The CEO of Purple Group - which owns EasyEquities - joined the BizNews Power Hour to discuss their results and how they intend to stay growing. "We won't get tired until we get 50 million South Africans investing", said Charles Savage.

Chris Logan joined the BizNews Power Hour to unpack Cartrack's listing on the Nasdaq. Logan has been invested in the company for quite a long time, making him well-placed to explain the listing. The company provides tracking devices for vehicles, for fleet tracking or recovering stolen vehicles. "In many ways, it's been a misunderstood share on the JSE. Ownership by South Africans has declined consistently. Foreign investors who appreciated the growth potential have bought up most of the free float. it's eventually culminated in Cartrack moving its primary listing to Nasdaq". Logan explains the complicated transition over to Nasdaq.

In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host Charles Savage, fund manager Chris Logan on Cartrack, wine guru Carrie Adams and her guest David Frost, Kuhle Sonkosi on 'sports in real life' and the BizNews team.

The Wall Street Journal says Youtube is using its policy to suppress videos that should be accessible to the public. Tanzania changes its stance on covid-19. The IMF asks leaders to work to prevent an unequal global economic recovery from Covid-19.

Founder and CEO of Adapt IT - Sbu Shabalala joined the BizNews Power Hour team to share why he declined the Huge Group's offer to buy Adapt IT earlier this year and his new business relations with Volaris.

Authority in mining investment, Peter Major, joined the BizNews Power Hour to discuss the recent announcement from Anglo American. The mining company has decided to separate its SA coal mines into a new business, Thungela resources. Major, Alec Hogg and David Shapiro discuss the investment opportunities around the new company.

In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host David Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Adapt IT Sbu Shabalala on the Volaris offer, fund manager Sean Peche on Naspers and Prosus, mining guru Peter Major on Anglo American unbundling its SA coal assets, Jeremy Boraine on the passing of Jonathan Ball and the BizNews team.

Anglo American will spin off its SA coal operations, into a company called Thungela Resources. Volaris Group has made a bid to purchase Adapt IT. More corruption uncovered at Eskom and SA gets another emergency loan from the New Development Bank.

Ex-Massmart CEO at the tender age of 36 and Edcon CEO thereafter, Grant Pattison is as experienced as they come in the world of South African retail. He's walked away from retail and on his first day as CEO of Servest, Grant shares his insights on his career thus far and what lies ahead.

After unpacking Prosus 2% sale of Tencent shares on the BizNews Pour Hour with Piet Viljoen and Magnus Heystek, BizNews founder Alec Hogg asked a number of challenging questions to management, ranging from the possible unbundling of Tencent to the capital allocation decisions following the $14.6bn cash injection.

Dr Otto Thaning, a heart surgeon who trained under Chris Barnard, is used to swimming long distances in icy waters. It is not only the waters around Cape Town that he tackles; Dr. Thaning still holds a record he set in 2014 as the oldest human to have swum across the English channel. Now, he has set another record by becoming the oldest person to swim from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand. Paced by Robben island veteran Martin Goodman and supported by members of the Cape Long Distance Swimming Association (including veteran long distance swimmer Lewis Pugh), he crossed the 7.9 km from Robben island across Table Bay in two hours and 52 minutes.  Dr Thaning told BizNews about his latest record and shared some of his secrets to a long, healthy life and career. Pictures by: Ryan Rapaport and Simon Pocock

Gidon Novick is the founder of Lift, South Africa's new low cost airline. He spoke to the BizNews Power Hour on Comair demise and Lift's take off. Gidon told Alec Hogg that the secret to an airlines' success is the culture, making sure that employees are happy at work and giving customers a great experience.

South African multinational Naspers is planning to sell a further 2% of its Tencent shareholding. According to The Wall Street Journal, this will drop their stake from 30.9% to 28.9%. The planned sale sparked a debate on the BizNews Power Hour, with Piet Viljoen concluding that 'a 5% Naspers share price drop shows investors believe the group's managers will waste the money'. Magnus Heystek also contributes to the discussion.

In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host Magnus Heystek, fund manager Piet Viljoen, Lift founder and serial entrepreneur Gidon Novick, ex-Massmart and Edcon CEO Grant Pattison and Chairman of the Plett Rate Payers Association Peter Gaylard, and the BizNews team.

Prosus intends to sell some of its Tencent shares, to the value of around $14.6bn. The International Monetary Fund revised growth predictions upward while local business confidence slid in March. The world's largest sovereign wealth fund in Norway has bought into clean energy infrastructure.

PANDA (Pandemics – data and analysis) has been outspoken with regards to the policy-makers’ reaction to Covid-19, lockdowns and other approaches to the virus. Nick Hudson, co-founder of PANDA, spoke at the inaugural BizNews Investment Conference in March 2021.

Chief Executive of real estate giant Pam Golding Properties, Andrew Golding, told BizNews Power Hour host Alec Hogg about the increase in purchases of second properties by consumers. 'Post lockdown, the market has taken all of us by surprise. We were expecting there to be some pent up demand and then the market would basically represent what was happening pre-Covid - but that certainly hasn't been the case', says Golding.

Kokkie Kooyman is banking and insurance analyst at Denker Capital. He joined the BizNews Power Hour, talking to host Alec Hogg and Steven Nathan about the disasters that have struck Archegos and Greensill - both of which had strong ties to Credit Suisse.

Earle Loxton, CEO of DCX Capital, joined the BizNews Power Hour to discuss the company’s application for an ETF. According to BizNews financial journalist Justin Rowe-Roberts, ‘it basically tracks ten of the best performing - or biggest - cryptocurrencies out there. It’s come to light that there have been a few issues with disclosure’, says Rowe-Roberts. Loxton delves into the basket, discussing the 2% management fee and other pertinent topics. Ovex CEO Jon Ovadia also weighs in on the discussion.

In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by CEO of DCX Capital Earle Loxton, CEO of Ovex Jon Ovadia, banking analyst Kokkie Kooyman, PANDA CEO Nick Hudson, CEO of Pam Golding, Andrew Golding and the BizNews team.

Last week YouTube removed the video of PANDA co-founder Nick Hudson’s keynote at last month’s BizNews Investment conference because it “explicitly disputes WHO guidelines on social distancing and self-isolation”. This action has suddenly seen Hudson gain fame with Fox TV’s Ingraham Angle one of many inundating him for interviews. In this chat with BizNews founder Alec Hogg, Hudson talks about this shot to fame and says the real concern is the censorship of alternate views because governments aren't always right. A must listen.

South Africa has signed a long-delayed deal with Pfizer for 20 million Covid-19 vaccines, arriving this month. Old Mutual African Infrastructure Investment Managers is betting on natural gas in SA's transition away from coal. China has created a digital Yuan to be controlled by its central bank.

Wendy Appelbaum is one of SA's richest women. The philanthropist and business leader joined the BizNews Power Hour to talk about the wine industry with Carrie Adams. Before that, however, she weighed in on the vaccine fiasco currently gripping South Africa.

Joining Carrie Adams in her naughty corner is Wendy Appelbaum, a prominent South African businesswoman and chair of DeMorgenzon wine estate. The generous philanthropist weighs in on the massive impact the various alcohol bans have had on the alcohol industry in SA.

BizNews editor at large Jackie Cameron spoke with journalist Jarryd Neves about buying property for the first time, what it entails and the things that first time buyers need to look out for.