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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
1072 – 1092

View from the C-Suite

In this weekly feature Michael Avery gets up close and personal with South Africa’s business and political economy leaders, to uncover what makes them tick, keeps them up at night and keeps them going through the Covid storm. This week’s guest has worn a hard hat most of his career…
4 Sep 2020 12PM 12 min

View from the market and economy

Warwick Lucas, CIO of Galileo Asset Management & Prof Raymond Parsons, from School of Business and Governance at North West University
4 Sep 2020 12PM 16 min

Socially engineered hacks

Jason Jordaan, principal forensic analyst, DFIR Labs; Susan Potgieter, acting CEO of the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) and Craig Rosewarne, managing director of Wolfpack Information Risk
3 Sep 2020 12PM 21 min

The Brandfather

Have you noticed the new Thursday ritual? Long snaking cues outside bottle stores. Michael Avery speaks to Jeremy Sampson MD of Brand Finance Africa, about the two bans implemented by government on alcohol sales, which have been devastating for an industry that supports hundreds of thousands of jobs, contributes in…
3 Sep 2020 12PM 5 min

Covid-19 Daily Dashboard

Covid-19 antibodies found in 37% of pregnant women and HIV-positive people in Cape. The data is likely to spark discussion about whether some regions have enough people with immunity for the virus to no longer easily spread. Prof Adrian Puren, Head of the Centre for HIV and STIs at the…
3 Sep 2020 12PM 2 min

View from the market

Chantal Marx, head of equity research at FNB Wealth and Investments & Petri Redelinghuys, founder of Herenya Capital Advisors
3 Sep 2020 12PM 17 min

JRA appeal impacts citizens’ rights to safety and security

Something stinks in the legal spat brewing between the Joburg Roads Agency (JRA)and Vumacam. Vumacam approached the court with an urgent application to declare JRA’s decision to suspend aerial and CCTV wayleave applications unlawful and invalid, and set it aside. Vumacam was informed recently of the JRA’s decision to appeal…
2 Sep 2020 2PM 6 min

Reaction to AG's Covid-19 audit report

The Auditor-general (AG), Kimi Makwetu, released findings of the Covid-19 funds audit revealing that, unsurprisingly, the multi-billion rand Covid-19 relief package landed in an environment with many control weakneness, like tossing a vat of beer into a room full of alcoholics…After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in South Africa,…
2 Sep 2020 2PM 9 min

ECDs and welfare organisations on the brink

The country’s social welfare and Early Childhood Development sectors are teetering on a precipice. But, instead of throwing out a lifeline, government is being accused of pushing them over the edge. Michael Avery speaks to Children’s rights activist Robyn Wolfson Vorster, & Prof Eric Atmore, director for the Centre of…
2 Sep 2020 2PM 11 min

View from the market

Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager, FNB Wealth and Investments & David Oberholzer, equity analyst at Nitrogen Fund Managers
2 Sep 2020 2PM 14 min

Wealth Feature: The future of investment management

Investment management is in flux, arguably more than it has been in a long time. Active management is under pressure, with investors switching from active to index funds. New “smart beta” products offer low-cost exposures to many active ideas. Exchange-traded funds are proliferating. Markets and regulations have changed significantly over…
2 Sep 2020 2PM 12 min

Roundtable – The WHO has the world to answer to

More than six months after the first case of Covid-19 was diagnosed in the country and lockdown imposed, the time has come to start paying more attention to the critics. Stefano Marani, the CEO of Renergen recently penned an op-ed expressing his concern around the models, conclusions and the resultant…
1 Sep 2020 1PM 24 min

Animal Spirits

Chris Holdsworth, chief investment strategist at Investec Wealth and Investment
1 Sep 2020 12PM 11 min
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