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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
5,365 Episodes
2080 – 2100

Reasons behind the inconsistent stages of loadshedding.

Guest: Adil Nchebeleng – Energy Expert With the country’s economy already hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation does not seem to be improving with the restrictions of the pandemic being lifted. But recently, the main culprit for the country’s ever tightening budget is the steadily increasing plague of…
17 Jul 2023 5PM 12 min

How safe is the meat on your plate?

A lot of South Africans would in the past not think twice about throwing some sausages on the braai, eating a boerie roll or biting into a fat burger. But nowadays, locals might avoid eating mince, sausages, burger patties, dried meats or deli meats.
13 Jul 2023 4PM 11 min

SA govt to support businesses hunt for business in Africa

GUEST - Clayson Monyela - Head of Diplomacy at the International Relations and Co-operation Department And Victor Kgomoeswana - Africa expert South Africa’s government is stepping up its support for some of the country’s biggest companies to help them hunt for business in Africa and protect them against extortion. Naledi…
12 Jul 2023 4PM 17 min

EKASINOMICS - iTaxi Ubuntu App making big moves in the world of e-hailing services

GUEST - Samuel Mazibuko – Founder of iTaxi Ubuntu App About this app iTaxi Ubuntu app is the only ride-hailing private taxi shuttle app for Personal rides, Student rides, Stuff rides, Corporate rides, Event rides and Pensioner rides with already discounted rides pricing and vouchers for individual or group passenger…
12 Jul 2023 4PM 6 min

Attacks on trucks spread in SA as police plan response

GUEST – Mary Phadi – President of the Truckers Association of SA Unidentified assailants attacked freight trucks on South Africa’s roads for a fourth straight day as lawmakers urged the police to take urgent action to stop the violence. Four trucks are on fire on the N2 highway in the…
12 Jul 2023 4PM 8 min

Botswana hosts business, political leaders for US-Africa Business Summit

GUEST – Godfrey Mutizwa – Godfrey Mutizwa is Editor-in-Chief for CNBC Africa The US Africa Business Summit took off today in Gaborone, with over 1,200 delegates registered and the promise of deals being made across various economic sectors. The summits, organised by the Corporate Council on Africa - a trade…
12 Jul 2023 4PM 9 min

Businessman builds state-of-the-art ECD Centre

GUEST – Patilizwe “Pat” Mdoda – Businessman Retired businessman, Patilizwe “Pat” Mdoda, says that although his children went to prominent schools in the Gauteng province, it has always been his dream to build a school on a par with those, in terms of infrastructure, in his home village of Ncembu…
11 Jul 2023 4PM 14 min

South Africa’s constant SOE bailout crisis

GUEST – Jones Gondo, Senior Research Analyst at Nedbank & Israel Noko, CEO of NPI governance consulting The South African Post Office (SAPO) may have been saved from provisional liquidation and, instead, been put into business rescue, but it is by no means out of the woods. Should the state-owned…
11 Jul 2023 4PM 12 min

Why SA’s loyalty programmes are among the best in the world?

GUEST – Amanda Cromhout - CEO of Truth Cell The loyalty industry is growing in leaps and bounds in South Africa after the explosion of more retailers offering these in the last four years, and more consumers are taking these up to either save or get money back to help…
10 Jul 2023 4PM 10 min

Concerning rise in murder and mental health claims, says life insurer Momentum.

GUEST – George Kolbe, Head of Life Insurance Marketing at Momentum Cardiovascular diseases reclaimed a previously held position as the leading cause of death claims for Momentum in 2022, but the life insurer has also seen a concerning rise in unnatural deaths, notably murder, especially among men. Announcing its 2022…
10 Jul 2023 4PM 15 min

Certain sectors of the South African economy set to benefit from a weaker rand

GUEST – Harry Scherzer, CEO, Future Forex For most ordinary South Africans, the declining value of the rand over the past few years has been a big negative. It’s meant that everything from petrol to cars, electronics, and even your favourite sunglasses have gotten more expensive. There are, however, a…
10 Jul 2023 4PM 12 min

Things people don’t realise count as insurance fraud.

GUEST – Ernest North, co-founder at digital insurance platform, Naked Insurance fraud. The words probably make you think about criminal syndicates staging vehicle crashes or people faking their deaths to get multimillion rand pay-outs. While these incidents dominate newspaper headlines, they form only a portion of the estimated R6 billion…
5 Jul 2023 5PM 12 min

EKASINOMICS - Simunye Livestock comes to rescue of stokvels, nationwide

GUEST – Tsakani Kevin Khoza - Simunye Livestock founder When Tsakani Kevin Khoza realised that he was selling cows to the same clients who had bereavements almost every second week, he thought it must be costly for them and decided to create packages to ease the burden. Not only did…
5 Jul 2023 5PM 10 min
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