20 September 2012, 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 news of the day including the Constitutional Court's decision to remove the interdict against e-tolling and the National Union of Mineworkers' concern about possible job losses. Glenn Lewington also conducted in-depth interviews with the people making the news: Wayne Duvenage, CEO of the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance, and Anton Alberts, Member of Parliament and Spokesman for Transport at the Freedom Front Plus on the Constitutional Court's decision to go ahead with e-tolling; Gill Marcus, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank on the repo rate decision; George Kershoff, Deputy Director at the Bureau for Economic Research on their Inflation Expectation Survey; Mac Maharaj, Presidential Spokesman on the national deployment of the South African National Defence Force; and Simi Pillay van Graan, CEO of Business Against Crime in South Africa on the latest crime statistics. Analyst for the evening, Craig Pheiffer, General Manager at Absa Investments provided commentary on various interest points that made the day's headlines. In the second half of the programme at 18h30, Glenn chaired a one-hour discussion on the weekly topic, namely "South Africa's Labour Force" with guests Vivian Atud, Economist at the Free Market Foundation; Patrick Craven, National Spokesman for the Congress of South African Trade Unions; and Johannes Mashaba, Senior Inspector at the Department of Labour with commentary from Peter Aling, Quantitative Analyst at Prophet Analytics.

PROGRAMME LINEUP

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Segment 1 - 12: FULL PROGRAMME

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Segment 1:

Business and Financial News

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Segment 2:

Constitutional Court Sets Aside Court Interdict Against e-tolling

Guest:

Wayne Duvenage
CEO
Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA)

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Segment 3:

Constitutional Court Sets Aside Court Interdict Against e-tolling

Guest:

Anton Alberts
Member of Parliament, and
Spokesman for Transport at the Freedom Front Plus (FFP)

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Segment 4:

Report on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) Calling Against e-tolling

Reporter:

Glenn Lewington

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Segment 5:

South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee Repo Rate Decision

Guest:

Gill Marcus
Governor
South African Reserve Bank (SARB)

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Segment 6:

Commentary on the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (COSATU) Calling Against e-tolling and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee Repo Rate

Commentator:

Craig Pheiffer
General Manager
Absa Investments