The government has unveiled its new long-term energy master plan, an overarching blueprint for South Africa's future electricity generation... Minerals Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe states that the approval of the Integrated Resource Plan has brought much-needed certainty to a critical area of the economy. Business Day TV unpacked what has been tabled with Energy Expert Ted Blom.

Growthpoint has made its bid for a majority stake in Capital & Regional. The groups set to pay 33 pence per share to acquire just over 30% of the British shopping centre owner. Growthpoint will also subscribe to buy 311 million new Capital & Regional shares, and this will push its holding up to just over 51%. Joining Business Day TV to talks about the details of the deal is Group CEO of Growthpoint, Norbert Sasse.

Retail sales rose just over 1% year-on-year in August and is down nearly 1% on a month-on-month basis. The largest annual growth rates were recorded for sales in household furniture, appliances and equipment.

The release of the data coincides with the 23rd South African Council of Shopping Centre's Annual Congress where its been suggested that shopping malls are falling out of favour as online shopping gains momentum.

Retail Futurist, Doug Stephens attended the event and spoke on 're-engineering Retail', he joined Business Day TV on the line for more...

Geopolitical issues like the trade war and Brexit continue to spur global growth fears, and while we have had optimism filter through from both fronts over the past few days, with somewhat of a positive rhetoric on the trade truce and the possibility of the Brexit deal being reached pretty soon, investors are still on edge.

Head of G10 strategy at Standard Bank, Steven Barrow talks to Business Day TV about current status of things...

Technology group, EOH's annual loss has widened as it makes progress on cleaning up the business from a governance and structural perspective. The forensic report by ENS Africa which previously flagged suspicious transactions of R1.2 billion at the company has been modified to R935 million.

And EOH has blacklisted and suspended payments to 50 implicated enterprise development partners - adding that that its focus will now be on reducing debt and improving governance.

Company's CEO, Stephen van Coller joined Business Day TV to discuss the full-year numbers and how the company is positioning itself for future growth.

Since Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced plans to introduce grade nine as one of the formal school exiting points - the idea has been bandied about and while it looks like it may present private education players with a business opportunity, the Minister has argued that it will assist with reducing failure and dropout rates but some are concerned about it exacerbating the skills deficit challenge and unemployment rate. Business Day TV discusses the different views and what it may mean for an economy with an unemployment rate of 29% with Maryana Iskander, CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, Mary Metcalfe, Education Expert who is also former Gauteng MEC for Education AND on the line, Belinda Bozzoli, DA Shadow Minister of Higher Education.