Hold the line
Rain’s bid was actually formally withdrawn on Tuesday because of the objection of the Takeover Regulation Panel, which was in a snit because it wasn’t informed. All of them are a bit odd, and, really, you have to sympathise with the Telkom board as they try to sort through these bids. Hence, the famous line, “I bless the rains down in Africa”.Īnd on the subject of blessings, what is it about Telkom? It’s been pointed out to me, I won’t say by whom, that the reports about unsolicited bids for SA’s former telephone company are possibly the first time the words ‘Toto’, ‘rain’ and ‘Africa’ have appeared together so many times in actual news stories.Īnd it does seem that Telkom is blessed at the moment, because it’s being … how should we say? … rained on with takeover bids. What? But the song is saved by a sweet sense of rain coming down in Africa as a guy heads off to see his aid-worker girlfriend somewhere near a place called the Serengeti. This is notwithstanding some of the oddest lyrics in pop music, like the second line of the chorus, “there’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do”. Join Maverick Insider.Īfter the Bell: Hold the line, it’s Toto, calling abo. If you’re rejigging your budgets, and it comes to choosing between frothy milk and Daily Maverick, we hope you might reconsider that cappuccino. Our country is going to be considerably worse off if we don’t have a strong, sustainable news media. We can't survive on hope and our own determination. A little less than a week’s worth of cappuccinos. At R200, you get it back in Uber Eats and ride vouchers every month, but that’s just a suggestion. After all, how much you value our work is subjective (and frankly, every amount helps). We don’t dictate how much we’d like our readers to contribute. BUT maybe R200 of that R1,050 could go to the journalism that’s fighting for the country? Don’t get us wrong, we’re almost exclusively fuelled by coffee.
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