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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
4,723 Episodes
440 – 460

JSE cannot maintain sustainable heights without renewed foreign investor sentiment

GUEST – Jason Swartz, Portfolio Manager at Old Mutual Investment Group Outside of the last few weeks of heightened volatility, JSE-listed equities have been on a ‘tear’ recently as positive domestic news flows and local investor sentiment push share prices higher; yet it will take renewed foreign investor interest to…
3 Oct 2024 1PM 11 min

Gauteng govt pays R3.8 Billion towards e-toll debt.

GUEST - Wayne Duvenage - CEO of OUTA Gauteng Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Finance and Economic Development Lebogang Maile says the province will not go bankrupt. He was speaking at a briefing on Monday where he outlined the debt repayment structure of the failed e-toll revenue collection…
30 Sep 2024 12PM 11 min

WEALTH CREATION – What are South African doing with their Bitcoins?

GUEST - Tarris Arnold, Business Development Manager at Luno, South Africa’s largest crypto investment app South Africans are increasingly using crypto to pay for goods and services according to a new report by Luno, South Africa’s largest crypto investment app and a licensed FSP. The new Luno report, Bridging digital…
30 Sep 2024 12PM 13 min

Loan defaults numbers decrease because of lack of access to credit by consumers.

GUEST – Jaco van Jaarsveldt - Head of Commercial Strategy and Innovation at Experian. South African consumers are slowly getting to grips with managing their debts, but the wealthier groups—who tend to have more big-ticket loans—are still under pressure. This is according to the latest Experian Consumer Default Index (CDI)…
30 Sep 2024 12PM 14 min

SA’s mining industry shed almost 7,000 jobs in Q2/2024.

GUEST – David van Wyk - Lead researcher at Bench Marks Foundation SA’s mining industry shed almost 7,000 jobs in the second quarter of 2024, which comes to nearly 10,000 mining jobs lost in the first half of the year. What happens to all these people?
30 Sep 2024 12PM 8 min

Gauteng govt partners with poultry players to address egg shortage supply.

GUEST – Vuyiswa Ramokgopa – MEC for Agriculture and Rural department Many smallholder farmers in Gauteng and across the Gauteng City Region (GCR) often face serious difficulties in accessing markets for a variety of reasons. The Gauteng Agriculture and rural department has introduced an egg aggregation packhouse solution to ensure…
26 Sep 2024 11AM 16 min

Take-home pay shows first real improvement since 2020

GUEST – Elize Kruger - independent economist Amid persistently high inflation, any increases South Africans saw in their wages and salaries over the past few years failed to keep up with the pace at which prices were rising, ultimately leaving households worse off. But after five consecutive months of improvement,…
26 Sep 2024 11AM 10 min

40-to-49-year age group leading in 2-pot withdrawals.

GUEST - Dumo Mbethe, CEO of Momentum Corporate By 16 September, the Momentum Group received 112 449 two-pot withdrawal applications to a cumulative value of R1.7 billion. The Group had paid 81% of all withdrawal applications and this percentage is rising steadily. Momentum says of the key trends observed since…
26 Sep 2024 11AM 12 min

INSIDE YOUR POCKET: Increasing popularity of contactless payment

GUEST - Lesibana Shika: Head, Product Management: Consumer Credit Card, Standard Bank SA Contactless payments are surging in popularity, with over half of Standard Bank's customers now opting to tap their cards or phones at supermarkets, restaurants, and fuel stations. As merchants increasingly adopt this technology and digital wallets become…
26 Sep 2024 10AM 12 min

Only 1 in 3 of SA’s SDG are on track as the 2030 deadline approaches

In June, the United Nations reported that South Africa ranks 115th out of 167 countries in progressing towards achieving the SDGs by 2030. Gender equality and partnerships for the goals are the targets where South Africa has performed the best. The UN noted that the country has achieved, or is…
26 Sep 2024 10AM 10 min

Insider Trading Unpacked

Zwelakhe Mnguni – Chief Investment Officer at Benguela Global Funds ManagerInsider trading is when you buy and sell securities based on material information that is inaccessible to the general public. Material non-public information (MNPI), is financial information about a publicly traded company or security that can influence an investor's willingness…
26 Sep 2024 10AM 11 min

How the 'Invested in Your Story' campaign differs from traditional banking approaches

GUEST - James Agin - Corporate And Investment Banking Managing Principal, Absa Kenya Invested in your story” means that Absa co-creates with businesses to achieve their goals. They are deeply committed to understanding and supporting their clients’ journeys - celebrating their achievements, acknowledge their hard work, and providing the guidance…
25 Sep 2024 3PM 8 min

INSIDE YOUR BUSINESS – Entrepreneurs also need support structures

GUEST - Brian Mhlanga – Business and leadership coach Being an entrepreneur can be an isolating experience, with feelings of misunderstanding or alienation. But it doesn't have to be. Taking risks and disrupting the status quo is something everyone should do in business, but you have to make sure you…
25 Sep 2024 3PM 10 min

Who protects the food delivery drivers?

GUEST - Michael Bagraim, Labour law expert at Bagraim attorneys While many people rave about the ease and speed of supermarket food delivery services, how many of us think about the drivers that bring us these goods?
23 Sep 2024 1PM 12 min

How the SABC can be sustained – Is the Household levy the answer?

GUEST - Michael Markovitz - Head, GIBS Media Leadership Think Tank The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) says it will continue to support the introduction of a compulsory household levy for households and has proposed that the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and MultiChoice assist in enforcing revenue collection. In…
23 Sep 2024 1PM 13 min

Road freight industry playing catch up following snowfall

GUEST - Gavin Kelly, The Road Freight Association’s Chief Executive Officer Heavy snowfall caused major disruptions in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province on Saturday. Motorists were forced to spend the night in their vehicles as one of the country's main highways, the N3, was blanketed with unusually thick snow. Roads in…
23 Sep 2024 1PM 11 min

Smallholder farmers hit hard by the snowfall

GUEST - Thabile Nkunjana - Senior agricultural economist in the trade research unit of the National Agricultural Marketing Council. Following snowy and extremely cold weather in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and other regions, there has been a rising demand for the government to take proactive measures to address the effects of climate…
23 Sep 2024 12PM 10 min
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