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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
960 – 980

Covid-19 Dashboard

Prof Adrian Puren, head of the Centre for HIV and STIs at NICD
1 Oct 2020 12PM 4 min

View from the market

Chantal Marx, head of equity research at FNB Wealth and Investments & Petri Redelinghuys, founder of Herenya Capital Advisors
1 Oct 2020 12PM 15 min

Roundtable discussion: Steel price debate

Kobus Verster, CEO of ArcelorMittal SA, Gerhard Papenfus, CEO of the National Employers Association of South Africa and Nicolette Skjoldhammer, MD of Betterect (Pty) Ltd
30 Sep 2020 1PM 26 min

TFG Jet Deal

TFG has had an interesting few months, with a successful rights issue and emerging with the bulk of Edcon’s 382 SA JET stores (and 4,800 employees) transferred to TFG as of 25 September. While the Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and eSwatini store base is still waiting on regulatory approval, the bulk…
30 Sep 2020 12PM 12 min

Capitec interim results

Capitec delivered earnings at the bottom end of the guided range, but a strong operational performance at the interim stage. The significant decline in HEPS year-on-year was driven by credit impairment charges which increased threefold to R6bn. Underlying operations of the business remained resilient under Covid-19 with pre-provision operating profit…
30 Sep 2020 12PM 11 min

How has Covid-19 disrupted the livelihoods of South Africans

A study conducted by an academic consortium gained global coverage for producing one of the first detailed analyses of the economic effects of covid-19 in a developing country back in July. The reports, published on July 15th, showed how the pandemic has impoverished South Africa—and made one of the world’s…
30 Sep 2020 12PM 4 min

Hawks nab first state capture suspect

The Hawks swooped and arrested the man who occasionally pays the Luthuli House salaries on month-end, a day after the tender tycoon, Edwin Sodi, was defending himself at the State Capture inquiry, explaining a slew of payments to politicians over six years. The multimillion-rand transfers include references to ministers, deputy…
30 Sep 2020 12PM 9 min

View from the market

Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager, FNB Wealth and Investments & Nadir Thokan, portfolio manager at Corion Capital
30 Sep 2020 12PM 13 min

Roundtable: Tilting at the windmill of shareholder alignment

There are very few companies in SA where incentives are even remotely aligned with shareholder value – possible exceptions would include FirstRand where incentives are aligned to NIACC (net income after cost of capital). Generally, it appears remuneration committees and Boards seem to think if you align REM to metrics…
29 Sep 2020 1PM 19 min

View from the market

Nesan Nair, senior portfolio manager at Sasfin Wealth & Caroline Cremen, portfolio manager at Adviceworx
29 Sep 2020 12PM 7 min
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