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Tobacco insider: Manufacturer profit gorging on taxpayers, smokers via SA's cigarette ban #BestofBizNews
For SA's cigarette manufacturers, Covid-19 has been like all their Christmases arriving together. Industry insider and self-confessed smuggler Azeem Carim explains how the SA government's lockdown-enforced ban on cigarette sales has generated a massive payday at taxpayers' expense. It's engineered through "ghost exports" - cigarette makers supposedly producing for sale…
Magnus Heystek, Brett Duncan: Best investment ideas - #BestofBizNews
Award-winning financial advisor Magnus Heystek of Brenthurst Wealth Management and stock market trading expert Brett Duncan of the Standard Bank group answer personal finance questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Flash Briefing: Money managers ranked, Krisp receives funding and Mediclinic struggles with Covid-19 patient load
Emerging market money managers have shuffled ranks in 2020, Mediclinic says its struggling with patient loads and Krisp receives Covid-19 research funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rational perspective on Covid-19: So far so good SA, says Prof Michael Levitt #BestofBizNews
Although he left the country as a 16-year old, Pretoria-born Nobel laureate, Stanford professor Michael Levitt, still describes himself as proudly South African. And as you'll hear from this podcast, the brilliant academic has some insightful perspectives on how his former homeland is handling the Covid-19 crisis. Mostly positive: He…
Flash Briefing: SA Govt. answers your Covid-19 questions, Tesla shares rocket and US green lights Moderna shot
A new strain of Covid-19 has been identified in SA, government answers questions, US approves Moderna vaccine and Tesla shares soar to record highs ahead of S&P 500 listing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SA's Nobel prizewinning scientist Prof Michael Levitt: Lockdowns are 'a huge mistake' #BestofBizNews
Prof Michael Levitt, a product of Pretoria Boys High whose family left for England when he was 15, is a recipient of science’s greatest honour – the Nobel Prize. As you’ll hear in the highlights of this interview with Freddie Sayers of UnHerd.com, the 72- year old professor of computer…
FirstRand founders: on business, entrepreneurship, friendship and life - #BestofBizNews
Hosted by BizNews founder Alec Hogg, this episode started a short series of discussions with South African business icons. We kick off with the founders of the FirstRand Group - Laurie Dippenaar, Paul Harris and GT Ferreira. The discussion also features surprise guest Johann Rupert, and inserts from Michael Jordaan,…
Clem Sunter on lifting lockdown: Diving into depression vs fresh Covid-19 spike #BestofBizNews
Clem Sunter is one of South Africa's most respected strategists, making an indelible mark on the birth of the new South Africa which followed his High Road scenario of negotiated settlement rather than the Low Road of political turmoil. In this in-depth interview with BizNews editor-in-chief Alec Hogg, Sunter -…
Fractional property ownership and long-term investing
Fractional property and long-term investments were on the agenda at this week’s BizNews Finance Friday webinar. Guests included Easy properties Rupert Finnemore, independent financial adviser Dawn Ridler and SAIFAA's Derek Smorenburg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week in review: Zondo Commission, SA scientist wins international prize, and Google sued
Koko cries foul at the Zondo Commission, SA epidemiologist wins international prize and Google gets sued by ten US states Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
NYIT's Dr Otazu on his research BCG may provide shield; How SA medics protect themselves #BestofBizNews
In episode 12 of our Inside Covid-19 podcast, much needed hope for South Africa’s fight against the virus as research from a top US university suggests the BCG vaccination against TB, administered in the country for the past 80 years, provides protection against Covid-19. More on that coming up, including…
Flash Briefing: SA's vaccine misstep, PIC eyes pensions and Guardrisk Covid-19 appeal rejected
SA has missed a Covax payment deadline, with plans to put young taxpayers last in the vaccine queue. The PIC wants to use pensions to rescue Eskom and Guardrisk loses its Covid-19 claims appeal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Flash briefing: Govt court victory against public servants who want higher salaries; emerging markets; euro; rand
* In a major step towards reducing the country’s high state sector wage bill, the South African government has won a court case over public-sector wage increases that it has refused to pay. * South Africa is among a number of emerging markets with an eyewatering debt mountain. Bloomberg reports…
Inside Covid-19: What SA will look like in 2021; Govt vaccine plan latest; masks - why they work
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced tighter restrictions aimed at halting the rising rate of Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. This includes the possibility of stiff fines and even time in jail for employers who do not insist that employees wear masks at all times. In…
BizNews Global Portfolio - Celebrating six growth years
The BizNews Share portfolio, launched in December 2014, has delivered spectacular returns for South African investors. Every month, BizNews founder Alec Hogg updates the latest developments at the companies whose stocks are held in the portfolio. Although the strategy has been to buy and hold, the portfolio has seen some…
Flash Briefing: Biden is president-elect, ANC must enact August resolution and Sarb releases Q3 FDI
Joe Biden will be inaugurated as US president on 20 January. The ANC’s Integrity Commission says the party must implement an August resolution to oust Ace Magashule and Sarb's FDI update for Q3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jail time for up to 6 months, stiff fines for employers who flout Covid-19 mask rules; update on restrictions - CR
Employers have been asked to make a concerted effort to ensure compliance with rules aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 as SA gets close to hitting 1m Covid-19 positive cases. This was said by President Cyril Ramaphosa who has highlighted that the second wave will be worse than the…
Eskom predicts more losses, eSwatini mourns PM, J&J applies for SA vaccine approval and KZN gets 5G
Eskom is headed for more losses, eSwatini mourns Prime Minister Dlamini, Johnson& Johnson applies for SA vaccine approval and KwaZulu Natal gets Vodacom 5G network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Alec Hogg Show Ep 14: Comeback Kid Adrian Gardiner - from bankruptcy to luxury hotel mogul
The focus of this episode is one of South Africa's most successful entrepreneurs, Port Elizabeth's Adrian Gardiner. The inspirational story of this low profile family man exposes the ingredients needed by all successful entrepreneurs: curiosity, tenacity, humility, grit and, most of all, the self-belief to dust yourself off and start…
Flash Briefing: Multinationals repay money for state capture; Eskom; Phumelela; Rand
* ABB will repay R1,56 billion to Eskom. This is the latest international company to return money after being ensnared in corruption probes in the country. * As Eskom power cuts continue even though demand for electricity is down, the DA has slammed efforts to fix the troubled power utility…