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Business for South Africa chairman Martin Kingston tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that business would prefer the current Government of National Unity to stick together despite the current crisis over the DA's decision not to support the budget. Business is deeply involved in Operation Vulindlela, the reform process inside the Presidency but, says Kingston, they're not going to interfere in the politics. "It's much better in our view to stay the course,” he says. "We are deeply concerned that ... there is going to be either a minority government or a change in the composition of the GNU that undermines certainty and predictability, that undermines confidence, and confidence levels are now very thin, or where we can't see the reforms that are taking place then of course we're allow to express our opinion. What we're not going to do is apply pressure, as has been suggested, to any of the parties. That would be wholly inapprpropriate. We work with the government of the day.”. "What the investor community require is the certainty that key policies are going to be the subject of appropriate structural reform and that where decisions are taken they are subsequently implemented."

HOT TOPIC Topic: Business weighs in on GNU uncertainty Guest: Martin Kingston - B4SA

Lester Kiewit speaks to Khulekani Mathe, the CEO of Business Unity South Africa (Busa) about a letter penned by a group of CEOs and business leaders, addressed to President Cyril Ramaphosa and Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen. The group asks the two leaders to stay the course with the government of national unity for the sake of the country and the economy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HOT TOPIC Topic: Government launches its second phase of partnership with business Guest: Martin Kingston - B4SA

Nosipho Radebe speaks to Martin Kingston, Chairperson at Business for South Africa (B4SA)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Grootes speaks to Martin Kingston, Chairman of Business for South Africa, about significant collaborations between the government and the business sector, including the launch of Phase 2 of the Business and Government Partnership, which aims to boost economic growth and job creation by addressing energy, transport, logistics, crime, and corruption.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HOT TOPIC Topic: Government and private sector detail plans to e state to coordinate efforts to fix SA's collapsing infrastructure and governance issues Guest: Martin Kingston-B4SA

