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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
3320 – 3340

How to Dispute an Electricity Bill in South Africa.

Is this a regular occurrence for South Africans to find themselves with a fault or inaccurate electricity bill? Yes, it and quite sadly it is also a common occurrence for most citizens to receive erroneous electricity or water bills. Of course, we are not always just talking about a few…
24 Mar 2022 4AM 15 min

Pivot Point: From Chef Student to Production House Owner.

Lentswe Bhengu, born and raised in KwaZulu Natal, started off plying his trade in the investment finance space. After 5 years in the industry, Lentswe traded in his suit and tie for a chef hat and spatula and in 2010 and enrolled at The Culinary Academy in the Cape Winelands…
24 Mar 2022 4AM 16 min

SA Investment Conference 2022

The Fourth SA Investment Conference is currently under way at the Sandton Convention Centre, north of Johannesburg. The one-day meeting is called to help attract the R1,2 trillion rand worth of investment by the end of 2023. The African Development Bank will commit R42.5 billion in new financing to South…
24 Mar 2022 4AM 9 min

Tourism industry and lifting of COVID-19 protocols.

The Tourism Business Council of South Africa welcomes the further lifting of COVID-19 protocols by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The TBCSA strongly believes the changes announced are a step in the right direction as the sector seeks to recover to pre-pandemic levels. Over the last few months, the tourism sector has…
23 Mar 2022 4AM 9 min

Black Business Lobby Group ready to fight national treasury's new draft procurement rules.

The Black Business Federation (BBF) will be heading to court to challenge to the National Treasury's newly released draft Preferential Public Procurement Framework guidelines, saying that the draft guidelines leave black South Africans and their businesses at a disadvantage when bidding for government tenders. National Treasury released updated tender regulations…
23 Mar 2022 4AM 13 min

4th SA Investment Conference must not leave entrepreneurs behind.

The JCCI calls on big business and government, not to leave behind SME’s at this year’s edition of the SA Investment Conference, which is set to take place on the 24 March in Sandton. In the last three iterations of the conference, it was announced with great fanfare the billions…
23 Mar 2022 4AM 7 min

Consumer inflation unchanged in February, but bread and maize meal prices jump.

Annual consumer price inflation reached 5.7% in February, unchanged from 5.7% in January. Still, food and transport prices saw big increases last month. With diesel and petrol prices up by a third over the past year, transport prices increased by 14.3% year-on-year. Statistics SA recorded large monthly price increases for…
23 Mar 2022 3AM 9 min

Government concludes auction of high-demand spectrum for mobile telecommunications.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that government has concluded the auction of high-demand spectrum for mobile telecommunications and says that this will prove a significant milestone in growing and transforming the economy. Writing in his weekly letter to the public, Ramaphosa said the new spectrum will be accompanied by agreed…
22 Mar 2022 4AM 15 min

Lessons for scheme executives.

In mid-February this year, the City of Tshwane caused a big stir with their highly-publicised #TshwaneYaTima campaign, which was rolled out via Twitter. This contentious, yet very effective, initiative named and shamed big entities - such as PRASA, SuperSpar, and ODI - whose service payments were, in some cases, up…
22 Mar 2022 4AM 14 min

It's My House: How Property co-ownership works.

Many people want to invest in property, but not everyone can afford to purchase a house, apartment or piece of land. Co-ownership for investment purposes is a good way to get onto the property ownership ladder, but it’s not something to jump into blindly. Owning property with a friend, sibling…
22 Mar 2022 4AM 20 min

Retirement savers can now invest up to 45% of their portfolios offshore.

The South African Reserve Bank recently confirmed that the offshore investment limits for all investment and product providers, including retirement funds, have been increased to 45%. The relaxation in exchange control regulations is very positive news for South African investors over the long term. Earl Van Zyl, head of Retail…
22 Mar 2022 4AM 9 min

South Africans should expect higher interest rates this week.

SOURCE: BUSINESSTECH] The South African Reserve Bank is likely to hike interest rates by a further 25 basis points this week to 4.25% in an attempt to slow inflation, say economists. A Reuters poll of economists said prices could rise faster than they had expected before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
22 Mar 2022 4AM 7 min

How do we break the cycle of black tax?

Thinking about the upcoming public holiday, Human Rights Day, which falls on a Monday (yay) later this month (double yay), brought me to wondering how we each should celebrate the rights we have and the people who won them for us. South African Human Rights Day is celebrated in memory of the…
21 Mar 2022 5AM 13 min

Trends in the post-pandemic workplace.

The 2021-22 Trends Tracker report compiled by Carryn Dewig and Atka Young, is the first in a series of reports that will not only track the shifts in the world of work, but look ahead at the trends shaping the inevitable next wave of change. An important example to consider…
21 Mar 2022 5AM 12 min
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