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The accountant was finally convicted by the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Gqeberha, marking a significant milestone in this protracted legal battle.

A Gqeberha chartered accountant arrested last week and charged with theft of about R11m was rearrested on Friday on a second charge — this time to the tune of more than R40m.

A 51-year-old chartered accountant from Nelson Mandela Bay was arrested on Friday for allegedly stealing more than R11m from the Despatch SuperSPAR.

1. Under the clouds   I left home in Fife and went to live in Glasgow when I was eighteen. When I think of it now, the distance seems laughably small – forty miles, little more than an hour in the train – but the contrast between a village on the east coast and a city, Scotland’s largest, on the west coast was sharp and exciting. I had a bedsit in a dark street of better-class tenements, with a Polish delicatessen, a dance hall and a cinema just round the corner. Glasgow seemed an infini...