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...Rees-Mogg’s decision to ban Bain followed a meeting last month with Lord Peter Hain, the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, and Athol Williams, a former Bain partner in South Africa turned whistleblower...
...“I don’t think that anyone [from Bain] was sent to South Africa with ill intent,” Athol Williams, a Bain whistleblower, told the Financial Times in an interview after last week’s report....
...It has turned the A$1 purchase of Rio Tinto’s Blair Athol coal mine in Queensland in 2016 into a forecast A$100m net operating profit this year, following a doubling of prices for thermal coal, used in power...
...Rio shut down Blair Athol in 2012 as coal prices slumped....
...Shares in the Anglo-Australian miner rose as much as 4.1 per cent to A$47.94 in early trading following news that smaller Aussie rival TerraCom will buy the Blair Athol mine for A$1, putting the stock on...
...And about time too: China is the world’s second-largest market for electric vehicles, and nouveau riche renminbi have poured into purchases of the Tesla model S, the coolest green motorcar on the block....
...At the outset of The Road to Mecca, the Athol Fugard play in revival at the Roundabout’s Broadway space, the 31-year-old Elsa Barlow has put herself through a 12-hour drive from Cape Town to the Karoo village...
...“Low-income banking at home can be a platform for advance in Africa,” says Athol Williams, a Johannesburg-based banking specialist with Bain & Co, the management consultancy....
...Barrie Athol, who oversees the post-merger integration, says the high-level academic institutions, lower cost of living and the company’s scale in the region will ensure Pittsburgh remains a key centre for...
...A manufacturer of cigarettes, say, or motorcars would fund an “artistic” TV programme or an opera season, hoping that customers would feel more warmly about their wares – might even choose them over some...
...Classic car owners don’t talk about cars, but “motorcars”; they do not drive them, they “run” them; they don’t have collisions, they have “biffs”, they don’t breakdown, they “retire”....
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