Financial Mail Taking Care of Business

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Welcome to the Financial Mail Taking Care of Business podcast - part of Arena Holdings - where we speak to the people who make the decisions to deliver you the backstory behind the big business stories of today. Anchored by FM editor Rob Rose along with Giulietta Talevi. Email us on tcb@businesslive.co.za for feedback, suggestions, comments. Keywords: BDSpotlight, industry, markets, South Africa, news and views, money, success, entrepreneur, corporation, podcast, income

Episodes

  1. 04/17/2020

    Strictly Business with Lindsay Williams | SA needs a stimulus plan

    Today on Strictly Business, Lindsay Williams speaks to head of SA investments at Ninety One Nazmeera Moola on why SA needs a stimulus plan.

  2. 09/06/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Debt Relief Bill - New Bill Blues

    This week in Taking Care of Business, Financial Mail editor Rob Rose and Business Day TV anchor Giulietta Talevi ask Banking Association MD Cas Coovadia why the new debt relief bill is such a bad thing.  E-mail us on tcb@businesslive.co.za Tune in and join the debate:

  3. 08/30/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Making the best of a bad job - why Discovery backs Zweli Mkhize

    This week on Taking Care of Business, Discovery Health CEO Jonathan Broomberg shares Discovery's take on the widely-panned NHI bill, and explains why they don't think it should be chucked out.

  4. 08/23/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Tyme for a change: how digital upstarts plan to break SA’s banking cartel

    In this week's episode, Financial Mail editor Rob Rose and Business Day TV anchor Giulietta Talevi have a chinwag with Tyme bank CEO Tauriq Keraan. Does SA really need another bank? How did it all come about? And does their customer growth blow rival Discovery Bank out of the picture?

  5. 08/15/2019

    Taking Care of Business | WHY AN IMF BAILOUT'S A TERRIBLE THING - SIPHO PITYANA

    Losing your own self-destiny? Tick. Hastening a descent into populism? Tick. Business Unity SA President Sipho Pityana does not hold back in our bracing new podcast, covering our debt crisis, government paralysis, the infighting ripping apart the ANC and the looming disaster that is NHI. This is Taking Care of Business, with Financial Mail editor Rob Rose and BDTV anchor, Giulietta Talevi.

  6. 05/30/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Is it all over for SA's gold mines?

    This week in Taking Care of Business, FM editor Rob Rose and BDTV anchor Giulietta Talevi get the views of industry veterans, Peter Major and Bernard Swanepoel.

  7. 05/13/2019

    Taking Care of Business | CLASS ACT(ION)

    Richard Spoor has been fighting for the underdog over more than three decades and is now leading what could become a case study for class action lawsuits against Tiger Brands. Join FM editor Rob Rose and BDTV anchor Giulietta Talevi as they discuss the listeriosis suit, last year's silicosis settlement and the pecularities of SA law in this week's podcast.

  8. 05/03/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Polls, schmolls

    This week on Taking Care of Business, FM editor Rob Rose and BDTV anchor Giulietta Talevi dig into the somewhat murky science of polling with Dr Zaid Kimmie, polling expert and director of the Foundation for Human Rights. How can Ipsos and the IRR be so far apart? What's in a margin of error? Is the ANC about to lose its majority or storm to victory? Is And is the EFF a political party or a personality cult?

  9. 04/08/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Staying alive: the JSE's next decade

    Few listed companies have had it easy in the last year, let alone the stock exchange itself: the venerable JSE. It's seen volumes shrink and companies de-list, fielded accusations that it's not done enough to protect investors (think Steinhoff, Resilient and Oakbay) and now, is witness to the gradual exit of Naspers with the planned Euronext listing for its internet assets. How does Nicky Newton-King remain chipper? And what is the future for the exchange? This week in Taking Care of Business, FM editor Rob Rose and BDTV anchor Giulietta Talevi sit down with the JSE CEO to talk Naspers, the last lost decade, meeting the EFF, and why Giulietta should be less curmudegeonly on twitter.

  10. 03/29/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Inside Basil Read's Business Rescue

    This week on Taking Care of Business, FM editor Rob Rose and BDTV anchor Giulietta Talevi chat to K2 Mapasa, a former Anglo American chemical engineer and now CEO at Basil Read, the venerable construction firm with its back to the wall. He tells us why business rescue teaches you more than anything you might learn at Harvard business school, how the construction industry contributed to its own demise, and what's needed to drag the sector out of an almost decade-long slump.

  11. 03/20/2019

    Taking Care of Business | The Steinhoff whistleblowers

    When is an "accounting irregularity" actually fraud, and how do you spot the makings of a corporate scam? In this week's episode of Taking Care of Business, on the release of the long-awaited PwC report into Steinhoff's shenanigans, FM editor Rob Rose and BDTV anchor Giulietta Talevi speak to the two analysts who saw Steinhoff for what it was, more than a decade back. Andrew Cuffe was the head of research at JP Morgan which compiled a damming report on Steinhoff as far back as 2007, while Prudential's Craig Butters recounts his sit-down with Christo Wiese in 2009, as he tried to warn the billionaire against taking up with Markus Jooste's shady empire.

  12. 03/12/2019

    Taking Care of Business | Breathing life back into Edcon

    Welcome to the FM Taking Care of Business podcast, where we speak to the people who make the decisions, to deliver you the backstory behind the big business stories of today. This week Financial Mail editor Rob Rose and Tiso Blackstar Group editor at large Giulietta Talevi talk to Edcon CEO Grant Pattison about the company's survival strategy, going forward. Email us on tcb@businesslive.co.za

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Welcome to the Financial Mail Taking Care of Business podcast - part of Arena Holdings - where we speak to the people who make the decisions to deliver you the backstory behind the big business stories of today. Anchored by FM editor Rob Rose along with Giulietta Talevi. Email us on tcb@businesslive.co.za for feedback, suggestions, comments. Keywords: BDSpotlight, industry, markets, South Africa, news and views, money, success, entrepreneur, corporation, podcast, income

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