Alec Hogg

Hassen Adams: GPI – R3bn cash pile

Gimmethegreenlight – there’s no holding back. Hassen Adams, one of the great entrepreneurs in South Africa, started with R28m – R3bn in cash now and he’s going to deploy that very efficiently

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Stanley Greeff

20 Years Ago: Sands Of Time – May 1993

Regions of the Cape horse racing industry are to be placed under one controlling body… The British Jockey Club is considering the introduction of random dope testing for jockeys… Frankie Dettori is cautioned by British police for possessing a small amount of cocaine… Michael Roberts survives an objection to win the Irish 2000 Guineas…

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Is South Africa’s horseracing in trouble?

There are some big swings, profit before tax international operations up 100%, local down 49%. Total betting on horseracing is 5% of the total gambling and betting rand and tote betting is 60%, so that’s 3%

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Hogg & Du Plessis on the Hearings

Gambling has been delegated to the provinces and we have to deal with 9 different gambling boards, with 9 different standards and 9 different procedures and 9 different tax rates

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Good Newsbreak: Direct Exports From SA To EU Approved!

This amendment places South Africa’s African Horse Sickness (AHS) free zone back on the Annex IV list as an authorised zone within South Africa from which registered equines are authorised for direct entry into the EU following the required in-country pre-export quarantine period

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