Stephen Grootes speaks to Martin Kingston, Chairman of Business for South Africa (B4SA), about Tuesday evening's business-government meeting, exploring the commitments made and the prospects for collaborative action.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Kingston, Chairperson, Business for South Africa speaks to Bongani Bingwa about the Opening of Parliament Address and expectations from the business sector from the Government of National Unity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Kingston, Chairman of Business for South Africa (B4SA), discusses the 2024 SA Elections and strained business-government relations with host Bruce Whitfield. Business Leadership SA warned of partnership withdrawal if nationalisation and new taxes are pursued by the ruling coalition. Over 130 CEOs previously committed to aiding the government in addressing critical challenges like electricity, logistics, and crime to bolster economic growth amid self-induced crises.   Simon Gregory, CEO at SunBet, joins host Bruce Whitfield to discuss the 2024 SA Elections, exploring the possibility of betting on the next president and whether load shedding will resurface post-elections. SunBet, a division of Sun International, has initiated a light-hearted election betting campaign, akin to UK bookmakers but with small bets. Gregory shares insights on SunBet's analysis of betting trends based on demographics like gender, age, and province, revealing intriguing findings. Additionally, he provides cute visual characters from the election campaign.   Consumer expert Wendy Knowler and host Bruce Whitfield discuss the misleading assurance of roadworthy cars, revealing that a recently serviced car with a current certificate may still have hidden collision repairs. Roadworthy tests identify visual defects but don't always detect previous accident damage.   Host Bruce Whitfield presents a profile of Judge Johann Kriegler, who served as an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years before becoming a provincial and then appellate judge. In 1994, he was appointed as a Justice of the Constitutional Court. Kriegler played a pivotal role as the head of the Independent Electoral Commission during South Africa's inaugural democratic elections and was instrumental in founding the permanent electoral commission, which he chaired until 1999. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Kingston, Chairperson of Business for South Africa (B4SA), discusses the 2024  elections and strained business-government relations with host Bruce Whitfield. Business Leadership SA warned of partnership withdrawal if nationalisation and new taxes are pursued by the ruling coalition. Over 130 CEOs previously committed to aiding the government in addressing critical challenges like electricity, logistics, and crime to bolster economic growth amid self-induced crises.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chairman of Business for South Africa, Martin Kingston joins presenter Bruce Whitefield to discuss the effect of a rushed through National Health Insurance on the business community.   Friday File -  Bespoke Luxury Wedding Cakes  - Kevin Schoof the founding director and head pastry chef at Baker Boys Confectionery speaks to host Brue Whitfield about their bespoke luxury wedding cakes. Baker Boys have won a number of awards both locally and internationally. Famous for their luxury handcrafted exquisite wedding cakes.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Bonang Mohale, Chancellor of the University of the Free State and Former President of Business Unity South Africa, converses with host Bruce Whitfield about the investment appeal of South Africa Inc. As the country celebrates 30 years of democracy amidst a turbulent election year, the focus shifts to how South Africa is faring in its efforts to attract investors. Andrew Levy, Labor Analyst at Andrew Levy & Associates, joins host Bruce Whitfield for an examination of South Africa's job market. The recent rise in the nation's unemployment rate to 32.1% in the last quarter of 2023, along with job cuts across fifty percent of South Africa's industries, underscores the significant economic challenges facing the nation. Martin Kingston, Chairman of Business for South Africa (B4SA), joins host Bruce Whitfield to explore the latest developments in South Africa's reconstruction efforts amid a tumultuous election year, paying tribute to Workers' Day. Léan Boezaart, CEO of Freedom of Movement (FOM), joins host Bruce Whitfield to discuss his career path, entrepreneurial passion, and the vision he holds for Freedom of Movement (FOM), a business he co-founded in 2013. Following the completion of his articles in 2011, Léan was sponsored by Deloitte to pursue a childhood aspiration of becoming a professional golfer. Transitioning to the professional circuit in 2012, he competed in South Africa (Sunshine Tour) and internationally, giving his all to the pursuit.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. Government and business have set a goal of increasing South Africa's electricity generation capacity by 10.5 GW by the end of 2025 as part of ongoing collaborative efforts to tackle growth-sapping power disruptions and reduce the intensity and almost daily frequency of loadshedding by year-end. In a briefing held following the latest meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa's Cabinet and those senior business leaders who have committed to supporting government in overcoming its loadshedding, logistics and crime crises, the Presidency's Rudi Dicks said the capacity could arise from multiple sources, including by recovering capacity from Eskom's unreliable coal fleet. The lion's share, however, would arise from ongoing solar rooftop investment, public procurement and utility-scale projects being pursued by various companies on the back of a reform allowing distributed plants of any size to proceed without a licence, even when using the grid to wheel electricity. Eskom's Generation Recovery Plan would focus on operational improvements at Matla, Majuba, Kendal and Tutuka, as well as within Rotek, and would seek to build on recent partnership successes with business at Kusile, Kriel and Matla. However, Dicks said it would also hinge on securing "many more skilled resources" over and above the support that had been provided so far by the 75 individuals who had already been assigned to assist on a pro bono basis. While some services would continue to be delivered on that basis, work was also under way by Eskom, business and the National Treasury on a proposed mutual cooperation agreement (MCA) to enable Eskom to "procure skilled experts, strategic parts and ringfenced projects". Business for South Africa's Martin Kingston noted that such an agreement was already in place between Transnet and the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, which he described as a "cost-recovery mechanism". Dicks said the MCA sought to formalise the partnership between Eskom and the private sector, while stressing that it would be seeking a deal that not only complied with legislation and supply-chain management regulations but still allowed for some "pro bono work to continue". "Pro-bono support has already been provided but this does not cover technical engineering expertise to address both the main and auxiliary plant problems," Dicks added. Kingston, meanwhile, offered an assurance that the MCA with Eskom would be transparent and structured to either remove or manage any potential conflicts of interest. The proposed MCA follows the recent release of a report commissioned by the National Treasury in 2023 into the state of the Eskom coal power stations, in which the Vgbe-led report authors described the State-owned utility's governance structure and processes as "dysfunctional". They made several recommendations for improving the management structure, including the establishment of an interim team of independent experts, outside of Eskom and reporting to the National Treasury, whose members would be situated at the stations to follow up key risk areas and intervene if required. Dicks said the Vgbe report had confirmed the National Energy Crisis Committee's (Necom's) own analysis of the challenges, as well as what the required focus to ensure improved plant performance was. GRID FOR UPCOMING BID WINDOW? Outside of Eskom, business and government also agreed that actions should be taken to support ongoing private investment at a rooftop and utility scale, as well as ensure the success of the public procurement bid windows launched for renewables, gas-to-power and battery storage. Together, these private generation investments were expected to provide the majority of the additional 10.5 GW of capacity to be added or recovered by the end of 2025. It was also agreed that Eskom and the National Energy Regulator of...

