7 March 2013, Thursday

In this edition of Classic Business at 18h00, Glenn Lewington broadcast the business and economic news of the day followed by up-to-date financial indicators, and the Classic Business and News teams reported on the day’s news including Political Analyst Moeletsi Mbeki saying mines not being responsible for housing, a new budget airline launched called Skywise, and the latest results from Eqstra. Glenn Lewington also conducted in-depth interviews with the people making the news: Neren Rau, CEO of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry on their February Business Confidence Index; Dr Martyn Davies, Independent Economist and CEO of Frontier Advisory on the latest MasterCard Consumer Confidence Index results; Angus Robinson, Director for Mobile, Content and Community Divisions at NATIVE on their latest mobile report; and CEOs Sipho Nkosi of Exxaro, Pierre van Tonder of the Spur Corporation, Dr Johan van Zyl of Sanlam, Bruce Strong of Mpact and Peter Cooper of RMIH on their companies’ financial results. Market Analyst for the evening Andrew Flavell, Wealth Manager at Alpha Wealth provided commentary on the fall in the share price of Zimplats, data released on the change in South African gold reserves, a rally in gold stocks, Aspen interim financial results and movements in the Rand and oil price. In the second half of the programme at 18h30, Glenn chaired a one-hour discussion on the weekly topic, namely "Food Security in South Africa" with guests Professor Bimo Nkhata, Director for Water Research Node at Monash University South Africa; Gareth Lloyd-Jones, Managing Director at Iconize; and David Cochrane, Partner at Spoor & Fisher with commentary from Inge Kotze, Senior Manager of Sustainable Agriculture Programme at World Wide Fund for Nature and Vladimir Mzaca, Zimbabwe Correspondent at The Times.

PROGRAMME LINEUP

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Segment 1 - 14: FULL PROGRAMME

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Segment 1:

Business and Financial News

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Segment 2:

Exxaro Annual Financial Results

Guest:

Sipho Nkosi
CEO
Exxaro

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Segment 3:

Report on Mines Not Being Responsible for Housing

Reporter:

Glenn Lewington

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Segment 4:

Report on New Budget Airline Launched Called Skywise

Reporter:

Lee Kern

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Segment 5:

Report on Eqstra Financial Results

Reporter:

Mosehla Gwangwa

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Segment 6:

Spur Interim Financial Results

Guest:

Pierre van Tonder
CEO
Spur

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Segment 7:

Sanlam Annual Financial Results

Guest:

Dr Johan van Zyl
CEO
Sanlam