This episode of the Ghost Bites podcast on YouTube and Apple Podcasts / Spotify covers Accelerate Property Fund, Alphamin, Purple Group and Sappi.

When will Labat Africa engage with the market and tell their story? Old Mutual reminds us just how well our market infrastructure works in South Africa (especially compared to Zimbabwe). South Ocean Holdings expands in Cape Town.

Accelerate Property Fund has made more progress. Bytes Technology investors must be patient for growth in profits. Capitec has sold its rental finance business to Sasfin. Sappi jumped on positive news about recent trading.

Weekly summary of Merger & Acquisition activity by South African companies.

In a day of updates from more unusual names on the JSE, we saw Deneb and Stefanutti Stocks with highly encouraging trading statements. Accelerate Property Fund has suffered a setback on its turnaround journey.

Accelerate Property Fund is making a lot of progress with Fourways Mall, but there are other headaches. Reinet is receiving a massive war chest from the Pension Insurance Corp disposal. MTN has beefed up the board.

Lewis has bucked the retail trend and shown its quality. AVI's reputation for margin expansion has been earned once more. Accelerate Property Fund has sold another property at close to NAV.

Thungela updated the market on a tough year. British American Tobacco has reaffirmed 2026 guidance. BHP unlocked capital through a BlackRock infrastructure deal. Merafe is hoping for progress with Eskom. Mahube Infrastructure may be leaving our market.