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Defend Truth

Simon Mantell

Simon Mantell served articles with a big four audit firm and runs a biscuit factory in Cape Town.

Latest Work

Simon Mantell

1 September 2021

Unemployment and the unemployable: The scale, the smoke and mirrors, the realities and the solutions

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

18 February 2021

Irba and the auditing profession in crisis: An eight-point recovery plan

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

3 April 2020

How to put corrupt officials behind bars in double-quick time

By Simon Mantell

5 min

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Simon Mantell

14 January 2020

Mango low-cost airline — a story of profitability that is too good to be true?

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

19 November 2019

Blame Cabinet and management, not the unions, for SAA’s death spiral

By Simon Mantell

5 min

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Simon Mantell

25 July 2019

SA education system dooms the majority to abject poverty

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

3 April 2019

BEE inadvertently became ‘prime enabler of State Capture and corruption’ in South Africa

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

16 October 2018

Does Nhlanhla Nene deserve our collective sympathy and thanks or good riddance?

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

14 March 2018

SAA: Futile to bail out an organisation which has no internal and financial control

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

28 February 2018

Governance at State-owned Enterprises – the argument for independent and capable minds versus useful idiots

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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Simon Mantell

11 October 2017

The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors – hard-nosed watchdog of the profession or docile lapdog?

By Simon Mantell

5 min

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Simon Mantell

2 October 2017

Time for auditors of SOEs to pay back the money?

By Simon Mantell

4 min

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