21 February 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 the United States Federal Reserve possibly ending its bond buying programme. Glenn Lewington also conducted in-depth interviews with the people making the news: Patrick Atkinson, Shadow Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance in Johannesburg at the Democratic Alliance on Johannesburg’s finances; Terence Corrigan, Research Director at SBP on their latest Small Medium Enterprise Growth Index; and Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery, David Hathorn, CEO of Mondi, and Neels Coetzee, Financial Director at Mustek on their latest financial results. Market Analyst for the evening Christopher Gilmour, Analyst at Absa Investments provided commentary on Eskom warning of tight electricity supply, strikes at Eskom’s Medupi power plant, a resource tax for South Africa, and Quantas Airlines' financial results. In the second half of the programme at 18h30, Glenn chaired a one-hour discussion on the weekly topic, namely "The Legal Practice Bill" with guests Judge Johan Kriegler, Chairman of Freedom Under Law; Willie Spies, Legal Representative for Afriforum; Advocate Luzelle Adams, Member of Parliament, and Administrative Whip for the Congress of the People with commentary from Rudie van Rooyen, Advocate at Hugenot Chambers.

PROGRAMME LINEUP

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Segment 1 - 9: FULL PROGRAMME

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Segment 1:

Business and Financial News

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Segment 2:

Auditor-General’s Findings on Johannesburg's Finances

Guest:

Patrick Atkinson
Shadow Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance in Johannesburg
Democratic Alliance (DA)

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Segment 3:

SME Growth Index 2012 – Survey Shows South Africa is Hostile to Small Businesses

Guest:

Terence Corrigan
Research Director
SBP

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Segment 4:

United States Federal Reserve May Scale Back its Bond-buying Programme

Reporter:

Lee Kern