21 August 2013, Wednesday

In this edition of Classic Business at 18h00, Anchor Glenn Lewington broadcast a half hour news bulletin featuring the top Business stories of the day followed by up-to-date financial indicators including the Aveng CEO resigning and a bank intern working himself to death. Glenn also conducted in-depth interviews with the people making the news: Annabel Bishop, Economist at the Investec Group on the Consumer Price Inflation figures for July from Statistics South Africa; Chris de Kock, Head of Sales and Marketing at WesBank on their Vehicle Sales Confidence Indicator; Neal Froneman, CEO of Sibanye Gold on their acquisition of the Cooke Operations of Gold One International; Jan Scannell, CEO of Distell on their year-end financial results; Derick Moolman, Commercial Lead Mining and Cloud Solutions at General Electric Intelligent Platforms on their mining and metals productivity summit; and Craig Atchison, General Manager of Customer Solutions at Old Mutual Corporate on their latest retirement monitor. Market Analyst Simon Brown, CEO and Founder of JustOneLap.com provided commentary on reports of BHP Billiton's accounting hiding losses, Facebook launching a cheap internet plan, the Aveng CEO quitting, AngloGold Ashanti reaching a loan deal, and Sanlam raising R1.1 billion. In the second half of the programme at 18h30, Glenn chaired a one-hour discussion on the weekly topic, namely "Farm Murders" with guests Eileen de Jager, Co-founder of Crime Scene Clean-up; Henk van de Graaf, Spokesman at the Transvaal Agriculture Union; and Barb Pearce, Researching her PHD on Farm Attacks with a degree in African History.

PROGRAMME LINEUP

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Segment 1 - 11: FULL PROGRAMME

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Segment 1:

Headlines and Indicators

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Segment 2:

Consumer Price Inflation Figures for July from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

Guest:

Annabel Bishop
Economist
Investec Group

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Segment 3:

WesBank Vehicle Sales Confidence Indicator

Guest:

Chris de Kock
Head of Sales and Marketing
WesBank

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Segment 4:

Sibanye Gold Acquires Cooke Operations from Gold One

Guest:

Neal Froneman
CEO
Sibanye Gold

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Segment 5:

Report on the Aveng CEO to Resign this Month

Reporter:

Glenn Lewington

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Segment 6:

Distell Group Year-end Financial Results

Guest:

Jan Scannell
CEO
Distell

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Segment 7:

General Electric Intelligent Platforms Mining and Metals Productivity Summit

Guest:

Derick Moolman
Commercial Lead Mining and Cloud Solutions
General Electric Intelligent Platforms

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Segment 8:

Old Mutual Corporate Retirement Monitor

Guest:

Craig Atchison
General Manager of Customer Solutions
Old Mutual Corporate

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Segment 9:

Report on a Bank Intern who worked Himself to Death

Reporter:

Glenn Lewington

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Segment 10:

Commentary on reports of BHP Billiton's accounting hiding losses, Facebook launching a cheap internet plan, the Aveng CEO quitting, AngloGold Ashanti reaching a loan deal, and Sanlam raising R1.1 billion

Commentator:

Simon Brown
CEO and Founder
JustOneLap.com

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Segment 11:

Farm Murders (Part Two)

Guests (panel discussion):

Eileen de Jager
Co-founder
Crime Scene Clean-up

Henk van de Graaf
Spokesman
Transvaal Agriculture Union

Barb Pearce
Researching a PHD on Farm Attacks, with
Degree in African History

Commentator:

Dawie Roodt
Chief Economist
Efficient Group

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