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Sep 09 2010 00:00
PROFILE: JOHN GIBSON | A PROBATE SYSTEM in this country would go some way to reduce the workloads currently being experienced in the offices of the Master of the High Court and would allow for the review of estates only where problems may have arisen or objections lodged by the beneficiaries of an affected estate. “It’s no secret there have been notable delays in the winding up of estates at the Master’s Office,” says The Fiduciary Institute of South Africa (FISA) chairman John Gibson. “And FISA – as representative of the fiduciary industry – has been advising and helping where it can to streamline existing processes.”
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Sep 09 2010 00:00
Social ENTREPRENEUR: RETHA CILLIERS | A DECADE AGO the term social entrepreneur was virtually unknown. Nowadays, according to an article in a recent issue of The Economist, everyone from London to Lagos wants to be one. In the United States in July this year its new Social Innovation Fund made its first 11 investments of US$50m of state funds, supplemented by $74m from philanthropic institutions, that will be donated to some of the country’s most successful non-profit organisations to expand their work in areas such as healthcare and job creation.