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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
1080 – 1100

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

View from the market

Nesan Nair, portfolio manager at Sasfin Wealth & Andile Buthelezi, portfolio manager at Sentio Capital
1 Sep 2020 12PM 19 min

Review of ANC NEC meeting: sparks fly, gloves off

ANC President Ramaphosa seems to be going for broke and is putting party unity aside to face his opposition head-on. At the NEC press briefing on Monday August 31st it was revealed that ANC members who are formally charged with corruption must step aside until such charges have been fully…
31 Aug 2020 12PM 9 min
1080 – 1100