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Kaya Biz

At the helm of Gauteng’s biggest business radio show, Kaya Biz, is Gugulethu who will be leading the conversation on what is next for the Afropolitan business landscape. The show presents local and international business news, entrepreneurship, corporate and investment banking. Since its inception in May 2006 Kaya Biz has grown from a half-an-hour daily finance update to an hour show bringing compelling business news and market reviews to listeners.
Daily English South Africa Business News · Investing
5,404 Episodes
1632 – 1652

How South Africa stumbled into a fiscal trap

GUEST – Roy Havemann is Principal: Financial Sector Policy and Public Economics at Krutham (previously Intellidex). Over the past decade, the interest rate that South Africa pays on its debt has consistently been above the economic growth rate. Mathematically, this means that debt grows as a percentage of GDP. It…
6 Mar 2024 3PM 12 min

SA unit trust assets grew to record R3.5 trillion in 2023

GUEST – Sunette Mulder, senior policy adviser at ASISA Local Collective Investment Schemes (CIS), commonly known as unit trusts, grew assets under management (AUM) to almost R3.5 trillion by end-2023, a new record for the industry. That represents a more than 11% year-on-year growth in assets from the R3.14 trillion…
6 Mar 2024 3PM 10 min

The Effects of Badly Run Municipalities on Commercial Property Demand

GUEST - John Jack, CEO of Galetti Corporate Real Estate Badly-run municipalities do more than just annoy residents and lead to rubbish pile-ups – they can also be a slippery slope to wide-scale economic decline. For urban centres in particular, the signs of a badly run municipality soon become impossible…
5 Mar 2024 3PM 12 min

COMPANY RESULTTS: Nedbank Group headline earnings increased 11% to R15,7bn.

GUEST – Mfundo Nkuhlu - Nedbank chief operating officer Nedbank's share price lifted more than 4% at one point on Tuesday after it raised its final dividend almost a fifth on the back of strong earnings growth. The bank reported an 11% rise in headline earnings to R15.7 billion in…
5 Mar 2024 3PM 8 min

COMPANY RESULTS – Curro Holdings earnings up by 29% to R426 million.

GUEST – Cobus Loubser - Curro Holdings CEO Curro has reported strong growth in revenue and profitability for the year ending 31 December 2023, with 1,307 more learners in 2023 compared to the previous year. In its financial report for the 2023 financial year, Curro Holdings reported a year of…
5 Mar 2024 3PM 12 min

Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry to cast spotlight on media sustainability

GUEST - Chris Charter, Director in the Competition practice area at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH) South Africa's Competition Commission has initiated the Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry (MDPMI), aiming to scrutinize the influence of digital platforms on the nation's media landscape. With over 50 stakeholders, ranging from mainstream to…
4 Mar 2024 3PM 9 min

CAREER’S CORNER – Broken promises, workplace edition

GUEST – Kagiso Lebethe - Senior Employee Relations Specialist Financial constraints not an excuse for failing to promote employees already recommended for promotion Employees have different reasons for wishing to be promoted. They want the increased remuneration that goes with it, they want the status, the feeling of success and…
4 Mar 2024 3PM 16 min

WEALTH CREATION – Getting the right type of funding for your business

GUEST – Andiswa Bata, SME Segment Head at FNB Accessing the right funding and financing, at the right time, can mean the difference between starting up, staying open, or shutting down. “The economy is facing a challenging business environment, with slow global growth, economic volatility, and ongoing power supply issues…
4 Mar 2024 3PM 11 min

National Financial Ombud Scheme – A one-stop ombud scheme

GUEST – Reana Steyn - Lead Ombud for the Banking Division The newly-formed National Financial Ombud Scheme (NFO) today announced the commencement of operations as a single, one-stop, all-inone dispute resolution service made up of the four (4) former existing services -the Ombudsman for Banking Services (OBS); the Credit Ombud…
4 Mar 2024 3PM 9 min

COMPANY RESULTS – RCL Foods to unbundle Rainbow Chicken

GUEST – Paul Cruickshank. Chief Executive Officer of RCL Foods RCL will unbundle its Rainbow Chicken business and list it on the Johannesburg stock exchange as part of a strategic review, the food producer said on Monday as it reported half-year earnings growth of 52.6%. RCL, which owns brands such…
4 Mar 2024 3PM 12 min

National Budget delivers temporary reprieve, but danger still looms

GUEST - Dondo Mogajane -- CEO of Moti Group A challenging economic environment and severe fiscal pressure meant that the duty of delivering the 2024 National Budget Speech in a critical election year was guaranteed to be a sweat-inducing task. With debt warning bells already ringing in the background, managing…
29 Feb 2024 3PM 23 min

INSIDE YOUR POCKET: Take-home pay positive, but storm clouds gathering for tax payers

GUEST - Shergeran Naidoo, BankservAfrica’s head of stakeholder engagements. Take-home pay showed a year-on-year increase, continuing its upward movement in January as the high rate of inflation moderated, providing relief to salary earners. However, stormy clouds are on the horizon, particularly for tax-paying South Africans. According to the BankservAfrica Take-home…
29 Feb 2024 3PM 13 min

FOLLOW UP – Has Transaction Capital’s WeBuyCars run out of growth?

GUEST – Rikus Blomerus - Webuycars CMO WeBuyCars sold 53,144 vehicles in the four months through January 2024 as the company recovers from a challenging 2023. WeBuyCars’ parent company, Transaction Capital, said it delivered on key performance metrics in 2023, including increased volumes and growth in market share, despite lower…
29 Feb 2024 3PM 10 min

GUEST:TSUNGAI MASENDEKE, FINANCIAL PLANNER

As February, regarded as the ‘'Month of Love“is about to come to an end, it’s the perfect time to look at our relationship with money as it is just as personal and valuable as any other relationship in our life. Finances and money elicit so many emotions. Unfortunately for many…
28 Feb 2024 3PM 16 min

INTERVIEW:Food basket increased by 11.5%

The National Agricultural Marketing Council’s (Namc) 28-item urban food basket increased by 11.5% year-on-year. The cost of the urban food basket increased by 11.5% in January from a year ago to reach R1 261.29, an increase of nearly 22 cents from the prior month, according to the Food Basket Price…
28 Feb 2024 3PM 15 min

WOOLWORTHS PROFIT FALLS

GUEST: ROY BAGATTINI, WOOLWORTHS CEO Woolworths has seen its earnings and profits drop as consumers in South Africa and Australia battle to find extra cash. Although the group’s financials for the first half of the 2024 financial year (H1 2024) are not comparable to the prior period (H1 2023) –…
28 Feb 2024 3PM 16 min

INTERVIEW: Will Mango take to the skies again?

GUEST: Guy Leitch, Aviation analyst Few weeks ago, Mango's business rescue practitioner said the airline can proceed with the sale to an unknown investor. Mango has been in business rescue since July 2021.However, there is still a dispute with Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan on the planned sale. Mango BRP…
27 Feb 2024 2PM 9 min
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