BBB Ep 15 - Tempered Fed helps shares; Tongaat shareholder revolt; Prof Jansen hits ANC jugular; Remote work changing USA

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Highlights of two powerful interviews featured in this morning's BizNews Breakfast Briefing as the usually urbane chartered accountant-turned-shareholder-activist Dave Woollam loses patience with the board and management at Tongaat - and now wants them out; and SA academic and author Prof Jonathan Jansen urges his countrymen to hit the eject button on the ANC. On the markets, Wall Street celebrates a lifely moderating by the Fed's in its approach to the July 27 interest rate increase; and our partners at the FT dig into the way America is being changed by the dramatic switch to remote work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
18 Jul 2022 12AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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