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South Africa, unspun. Since its launch in 2013, BizNews has covered the issues and asked the questions others tiptoe around.

Every week the team led by Alec Hogg sit down with the people who actually move markets and shape policy: CEOs, investors, economists, constitutional lawyers and the politicians brave enough to take a straight question. We cover the JSE, global markets, corporate governance, the rule of law and the political economy that ties it all together.

No spin. No jargon. No hour-long preamble. Just sharp conversations with people who know what they’re talking about and are given the space to communicate it properly - with follow-up questions when they don’t.

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7,447 Episodes
5320 – 5340

The Editor’s Desk: Was lockdown a mistake (and should insurers pay for it)?

The decision to impose lockdown has come in for a lot of criticism these days, especially as the economic costs of the lockdown continue to mount. In this episode, Felicity Duncan and BizNews editor Jackie Cameron discuss the rationale behind lockdown, looking at the accuracy of Covid-19 predictions and the…
10 Jul 2020 6AM 21 min

Kisby Fund: A life-saving option for SMEs - Mark Barnes

The Kisby Fund is a tech-savvy financial approach to assisting small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Its charismatic chair Mark Barnes tells BizNews founder Alec Hogg that the secret to economic dignity is well-funded small enterprises that foster job creation. Barnes is a well-known visionary, widely credited for the financial and…
9 Jul 2020 11AM 20 min

Outsurance, an outlier pays claims for business interruption - Danie Mathee

This week a Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of a Cape restaurant, Café Chameleon. Insurance Claims Africa, fighting for 500 business in the country to get their claims paid out, says the decision is precedent-setting. But the country’s biggest short-term insurer, Santam, announced yesterday that it is sticking…
8 Jul 2020 11AM 8 min

Small business wins big victory in Covid-19 insurance battle; consumer confidence hits Rubicon lows; Edcon; SA arms

In today's news headlines: * A small Cape Town restaurant, Café Chameleon, triumphed against Guardrisk Insurance, part of insurance giant Momentum Metropolitan Holdings; * Consumer confidence has crashed to lowest level since 1985; * An anti-arms activist, Terry Crawford-Browne has called for a Parliamentary investigation into arms exports from South Africa;…
7 Jul 2020 2PM 3 min
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