Welcome to BizNews Radio where we interview top thought leaders and businesspeople from South Africa and across the globe.
The rand fell this week as South Africa got caught up in an emerging market sell-off driven by the collapse of the Turkish lira. It's a risk-off market, and currencies like the South African rand and Brazilian real have been caught in the gravity well. Even US equities have fallen as investors turn to the safety of US government debt. South Africa's status was hammered this week with a blistering New York Times article on David Mabuza and a harsh op-ed about expropriation in The Wall Street Journal. Does it all add up to a crisis for SA? And, in other news, what exactly is Elon Musk thinking these days and is his behaviour going to sink Tesla? Alec Hogg and Felicity Duncan have some answers.
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In this speech to an audience at an event held at Wits University, he launched the Jack Ma Foundation ‘Netpreneur’ Prize, a new programme created to support and fund African entrepreneurs who are working to address Africa’s most important challenges.
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Professor Sary Levy-Carciente explains the day-to-day struggles of life in Venezuela. She also explains how populism, centralism, patronage and diminishing property rights have led her country down a very depressing and destructive path.
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The Green Mamba - aka the SA passport - has fallen 18 places since 2009 on the globally renowned Henley Passport Index to occupy position 50 in 2018.
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Futuregrowth Asset Management has made a substantial investment, through its Development Equity Fund, into a very interesting local technology company called 'Symion'.
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Uruguayan-born Chartered Accountant, Monica Singer, is legendary in South Africa's financial space, and she's now seriously shaking things up in the local and global blockchain space.
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Joshua Miltz, a computer programmer by training, is one of the co-founders of a South African FinTech business dubbed 'BitFund'. He speaks to us in this interview about his venture.
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Zambia generates 60% of its export earnings from copper. In that context, Sentinel , which when completed in two years' time will be the biggest copper mine in Africa, is a rather big deal for the country. At $2.1bn, the First Quantum Minerals project is equivalent to one fifth of Zambia's GDP. In this special podcast we meet Sandile Mbulawa, the banker who put the money side together.
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In this special podcast RMB's head of export financing Inal Henry unpacks an amazing project transforming a previously undeveloped stretch of the SADC region as a giant coal mine and a 912km railway line opens up big chunks of Mozambique and Malawi.
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South African life assurer Sanlam is attacking the future in a way very different to its peers. The 100 year old business has invested heavily in a number of young disruptive businesses - and incubating some innovative ideas of its own. Among the latter group is IndieFin, led by Sanlam bursary recipient and one-time in-house actuary Peter Castleden, who shares its business model and ambitions in this fascinating interview with Biznews.com's Alec Hogg.
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In this interview, Sable International's Andrew Rissik runs through some of the key changes to the popular programme.
