SAA, Eskom beg for cash; Africa's 'richest' money scandal; SA ready for virus?

Loading player...
In today's business news headlines:
* State entities SAA and Eskom are in the grip of a serious cash crunch. SAA has cancelled dozens of flights with more to come; Eskom can't keep the lights on;
* Isabel dos Santos, Africa's richest woman, is accused of corruption of the industrial scale executed by the Gupta family - and they all have political connections in Africa and are all protected by Dubai;
* As a deadly virus creates a health crisis in China, leading to at least five cities going into lock-down, markets have reacted to the negative impact on the world's second largest economy. Plus: what the SA authorities are doing to prevent the spread of this virus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Jan 2020 2PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Andy Calitz on Eskom, the job he didn't get, and what came next

He was on the shortlist to run Eskom and lost out to André de Ruyter. Years later, Andy Calitz, who ran South Africa's transmission grid before a career that took him from Shell to Gazprom's control room and the helm of LNG Canada, still thinks about it most weeks. In…
25 Sep 3AM 55 min

Warren Wheatley breaks his silence on his FSCA debarment

Three trades, R301 in total, and a 20-year ban from the financial sector. Warren Wheatley, the chartered accountant who helped put together the Capitec empowerment deal and went on to found Altvest, now Africa Bitcoin Corporation, broke his silence to Alec Hogg days after resigning as CEO. The FSCA says…
23 Sep 12PM 54 min

Brent Bozell on the US-South Africa breakdown

Six months after warning a Hermanus room full of business leaders that Washington's patience was wearing thin, US Ambassador Brent Bozell returned to BizNews to explain what happened next. Five asks, a 15-day deadline and a six-page reply that, in his words, answered none of them. The result: visa bans…
23 Sep 10AM 40 min

Mchunu, Mrs Matlala, Maumela, Mudzinganyama - and Meyer…

In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the second seizure of of electronic devices belonging to Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu; the arrest of tenderpreneur Cat Matlala’s wife, Tskanane; the rape case against suspended Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya; the latest testimony at…
23 Sep 6AM 24 min