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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
2500 – 2520

INSIDE YOUR BUSINESS: Effective cash flow management strategies for businesses.

In the long-term, free cash-flow, equity and debt financing are the best sources of working capital. However, these options may not be available for all businesses. In such cases, there are alternative cash-flow management strategies that small business can use to ease the strain on their working capital.
14 Sep 2022 7AM 14 min

Momentum Metropolitan books record profits as Covid-19 threat recedes.

In the 2021 financial year, MMH recorded a net mortality loss of R2.8 billion because of Covid-19 death claims. This time around, the Covid-19 impact on its earnings was less severe, resulting in the partial release of opening Covid-19 provisions the company had set aside, thus boosting the profits by…
14 Sep 2022 7AM 9 min

SA Express liquidated.

An order was granted in the South Gauteng High Court for its final liquidation. The airline was placed under provisional liquidation back in 2020. No parties opposed the final order. This liquidation comes at a time when other domestic airlines face an uncertain future. Comair recently stopped operating, and Mango…
14 Sep 2022 7AM 8 min

The state of transformation in the South African film and television industry.

Every year, the NFVF commissions research to provide comprehensive and accurate information on the Film and Television Industry to make policy recommendations. In the 2021/22 financial year, the NFVF conducted research on the State of Transformation in the South African Film and Television Industry to understand the extent of transformation…
13 Sep 2022 4AM 18 min

ITS MY HOUSE: Residential Property Barometer and Estate Agents Survey results.

The risk of a less transitory rise in inflation and higher inflation expectations has driven more aggressive policy tightening in advanced markets and should result in the SARB further front-loading interest rate hikes. We now expect interest rates to peak at 6.75% by the end of 2022, slightly above the…
13 Sep 2022 4AM 19 min

JSE to allow actively managed ETFs in October.

South African investors will be able to trade actively-managed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in mid-October, helping to bring the local bourse in line with practices already put in place by many of its global peers. Unlike the traditional index-tracking ETFs that investors can already…
13 Sep 2022 4AM 12 min

ARC Investments posts double-digit growth, TymeBank hits 5 million customers.

African Rainbow Capital Investments (ARC), a firm founded by billionaire Patrice Motsepe, has posted a double-digit rise in its portfolio valuation for its 2022 year, given a boost by gains from its key digital businesses, TymeBank and data-focused mobile operator Rain. ARC's intrinsic portfolio value rose 11.3% to R13.6 billion…
13 Sep 2022 4AM 11 min

How much money it takes to be happy in SA.

In a record-high inflationary economy, one’s happiness can be affected when we see prices going up, while our money’s purchasing power continues to decrease – in other words, your money today will not go as far tomorrow. These types of scenarios have left many economists and psychologists to try to…
12 Sep 2022 6AM 6 min

Minimum wage review set for South Africa – Why is this important?

South Africa’s national minimum wage is due for its annual review by the National Minimum Wage Commission. In a recent government gazette (9 September), interested parties were called upon to make recommendations to the commission, which it will consider before compiling a report that will play a significant role in…
12 Sep 2022 6AM 11 min

Concern as rich taxpayers exit SA - SA could be a low-income country by 2030.

South Africa is in a precarious position in that its working-class taxpayers are severely diminished and the SA Revenue Service (Sars) is too dependent on taxes from the rich, but ever more rich South Africans are leaving the country. This warning came from Claude de Baissac, chief economist of business…
12 Sep 2022 6AM 5 min

WEALTH CREATION: What happens to your investments when you die without a will?

Fortunately, our legal system provides for freedom of testation which means that the person writing his will can provide for the distribution of his estate among friends, family, spouses and charities as he sees fit. He can also choose to disinherit a person from benefiting from his estate, subject to…
12 Sep 2022 6AM 14 min

The Impact of Localization and buying local.

Increased activity and deliberate investment in manufacturing, driven by a clear localisation drive, will have a strong impact on the services, construction, trade, transport, communications and finance sectors, creating thousands of jobs in the process. These are the findings of the study released yesterday, which was aimed at finding the…
12 Sep 2022 6AM 17 min

New tariff could see tyre prices in South Africa increase by as much as 45%.

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) has published anti-dumping protection levies on the importation of tyres into South Africa in terms of section 57A of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964. This provisional payment in relation to anti-dumping duty is imposed up to and including 8 March 2023,…
12 Sep 2022 6AM 6 min

Sanlam confident despite collusion probe, market pressure.

South Africa's largest life insurer Sanlam doesn't expect an industry probe from competition authorities into alleged collusive behaviour to reveal any dodgy practices in its business, but it is concerned about reputational damage. The Competition Commission announced in late August, after some dawn raids, that it was investigating pricing practices…
8 Sep 2022 1AM 10 min

High unemployment rate, rising taxes drag down SA’s Economic Freedom rank.

South Africa has fallen from its position of 93 last year in the Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report, released by the Free Market Foundation (FMF) and Canada’s Fraser Institute, to 99 this year. This marks a further fall from the country’s best ranking of forty-seventh in 2000.
8 Sep 2022 1AM 10 min

PIVOT POINT - Mandla Sibeko - Director of the FNBART Joburg.

Mandla Sibeko set up his own investment business, Seed Capital Investments, through which he has various interests in the small business sector. Through this company, he has partaken in a number of related media, retail, property and e-procurement acquisitions, including becoming the owner of the Pick n Pay Family Supermarket…
8 Sep 2022 1AM 23 min
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