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Volume I: The Crossroads

Volume I: The Crossroads

The opening volume of the OUBAS Documentary Series. It sets out the crossroads at which the record was made, and the choices that followed.

Edition languages: Arabic · Chinese · English · French · German · Portuguese · Spanish · Swahili · Zulu

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R210.00

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R300.00

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R350.00
Volume II: The Records They Never Produced

Volume II: The Records They Never Produced

An examination of the documents that were requested, promised, and never produced — and what their absence reveals.

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Volume III: The Opportunities That Were Lost

Volume III: The Opportunities That Were Lost

A record of the openings that were available, the remedies within reach, and the moments at which they closed.

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Volume IV: The Consequences

Volume IV: The Consequences

What followed. This volume traces the practical, financial and human consequences of the events documented in earlier volumes.

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Volume V: The Convergence

Volume V: The Convergence

The closing volume of the current sequence, drawing the separate threads of the record into a single account.

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Volume VI.1: The Litigation Record

Volume VI.1: The Litigation Record

The first instalment of Volume VI, The Test. It follows the commercial and documentary disputes described in earlier volumes into sequestration, rescission, preservation, restrictive-proceedings litigation, written-consent processes, estate administration and appellate proceedings, recording events through 16 October 2026.

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Volume IX: Personal Sequestration In Practice

Volume IX: Personal Sequestration In Practice

A practical examination of personal sequestration: how it is applied, what the record shows, and the consequences for the ordinary person.

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Volume X: Insolvency Litigation and Court Practice

Volume X: Insolvency Litigation and Court Practice

How insolvency disputes move through the courts: the litigation, the practice, and what the record reveals for the ordinary person.

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Volume XI: Trustees, Creditors And Trust Administration

Volume XI: Trustees, Creditors And Trust Administration

Volume XI of the OUBAS series, examining trustees, creditors and the administration of insolvent estates. Available in nine languages.

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Volume XII: The South African Insolvency Practitioner's Manual

Volume XII: The South African Insolvency Practitioner's Manual

Volume XII of the OUBAS series — a practical manual for South African insolvency practitioners. Available in nine languages.

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Permission to Become

Permission to Become

An original novel in five parts, following Sibusiso Mhlabeni from a village classroom to the engine rooms of industry and the boardrooms that decide who owns what is built.

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Edition languages: English

R165.00
The Engineer They Did Not Expect

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The Engineer They Did Not Expect

A 110-120 minute origin story about engineering, exclusion, discipline and institution-building. F1 follows a Black South African engineering student entering a profession historically closed to people who looked like him, learning to think in systems, proving himself inside high-stakes power-station environments, then choosing the uncertainty of founding an engineering enterprise. The climax is institutional recognition: the moment Palace is trusted with work at a scale that confirms the founder belongs in the room.

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Edition languages: English

R750.00
The Palace of Projects

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The Palace of Projects

Institutional trust allows Palace to grow from an engineering practice into a system of specialised enterprises able to imagine, design, coordinate, build and develop at multiple scales. Power stations lead to consulting engineering; consulting leads to roads, water, energy and technology; infrastructure capability opens property and cross-border development. The climax is a credible African pipeline assembled at the threshold of ACTOM/Alstom Siyakha.

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Edition languages: English

R750.00
The Records They Never Produced

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The Records They Never Produced

F5 begins under F4’s final land map. Property receipts and development losses disappear beneath a single account line, and the story changes genre. Repeated requests seek the PEG HR and F1287 contractual records, transaction histories and statements needed to reproduce the balance. ACTOM capital, dividends, the R114,975,005.55 asserted loan receivable, property recoveries and the Capital Redemption Reserve must be traced across legally distinct entities before any debt can be stated.

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Edition languages: English

R750.00
The Consequences

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The Consequences

F6 begins where F5 ends: the disputed source-record question remains open, but the October 2019 judgment has already travelled into company liquidation, personal proceedings and the practical life of an estate. PEG HR's company process and Mbuso's personal sequestration remain distinct. The final sequestration order of 13 February 2026 becomes the central legal event, followed by stamped challenge and suspension materials and the unresolved routes through appeal, rescission, preservation and recovery. V1.2 confirms that authenticated documents already used in open court remain available to the film, while the conclusions attributed to them stay strictly controlled.

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Edition languages: English

R750.00

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Founder Interview — Institutional Memory, Accountability & Legacy

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S1 · E00.1

Can You Trust the Documents?

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S1 · E00.2

The R27.6 Million Claim — Do the Figures Withstand Examination?

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S1 · E00.3

Reconstructing Friedshelf 1287

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S1 · E00.4

The Developments That Never Happened

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S1 · E01

Can You Trust Your Bank Statement?

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S1 · E02

Can Interest Grow Forever?

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S1 · E03

When Does a Debt Stop Growing?

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S1 · E04

What is a Certificate of Balance?

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S1 · E05

Where Did the Records Go?

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S1 · E06

The R20m Mystery

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S1 · E07

The Missing Dividend

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S1 · E08

Can a Bank Lose Records?

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S1 · E09

What Trustees Are Supposed to Do

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S1 · E10

The Ordinary South African

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S1 · E11

Why Do Some Appeal Courts Give Only Short Orders?

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S1 · E12

When Does Persistence Become Vexatious Litigation?

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S1 · E13

Can Someone Sequestrate You First Before Proving They Are Your Creditor?

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S1 · E14

How Do Courts Decide Which Urgent Case To Hear First?

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S1 · E15

Why Do Parties Oppose Rescission Applications?

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S1 · E16

Can Decisions Of Higher Courts Ever Be Challenged?

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S1 · E17

Who Governs The Governors?

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S1 · E18

Should The Right Person Be In The Right Job?

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S1 · E19

What Must The State Deliver To The People?

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S1 · E20

Who Owns Public Resources?

Documentary · Complete video edition · English · Free to watch

S1 · E21

We Get The Government We Vote For

Documentary · Complete video edition · English · Free to watch

S1 · E22

Which Date Controls After Sequestration?

Documentary · Complete video edition · English · In production

S1 · E23

Who Speaks For The Estate?

Documentary · Complete video edition · English · In production

S1 · E24

Can A Criminal Complaint Continue?

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S1 · E25

The Difference Between Animals And Humans

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S1 · E26

The Tree Behind The Dividends

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