The chairman of Kisby, Mark Barnes, got his first shot of the Pfizer vaccine. He joined the BizNews Power Hour to share his experience. Barnes took to social media about the experience, tweeting "Vaccinated! I got the SMS - get to Hillbrow CHC! System worked. Frontline medical staff wonderful - caring, positive and competent. Yes, SA, we can".

In this week’s episode of the Currency Focus Andre Cilliers, currency strategist at TreasuryONE, underscores the benefits of offshore diversification - and he says that it's a great time to take advantage of the rand's strength relative to major currencies. In this in-depth conversation with Jackie Cameron, for BizNews, the currency expert shares how data from around the world play into sizing up the value of the rand. He picks up on recent rand volatility, with the South African currency dipping below R14 to the US dollar.

* South Africa is finalising legislative changes that aim at narrowing the earnings gap between company executives and the lowest-paid workers, according to Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Patel.

* Heineken, the world’s second-largest brewer, is in talks about a takeover of South African wine and spirits maker Distell Group Holdings Ltd.

* Labour union Solidarity has announced it will serve court papers on the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, over the use of Cuban engineers to help fix the country’s water crisis.

* Namibia has banned all imports of poultry and poultry products from South Africa after further outbreaks of avian influenza were detected in the neighbouring country, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.

* South Africans should expect loadshedding all through winter, says Eskom.

In this episode of BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host Steven Nathan, Mark Barnes the chairman of Kisby, Solidarity's Anton van der Bijl, Julian Kettle and the BizNews Team.

Veteran mining expert and fund manager Peter Major joined the BizNews Power Hour, to discuss whether we are indeed in a commodities supercycle. Major reckons that we are indeed, noting "I don't know what else you would call this. When we have prices that have exceeded any kind of price we've seen in a lot of these commodities and we've been up many more years - probably 15 years we've been up out of 21 years - I think we are in a supercycle."

Balwin Properties has a fairly simple business model - how many apartments they have sold and how many they are building. Chief executive Steve Brookes joined the BizNews Power Hour, to share their plans to build "green" and the benefits you may get from ABSA that come with this deal.

Redefine, the country's second largest real-estate investment trust by market capitalisation, announced its interim results to February 28 2021 and there was very little to get excited about. The chief executive Andrew König, joined the BizNews Power Hour to talk about these results and prospects. "The vaccine roll-out will get people back to work spaces" - Andrew König.

In this episode of the BizNews Power Hour, Alec Hogg is joined by co-host Peter Major veteran mining engineer, CEO of Redefine - Andrew Koning- Balwin Properties’s Steve Brookers; James Herbst - CEO of Huge Group and the BizNews team.

If you are planning on leaving South Africa or have already left, there are key financial factors to consider to minimise tax liabilities. William Louw, South African tax director at emigration specialist Sable International speaks Jackie Cameron, for BizNews, about how to navigate South Africa’s tricky tax system.

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* The two-decades old corruption case against former South African President Jacob Zuma in connection with a $2 billion arms deal has been delayed yet again.

* The DA is calling on Eskom to provide an urgent state-of-the-system update and explain how its loadshedding schedule will be managed to ensure that it does not affect the vaccine rollout process.

* Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate.

* Naspers in Online Intermediation Platforms Market Inquiry. The inquiry was announced as a proactive measure to get a greater understanding of the online markets operating in South Africa, says MyBroadband.co.za