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Rational Radio

Rational Radio is the weekly business news show hosted by BizNews editor Alec Hogg. It runs for around an hour and features leading commentators from the investment and financial world, including regular guest David Shapiro.
Weekly English South Africa Business News · Investing
421 Episodes
92 – 112

Rational Radio - The full show, 21 August 2019

In this producer's cut edition of this week's Rational Radio show in order of appearance:     Nick Smith-Saville of Debtwire (London) on Eskom - debt, recovery prospects and tax burden. Ram Ottapathu, founder of retailer Choppies, who has been accused of using the now suspended JSE-listed company's money to buy…
21 Aug 2019 1 hr 09 min

Alec Hogg: "Why South Africa is a fat pitch for long-term investors."

On August 16, Isipingo-based shoemaking entrepreneur Rajeev Patundeen turned 50. As part of the celebrations, he invited 70 friends, family and business associates for lunch - and asked Biznews founder Alec Hogg to join them at a restaurant in Durban to explain why, at a time when gloom is pervasive,…
21 Aug 2019 32 min

The Editor’s Desk: Looks like we owe you an apology, Vivian Reddy

On 27 July, Alec Hogg and Felicity Duncan discussed the scuttlebutt about a commercial development in KwaZulu-Natal run by entrepreneur Vivian Reddy. Word on the street was that all wasn’t as it seems and that the deal was smelly. But after Alec sat down with Reddy and got the details,…
17 Aug 2019 18 min

Ideology trips Ramaphosa; Anti-expropriation drive ramps up; NHI deflates Discovery; Steinhoff

This week in Nutshell: Ideology including land expropriation and a national health service looms over the South African economy with a warning from Bloomberg that President Ramaphosa's left-wing alliance members are hampering reform. Expropriation without compensation is reaching its last phase; the Institute for Race Relations' Terence Corrigan explains why…
16 Aug 2019 29 min

Rational Radio - The full show: 14 August 2019

In this episode of Rational Radio the guests are: Terence Corrigan of the IRR on the basics of why Expropriation Without Compensation will be an economic disaster; Econometrix's Azar Jammine explains why emigration from SA is picking up and what it will mean for the country's already small personal income…
14 Aug 2019 1 hour

Editor’s Desk: Shining a light on the Stellenbosch Mafia exposé

The bad behaviour of a group of powerful and wealthy men known as the Stellenbosch Mafia makes for exciting reading. It also highlights how far South African society has come from the bad old days. Historically, South Africa was an opaque and shadowy place, in which the powerful and the…
11 Aug 2019 18 min

Rational Radio - the full show, August 7

In this edition of Rational Radio: Paul Hoffman of Accountability Now who has fired two three more salvos at the embattled Public Protector who, in his words, has five fires burning under her bum....... it was a criminal charge laid by Hoffman which has led to Busiswe Mkhwebane being investigated…
7 Aug 2019 59 min

Editor’s Desk: Truth & lies in the Agrizzi & state capture story

The long and ugly story of state capture has been filled with competing narratives – a kind of giant game of he said/she said/they said/he said. Over the last year, the testimony of Angelo Agrizzi – who has claimed that a near-death experience convinced him to speak out on his…
3 Aug 2019 22 min

Valence Watson: My brother Gavin, Agrizzi and Bosasa

I last saw Valence Watson more than a decade ago when acting as peacemaker in a meeting between my former colleague, the late Barry Sergeant, and a group of BEE investors in the now de-listed gold company Simmer and Jack. After that meeting, the great investigative journalist spent time getting…
1 Aug 2019 28 min

Rational Radio - The full show - 31 July 2019

Here's the Producer's Cut of this week's show featuring: Gavin Montgomery of WoodMcKenzie who shares his insights into the way electric vehicles will take over from internal combustion engines - and how that will impact the price of metals like nickel, cobalt and lithium. Kokkie Kooyman of Denker Capital, a…
31 Jul 2019 1 hr 07 min

PF Live : The full show focusing on global property investments for SAs

In this episode of Personal Finance Live, we talk global property investing for South Africans keen to diversify their portfolios, with: Brenthurst founder and chairman Magnus Heystek who likes the appeal of Mauritius but warns against indiscriminate purchasing as not every property project is created equal. Orbvest director Justin Clarke…
30 Jul 2019 57 min

The Editor’s Desk: Johnny Clegg embodied our hopes for SA

Last week, South Africans came together to mourn the loss of musician Johnny Clegg. Clegg, who was born in the UK, moved to South Africa as a young child. His wholehearted embrace of Zulu culture and his political advocacy against racism and apartheid set him apart in a relentlessly divided…
27 Jul 2019 17 min

Rational Radio: The full hour's show - 24 July 2019

In this episode of Alec Hogg's weekly Rational Radio show: Former SARS spokesman and co-author of the "Rogue: The inside story of SARS's elite crime busting unit." He talks about what happened at SARS, the rolling back of State Capture - and the shadowy antibodies fighting it. Whistleblower Juan Lerena…
24 Jul 2019 1 hr 04 min

The Editor’s Desk: EOH, Hulamin & the rot in SA’s corporate world

Corruption and mismanagement are far from a uniquely public sector problem, as the tales of EOH and Hulamin show. Hulamin has succeeded in destroying billions of rands in capital over the last decade through sheer poor judgement and bad management, while EOH has found itself mired in a billion-rand corruption…
20 Jul 2019 14 min

Lyndsey Duff: Ex-diplomat bringing cutting edge tech back home to SA

When I met Lyndsey Duff she was based at South Africa House on Trafalgar Square in London, responsible for inward investment into the country. That must have been one of the most difficult jobs on earth, given the State Capture chaos being wrought by the Zuptoids. Instead of following one…
20 Jul 2019 11 min
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