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Rational Radio

Rational Radio is the weekly business news show hosted by BizNews editor Alec Hogg. It runs for around an hour and features leading commentators from the investment and financial world, including regular guest David Shapiro.
Weekly English South Africa Business News · Investing
421 Episodes
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Meet Mike Sharman: Advertising visionary helping to spark a revolution.

Marketers have long known that we listen more carefully to the advice of those we trust than messages from corporates trying to sell us their wares. So, for decades they’ve drawn on endorsements by celebrities, primarily movie stars and athletes, to generate additional sales for their clients. The digital age…
17 Feb 2019 27 min

Flash Briefing: Moody's says Eskom restructuring not enough; Tencent invests in Reddit; Morgan Stanley buys big; Ports prepare for rising sea levels

In today’s global business headlines… Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley yesterday announced its biggest acquisition since the global financial crisis with the $900m purchase of Canadian-headquartered Solium. While the debate about the impact of global warming continues to rage, ports around the US aren’t taking any chances after the…
11 Feb 2019 3 min

Flash Briefing: Bulls back for US stocks; MTN to list Africa's Amazon in NY; Write off demanded on corrupt $2bn Mozam loan; Brazil in radical free mar..

In today’s global business headlines… Wall Street analysts are pointing to a raft of technical indicators suggesting the stock market has re-entered a bull trend just four months after September’s sharp reverse. Brazil is embarking on sweeping free market reforms including an overhaul of pensions, radical tax reform and wide-scale…
10 Feb 2019 4 min

What an African billionaire wants from their Joburg super home

In April last year I did a sponsored interview with Rory O’Hagan, former private banker who switched to selling super homes for estate agency Chas Everitt. He showed me around his prized project, a R100m plus palace on Johannesburg’s Houghton Ridge called Gatsby. I made a mental note to revisit…
9 Feb 2019 14 min

The Editor's Desk: The Total gas strike will change SA forever

In a week dominated by Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), another explosive piece of news hit the headlines: Total have struck a major oil and gas deposit off the Southern Cape. As a net oil importer, South Africa has long sought its own oil and gas deposits,…
9 Feb 2019 22 min

Meet the extraordinary scientist Dr Vivienne Ming, global AI seer

Probably because of the premium it puts on curiosity, my trade seems to attract the most interesting people. But even by our high standards, there are few like Neil Jacobsohn, who moved on from newsrooms to boardrooms and thence out of the media industry completely to indulge his passion for…
1 Feb 2019 29 min

Micropower Makate vs megaplayer Vodacom whose Please Call Me misery continues

In his brilliant book, The End of Power, author Moises Naim wrote that the likes of innovative startups, loosely organised activists, upstart citizen media and charismatic individuals who come from nowhere are shaking up the old order. “These are the micropowers,” he wrote, “small, unknown or once negligible actors that…
1 Feb 2019 34 min
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