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Daily English South Africa Investing · Business News
7,442 Episodes
3240 – 3260

Programme to boost early-stage SA tech businesses is hitting home runs

South Africa is way behind the curve when it comes to early-stage venture-backed businesses. The country has not managed to excite the global venture capital community in the same way that other African countries like Nigeria and Kenya. To address this lag, the Local Scale Up programme was launched in…
6 Sep 2022 4AM 20 min

Ivermectin: facts and science are in its favour – Dr Rapiti

In August 2021, BizNews conducted a panel discussion with Professor Colleen Aldous, Dr Nathi Mdladla and Dr Pinky Ngcakani – all of whom are strongly in favour of ivermectin. The discussion was published on BizNews TV on YouTube and for a year, it managed to evade the YouTube censorship police…
5 Sep 2022 11AM 40 min

IBS: no longer the default diagnosis for something doctors don’t understand

BizNews spoke to Dr Mark Pimentel, a gastroenterologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, California, about irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disorder which has gained a reputation as a default ‘leftover’ diagnosis due to the medical fraternity’s inability to conclusively define or diagnose the condition. Pimentel, who created a test capable of…
1 Sep 2022 11PM 16 min

Transnet arrests: Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh and co. granted R50k bail

OUTA chief investigator on state capture Rudie Heyneke reacts to the arrests of former Transnet and Gupta-linked Regiments executives charged with contravention of the PFMA, fraud, corruption and money laundering. Former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe and the parastatal’s former finance head Anoj Singh were joined in the dock by Regiments…
29 Aug 2022 8AM 11 min

Township is the next business frontier, not a place for charity – Yebo Fresh

The spaza shops, bakers and other retail outlets running their small business in townships have a heap of challenges. They close often to go and source products, carry cash and have no access to credit. Intrigued by these township markets, Jessica Boonstra, originally from the Netherlands, started her business, Yebo Fresh…
26 Aug 2022 1PM 17 min

‘Sound the alarm’ report - Corruption Watch on education corruption

Corruption Watch is raising the alarm about corruption in South Africa’s education sector, bringing together statistics collated from over 3,600 reports to the NGO over the last decade. Senior researcher Melusi Ncala - who wrote the report - spoke to Michael Appel about the overall picture that emerges from their…
25 Aug 2022 9AM 11 min
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