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Meet James Styan, author of SA's new bestseller The Bosasa Billions

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Part-time bureaucrat James Styan's fourth book is his best selling yet, with the initial print run sold out within days of The Bosasa Billions hitting the shelves. On Rational Radio this week he shared the back story of researching a tale that has made household names of the now bankrupt company's chief protagonists Gavin Watson and Angelo Agrizzi. He also offers the similarities he found between Watson and former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste, key personality in one of Styan's previous quick-off-the-mark books about SA's biggest corporate collapse. - Alec Hogg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Aug 2019 2AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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