Sponsors of the 2014 Joburg Indaba
Breakfast Speakers

Stephen Meintjes is Head of Research at Imara SP Reid and co-author, together with Michael Jacques, of the recently published book Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs.

Frank Abbott joined the Harmony board as non-executive director in 1994, and was appointed financial director in 1997. In 2004 he was appointed financial director of African Rainbow Minerals Limited, and resigned as such during 2009. He was reappointed financial director of Harmony in February 2012.
Frank joined the Rand Mines Group in 1981, where he obtained broad financial management experience at an operational level. He was a director of various listed mining companies and currently serves as a non-executive director on the board of African Rainbow Minerals Limited

Muhammad is a Partner and Head of Corporate Tax based at KPMG’s Johannesburg office, specialising in Mining Taxation.
He has also worked on entities with various energy and natural resources in the tax service line.

Claude Baissac has been a political and economic consultant, advising corporations and international organisations on economic policy, political and country risk, anti-corruption, investigations, security and sustainable investment. Claude is a consultant with the World Bank on investment climate reform, economic diversification, and accelerated growth.
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2015 Breakfast Conversations
On 24 March at a breakfast hosted by Bernard Swanepoel and the Joburg Indaba team at the Country Club Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Stephen Meintjes will discuss the political hot potato of land reform and put forward a proposal to replace taxation with the collection of land and resource rentals. Stephen will outline practical steps that can be taken to an altogether different taxation regime, particularly in the troubled mining sector, offering positive and workable solutions to the thorny issues of land, resource rent and taxation.
Come and hear how he suggests this will work in practice as well as what other leading minds think about these proposals.
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Bernard Swanepoel is the chairman of The Joburg Indaba and The Junior Indaba. Bernard holds BSc (Min Eng) and BCom (Hons) degrees and started his career with Gengold in 1983, culminating in his appointment as general manager of Beatrix Mines in 1993. After joining Randgold in 1995 as MD of the Harmony mine, Bernard became CEO of Harmony from 1997 to 2007. Bernard is a non-executive board member of Sanlam and ARM and founding partner of To The Point Growth Specialists. He was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Village Main Reef Limited on 8 August 2013.
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| Stephen Meintjes is Head of Research at Imara SP Reid and co-author, together with Michael Jacques, of the recently published book Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs. | Muhammad is a Partner and Head of Corporate Tax based at KPMG’s Johannesburg office, specialising in Mining Taxation. He has also worked on entities with various energy and natural resources in the tax service line. |
Claude Baissac has been a political and economic consultant, advising corporations and international organisations on economic policy, political and country risk, anti-corruption, investigations, security and sustainable investment. Claude is a consultant with the World Bank on investment climate reform, economic diversification, and accelerated growth. | |
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Breakfast info:
Venue: The Johannesburg Country Club (Auckland Park)
Time: 07h00 for 07h30
Pricing: R650 ex vat
If you participated in the conversation at the Joburg Indaba in 2013 and 2014, a special offer applies: R450 ex vat.
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