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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
932 – 952

Real Economy

Cobie Legrange, co-founder of Rexsolom Invest
7 Oct 2020 12PM 6 min

Education Feature: How to radically transform education in SA

Amnesty International’s recent report, Broken and Unequal: The state of education in South Africa, points out that South Africa is still failing too many of its youth when it comes to education. But the question remains, have we made progress in widening access to education while forgetting that access and…
7 Oct 2020 12PM 8 min

Wealth Feature: Covid-19 to spur innovation

The one thing that seems most likely to emerge from this pandemic is that it will unleash a wave of Creative destruction that can best be described as the dismantling of long-standing practices in order to make way for innovation. Creative destruction was first coined by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter…
7 Oct 2020 12PM 8 min

Cosatu embarks on a nationwide protest

Public sector workers downed tools and stayed at home to protest against the government’s failure to implement wage increases on Wednesday. Union leaders in three of the largest federations, Cosatu, Fedusa and the National Council of Trade Unions have been on a collision course with the government after it backed…
7 Oct 2020 12PM 7 min

View from the Market

Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager, FNB Wealth and Investments & Martin Harris, premium clients manager at IGSA
7 Oct 2020 12PM 17 min

Roundtable: Powering SA Mining

In 2020, the total market cap of JSE listed mining companies increased to R1,28 trillion from R840 billion. A R439 billion or 52%, YOY, increase from 2019, largely attributed to the increase in market capitalisation of companies within the gold and PGM sectors. This is one of the key highlights…
6 Oct 2020 1PM 26 min

View from the Market

Rob Towell, portfolio manager @ Sasfin Securities & Mike van der Westhuizen, portfolio manager at Citadel
6 Oct 2020 12PM 14 min

Roundtable: Low emission development strategy underpins just transition

Cabinet has approved a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, but it still plans to burn coal on this date. The government called the low emission development strategy (LEDS) “the beginning of our journey towards ultimately reaching a net zero economy by 2050”. The strategy…
5 Oct 2020 1PM 24 min

Animal Spirits

Chris Holdsworth, chief investment strategist at Investec Wealth and Investment
5 Oct 2020 12PM 14 min
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