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Here’s what it will take to get a Covid-19 vaccine this year

Covid-19 has highlighted the good, the bad, and the ugly. We’ve developed potential vaccines and started testing them in record time and launched an intense global response to the pandemic. At the same time, however, we can’t seem to make enough surgical masks or a reliable antibody test. In this…
2 May 2020 9AM 47 min

AstraZeneca pushing ahead with millions of Covid-19 jabs from Oxford lab

In the race for a new vaccine against Covid-19, Oxford University’s Jenner Institute has emerged as the front runner among 90 institutions who are developing a vaccine against the virus. The Director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, prof Adrian Hill told Biznews that the institute was able to move very rapidly…
1 May 2020 5AM 1 min

Eskom's VW moment - Chris Yelland on under-reporting carbon emissions

Has Eskom just experienced it’s Volkswagen moment - being caught out for under-reporting carbon emissions? Chris Yelland, the go-to guy on Eskom and all things energy related, has reported on a non-compliance notice that The Centre for Environmental Rights brought to light. Eskom, already fraught with loadshedding issues, has yet…
30 Apr 2020 10AM 8 min

Covid-19 situation in SA is bleak but not without hope - Prof Alan Whiteside

Prof Alan Whiteside is becoming one of the Covid-19 go-to-guys. He began his career as a freelance journalist, evolving it to eventually becoming Director and Professor at HEARD, the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division. Years of extensive work on HIV and AIDS around Africa gives him an insightful perspective…
29 Apr 2020 11AM 9 min

From ESG to Sasol to why people like to buy into Elon Musk - David Shapiro

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken many victims, but there are also winners, and market analyst David Shapiro is certainly upbeat about the markets at the moment. Looking among others at Sasol's performance this week Shapiro admits that you really can't explain markets, and although bouncing from very oversold positions, he…
29 Apr 2020 10AM 19 min

Is there a better time to invest offshore? An exchange with Arran Kerkvliet

The most recent memory I have of the South African Rand falling through the floor against the British Pound was sitting at Newlands cricket stadium. The Proteas were playing against the English, and all the Barmy Army could sing about was '1 pound, 1 pint'. Fast forward and the currency…
29 Apr 2020 2AM 13 min

Mr. Gold on Krugerrands and investing in the yellow metal

The gold price hit its highest level in eight years this week, so is now the time to invest? On the one hand the sage of Omaha Warren Buffett says "it (gold) doesn't do anything but sit there and look at you." But gold is like any investment circle, it…
29 Apr 2020 2AM 12 min
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