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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
2340 – 2360

Santam buys MTN's R400m device book

GUEST – Gerald van Wyk who is the CEO of Santam's Client Solutions Business Africa's largest short-term insurer Santam has agreed to buy MTN SA's mobile telecommunication firm’s device insurance book, which has just over 400 000 policies and an annual gross written premium value of almost R400 million. In…
16 Mar 2023 11AM 9 min

LEGALLY SPEAKING – Cash-strapped consumers cashing out on life savings to survive

GUEST - Hennie de Villiers, deputy chair of the Asisa Life and Risk Board Committee South Africa has seen an increase in financially distressed consumers cashing out their savings/investments and surrendering their insurance policies to survive, as they feel the sting of the country’s sharp economic slowdown, according to the…
15 Mar 2023 4PM 12 min

Latest data finds 65% of middle-income earners want ANC out in the 2024

GUEST – Brandon de Kock - BrandMapp director of storytelling More than half of South African taxpayers want to vote the governing party out of power in next year’s elections because of rolling blackouts, a survey shows. An online poll of almost 1 500 adults last month found that 65%…
15 Mar 2023 4PM 8 min

Growthpoint Properties reports half-year DPS growth of 4.6%

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…
15 Mar 2023 4PM 10 min

The role of internal audit in fighting corruption in government and private sector

GUEST – Julius Mojapelo the CEO of The Institute of Internal Auditors South Africa Internal auditing remains pivotal to governance. Internal audit is well placed to complete the assurance reality check. It not only assesses the quality of assurance provided but examines the relevance to the management or governance committee…
14 Mar 2023 4PM 22 min

ITS MY HOUSE – Number of residential rental properties standing vacant

GUEST - Waldo Marcus, head of marketing at TPN The rental market in South Africa showed a year-on-year decrease in vacancy rates for the fourth quarter of 2022. According to the latest TPN Vacancy Survey, the national vacancy rate – the number of vacant properties – dropped from 11.71% in…
14 Mar 2023 4PM 19 min

Old Mutual reports 10% jump in profits

GUEST – Iain Williamson – CEO of Old Mutual South Africa’s second-largest insurer Old Mutual posted double-digit growth in profits, on the back of a decrease in the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, following a high claims environment over the last few of years. Old Mutual said headline earnings rose…
14 Mar 2023 4PM 8 min

BankServAfrica launches a new instant payment service for SA

GUEST – Mpho Sadiki, head of real-time payments at BankservAfrica The recent launch of PayShap (born out of the payments industry-led Rapid Payments Programme or RPP) developed as part of the SA Reserve Bank’s Vision 2025 and is a giant leap forward in the campaign to modernise payments in SA…
14 Mar 2023 4PM 1 hr 18 min

Mining output continues hit by loadshedding

GUEST – Mamokgethi Molopyane, a labour and mining analyst Mining output decreased by 1.9% year-on-year in January, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday, marking the 12th consecutive month of year-on-year decline and after a 3.5% contraction in December 2022. The largest negative contributors were platinum group metals (PGMs), whose production…
14 Mar 2023 4PM 9 min

When your former employer/ references give a bad testimonial

GUEST - Kagiso Lebethe - Senior Employee Relations Specialist Even though employers are not legally obliged to provide character references this does not mean that employers providing references have a free reign in the type of references they can provide. An employee who feels that a false character reference provided…
13 Mar 2023 4PM 1 hour

TOP STORY– How Silicon Valley Bank’s closure will affect African start-ups

GUEST – CHRIS MAURICE: CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, YELLOW CARD Yesterday, news broke that Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of choice for most startups and venture capitalists, was shut down by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The closure was triggered by a bank run that began after the bank announced…
13 Mar 2023 4PM 7 min

COMPANY RESULTS – MTN Group reports huge profits

GUEST – Jan Vermeulen - Editor at Mybroadband MTN has released its annual results and reported a 42.8% increase in profit across the group from R17 billion in 2021 to R24.3 billion in 2022. In South Africa, revenue increased 3.9% from R48.7 billion to R50.6 billion, with service revenue increasing…
13 Mar 2023 4PM 8 min

EKASINOMICS – Phenomenal Light, a Black female owned construction company.

GUEST - Noxolo Fani, CEO & Founder of Phenomenal Light Construction PL Construction, a concrete repair specialist and cleaning company is a female youth owned company and was formed by Noxolo Fani a professional working in the construction industry who identified the need for a committed specialist in the field…
8 Mar 2023 3PM 18 min

Women entrepreneurship on the steady rise in SA but access to funding is still lagging

GUEST: Gugu Mjadu, Executive General Manager of Marketing at Business Partners Limited The South African Women Entrepreneurs Job Creators Survey found that women gravitate towards industries whose development supports job creation. The financial inclusion of women entrepreneurs as active contributors to the South African economy is therefore one of the…
8 Mar 2023 3PM 16 min

NEDBANK RESULTS – Nedbank posts 20% rise in full year profit

GUEST – Mfundo Nkuhlu, COO at Nedbank Nedbank’s 2022 full-year results revealed a significant increase in the company’s headline earnings, which allowed it to increase its total dividend for 2022 by 38%. The company declared a final dividend of 866 cents per share, a 14% increase from December 2021. This…
8 Mar 2023 1AM 11 min
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