BizNews Edge: Rand slides on steady rates, Musk's AI warning, shake-up at IDAC, and more...

Loading player...
Elon Musk tells The Economist that AI will out-think the whole of humanity within five years, and he sounds strangely at peace with that. Back home, the Reserve Bank blindsided everyone with a shock rate hold, the Rand took its worst knock in months, and Citigroup walked away from a bet it had believed in for weeks. Add a dramatic exit at the top of South Africa's anti-corruption unit, big numbers from Vodacom and Impala Platinum, and a fond farewell to RW Johnson, and that's a full day of news in about twenty minutes. Have a listen.
27 Jul 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Preloved boots give Eastern Cape township rugby a boost

Across the Eastern Cape, boys and girls run onto rugby fields in their school shoes or a pair of tekkies. Lincoln Mali, founder of the Mzwandile Mali Schools Rugby Champions League, tells BizNews how a visit by businessman Paul Gardiner to Kwanobuhle township led to Boots for Boys and Girls,…
6 Nov 7AM 15 min

Solly Moeng: Mashaba and Zille, MK's rise, FF Plus, Malema

One day after the Local Government Elections in South Africa, in this interview with Chris Steyn - just after four o'clock and with 43% of the results in - political commentator Solly Moeng says Action SA leader Herman Mashaba and his party leadership need to listen to calls from voters…
5 Nov 11AM 26 min

BizNews Ricardo Portfolio update: Palantir, Uber, Lesaka, and Exemplar

Four companies BizNews owns reported in the same week, so Alec Hogg went back to his own valuations to see whether they still held. Palantir nearly doubled its revenue and its chief executive declared his intent to take "the entire market", yet one number nagged at Alec. Uber delivered a…
5 Nov 10AM 41 min