This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. Government and business have set a goal of increasing South Africa's electricity generation capacity by 10.5 GW by the end of 2025 as part of ongoing collaborative efforts to tackle growth-sapping power disruptions and reduce the intensity and almost daily frequency of loadshedding by year-end. In a briefing held following the latest meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa's Cabinet and those senior business leaders who have committed to supporting government in overcoming its loadshedding, logistics and crime crises, the Presidency's Rudi Dicks said the capacity could arise from multiple sources, including by recovering capacity from Eskom's unreliable coal fleet. The lion's share, however, would arise from ongoing solar rooftop investment, public procurement and utility-scale projects being pursued by various companies on the back of a reform allowing distributed plants of any size to proceed without a licence, even when using the grid to wheel electricity. Eskom's Generation Recovery Plan would focus on operational improvements at Matla, Majuba, Kendal and Tutuka, as well as within Rotek, and would seek to build on recent partnership successes with business at Kusile, Kriel and Matla. However, Dicks said it would also hinge on securing "many more skilled resources" over and above the support that had been provided so far by the 75 individuals who had already been assigned to assist on a pro bono basis. While some services would continue to be delivered on that basis, work was also under way by Eskom, business and the National Treasury on a proposed mutual cooperation agreement (MCA) to enable Eskom to "procure skilled experts, strategic parts and ringfenced projects". Business for South Africa's Martin Kingston noted that such an agreement was already in place between Transnet and the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, which he described as a "cost-recovery mechanism". Dicks said the MCA sought to formalise the partnership between Eskom and the private sector, while stressing that it would be seeking a deal that not only complied with legislation and supply-chain management regulations but still allowed for some "pro bono work to continue". "Pro-bono support has already been provided but this does not cover technical engineering expertise to address both the main and auxiliary plant problems," Dicks added. Kingston, meanwhile, offered an assurance that the MCA with Eskom would be transparent and structured to either remove or manage any potential conflicts of interest. The proposed MCA follows the recent release of a report commissioned by the National Treasury in 2023 into the state of the Eskom coal power stations, in which the Vgbe-led report authors described the State-owned utility's governance structure and processes as "dysfunctional". They made several recommendations for improving the management structure, including the establishment of an interim team of independent experts, outside of Eskom and reporting to the National Treasury, whose members would be situated at the stations to follow up key risk areas and intervene if required. Dicks said the Vgbe report had confirmed the National Energy Crisis Committee's (Necom's) own analysis of the challenges, as well as what the required focus to ensure improved plant performance was. GRID FOR UPCOMING BID WINDOW? Outside of Eskom, business and government also agreed that actions should be taken to support ongoing private investment at a rooftop and utility scale, as well as ensure the success of the public procurement bid windows launched for renewables, gas-to-power and battery storage. Together, these private generation investments were expected to provide the majority of the additional 10.5 GW of capacity to be added or recovered by the end of 2025. It was also agreed that Eskom and the National Energy Regulator of...

