ActionSA has condemned the looting and widespread riots currently gripping South Africa and say it will pursue a lawsuit against government over its failure to ensure proper law enforcement and protection. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam spoke to ActionSA President Herman Mashaba for more detail.

While listed property has bounced back strongly this year to be among the JSE's best performing sectors there are now fresh concerns with the renewed lockdown level 4 and the riots and looting which haven't seen some large malls like Queensland spared, though this has been fairly isolated at this stage. Is a reckoning in retail REITland coming? Before the pandemic the excessive focus on income without regard to the sustainability of that income or the risks taken to generate it is exactly what got the sector into trouble. You cannot ignore that shareholders have been complicit in this mess. They too must take responsibility for what they hired boards and paid management teams to do. What are the lessons in all of this and what is the outlook for the listed property sector into the second half? Malcolm Horne, CEO of Broll Property Group; Madalet Sessions, who co-manages the Denker SCI Balanced and Stable funds with Jan Meintjes; and Andrew Brooking, corporate finance executive and founding director of Java Capital and who one of the top corporate finance houses specialising in property M&A join Michael Avery to debate the reasons for REITs performing so badly during the pandemic?

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The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the social unrest that followed the imprisonment of a former president Jacob Zuma is placing food and job security at risk. Business Day TV'S Alishia Seckam spoke to Mpume Langa, First Vice President of the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry for more.

Sustainability-linked bond sales have accelerated in 2021 as investors start to see value in green fixed income assets. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam caught up with RMB's head of sustainable finance and ESG Advisory, Nigel Beck to discuss why this trend is emerging.

The SA Property Owners Association has denounced the riots and looting taking place across South Africa, which has caused an undisclosed amount of damage to property and infrastructure. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam spoke to Neil Gopal, CEO of SAPOA for more detail.

The national defence force is set to quell ‘free Zuma’ protests, after violence and looting in response to the former president's arrest spread from KwaZulu-Natal to Gauteng and Mpumalanga. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam spoke to Political Analyst Daniel Silke about how the events are shaping the country's current political landscape.

The Department of Health finally heard the outcry and will start vaccinating over weekends from August along with the rollout to people between 35 and 49 years old, with registrations starting on the 15th of July. One has to question why we are waiting till August though. One of the primary findings of the most recent and concluding wave 5 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM) study is that the lack of weekend vaccinations is the binding constraint to the South African vaccination programme is that the lack of weekend jabs has resulted in as many as 1.3 million missed vaccination opportunities. The main reason for this has been a lack of funding to pay healthcare workers to put in the extra hours. And its so important because the levels of poverty and grinding inequality accelerated by the pandemic have created the perfect conditions for the sort of tinderbox that Zuma and his fellows are exploiting with the looting we are witnessing in KzN and Gauteng. Michael Avery talks to Nic Spaull, an economist at Stellenbosch University and the co-principal investigator of the Nids-Cram study; Mpumi Mohohlwane, Deputy Director: Research, Monitoring & Evaluation. Department of Basic Education; Tim Kohler a Junior Researcher at the DPRU and a PhD candidate in UCT's School of Economics and Reza Daniels, Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) about the latest findings.

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South Africa’s economic outlook is bleak. The World Bank expects gross domestic product to slow to 1.5% in 2023, and it has suggested that job creation will be central to preserving macroeconomic stability. Business Day TV 'S Alishia Seckam spoke to Wolfgang Fengler, Lead Economist at the World Bank for more detail.

A week is a long time in politics and what a week it's been. Zulu legend has it that Shaka had come to the Nkandla area to resolve a dispute between two chiefs. When he arrived, he complained of exhaustion from walking up the steep slopes. The Zulu verb for "to exhaust or tire" is khandla, from which "Nkandla" is derived. And it seems the former president has finally exhausted all his Stalingrad options. Constitutional democracy is the big winner and we can all be rightfully proud of our young democratic intuitions. It's been a risk off week in markets since the FOMC minutes and China cracked the tech whip. This hasn't stopped some interesting M&A activity this week though. Michael Avery is joined by Warwick Lucas Chief Investment Officer at Gal​ileo Asset Managers; Raymond Parsons, professor in the School of Business and Governance at Northwest University & Isaah Mhlanga, Chief Economist at Alexander Forbes, to review the week that was.

The automotive sector has adopted a master plan that seeks to double jobs in vehicle and components manufacturing, and significantly boost production levels to 1.4-million by 2035. Rising Covid-19 infection levels and lockdown measures have however impacted operations across the board, and Business Day TV spoke to Naamsa CEO Mike Mabasa about whether the industry will be able deliver on its targets.

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