The company began trading on the main board of the London Stock Exchange on 4 March 2021, creating a new and unfortunate record by being unilaterally suspended only six days later after questions arose about the supplementary prospectus which allegedly contained misleading information.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority was concerned that “some shareholders who were involved in a share exchange agreement prior to the company’s admission to trading, [were] not able to trade all of their shares”. The plight of the company was made worse when a disgruntled shareholder disclosed that one of the people who was, for a time, in charge of the listing process had been debarred by the SA’s Financial Services Board. Connie van Nieuwkerk was found to have manipulated company results when she worked for a time at the AIM-listed company African Dawn.
During the listing process, the company has been in a relentless battle with one of its shareholders, Anthony Morris, who was appointed by a group of disgruntled shareholders to represent their interests. Morris says 48 shareholders representing over 40 million shares are still owed 25 million shares bought from the official representative of the listing Chief Investment Officer Connie Van Nieuwkerk.