Martin Kingston, chairman at Business for South Africa (B4SA) discusses the potential legal challenges to the NHI bill, highlighting its impact on the economy.   Then we dived into the Mining Indaba with Mzila Mthenjane, CEO of Minerals Council South Africa, for a critical analysis of the mining sector's landscape.    In our How I Make Money feature, we spoke to Herman Bosman, hostage negotiator and extortion manager at TSU International, for a look into the complex world of negotiation and extortion management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Business 4 South Africa and Business Unity South are petitioning against the passing of the NHI Bill. This after the controversial Bill which seeks to provide universal access to quality health care for all South Africans was passed in the National Council of Provinces on Wednesday. The business organisations have vowed to formally submit a petition to President Cyril Ramaphosa for the Bill to be amended. To further discuss this, Elvis Presslin spoke to Martin Kingston, Chairperson of Business for South Africa

Noluthando Mthonti-Mlambo speaks to Martin Kingston, Chairperson of B4SA who gives an update about their work and collaborations with government. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Organised business has appealed to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to delay its vote on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill and send it back to parliament's select committee on health & social welfare so that MPs can relook it. The committee approved the bill last week without making any changes and Business Unity SA (Busa) and Business for SA (B4SA) believe this shows that the committee ignored the constitutional issues raised by four provinces and a wide range of stakeholders. For more insight on that, Business Day TV spoke to B4SA chair Martin Kingston.

Martin Kingston,Steering Committee Chair, B4SA shared the reasons why they had written to the Deputy President as Leader of Government about the lack of due process in the NCOP Select Committee on Health and Social Services on their adoption of the NHI Bill without any amendments, the ramifications of the bill going forward, and the much-vaunted partnership between government and business.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Kingston, chairman at Business for South Africa on the initiative by SA companies to help the government bolster the economy.    Val Nichas, CEO at Spur Corporation on the restaurant acquiring a 60% stake in Doppio Group.   For personal finance, Warren Ingram, co-founder of Galileo Capital looked at how money affects your mental health.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Kingston, the chair of Business for South Africa, spoke about how the government and private sector intend to work together to help end loadshedding by the end of 2024.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The private sector is so far working with government on six of the ten energy crisis work streams, for which business raised R100-million to procure skills and expertise for donation on an arm's length basis to the Presidency, within which the National Energy Crisis Committee (Necom) is housed. Business for South Africa (B4SA) chairperson Martin Kingston expressed the view that it is technically possible to put an end to loadshedding by the end of 2024, which is the objective of the joint energy effort. The two other challenges being tackled are transportation and logistics, and crime and corruption. B4SA is an alliance of South African business leaders working with the South African government and other social partners to help deliver sustainable solutions for South Africa. “We're not going to assume the role and responsibility of the State. It would be wholly inappropriate, but we can certainly partner with them, bring our skills, expertise, and indeed commitment to bear,” said Kingston, who spoke to Engineering News & Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview on Thursday. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.) In the case of South Africa's transportation and logistics challenges, areas of focus are being jointly defined, along with the appropriate resourcing of those work streams: “I think it'll take a little bit longer, but yes, we're certainly beginning to see progress emerge and traction being gained,” said Kingston, who emphasised the need to ensure sharp focus on a limited number of interventions that can move the needle as quickly as possible, “and that's what I believe we're going to start seeing in the next few weeks”. A joint strategic oversight committee, which mirrors what was successfully implemented during the Covid pandemic and which is now also expected to deal successfully with the three energy, transport and logistics, and crime and corruption challenges, is committed to meeting fortnightly, ahead of reporting to the President every six weeks. “Each and every one of the workstreams in the underlying areas of focus are up and running or being mobilised, so there are indeed early signs of real progress and green shoots, but it'll take several months to see real progress start to emerge. “We're very mindful of the need to be at arm's length so that we don't, in any shape, size or form, undermine the integrity and the independence of the State in providing the support that's required," Kingston emphasised. Engineering News & Mining Weekly: How willing is government to partner effectively with organised business in dealing with South Africa's infrastructure and law and order challenges? Kingston: The South African authorities recognise that we need effectively all hands to the pump to deal with very fundamental challenges, which act as a brake on real inclusive growth and that growth leads to employment and deals with many of the challenges that we've got in the country at the moment. We had a very successful experience of partnering with the government during the Covid pandemic in 2020, and the vaccination rollout in 2021, and we've used that as the basis for partnership with them in the three areas that we're focusing on. Of course, there are different pockets of government that are more supportive than others, but from the President down, there is a wide acknowledgement that we need to put all of our collective shoulders to the wheel and see how we can bring the best resources to bear from all social partners, I have to say, not just from business and indeed from the public sector, to try and address these very fundamental constraints in the system. Have these public-private initiatives been set up in a way that positive results are seen as being highly likely? I'd love to think that highly likely is an immediate outcome but I think we need to manage our expectations in this particular respect. The most important thing from our perspective was to (a) make sure that we have an integrated approach from business....

