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Kaya Biz

At the helm of Gauteng’s biggest business radio show, Kaya Biz, is Gugulethu who will be leading the conversation on what is next for the Afropolitan business landscape. The show presents local and international business news, entrepreneurship, corporate and investment banking. Since its inception in May 2006 Kaya Biz has grown from a half-an-hour daily finance update to an hour show bringing compelling business news and market reviews to listeners.
Daily English South Africa Business News · Investing
5,097 Episodes
2040 – 2060

PPS EXPERIENCES POSITIVE YEAR AS PANDEMIC EBBS

GUEST – Izak Smit, PPS Group CEO The Professional Provident Society (PPS), the financial services group focused solely on providing a diverse range of financial solutions for graduate professionals in South Africa, Namibia, and Australia, experienced a positive 2022 supporting members and returning value to them. The company’s operating performance…
11 Apr 2023 1PM 10 min

BUSINESS PARTNERS : Local entrepreneurs celebrated in the 2022 Business Plan Competition

Guest: Samkelisiwe Sithole - Owner of Luhnyezi Farming A poultry farmer, property investment specialist and digital printer were among this year’s cohort of winners in the annual Business Plan Competition for Aspiring Entrepreneurs. The competition, which provides local entrepreneurs with critical skills training and resources, culminated in an awards ceremony…
10 Apr 2023 1PM 18 min

Unpacking Gauteng Govt’s R35bn township procurement plan

GUEST: Vuyo Mhaga – Gauteng Government spokesperson Mphuthi Mphuthi - Chairperson of Soweto Business Access The Gauteng Provincial Government has committed to use 60% of its R34bn goods and services budget to support township initiatives. Delivering the State of the Province Address (Sopa) in the Provincial Legislature in Johannesburg earlier…
5 Apr 2023 2PM 33 min

TOP STORY - Why government is ending the National State of Disaster

GUEST – Lungile Mashele – Energy Economist The South African government has decided to end its National State of Disaster called on the ongoing electricity crisis after just over one month. According to SA Government News, the National State of Disaster has been terminated “with immediate effect” after it was…
5 Apr 2023 1PM 9 min

Treasury withdraws controversial Eskom exemption

GUEST – Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana & Israel Noko, CEO of NPI governance consulting Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana says the exemption granted to Eskom allowing it not to disclose irregular and wasteful expenditures in its financial reports will not go ahead “for now”. Godongwana said the department would withdraw the…
5 Apr 2023 1PM 9 min

SARB launches country's first deposit insurance body, covering up to R100K

GUEST – Kuben Naidoo is a deputy governor of the SARB The South African Reserve Bank has established SA’s first deposit insurance body, the Corporation for Deposit Insurance (CODI), to help protect bank depositors as well as with confidence in the financial sector. CODI became a legal entity on 24…
4 Apr 2023 1PM 10 min

The Impact rising interest rates has on employee wellness

Rising interest rates have been the bane of everyday people for a while now and it looks like they are going to keep rising. This is a worldwide problem, so South Africa can simply add it to the list of economic woes cascading into household budgets. The South African Reserve…
3 Apr 2023 1PM 13 min

What you need to know before you allow your employer to pay your tuition

Guest - Bukani Mngoma - Labour law expert Can an employer deduct money for training should the employee resign within a specific period after completing the training? Many employers provide training to new employees when they join the company. The reason for training may vary from on-the-job training to train…
3 Apr 2023 1PM 12 min

BUSINESS PARTNERS – ENZANI TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD

GUEST – Landiwe Nxumalo - Co-owner of Enzani Technologies Enzani Technologies Pty Ltd (“Enzani”) was established in 2005 and has established itself as one of the best in South Africa as an Electrical & Instrumentation turnkey or Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contractor specialising mainly in Water, Renewable Energy and Mining…
3 Apr 2023 1PM 7 min

Urgent action is needed to fix SA’s crumbling rail network

GUEST – Mesela Nhlapo – CEO, African Rail Industry Association South Africa’s 21 000km rail network used to be a matter of national pride, accounting for some 80% of Africa’s total network. This massively over-specced network needs to be pruned to no more than 5 500km and operated with the…
3 Apr 2023 1PM 9 min

SARS collects more than R2 trillion in 2022/23 financial year

GUEST – Johnstone Makhubu - SARS Chief Revenue Officer South African Revenue Service collected just over R2 trillion in gross tax revenues over the past year, a 9.7% increase from the 2021/22 tax year. The gross revenues were R123 billion, above what the finance minister estimated in the 2022 Budget…
3 Apr 2023 1PM 9 min

SARS is setting its sights on taxpayers with these assets

GUEST – Jashwin Baijoo, the head of crypto asset compliance at Tax Consulting SA There has been a boom in South Africans getting into the cryptocurrency market space, and it hasn’t escaped the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS’) attention. Growing alongside this new wave of investors is uncertainty regarding the…
30 Mar 2023 2PM 12 min

PIVOT POINT – Babongile Mandela Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Director at Coca-Cola South Africa

Babongile is an experienced International Relations and intergovenrmental Affairs specialist, a strategic thinker who designs business solutions for social challenges. He is responsible for managing shared value initiatives that are built on public private partnerships with an objective of achieving wide scale social impact for Absa Group: Citizenship and Social…
30 Mar 2023 2PM 16 min

Does today's interest rate hike mean you should fix your home loan?

GUEST – Mfundo Mabaso, Growth Head, FNB Home Finance If the ongoing interest rate hike cycle has not had you considering fixing your home loan interest rate, then today’s expected increase may be the one to steer you in that direction. But don’t make the move just yet – in…
30 Mar 2023 2PM 9 min
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