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The bottom line? Minorities should not be cowed into accepting unreasonable and unfair prices for the shares that they have probably held for many years, and neither should they accept the argument that they may end up holding shares in a company whose trading may be suspended indefinitely.
The 4.5 per cent who held out have shown that individually they may not be able to make much of a difference, but collectively they can exercise considerable clout.
As the saying goes, patience is a virtue.
Big companies love to treat  retail investors as suckers...offering ridiculously low prices to buy back their shares.

That's why we need to have more aggressive activists to fight for the long suffering retail investors.
One of the worst fear of retail investors is having sticks that are going to be delisted. They are given unfair delisted price that they hv bot at sky high prices years back. These times are unlike the olden days where retail investors are compensated alot like F&N, OUB, Wearnes, etc.,