President Cyril Ramaphosa's plan to tackle the power crisis in South Africa, as announced and unpacked on July 25, has been well received by the business, labour, academic and environmental communities, but many call for firm deadlines to be added to the plan. Industry body Business Unity South Africa (Busa) CEO Cas Coovadia says the head of State duly considered the private sector and energy experts' proposals for stabilising and securing the country's energy supply. All stakeholders agree that as much generation capacity as possible needs to be brought online in a short span of time to close the 6 GW energy gap and Ramaphosa's plan is a “concrete step” towards achieving that, adds Coovadia. Particularly, Busa appreciates the removal of the need to licence embedded private sector generation capacity and the use of new pricing structures to incentivise investment in commercial and household rooftop solar power generation. What is still required, however, is a clear execution plan, set against hard deadlines and accountability for delivery. Coovadia states the country and the business sector will benefit from regular and transparent progress reports in this regard. Busa says it will collaborate with the President's National Energy Crisis Committee to drive implementation of this package of interventions, while recognising that it will take time, patience and endurance to end load-shedding. Business for South Africa steering committee chairperson Martin Kingston, meanwhile, says the power plan offers a blueprint for action and partnership; however, key enabling factors such as rapid investment required in the transmission grid and the need for a standardised wheeling framework must not be forgotten. He points out that while there are many areas of the economy that require urgent reforms, such as water security, logistics and crime, none is as critical as energy availability, which is integral to unlocking economic growth, investment and jobs, and which will put the country back on a path to success. Trade union Solidarity CE Dr Dirk Hermann believes the power plan to represent an “anxious leap in the right direction”. He states that government's move towards a more decentralised system for power generation is the only workable and sustainable solution to South Africa's power crisis. “The encouragement and facilitation of small-scale power generation on a large scale is of crucial importance to stabilise our grid. Through deregulation and the removal of regulatory barriers, we free the private sector and communities up to present creative and resilient solutions to the crisis,” he explains, warning that government should not succumb to the temptation of falling back on its outdated model of not fulfilling promises. Environmental organisation Greenpeace Africa climate and energy campaigner Thandile Chinyavanhu highlights that the organisation has been calling for feed-in tariffs for a long time – allowing South Africans to meaningfully contribute to the grid and help bring an end to load-shedding. “After years of campaigning, we welcome the decision to remove the arbitrary threshold for renewable energy generation. South Africa has not even begun to exhaust its renewable energy potential and this is a big step towards that end,” she avers. Chinyavanhu adds that the President does well to keep people and the planet in mind in stabilising the energy system, as “renewable energy is the answer to both the energy and climate crises”. The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA) agrees, adding that there are already several large-scale projects that have benefitted from government's efforts to expedite the export of energy to the grid. The new interventions will further expand the options available to developers and sponsors of energy projects to deliver projects on short timeframes and at no cost to Eskom, notes SAPVIA CEO Rethabile Melamu. North West University Business School economist Professor Raymond Parsons val...

