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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.
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5,365 Episodes
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Good news for second-hand car buyers in South Africa.

The Automobile Association (AA) has launched a service to give South Africans credible information on pre-owned vehicles before purchase. This will be done through independent vehicle dealerships and AA Approved workshops across the country, the association said. Through the service, the AA said that dealerships can offer an AA 125-point…
4 Jul 2022 4AM 9 min

PRESENTEEISM COSTS 4.2% of GDP.

Presenteeism, being physically present at work but mentally absent and unproductive due to illness, injury, stress or burnout, comes at a greater economic cost than absenteeism, and during the Covid-19 pandemic, it has not only increased but gone digital and virtual. Employees who show up and attempt to work despite…
4 Jul 2022 4AM 15 min

Post BRICS summit analysis.

One of the world’s worst inflation crises closed in further on another grim milestone in Turkey, and government efforts to help the population cope with the fallout only threaten to make it worse. Price growth has been in the double digits almost without interruption since the start of 2017, but…
4 Jul 2022 4AM 10 min

R3.4bn in UIF TERS monies returned, Phase 2 of Follow the Money project to start in July.

Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) commissioner Teboho Maruping says R3.4-billion has been voluntarily returned to it by employers that irregularly benefitted from the Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (TERS). The first phase of the UIF's Follow the Money project determined that R14.1-billion was disbursed through Covid-19 TERS, of which R12.8-billion was…
30 Jun 2022 4AM 14 min

PIVOT POINT - Mathebe Molise - Founder of BeautyonTApp.

Meet Mathebe Molise is an innovator and entrepreneur. When she’s not at her 9 to 5, she is single handedly managing and running her company Beauty on TApp. Beauty on Tapp is an mobile phone app that provides their customers with a database on beauty services from hair to nails…
30 Jun 2022 4AM 18 min

National Film and Video Foundation releases SA Box Office report.

The report gives an overview of the performance of films released in local cinemas (also known as the box office) and provides a trend of performance over a 10-year period. The report indicates the performance of films released to the South African box office in 2021 by examining the total…
30 Jun 2022 4AM 12 min

South Africa's FDI inflows increased to R27.2bn in the first quarter.

South Africa recorded foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows of R27.2-billion in the first quarter of 2022, up from R22.7-billion rand in the fourth quarter of 2021, the central bank said on Tuesday. The South African Reserve Bank said in its Quarterly Bulletin that the increase was due to foreign entities…
29 Jun 2022 5AM 7 min

Consumer confidence in South Africa drops to historic lows: index.

Despite the lifting of almost all Covid restrictions and improved business sentiment, the FNB/BER Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) plunged to -25 in the second quarter of 2022, having already slipped from -9 to -13 index points during the first quarter of 2022. Consumer confidence surveys provide regular assessments of consumer…
29 Jun 2022 5AM 10 min

Gauteng Air Access project.

Johannesburg, more international and regional flights continue to prefer the OR Tambo International Airport as their gateway into South Africa and the rest of the African continent. This bodes well for the visitor economy in Gauteng and the centrality of air services and active route development in increasing tourism, trade,…
29 Jun 2022 5AM 14 min

INSIDE YOUR BUSINESS: Load shedding is the #1 enemy of South African businesses, but here’s why you can’t let it win.

Load shedding is silently killing South African businesses. One by one, small and medium businesses are disappearing from our streets and shopping centres as the fragile power grid and frequent rolling blackouts over challenge business owners, entrepreneurs and employees. Retailers, hospitality businesses and manufacturers are hit the hardest. Another truth…
29 Jun 2022 5AM 14 min

EKASINOMICS: KULOOLA - SA’s first rural online grocery store.

South Africa's first rural-centred online grocery store and delivery service has navigated degraded roads and rough terrain to complete more than 25,000 orders in KwaZulu-Natal. Online shopping and food delivery services have boomed over the past two years, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, which kept people at home. South Africa's…
29 Jun 2022 5AM 20 min

Proudly South African Wine Expo.

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…
29 Jun 2022 5AM 9 min

Qatar Airways and Airlink seal code-share deal in wake of Comair collapse.

Qatar Airways, one of the world’s largest carriers, has entered into a formal partnership with Gauteng-based regional airline Airlink, which will see it expanding its presence in SA and across the region. The partnership, referred to as a code-share agreement, means travellers can buy connecting flights on both airlines using…
28 Jun 2022 4AM 9 min

Load shedding: Stage 6 confirmed from 4pm.

Stage 6 load shedding has been confirmed from 16:00 to 22:00 on Tuesday evening after Eskom lost 10 generating units overnight, Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter announced at a hastily arranged media briefing on Tuesday morning. Stage 6 has only been implemented once before, on 9 December 2019, he said…
28 Jun 2022 4AM 10 min

ALLAN GRAY FEATURE: The impact of the ‘great resignation’ on retirement.

The world of work has changed dramatically over the past two years and along with it, the way people view and experience the workplace. This has led to a mass wave of people exiting formal employment structures in a phenomenon dubbed “the great resignation”. However, with employees changing jobs more…
28 Jun 2022 4AM 12 min
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