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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
1152 – 1172

Stamping out public sector corruption starts with procurement reform

We are in the midst of the period of lowest confidence, trust and hope since World War 2. Michael Avery is reminded of Groucho Marx: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. With Covid, the ANC and the…
18 Aug 2020 1PM 15 min

View from the market

Nesan Nair, senior portfolio manager at Sasfin Wealth & Imtiaz Suliman, executive director and portfolio manager @Sentio Capital
18 Aug 2020 12PM 16 min

Oil and gas sector a bright light in dark economy

Total’s oil and gas rig has arrived in Cape Town in preparation to expand on the petroleum giant’s significant discovery off the coast of Mossel Bay. The rig, known as the DeepSea Stavanger, was built in Norway and commissioned by Total and its partners to drill the Luiperd prospect in…
17 Aug 2020 1PM 24 min

View from the market

Makwe Masilela, CIO of Makwe Fund Managers & Nick Kunze, portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth
17 Aug 2020 12PM 12 min

View from 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 Avery caught up with Tashmia Ismail-Saville is the CEO of…
14 Aug 2020 12PM 27 min

Absa completes separation process from Barclays

Absa is celebrating substantial completion of its separation programme from Barclays PLC, three years after the start. The separation, one of the largest and most complex corporate programmes of its kind, followed Barclays PLC’s 2016 decision to reduce its shareholding in the African group to a minority position. Barclays became…
13 Aug 2020 1PM 14 min

The case for economic optimism

Despite Lockdown, 85% of salaries remained unchanged during the last quarter in Europe and the US, meaning saved money will be spent, and stock inventories will be replenished in the third quarter. The first wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping South Africa and, in its wake, comes economic…
13 Aug 2020 1PM 9 min
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