Business Unity South Africa (Busa) has outlined a set of ten interventions that it believes could unlock much-needed investment into new generation and storage capacity over the coming two years and should be included as part of President Cyril Ramaphosa's comprehensive plan for tackling load-shedding, which is expected to be unveiled soon. The Busa intervention envisages the introduction of 15 GW of additional generation capacity, together with 4 GW of battery storage, over a 24-month period. The organisation calculates that 3 GW of that will be supplied by Eskom, while a further 3.5 GW will arise from ongoing procurement programmes and as a result of policy reforms. Busa believes the 9 GW balance, which would involve investments of about R170-billion, could be unlocked through the following interventions: Resolving embedded generation registration and licensing issues, and accelerating the time it takes to get applications approved; Unblocking red tape constraining private sector investment in generation capacity; Removing caps on registering self-generation projects; Suspending local-content rules until the energy crisis has been averted; Increasing the regularity and size of rounds for renewable energy procured through the Independent Power Producer Office; Establishing an emergency feed-in tariff framework to enable Eskom to buy power from existing generators; Resolving bottlenecks in the transmission infrastructure to unlock additional generation capacity; Developing a unified and scalable wheeling framework; Developing a public-private transmission partnership framework to speed up build times; and Urgently addressing sabotage at Eskom, and the theft of copper cables. “We hope that the President's announcement will provide a clear path, with deadlines, that demonstrate the urgency with which the proposed actions will be implemented,” CEO Cas Coovadia said in a statement. “Once it is announced, we would like to see a joint government and business working team configured and deployed to focus on delivering results against hard deadlines. “This includes working towards deliverables that are communicated regularly, both to the President and to the public,” Coovadia added. During the height of the Covid crisis business worked with government on a range of interventions, including the acquisition of vaccines, and Business for South Africa's (B4SA's) steering committee, which coordinated business' actions, has been re-mobilised as Busa's implementation arm. “Business is ready to intensify its participation and deploy its expertise, capacity and resources to support the President and assist government to stabilise the country's energy sector,” B4SA steering committee chair Martin Kingston said. “The sooner the conditions for investment are in place, the sooner the country will be able to unlock the funding needed,” Kingston added.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked the Solidarity Fund's leadership to assist flood relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal. The Head of State says National Treasury will make an initial amount available to the Solidarity Fund to implement support measures. Business Day TV spoke to Martin Kingston, the Solidarity Fund's Flood Response Advisor for more insight.

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Martin Kingston, leader of the economic intervention work group at Business for South Africa on the sector's preparation for COVID19's fourth wave. As the country continues to battle with load-shedding, big retailers such as Shoprite have responded by using renewable energy to power their businesses. Sanjeev Raghubir, sustainability manager at Shoprite Group discusses how they aim to electrify 25% of their operations with renewable energy. For Friday File, Monique Spaltman , formulation specialist at Lulu & Marula discusses their natural and ethically skin products See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Kingston, Chair of Business for South Africa Steering Committee reflects on the lack of citizens' will to vaccinate and what it means for the country's fight against the virus. Neville Mandimika, Africa Strategist at Rand Merchant Bank looked at the rand's 15% gain against the dollar over the last year. And in our investment school Mia Kruger , director at Kruger International Asset & Wealth Management explained how to invest in a cyclical sector like resources. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Africa passed the milestone of administering seven million Covid-19 vaccinations last week despite the drug supply limiting efforts to reach higher daily targets. We are still in the ramp up phase, but it would be churlish to continue to bang on about our slow start and not recognise that the partnership between government and the private sector is starting to deliver great results in recovering lost ground. Bottom line though is vaccines are highly effective in reducing death and relieving strain on healthcare systems so we can get back to our regular way of life. Michael Avery spoke to Dr Nicholas Crisp, a deputy director-general in the National Department of Health and the person responsible for coordinating South Africa's Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, and Martin Kingston, Chair of the B4SA Steering Committee providing National Vaccination Programme Support, to find out the latest on the national vaccination rollout strategy.

