RE: Shame1 Mar 2025 10:53
"Some of us have made very strong arguments for why the jurisdiction risk is overplayed here and they are never rebutted"
Really? Well, that may be your perception. I would say you, and others, take a view of the risk that is optimistic. It mb right, it may not.
The fact is, as I continually point out, the risk is unquantifiable, and unknowable. You can take all your points above, and if people we don't know, in postions of inluence we may not know exist, see a way of grabbing some revenue, they might do so.
WE DON'T KNOW. And no, this is not simply part of mining risk, part of Africa risk, blah, blah......Osun state has made allegations and they are under consideration by sa Federal Cttee. Until we know the outcome of that, the risk is both unknown AND unquantifiable (remember the env allegations run to $Bs).
It may come to nothing, it may not. You continually present these things as done deals, good contacts, relationships, etc......as if there is no risk at all, or that it's just part on investing. It's not. It's gambling on a favourable outcome of the investigation.
Fwiw, I hold. But I do not, I hope, underestimate the uncertainty.