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Learning from others: President Cyril Ramaphosa announces 21-day lockdown to flatten Covid-19 curve
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a 21-day lockdown starting at midnight on Thursday to contain the spreading of Covid-19 and 'flatten the curve' in South Africa. It comes as cases in the country increased six-fold in the last 8 days. His announcement also includes the establishment of the Solidarity Fund…
SA tech entrepreneur opening maths teaching vaults to help stay-at-home students
Online education specialists Advantagelearn.com has opened its 2 000 maths-teaching videos, covering Grades 8 to 12, to all South African learners. In this podcast, founder James Lees explains that this is part of the company's contribution to helping in the fight against Covid-19, enabling students who have been forced to…
Delphine Govender: A cool head will always beat Mr Market's insanity. Especially now.
It's half a dozen years since star asset manager Delphine Govender left her cushy home at Allan Gray to co-found Perpetua Investment Managers. In this insightful discussion drawn from the latest episode of Rational Radio, she offers some perspective on the current stock market turbulence. Delphine shares some of the…
Ian Douglas shares Sol Kerzner's secret: Vision while sweating the small stuff
In one of those MUST LISTEN podcasts, Ian Douglas provides us with a very human perspective on his long-time friend Sol Kerzner, the legendary South African entrepreneur who passed away on Saturday evening. Douglas separates the fake from the real in sharing Kerzner's story - from growing up in a…
Ocean Basket CEO Grace Harding: Dealing with a 58% Covid-19 collapse in sales
In this interview drawn from the latest episode of Rational Radio, Ocean Basket's CEO Grace Harding says the company's owners are in it for the long-term. She likens the current situation to one where you go wake up in the morning to a whole new world, with customers having disappeared…
David Shapiro: Investing in shares today is like looking at future beyond a 90 day war
SA's favourite market commentator David Shapiro applies half a century of experience to interpreting the current stock market turbulence. And in this podcast, drawn from the latest episode of Rational Radio, he likens the fight against Covid-19 to a 90 day war: surmising that the market has absorbed the shock…
Rational Radio - Investing in world at war with germs; Sol Kerzner; Ocean Basket; maths for all.
In this week's episode of Rational Radio, David Shapiro and Delphine Govender help us keep cools head while Mr Market is losing his. Plus a MUST LISTEN interview about SA's late Sun King with Ian Douglas who shares the person behind the image - his long-time friend of Sol Kerzner's…
Our new podcast - Inside Covid-19: Global infections pass 300 000, deaths over 13 000 - Ep 1
Welcome to Episode One of Biznews.com's new daily podcast that will keep you updated on the Covid-19 latest developments. In addition to the latest news, in this episode Discovery Health CEO Ryan Noach helps us better understand the virus and how SA's leading health insurer is responding; there's heartening news…
Moody's downgrade fears; MTN slashes prices; Ramaphosa, business brainstorm Covid-19; Capitec; SAA; Kerzner
In today's news headlines: * South Africa could lose its last investment-grade credit rating. Moody’s Investor Service is scheduled to release an assessment of the country on Friday. The loss of an investment-grade credit rating could lead to heavy fund outflows, battering the rand even further, warns Bloomberg. * Tributes…
Business organisations pledge support to government on tackling Covid-19
President Cyril Ramaphosa held a number of consultations in Pretoria today with smaller political parties and the representatives of business organisations to discuss a joint approach to tackling the effects of Covid-19 on South Africa. There was agreement that steps should be taken to look after the vulnerable, the needs…
Ex Lehman chair warns coronavirus hit worse than 2008 - Bloomberg
As the coronavirus pandemic grinds on, the death toll is rising. But in many places, the economic toll is rising even faster. In this episode, featuring content from the Bloomberg Businessweek podcast, we take a look at the economic impact of the coronavirus and what governments around the world are…
Meet SA-loving leadership guru Robin Sharma, author of bestselling 5AM Club
There are welcome surprises in this captivating podcast with Canadian author and leadership guru Robin Sharma, whose latest book, "The 5AM Club", has added to an already huge army of fans. Among them is hearing the former litigation lawyer whose book sales now top 15m, spent four years on his…
Meet Ninety One's Hendrik du Toit: No regrets about listing in middle of Covid-19 Crash
Among the paradoxes of business is the way successful entrepreneurs love attracting people who are just like them - but usually baulk at giving them their own wings. Eventually, however, sanity does prevail. But for Hendrik du Toit, who started Investec Asset Management with a phone and a briefcase in…
Rate cut; Capitec falls; MultiChoice, retailers bounce; Essential goods hike ban; Zim/SA fence; Nersa
In today's news headlines: - The South African Reserve Bank cut its benchmark interest rate to 5.25% as it seeks to support an already fragile economy that’s expected be hit hard by the coronavirus; - There were large drops on the JSE again yesterday, Capitec the biggest casualty with a…
Kokkie Kooyman: Why Capitec has fallen 38% since Tuesday - and what to do about it
Capitec, the South African bank twice rated the world's best in the annual rankings by London-based Lafferty Group, was the biggest casualty on a wipeout day for financial shares. The stock's share price lost an astonishing 38.5% in two trading sessions, down from Tuesday's R1 110 to close at R682…
The brain surgeons hoping to transplant Groote Schuur success to solve Africa's brain disorders
Google the word ‘brain’ and the phrase ‘the least understood organ of the body’ and ‘final frontier’ pops up time and time again. What is intriguing about neuroscience as one of the scientists at UCT’s new neuroscience institute pointed out; you use an organ, the brain, to study itself. The…
WSJ Tech News: Working from home - the coronavirus edition
Silicon Valley's major tech companies were the first US employers to take their operations online because of the coronavirus. As the rest of the country prepares to follow their lead, Wall Street Journal reporter Rob Copeland joins to explain how they did it - and how we can avoid their…
Another rand/stock bloodbath; No civil service increases; SA won't run out; Political party unity; SA Express flights
In today's business headlines: - The Rand and stock market in South Africa tumbled again yesterday with the currency sinking to a four-year low, while stocks dropped to 2013 levels and bond yields spiked. Platinum miners were the worst hit; - Wage increases for South Africa’s 1.3 million civil servants…
Recession proof strategy: OrbVest shrugs off Coronavirus.
In this special podcast, OrbVest CEO Martin Freeman explains why the company is thriving in the current environment. While valuations in most other sectors have tanked, the slice where OrbVest focuses - medical sector properties in the USA - is shrugging off a coronavirus-induced economic recession. OrbVest has actually experienced…
The SA women smashing science stereotype - Neuroscientists Rachael Dangarembizi and Ursula Rohlwink
The Neuroscience Institute in Cape Town linked to Groote Schuur Hospital that secured a place in history with the world’s first heart transplant is a forward thinking institute aimed at ensuring that science in Africa does not get left behind and is adapted to suit the continent. It is a field…