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Leslie Zettler, CEO of Felbridge on their export of commercial medical cannabis to Switzerland. Martin Kingston, vice president of Busa discusses their request to the government to continue with Ters benefits while the country is in lockdown level four. Then Paul Behrmann, CEO and founder of Payflex is this week's Shapeshifter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ray spoke to Martin Kingston, B4SA steering committee chairperson sharing their achievements and challenges of this week, with the national vaccination rollout.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Ramaphosa has concluded his two-day testimony at the Zondo Commission. He provided details related to his election funding campaign and insight regarding how the ruling party works. Business Day TV spoke to Martin Kingston, Vice President of Business Unity SA for his assessment of the president's testimony.

Arabile Gumede speaks to Martin Kingston, Leader of the Economic Intervention work group at Business for South Africa, Lucky Ntimane of the National Liquor Traders Council and Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, CEO at Tourism Business Council of South Africa about the effects that another lockdown and alcohol ban would have on the economy ahead of President Ramaphosa addressing the nation. OneFarm Share, a new digital platform connects farmers with registered charity organisations to assist feeding programmes in vulnerable communities See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This evening on The Money Show, Bruce focusses on the effects of the #Covid-19 lockdown on the economy in the past year. In this hour he'll speak to Martin Kingston, Leader of the Economic Intervention Work Group at Business for South Africa (B4SA), Martin Kingston, Leader of the Economic Intervention work group at Business for South Africa (B4SA), Isaah Mhlanga, Chief Economist at Alexander Forbes, Tashmia Ismail-Saville, CEO of YES initiative, Sam Clarke, Founder and CEO at Skynamo, Prof Nick Binedell, Professor at Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs) and Dr Adrian Enthoven, Deputy Chairperson at Solidarity Fund. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Veteran Editor and columnist Peter Bruce continues his Podcasts from The Edge with a frank talk to B4SA chair Martin Kingston, who urges the government please to just focus for once. Without fast, focussed action South Africa is in trouble and our society is at risk. Is localisation damaging businesses? The two discuss the merits of a wider immigration of skills, the absence of time and the ANC alliance's inability to do one thing, properly, at a time.

Veteran Editor and columnist Peter Bruce continues his Podcasts from The Edge with a frank talk to B4SA chair Martin Kingston, who urges the government please to just focus for once. Without fast, focussed action South Africa is in trouble and our society is at risk. Is localisation damaging businesses? The two discuss the merits of a wider immigration of skills, the absence of time and the ANC alliance's inability to do one thing, properly, at a time.

In episode 65 of Inside Covid-19, some upside from the pandemic as we hear from Martin Kingston that business and government are forging a working relationship that's closer than ever before, but B4SA expects a surge in cases, mortalities until late August; The Foundry restaurant's owner launches his own Tips For Trevor campaign with a difference; a positive development in the search for a coronavirus vaccine as Moderna, one of the frontrunners, is in the final testing stage and could have a solution by November; and a leading member of SA's charitable sector waves a flag about SA's mushrooming market in fraudulent PPEs. - Alec Hogg

In episode 65 of Inside Covid-19, some upside from the pandemic as we hear from Martin Kingston that business and government are forging a working relationship that's closer than ever before, but B4SA expects a surge in cases, mortalities until late August; The Foundry restaurant's owner launches his own Tips For Trevor campaign with a difference; a positive development in the search for a coronavirus vaccine as Moderna, one of the frontrunners, is in the final testing stage and could have a solution by November; and a leading member of SA's charitable sector waves a flag about SA's mushrooming market in fraudulent PPEs. - Alec Hogg

Business Unity South Africa's vice president Martin Kingston, economist Dr Chris Malikane and Dr Azar Jammine, director and chief economist at Econometrix discuss the impact the downgrades will have on South Africans...