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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
4,729 Episodes
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RMB/BER Business Confidence Index edged up ahead of national election

GUEST – Siobhan Redford, an economist at Rand Merchant Bank The second quarter fieldwork for the RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) was conducted among 2 500 businesses and took place from 9 to 27 May 2024, a period preceding the 29th of May national and provincial elections that were widely…
6 Jun 2024 11AM 9 min

OPINION: South Africa’s 2024 election: what the numbers tell us.

GUEST - Leon Louw - CEO, Freedom Foundation Democracy is thought of as establishing ‘majority rule, yet, even with a ‘landslide victory’ a winner with as many as two-thirds (66%) of the vote, would represent a mere 27% of the South African electorate. A simple 50% majority of the vote…
4 Jun 2024 2PM 12 min

Interest of credit ratings in elections outcomes

GUEST - Political analyst, Dr Dale McKinley The long-standing debate about the power of credit rating agencies (CRAs) has recently received additional attention due to the 2007–2009 financial crisis and the 2010–2012 European sovereign debt crisis. In this conversation we examine the commentary that has come from global credit agencies…
4 Jun 2024 2PM 14 min

Nine out of ten consumers opt for the Top 10 Fast Food outlets

GUEST: Andrew Fulton, Director at Eighty20 In the past year, one out of every two adult South Africans—totalling 23.4 million people—purchased fast food. Approximately 20 millions of them dined at a fast-food outlet in the past month, a figure that has remained stable with a slight increase over the past…
3 Jun 2024 10AM 10 min

Economic outlook following South Africa's 2024 election results

GUEST - Johann Els - Old Mutual Group Chief Economist The results of South Africa's 2024 national elections have created a seismic shift in the political landscape, sending shockwaves throughout the country. For the first time since the end of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, securing…
3 Jun 2024 10AM 8 min

BUSINESS REACTION TO ELECTONS:

GUEST - Alan Mukoki - South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Business urges all parties to accept election results and work together to rebuild country Organised business has urged political leaders to accept the 2024 election results and to prioritise the crafting of stable governance arrangements underpinned by…
3 Jun 2024 10AM 10 min

Dis-Chem annual profit down 1.6%, continues to roll out new pharmacies

GUEST – Rui Morais, Dis-Chem CEO South African pharmacy group Dis-Chem announced in a Sens on Friday that its headline earnings per share declined by 1.6% for the year ended 29 February 2024. Headline earnings per share were 114.6 cents for the full year ended 31 March 2024, compared to…
3 Jun 2024 10AM 8 min

What are your rights when a retailer displays the wrong price?

GUEST - Trudie Broekmann - Consumer law expert What happens when a retailer displays the wrong price? The general principle is that a supplier cannot display goods for sale without displaying a price in relation to those goods. The exception to this rule is if the goods in question are…
28 May 2024 11AM 23 min

Where did it go wrong with Pick n Pay?

GUEST - The Finance Ghost – Retail Analyst When Raymond Ackerman listed his seven Pick n Pay (PnP) supermarkets in 1968 at 4c/share, it was the birth of a food retail champion. For 40 years, PnP continued to charm the market, keeping shareholders smiling all the way to the bank…
28 May 2024 10AM 15 min

Youth unemployment - will the upcoming elections make any difference?

GUEST - Nkosinathi Mahlangu, Youth Employment Portfolio Head at Momentum Metropolitan With election day this week - and with the arrival of new political parties on the scene as the ruling party's popularity seems to drop - competition is fiercer than ever as parties campaign relentlessly in an effort to…
27 May 2024 12PM 13 min

The Business of Election Campaigns

GUEST - Thebe Ikalafeng - Founder and CEO of Brand Leadership Group It’s Presidential election season and that can only mean one thing. Political ads galore! We will mute the TV, turn down the radio, look the other way as we pass a campaign worker taking surveys, at the very…
27 May 2024 12PM 15 min

Tiger Brands first-half earnings rise 11% as turnaround picks up

GUEST – Tjaart Kruger – Tiger Brands CEO Tiger Brands’ performance for the 6 months that ended 31 March 2024 reflects a tough trading environment in which consumers remain constrained. Total revenue for the year regressed by 1%, driven by price inflation of 8% and overall volume declines of 9%…
27 May 2024 12PM 12 min

OPINION: There is a lot more at stake in the Anglo American-BHP debate

Taddy Blecher – CEO of the Maharishi Institute The real issues, however, often lie beyond the immediate illumination – beyond what you can see. In the context of the Anglo American-BHP takeover debate, there is much more at stake than what is immediately visible. What is at stake relates to…
23 May 2024 10AM 13 min
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