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Many are surprised at the incredible success which many Afrikaners have made in business. I’m not among them. A Calvinist culture makes them well suited to an endeavor which rewards honesty, loyalty, hard work and single-minded focus. Not to forget the McGyver-like attribute that comes embedded in a people who believe “n Boer maak n plan.” As you’ll hear in this podcast, Jacques Basson is a successful entrepreneur in the UK service industry. But he’s spotted an emerging new opportunity in podcasting and has applied his curiosity and experience to build a dedicated audience. - Alec Hogg

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The Big Three ratings agencies have come and gone. And, for the moment at least, they've left South Africa's credit rating at "investment grade" and issued their usual dry, complicated reports that warn, so diplomatically, that SA has entered last chance saloon. Just like they've been doing for a couple years now. Independent investment analyst Mark Ingham wrote a rather scathing blog accusing pundits of sensationalising the "junk bond" story. He reckons most of the commentators missed the entire point of what ratings agencies do and how they affect our lives. So I asked him to please explain, setting the stage for a fascinating discourse on dispelling financial myths and mumbo-jumbo.

Forensic consultant Paul O'Sullivan, in his new partnership with Afriforum, has concluded a lengthy investigation into the way that President Jacob Zuma and his crony capitalist partners the Guptas "captured" South Africa's criminal justice system. He also has some good news: the dominos are starting to fall and, O'Sullivan says, new brooms will sweep away the miscreants soon. In this hard-hitting interview he unpacks the key issues, explains how the Zupta strategy worked - and why it is now starting to implode. Hope springs. - Alec Hogg

Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste has been South Africa's leading racehorse owner for most of the past decade. He never bets on them, one of the reasons for longevity in a sport with a higher churn rate than Pay-As-You-Go phone contracts. Jooste restricts his betting to people. And in former Asda CEO Andy Bond, Steinhoff put a staggering R10bn on the table. Bond is charged with turning the recently acquired 800-store Poundland chain into the jewel of Steinhoff's rapidly expanding European retailing empire. A 51 year old fitness fanatic, he became one of the UK's most recognisable CEOs when, soon after his 40th birthday, Bond was promoted to lead Walmart-owned Asda, the UK's second biggest retailer (after Tesco) which employs 170 000 people. After five years in the saddle, the man who hails from the same town (Grantham) as that famous grocer's daughter Margaret Thatcher, quit because he didn't want to move to the USA. Now he's ended up working with South Africans - people he got to know when engineering Walmart's acquisition of Massmart, Africa's second largest retailer. Here's the inspiring story of a man who, famously, seemed destined for a lower path after failing the UK schooling system's infamous "11-plus" exam. - Alec Hogg

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