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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
3480 – 3500

Biz Lifestyle: Psychological Response To Financial Difficulties

October is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as more South Africans struggle in a fragile economy, many are experiencing the mental health issues associated with being over-indebted. As early as April last year, a survey by personal finance website JustMoney.co.za revealed that the coronavirus pandemic had “significantly or very significantly”…
7 Oct 2021 10AM 15 min

Inside Your Pocket: Understanding How Vehicle Finance Works

With October being transport month, we will be looking at all things vehicle, from financing, to hiring and selling/buying. Most people don’t have the cash to buy those shiny new wheels without financing. So, you’ve done your sums. Checked whether you can afford it and maybe you’ve even got a…
7 Oct 2021 10AM 19 min

The Pivot Point

He has held academic positions internationally in 2002 and 2003; at the Marymount Manhattan College and the City University of New York. Locally, Prof Ndletyana has conducted research, published in the newspaper articles in the Sunday Independent and daily Dispatch Newspapers, and presented various papers at conferences and Seminars.
7 Oct 2021 9AM 14 min

New E-Potal For Joburg Residents Municipal Services

The City of Johannesburg has launched its new e-Joburg portal to enable the city’s residents to access municipal customer services online. Ratepayers can register on the portal to start viewing and transacting on their municipal accounts.
7 Oct 2021 9AM 8 min

Loadshedding In The Coming Days

Generating unit breakdowns amounting to 14 925 MW could see Eskom implementing load shedding in parts of the country in the next few days, the state-owned power utility warned in a statement on Thursday. Eskom, which has not instituted power cuts in over two months asked the public to use…
7 Oct 2021 9AM 5 min

Should Businesses Be Concerned About Social Media Outage

Facebook and its family of apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were inaccessible for hours on Monday, taking out a vital communications platform used by billions and showcasing just how dependent the world has become on a company that is under intense scrutiny.
6 Oct 2021 10AM 9 min

Ekasinomics: 100% Exclusive And Black-Owned Coffee Company Story

LebzCafe is a 100% exclusive and black-owned coffee company that offers a wide range of coffee which includes freeze dried premium instant coffee, coffee beans, hot chocolate and still water. Our coffee is roasted in South Africa and Germany. We are a newly developed venture aiming at building South Africa’s…
6 Oct 2021 10AM 15 min

Legally Speaking: Understanding The Proposed Startup Act

Proposed StartUp Act – which has been in the media of late. A GROUP of well-meaning and hard-working South Africans is working around the clock to make life easier for South African startups by developing a startup act. They include SiMODiSA (Secretariat), i4Policy, Endeavor South Africa, Silicon Cape, Savca, Loudhailer…
6 Oct 2021 10AM 23 min

Inside Your Business: Building Owners To Have Their Buildings Rated For Energy Efficiency

Building owners have two years to comply with new building energy performance regulations, which require a formal assessment of their building energy consumption. On 8 December 2020, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) gazetted ‘Regulations for the Mandatory Display and Submission of Energy Performance Certificates for Buildings’. As…
6 Oct 2021 9AM 12 min

Northern Hemisphere Tourists Seeking Sunny Destinations

With South Africa's peak holiday season around the corner and Northern Hemisphere tourists seeking sunny destinations, the UK's so-called travel red list remains a thorn is the local tourism industry's side - but hopefully for not much longer. While not yet it official, newspapers in the UK reported over the…
6 Oct 2021 9AM 8 min

Commercial Property Tenants To Bid For Prime Office Space Via AuctionInc’s

Commercial property tenants will have the ability to bid for prime office space via AuctionInc’s online auction platform for the first time in South Africa. The launch of the platform locally followed the success of a derivative of the concept in the US and Europe to fill large vacancies in…
6 Oct 2021 9AM 8 min

Business Confidence Returns To Pre-Pandemic Levels In Latest

CEOs of the world’s largest businesses are increasingly optimistic about the outlook for their own business and despite the Delta variant slowing down the ‘return to normal’, their confidence in both the global and local economy has returned to levels not seen since the start of the pandemic. KPMG South…
5 Oct 2021 10AM 9 min

It’s My House

One of the crucial steps in buying a new home is to have the title deed transferred into your name, thereby proving that you are now the legal owner of the property.
5 Oct 2021 10AM 24 min

NUMSA Wants 8%Wage Increase

Numsa says its workers in steel and engineering companies are fed up and they want a meaningful increase from employers. The metalworker’s union held its national strike day today. Workers are demanding an eight-percent wage increase.
5 Oct 2021 9AM 8 min

The Value Of Psychometric Assessments In The Workplace

Psychometric assessments were first used by the US Army during World War I in an attempt to predict which soldiers would suffer from post-traumatic stress (called “shell shock” at the time). Today, the psychometric testing industry is estimated to be worth more than $500 million with annual growth estimated at…
4 Oct 2021 10AM 9 min

SASRIA Receive R3.9 billion From Treasury

The South African Special Risk Insurance Association (Sasria) and National Treasury announced that the state-owned insurer has received R3.9 billion to assist it in meeting its obligations until the end of the current financial year, including assisting businesses rocked by looting in July's unrest.
4 Oct 2021 10AM 15 min

Wealth Creation: Capetown Stock Exchange Open For Trading

The latest South African stock exchange opens Thursday pledging to lure firms from across the continent with listing costs that are a third of that charged by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. TWK Agri will be the first company to trade on the Cape Town Stock Exchange, which was previously called…
4 Oct 2021 9AM 5 min

Etihad Airways Will Return To South Africa In November

Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways will return to South Africa in late-November, a year after it closed its Johannesburg offices and announced the suspension of flights between the two countries. Travel connections between the Middle East and South Africa are slowly reopening in the wake of fierce coronavirus-induced restrictions.
4 Oct 2021 9AM 8 min
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