiser,’ he smiles. ‘That’s why we look the way we do.’ When Harmony launched its long-awaited bid for rival local precious metals producer Gold Fields in October 2004 – a move that would have made it the world’s
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