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Insurance Association highlights the impact of climate-related catastrophes

GUEST – Themba Palagangwe, SA Insurance Associations's General Manager: Governance and Transformation Climate-related catastrophes such as floods and storms continue to exert a significant toll on both consumers and society at large, greatly affecting South Africa’s socio-economic landscape. The South African Insurance Association (SAIA) has observed a notable surge in…

8 Apr 2024 1PM 13 min

80% of CEOs believe that the ANC’s support will fall below 50% - Survey

GUEST – Myles Waldeck, Head of M&A Buy Side at Merchantec Capital In this quarter’s Merchantec CEO Confidence Index, CEOs were asked about their predictions on political developments: "Will the ANC’s support fall below 50% in the upcoming elections?" An overwhelming 79.7% of CEOs indicated that they believe it will…

4 Apr 2024 1PM 7 min

Challenges faced by small accounting/ auditing firms

GUEST- Ncumisa Mkunqwana - Chief Executive Officer at Chapu Chartered Accountants Accounting firms face a host of challenges in just about every aspect of their practices that require changes in their business models and their everyday workflows, what services they offer clients, their approaches to recruiting and retention, how they…

4 Apr 2024 1PM 15 min

JHB residents spent 47% more than the average South African

GUEST - Hylton Kallner - Discovery Bank CEO Key insights from the report: Groceries, retail, travel, and fuel make up nearly two thirds of South African spend. The study found that South Africans are increasingly using their mobile phones to pay instead of physical wallets. Average spending on eating out…

4 Apr 2024 1PM 10 min

PIVOT POINT: In conversation with Funeka Montjane, CEO of Personal and Private Banking at Standard Bank Group.

Funeka Montjane is the Chief Executive Officer, Personal and Private Banking for Standard Bank Group. Personal and Private Banking is a segment of the bank that provides financial services and life journey solutions to individual customers across the entire social pyramid. Prior to her current role as Chief Executive of…

4 Apr 2024 1PM 26 min

OPINION: How important are soft skills for a C-Suites?

GUEST - Nontokozo Madonsela, Chief Marketing Officer at Momentum Metropolitan What are the top soft skills for future leaders if you want to be successful in your career? Technical skills will only get you so far in your career. This, unfortunately, is a critical message that new leaders are not…

3 Apr 2024 1PM 13 min

JHB, Tshwane, and CPT collectively account for 71% of corruption incidents – CW

GUEST - Motlatsi Komote, Legal Researcher at Corruption Watch The provinces of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, and the Western Cape have been identified as major hotspots for these corrupt activities. This is outlined in Corruption Watch’s (CW) 2023 annual report, titled “Changing the landscape,” which takes stock of the…

3 Apr 2024 1PM 17 min

SA’s policy uncertainty weighing down on investors & markets

GUEST - Prof Raymond Parsons - Economist and professor at the NWU School of Business The uncertainty around South Africa’s 2024 elections has started to weigh down on investors and markets, with the North West University’s Business School Policy Uncertainty Index (PUI) for South Africa edging further into negative territory…

3 Apr 2024 1PM 9 min

How is the price of fuel determined in South Africa?

GUEST – Reggie Sibiya, the chief executive at Fuel Retailers' Association The petrol retail price is regulated by government and changed on the first Wednesday of the month. The calculation of the new price is done by the Central Energy Fund (CEF) on behalf of the Department of Energy (DOE)…

3 Apr 2024 1PM 27 min

Communities urged to help tackle the student funding crisis.

GUEST – Lea Schafer - Head of Fundraising and Communications at student crowdfunding platform Feenix South Africa’s sluggish economy and high unemployment rate is still a cause for concern for many South Africans. It impacts the tertiary sector with many young people who qualify to pursue tertiary education in our…

2 Apr 2024 3PM 9 min

How do board of directors determine executive pay?

GUEST – Andrew Woodburn, MD of Amrop Woodburn Mann. Remuneration of directors is among the most hotly debated topics in corporate governance, with shareholders wanting information and directors wanting privacy. Some policy on this does exist in the King Report on Corporate Governance

2 Apr 2024 1PM 18 min

Easter spending up compared to last year

Consumers spent enthusiastically this Easter according to the latest data from Standard Bank. KAYABiz host, Gugulethu Mfuphi is joined by Head of Credit at Standard bank South Africa, Tumelo Ramugondo to unpack the 2024 Easter weekend spending trends.

2 Apr 2024 1PM 9 min

How big is the illicit cigarette market in South Africa?

Illicit cigarette sales now thought to make up more than 70% of South Africa’s total cigarette market says the British American Tobacco. Area Head of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs for BAT Sub-Saharan Africa, Johnny Moloto unpacks this further.

2 Apr 2024 1PM 11 min

SARS exceeds targets as it collects R2.15 trillion gross tax revenue.

GUEST – Edward Kieswetter – SARS Commissioner SARS collected a record R2.155 trillion in tax revenue and paid out refunds of R414 billion to taxpayers, the highest ever quantum in refunds compared to R381 billion in the prior year, SARS Commissioner, Edward Kieswetter joins us.

2 Apr 2024 1PM 14 min

Safety rules: Navigating unfamiliar roads this Easter holiday

GUEST - Siyakhe Masiye, spokesperson at MiWay Insurance Easter is road-trip season in South Africa, with many people looking to take advantage of the long weekend by travelling to outlying holiday spots. As drivers take to the roads it is key to take precaution and carefully prepare when it comes…

28 Mar 2024 1PM 12 min

PIVOT POINT - Dr Steven Zwane -Managing Executive for Coprorate Citizeship at ABSA Group

Steven Zwane’s work experience is in the areas of Technology; Operations; Sales & Marketing; Human Resources; Strategy Planning, Formulation and Execution; Performance Management & Reporting; and Channel Management across industries such as Education & Training, Financial Services and Management Consulting. Steven has held Leadership, Management and Directorship positions in the…

28 Mar 2024 1PM 26 min

XERO - Xero aims to power small businesses with its accounting software

GUEST - Colin Timmis - Xero Country Manager The beauty of cloud technology is that it’s able to integrate with other apps that solve issues for other areas of running a business beyond core accounting. The Xero App Store has over 1,000 apps that connect to Xero to solve a…

28 Mar 2024 1PM 11 min

INSIDE YOUR POCKET– What all young investors should know about their money

GUEST – Ayanda Majola - Co-founders of SV Capital Considering that most of South Africa’s young aspirants spend their money on 6 things alone: entertainment, fashion, education, travel, accommodation and cell phone data, it’s not surprising that short or long term investing is as far removed from the Sunday Lunch…

28 Mar 2024 1PM 6 min

Educor's de-registration: Can the affected students claim damages?

GUEST – Helen Buhrs, CEO of Inscape Education Group & Trudie Broekmann - Consumer law expert Students who’ve been negatively impacted by Educor’s deregistration can claim their hard-earned money back, according to a consumer law expert. Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande announced the deregistration of four Educor institutions on…

28 Mar 2024 1PM 26 min

Information Regulator to clampdown on direct marketing calls in SA

GUEST –Adv Pansy Tlakula Information Regulator Chairperson David Dickens, CEO of the Direct Marketing Association of South Africa I The Information Regulator (IR) is clamping down on public and private South African entities that have allegedly violated direct marketing provisions, such as improper marketing calls.

27 Mar 2024 1PM 27 min