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Dear Rob,
Usually HCI simply rides with media stories irrespective of whether we agree with them or not. Nevertheless, your recent article in the FM is so prominent, in a business magazine with such a large circulation, is so full of errors and is [...]

Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI), despite owning a media company, is not enthusiastic about talking to journalists. When the FM contacted chairman Marcel Golding six months ago to ask for an interview, he was less than forthcoming.
“Why do you want an interview?” he asked. “It’s all in the annual report.”
“Marcel is very nervous about this,” said [...]

Johnny Copelyn’s Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) may have pushed one ethical boundary too many. As a court battle rages with the Mpumalanga gambling board, the gaming authority has raised the prospect of asking the Scorpions to probe HCI’s behaviour, which it says was “not fit and proper”.
The gambling board has refused to approve HCI’s purchase [...]