In this edition of Editing Allowed, special correspondent in Cape Town, Rob Rose Editor at the Financial Mail is listening to Marcus Jooste trying to explain what happened to all the money that Steinhoff lost. Apparently Marcus has told the parliamentary committee hearing that he knows nothing about anything... Rob explains in more details what was said.

In part two the panel discusses the current economic situation as South Africa is in a recession and with a dark cloud hanging over land, we now know that President Ramaphosa is going to pursue the expropriation of land without compensation and that he wants to make the Constitution more specific on the matter, but in the absence of knowing quite what sort of words he is going to use it is impossible for anybody surely to even plant a tree on a farm without knowing for sure if the farm will be around to harvest anything.

There's been a lot of discussion about land and the American think tank Institute has just recommended to the American government that they push us out or threaten to push us out of AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act) which means that it will start a mini trade war with America which is something that South Africa just cannot afford. What is making matters worse is that the ANC is not providing clarity on the matter.

Peter Bruce and the panel weigh in on the seriousness of the matter and how it could possibly affect our future.

Hilary Joffe, Editor-at-large at Business Day guides a panel of South Africa's best and most thoughtful journalists through a discussion around the news highlights in this week's edition of Editing Allowed.

It has been quite a week "so far" in South Africa. It is Nelson Mandela Centenary with a magnificent event in Johannesburg on Tuesday where former US president Barack Obama gave a long and his most public speech since leaving the White House in the beginning of 2017. What was interesting was how South African received his speech and if you look beyond the smaller parties making a noise in the media, most South Africans are on board for a kinder, friendlier capitalism that will sort out poverty of being fair and businesses not being so repatiously being greedy.

Financial Mail Editor-at-large, Rob Rose leads a panel of South Africa's best journalists for an in-depth discussion and debate of the stories that are driving SA’s news agenda.

Join Business Day’s Editor-at-large Hilary Joffe and her guests for in-depth discussion and debate of the stories that are driving SA’s news agenda.