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Italtile CEO Jan Potgieter: Record financial results, succession planning and prospects
Italtile's outgoing chief executive Jan Potgieter joined the BizNews Power Hour on a day that the retailer announced record financial results. Italtile has been one of the best performing companies on the JSE for the better part of a decade with management's decision making and capital allocation at the centre…
SA's unemployment numbers don't take informal sector into account - GG Alcock
GG Alcock joined the BizNews Power Hour, on the day after the unemployment data for South Africa were released. The figures showed horrific numbers, but Alcock provides some context on the numbers - and the way they’re put together. The author of “Kasinomics: African Informal Economies and the People Who…
'Mandatory vaccine policy is in the public interest' - Keymanthri Moodley
"A mandatory vaccine policy is absolutely critical," says Professor Keymanthri Moodley, a bioethicist and director of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at Stellenbosch University. Professor Moodley joined BizNews to explain exactly why she believes that a mandatory vaccine policy is necessary for 'high-risk environments'. She says that healthcare…
BizNews Power Hour - 25 Aug. Heystek co-host; local economy trumps unemployment; Dr Roelof Botha; mandatory vaccination
In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host Magnus Heystek; Kasinomic's GG Alcock on unemployment stats versus the local economy; the launch of Altron Fintech's Household Financial Resilience Index with Dr Roelof Botha; why mandatory vaccination is in the public interest with Keymanthri Moodley…
Flash Briefing: SA govt to harness R28bn cannabis industry; SA economy 11% bigger than estimated; Treasury
News headlines: *South Africa’s government unveiled a master plan aimed at harnessing a R28bn cannabis industry that could potentially create as many as 25,000 jobs and help attract foreign investment. *South Africa’s economy is 11% bigger than previously estimated, after statistics authorities changed the way they calculate gross domestic product…
Altron Fintech index shows SA's incur, manage micro-finance debt better than before Covid-19
Dr Roelof Botha is the economic advisor to the Optimum Investment Group and the brains behind the Altron Fintech Household Financial Resilience Index. Dr Botha joined BizNews contributor Bronwyn Nielsen to discuss the index, the purpose of which is to assess the state of micro-lending in South Africa from the…
'The investment industry is not a gentleman's game' - Magnus Heystek
Hard-hitting Magnus Heystek joins BizNews founder Alec Hogg to talk about the hidden agendas that plague the investment industry. Magnus has been adamant on having offshore exposure for the better part of the last decade for two reasons, firstly because diversification is the only free lunch you're afforded in investing…
Unemployment figures, Naspers/Prosus, Afghanistan - Steven Nathan's rational opinion
10X founder Steven Nathan joins Alec Hogg to talk on a number of topical political and investment matters. The unemployment rate, which rose by 1.8% to 34.4%, surged to the highest on a global list of 82 countries monitored by Bloomberg. The expanded definition, which includes discouraged workers, rose to…
BizNews Power Hour - 24 Aug. Nathan co-host; Afghan insights; Standard Bank's PowerPulse; Papenfus tackles Mittal
In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host Steven Nathan talking Chinese tech stocks; Hameed Hakimi, an Afghan national and Research Associate at Ruhr-University Bochum Germany on the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan; Gerhard Papenfus takes on Arcelor Mittal SA; Standard Banks' PowerPulse and the…
Flash Briefing: SA unemployment rate highest on global list; SA cannabis company plans to list on JSE
News headlines: *South Africa’s unemployment rate surged to the highest on a global list of 82 countries monitored by Bloomberg. *The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Gauteng will prosecute former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini in connection with the social grants payments fiasco in 2017. *Cilo Cybin Pharmaceutical is…
AMSA vs the Steel Downstream: Govt's continued protection of AMSA - Gerhard Papenfus
ArcelorMittal South Africa announced recently that the second half of 2021 may be even better than the profit record of nearly R2.5 billion that the company achieved in the first half of the year. NEASA chief executive Gerhard Papenfus joined the BizNews Power Hour to discuss why he says that…
Paul Whitburn on China, the bulk commodities downturn and what this means for SA
The Chinese regulators' crackdown on Big Tech - which has been intensifying since November 2020 - as well as the drastic measures taken by the country to move back towards a communist state has serious implications for the rest of the world, South Africa included. BizNews contributor Charl Botha spoke…
Taliban victory in Afghanistan could bolster other Islamist terror groups - Hameed Hakimi
The Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan, soon after the withdrawal of the US and NATO forces, could bolster other Islamist terror groups like ISIS in Mozambique. This is according to Hameed Hakimi, an Afghan national and Research Associate at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Hakimi says he has family in Kabul who have…
Growing four season hops on a Joburg rooftop – Khaya Maloney
There are amazing grants and programmes in South Africa, which have put enterprising young people on a path to invent, grow and thrive. One of them is the Urban Agriculture Initiative (UAI), operated by an organisation called Wouldn’t it Be Cool (WIBC). Khaya Maloney secured a sport and completed a…
'Herd immunity is something that we must all forget now' - Emile Stipp, Discovery's Chief Actuary
Last week, Bloomberg reported that - according to Emile Stipp, the chief actuary at Discovery - as many as four out of five South Africans had already had Covid-19. This finding naturally led to many questions surrounding the implications of this estimated infection rate, particularly in respect of achieving herd…
'The science is not being followed here' - SATSA CEO on SA's UK red list status
South Africa was placed on the UK’s dreaded red list in December 2020 - a status which the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) estimates could lead to the South African economy suffering losses that equate to more than R26m every single day. A petition spearheaded by the Southern Africa…
BizNews Power Hour - 23 Aug. Shapiro co-host; SA vs UK travel ban; Stipp on herd immunity; Bitcoin brothers blunder
In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host David Shapiro talking shares after his first Tesla ride; Chief actuary at Discovery - Emile Stipp - on estimated real Covid-19 infection rate in SA; Private Investigator Sean Peirce on the Bitcoin brothers case, SATSA CEO…
"Bitcoin brothers Raees and Ameer Cajee have ruined people’s lives" - private investigator Sean Peirce
Ameer and Raees Cajee (and their company, Africrypt) started making headlines earlier this year when the pair sent out a notice to investors informing them of a security breach. According to a company announcement, the investing platform had allegedly been hacked - with all of the funds stolen. Since then,…
Standard Bank's PowerPulse could totally remove power supply issues for businesses
Rentia van Tonder and Berrie de Jager of Standard Bank join Alec Hogg to discuss PowerPulse, a new digital platform introduced by Standard Bank that provides alternative energy solutions by connecting clients with appropriate power suppliers. As Alec Hogg says, the shift from centralised to decentralised power generation could not…
'The markets are holding up, but only just' - David Shapiro talks shares after his first Tesla ride
Sasfin Securities David Shapiro joins the BizNews team as Monday night's BizNews Power Hour co-host, with the veteran analyst outlining that markets have had a solid start to the week after a period of concern. Commodities came off strongly during the latter part of last week with the JSE All…