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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
2320 – 2340

BUSINESS PARTNERS – ENZANI TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD

GUEST – Landiwe Nxumalo - Co-owner of Enzani Technologies Enzani Technologies Pty Ltd (“Enzani”) was established in 2005 and has established itself as one of the best in South Africa as an Electrical & Instrumentation turnkey or Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contractor specialising mainly in Water, Renewable Energy and Mining…
3 Apr 2023 4PM 7 min

Urgent action is needed to fix SA’s crumbling rail network

GUEST – Mesela Nhlapo – CEO, African Rail Industry Association South Africa’s 21 000km rail network used to be a matter of national pride, accounting for some 80% of Africa’s total network. This massively over-specced network needs to be pruned to no more than 5 500km and operated with the…
3 Apr 2023 4PM 9 min

SARS collects more than R2 trillion in 2022/23 financial year

GUEST – Johnstone Makhubu - SARS Chief Revenue Officer South African Revenue Service collected just over R2 trillion in gross tax revenues over the past year, a 9.7% increase from the 2021/22 tax year. The gross revenues were R123 billion, above what the finance minister estimated in the 2022 Budget…
3 Apr 2023 4PM 9 min

SARS is setting its sights on taxpayers with these assets

GUEST – Jashwin Baijoo, the head of crypto asset compliance at Tax Consulting SA There has been a boom in South Africans getting into the cryptocurrency market space, and it hasn’t escaped the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS’) attention. Growing alongside this new wave of investors is uncertainty regarding the…
30 Mar 2023 5PM 12 min

PIVOT POINT – Babongile Mandela Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Director at Coca-Cola South Africa

Babongile is an experienced International Relations and intergovenrmental Affairs specialist, a strategic thinker who designs business solutions for social challenges. He is responsible for managing shared value initiatives that are built on public private partnerships with an objective of achieving wide scale social impact for Absa Group: Citizenship and Social…
30 Mar 2023 5PM 16 min

Does today's interest rate hike mean you should fix your home loan?

GUEST – Mfundo Mabaso, Growth Head, FNB Home Finance If the ongoing interest rate hike cycle has not had you considering fixing your home loan interest rate, then today’s expected increase may be the one to steer you in that direction. But don’t make the move just yet – in…
30 Mar 2023 5PM 9 min

EKASINOMICS – Ekasi Spaza shop stokvel

GUEST – Mbongeni Sangweni - Spaza Shops Stokvel founder Spaza shops contribute up to 5.2% to the country’s GDP, employing 2.6 million individuals, according to the South African Township Marketing report published in 2021 by digital marketing agency, Rogerwilco. Spaza shops have been part and parcel of the township's economic…
30 Mar 2023 4PM 15 min

INSIDE YOUR BUSINESS – How does private equity work?

GUEST – Kondi Nkosi, Country Head for Schroders in South Africa Whether you realize it or not, many of the goods, services, and products you use every day are from private equity-backed companies. Grabbing dog food at PetSmart? It's private equity-backed. Picking up Arby’s or Panera Bread on the way…
30 Mar 2023 4PM 10 min

Independent pharmacies have win 7-year battle against Clicks.

GUEST – Jackie Maimin - CEO of Independent Community Pharmacy Association of South Africa Independent pharmacies have won their seven-year battle against JSE-listed health and beauty retailer Clicks over its ownership of both pharmacies and a drug manufacturer, after the Constitutional Court ruled the company had contravened regulations to the…
29 Mar 2023 4PM 13 min

TECH & INNOVATION – Nova Messenger: a positive disruptor reframing communication

GUEST – Nicholas Riemer Co-founder and CEO - Nova Messenger Nova Messenger delivers messages fast, effectively, and privately, ensuring all your university, school and work announcements reach you instantly. It was made clear during the peak of the Covid pandemic, that educational institutions that could not adapt and respond to…
28 Mar 2023 4PM 15 min

ITS MY HOUSE – SA’s house price inflation is likely to reach 3.7% in 2023

GUEST - Esteani Marx - Head of Real Estate at Lightstone Property With no end in sight for SA’s electricity woes and increasing water outages, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) recently increased interest rates by 25 basis points and adjusted its GDP growth forecast to just 0.3% for 2023,…
28 Mar 2023 4PM 14 min

Middle to high-income earners are driving a recovery in SA’s hospitality sector

GUEST – Sanisha Packirisamy - Momentum Investments economist Consumer Pulse report for the first quarter of this year found that the recovery path in hotels and restaurants alongside vehicle sales points to an unbalanced recovery in the spending power of consumers. Higher-income earners are displaying higher levels of purchasing power,…
28 Mar 2023 4PM 9 min

Report finds unjustified price hikes for staple foods in South Africa

GUEST – Dr. Thulani Mandiriza - Principal Economist at the Competition Commission The Competition Commission says that South African consumers have been subjected to unjustified price increases for sunflower oil, white and brown bread over the last two years – and may have also been subjected to “opportunistic price increases”…
28 Mar 2023 4PM 11 min

The need for more middle class to participate in demonstrations/protests

GUEST - Mzwanele Ntshwanti – Economist and UNISA Lecturer South Africa has long been described as the “protest capital of the world”. But the protests have largely been confined to townships and informal settlements. The student protests of 2015-2016 suggested that this was beginning to change, with students of all…
20 Mar 2023 4PM 20 min

BUSINESS PARTNERS – The importance of planning ahead for business owners.

GUEST – Veroshen Naidoo - Regional Investment Manager at Business Partners Ltd One of the most important activities you can do for your business to ensure you reap financial success is to plan. Planning gives your company a clear direction when mapping out your goals. You plan on the direction…
20 Mar 2023 4PM 8 min

NATIONAL SHUTDOWN - Many businesses closed today due to national shutdown

Kganki Matabane - Chief Executive Officer at The Black Business Council & Rosheda Muller - President of the Informal Traders Forum Some big businesses have been pressured to close their doors by the national shutdown calls until Wednesday, in spite of assurances by the government that Monday is a normal…
20 Mar 2023 4PM 9 min

UBS to buy Credit Suisse in historic deal to end crisis

GUEST – Kwame Antwi - Founder of KOA Capital UBS Group AG agreed to buy Credit Suisse Group AG in a historic, government-brokered deal aimed at containing a crisis of confidence that threatened to spread across global financial markets. The Swiss bank is paying more than $2 billion for its…
20 Mar 2023 4PM 9 min

EKASINOMICS – Arthur Mahlangu is the owner of BizTweak

BizTweak is a diagnostic platform that is aimed at assisting entrepreneurs structure their businesses, business ideas, and their thinking around running a sustainable business. The assessments helps entrepreneurs know what they don’t know, and also provides them with recommendations on how to address the gaps that have been outlined in…
16 Mar 2023 11AM 26 min
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