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Flash Briefing: Mantashe rejects coal ban; NUMSA rejects increased wage offer; Cele: 'insurrection case almost 'cracked'
News headlines: *Rich nations shouldn’t force South Africa to ban new coal-power projects and impose other conditions as a requirement for funding to help reduce its environmental footprint, the country’s energy minister said. *South African steelworkers will continue to strike after rejecting an increased wage offer from employers. *Three months…
Muir College’s 200 Years Milestone Celebration
In 2022, Muir College will celebrate its 200th anniversary. Situated in Kariega, the anniversary is a landmark event in the history of education. It is an ideal moment of reflection and celebration of the power and hope of education in post apartheid SouthAfrica. In this podcast - Andrew Binning and…
As a corporate leader Brian Joffe has created an enormous amount of shareholder value - Piet Viljoen
Counterpoint Value Fund manager Piet Viljoen gives us the inside scoop of what is happening in the local and global investment markets. The conversation includes an array of topics, with Piet outlining the thesis behind Aveng's 500:1 share consolidation. Investment holding structures, namely PSG and Long4Life, are discussed at length…
Is the semiconductor shortage affecting vehicle pricing? Industry experts share their insights
A shortage of semiconductor chips, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, has seen a surge in used and new car prices. BizNews Motoring correspondent Jarryd Neves spoke to two industry leaders; Bidvest Automotive CEO Steve Keys and WeBuyCars co-founder, Dirk van der Walt, to gain insights into this global…
Flash Briefing: Fresh Karpowership graft allegations; NUMSA strike could worsen SA unemployment; SA preps for tourists
News headlines: *DNG Energy Ltd., a losing bidder for state contracts to supply emergency power in South Africa, made fresh corruption allegations against a winning bidder, Karpowership, and a government official. *South Africa’s ongoing steelworker strike is likely to lead to job cuts, further hammering an industry that’s been in…
BizNews Power Hour, 13 Oct: Geordin's plan to end CT loadshedding; Heystek on SA's "retirement crisis"; New SAA CCO
In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by Magnus Heystek who warns about SA's "retirement crisis" caused by a bad decision ten years ago to force 70% of savings to be kept in the country; SAA's recently appointed Chief Commercial Officer, international airline veteran Simon…
People are simply retiring with not enough capital - Magnus Heystek
Every Wednesday we have investment insights from Magnus Heystek. The founder of Brenthurst Wealth joined Alec Hogg, the duo covering a number of investment topics making headlines - including pension funds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No more loadshedding for Cape Town – DA Mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis explains how
Elections are traditionally the time that politicians, some who are seldom seen outside their big cars with tinted windows, get outside to be seen as leaders who are in tune with the electorate. In other countries, kissing a couple of babies and knocking on doors would do it but in…
SAA Phoenix, now "run on data", is like a start-up with huge secret assets like Voyager - CCO Simon Newton-Smith
Airline veteran Simon Newton-Smith opens up to BizNews editor Alec Hogg in this fascinating interview on why newly relaunched South African Airways is unlikely to even need taxpayer funding again. The airline's new Chief Commercial Officer returned to SAA in August after a successful career at global majors including a…
Kokkie Kooyman ranks SA banks - and two stocks are standouts for value investors
South Africa's globally rated financial services analyst Kokkie Kooyman runs through the relative value offered by the country's top six banks. He explains to Alec Hogg how, at the current share prices, two of them are outstanding buying opportunities for investors following the long-overdue trend of switching from Growth to…
BizNews Power Hour - 12 Oct. Market insights with Nathan; Janus partners with Denker; Tobacco's murky past
In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by Steven Nathan paying tribute to Allan Grenblo; Denker Capital's Kokkie Kooyman unpacks it's new partnership with Janus Henderson; global editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism James Ball on Smoke Screen and the murky world of the…
"Plausible deniability" for BAT execs as investigation into the murky world of SA's tobacco industry digs deeper
For the past year and a half a team at UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has looking into activity in the South African tobacco industry. The result of those efforts is a cracking eight series Podcast called Smoke Screen (on auddy.co). In this interview, the Bureau's international editor James Ball…
Allan Greenblo's heart was in the right place - Steven Nathan
In this podcast, the founder of 10X Investments Steven Nathan pays tribute to the late Allan Greenblo, a rare independent voice in South Africa's retirement industry. He also explains the other side to SA Treasury's intervention which will require construction companies may only use (more expensive) domestically produced cement on…
Flash Briefing: SAA disaster; MEC Msibi to step aside after murder charges; Treasury bans imported cement
News headlines: *Less than three weeks after taking to the skies again, South African Airways is already facing a backlash from staff, cancelled flights, and support problems. *President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for Mandla Msibi to immediately step aside, after the MEC of agriculture in Mpumalanga appeared in the Nelspruit…
'There's no reason why they can't scrap e-tolls' - OUTA's Wayne Duvenage
As the municipal elections in South Africa draw closer, e-tolls are back on the agenda. OUTA CEO and founder Wayne Duvenage has been the chief protagonist against e-tolls since before their inception. He joins BizNews founder Alec Hogg to discuss the issue of scrapping e-tolls for good. According to Duvenage,…
RIP Allan Greenblo - A journalistic giant who never lost his moral compass
One of the doyens of South African journalism, Allan Greenblo, passed away at 3:45am this morning after falling critically ill on Sunday. Greenblo co-founded Finance Week in 1978, edited it from 1982 to 1995 and then become managing director of BDFM, then a joint venture between the Financial Times of…
BizNews Power Hour - 11 Oct. Market insights with Shapiro; OUTA continues e-toll battle; Allen Greenblo; currency focus
In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by David Shapiro with investment insights; OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage on Gauteng e-toll discrepancies; TreasuryONE's Andre Cilliers unpacks local and international currency movements; we pay tribute to Allen Greenblo and the BizNews Team. Learn more about your ad…
Only way to avoid stagflation is to increase our interest rates - TreasuryONE's Andre Cilliers
In the latest episode of the Currency Focus podcast, Bronwyn Nielsen and currency expert Andre Cilliers of TreasuryONE discuss the local unit’s movements. Cilliers says that the central bank's continuous reluctance to increase interest rates in the name of growth is misinformed. He also mentions possible risks to the rand,…
Flash Briefing: SA business sentiment at 1-year low; Hawks circle in on 'corporate looters'; ANC/DA in campaign mode
News headlines: *South African business sentiment dropped to a one-year low in September as economic activity continued to be hamstrung by restrictions to curb the coronavirus pandemic and unease persisted following deadly riots in July. *Both the Hawks and SARS are circling in on companies that scored millions from dodgy…
There's very little Leila Fourie can do - David Shapiro as JSE delisting trend continues unabated
Sasfin Securities David Shapiro leads the week's investment insights talking on a number of topical market related issues. Shapiro states that predicting the volatility in the rand dollar price is notoriously difficult which he does not factor into his investment thesis. He also talks about the different risks being faced…