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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
80 – 100

Rational Radio 18 Sept 2019 - The Full Show

Here's the Rational Radio episode of Wednesday 18 September featuring, in order of appearance - Bernie Wolfsdorf, the Durbanite who has been the top US immigration lawyer for seven of the last ten years; Willem Roos, chief executive of the data-only mobile phone company Rain which today launched 5G -…
18 Sep 2019 1 hr 02 min

Rational Radio - the full show: 11 September 2019

Here's the Producer's Cut of the full Rational Radio show hosted by Alec Hogg on Wednesday, 11 September, 2019. In the lineup: Naspers listing in Amsterdam this morning - commentary from Naspers FD Basil Sgourdos who was there when the bell was rung. More on the debate around Discovery allegedly…
11 Sep 2019 1 hr 04 min

BBC goes in-depth with SA anti-apartheid hero Peter Hain

The BBC’s Radio Four is known among the British as the nation’s cerebral option. This well deserved reputation comes from decades of delivering consistently high quality content. What follows is an excellent example of this high standard. Since 2013, historian Peter Hennessy has picked four of his country’s highest profile…
10 Sep 2019 44 min

The Editor’s Desk: The WEF, the Joburg riots, and the President

Alec Hogg spent the week in Cape Town attending the WEF Africa summit, which was disrupted by violent xenophobic riots in Johannesburg and anti-violence protests in Cape Town. In this episode, Alec and Felicity Duncan discuss the WEF meeting and the impact that the social unrest in South Africa had…
7 Sep 2019 19 min

The Editor’s Desk: Steinhoff, the Watsons, & the need for balance

Some of the best stories have a clear villain and a clear hero – that’s why people love Star Wars. But real life is sometimes more like Game of Thrones, with no heroes, no villains, just complex human beings making the decisions that seem best to them. We were reminded…
1 Sep 2019 16 min

Rational Radio: August 28 - the full show

A cracking episode of Rational Radio this week featuring interviews, in order of appearance: Tech entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig gives us the back story to his well-read piece on why he has no intention of joining those on SA's emigration bus. Independent financial advisor Candice Paine makes her first of what…
28 Aug 2019 1 hr 11 min

The Editor’s Desk: Listen in as Alec & Felicity argue about GG Alcock

This week we have something a little different for you – the opportunity to listen in on a vigorous, off-the-cuff, and unscripted debate between Alec Hogg and Felicity Duncan over the GG Alcock article on the informal economy. It’s a long argument, but an interesting one, as Alec and Felicity…
25 Aug 2019 28 min

Rational Radio - The full show, 21 August 2019

In this producer's cut edition of this week's Rational Radio show in order of appearance:     Nick Smith-Saville of Debtwire (London) on Eskom - debt, recovery prospects and tax burden. Ram Ottapathu, founder of retailer Choppies, who has been accused of using the now suspended JSE-listed company's money to buy…
21 Aug 2019 1 hr 09 min

Alec Hogg: "Why South Africa is a fat pitch for long-term investors."

On August 16, Isipingo-based shoemaking entrepreneur Rajeev Patundeen turned 50. As part of the celebrations, he invited 70 friends, family and business associates for lunch - and asked Biznews founder Alec Hogg to join them at a restaurant in Durban to explain why, at a time when gloom is pervasive,…
21 Aug 2019 32 min

The Editor’s Desk: Looks like we owe you an apology, Vivian Reddy

On 27 July, Alec Hogg and Felicity Duncan discussed the scuttlebutt about a commercial development in KwaZulu-Natal run by entrepreneur Vivian Reddy. Word on the street was that all wasn’t as it seems and that the deal was smelly. But after Alec sat down with Reddy and got the details,…
17 Aug 2019 18 min

Ideology trips Ramaphosa; Anti-expropriation drive ramps up; NHI deflates Discovery; Steinhoff

This week in Nutshell: Ideology including land expropriation and a national health service looms over the South African economy with a warning from Bloomberg that President Ramaphosa's left-wing alliance members are hampering reform. Expropriation without compensation is reaching its last phase; the Institute for Race Relations' Terence Corrigan explains why…
16 Aug 2019 29 min

Rational Radio - The full show: 14 August 2019

In this episode of Rational Radio the guests are: Terence Corrigan of the IRR on the basics of why Expropriation Without Compensation will be an economic disaster; Econometrix's Azar Jammine explains why emigration from SA is picking up and what it will mean for the country's already small personal income…
14 Aug 2019 1 hour

Editor’s Desk: Shining a light on the Stellenbosch Mafia exposé

The bad behaviour of a group of powerful and wealthy men known as the Stellenbosch Mafia makes for exciting reading. It also highlights how far South African society has come from the bad old days. Historically, South Africa was an opaque and shadowy place, in which the powerful and the…
11 Aug 2019 18 min
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