Super Group has shrugged off the impact of Covid-19 reporting a 5.8% jump in half-year revenue to R20bn and a 4.7% rise in headline earnings per share. This was mainly due to a strong showing from its Supply Chain Europe unit as well as at its dealerships in the UK. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam discussed the results with the company’s CEO, Peter Mountford.

Anglo American Platinum aims to grow output of by a fifth in the next nine years by modernising and mechanising its mines. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam spoke to Amplats’ CEO Natascha Viljoen about the strategy, as well as the firm’s latest results.

Sasol's turnaround strategy is starting to bear fruit. Tight cost controls helped the chemicals group reduce debt and has allowed it to abandon a planned rights issue. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam spoke to Fleetwood Grobler, CEO of Sasol for more.

Next week's budget and the terror of the hippos jaws looms large. Recalling the Finance Minister's words during the October Medium Term Budget Policy Statement he invoked Madiba in stating that we are fiscally at a moment not unlike that in 1994. We must rebuild our economy, rehabilitate our public finances and recover from the devastation wrought upon us by COVID-19. To review the week that was and preview next week's budget Michael Avery is joined by Warwick Lucas Chief Investment Officer at Galileo Asset Managers and Raymond Parsons, professor in the School of Business and Governance at North West University

During the peak of the first wave last year a study conducted by an academic consortium which became known as NIDS CRAM offered policymakers unrivalled insights into almost real time impacts of the coronavirus lockdown on households across the country. Yesterday Wave 3 was published and the findings are equally fascinating as the bounce back in jobs has been as impressive as the fall was frightening. More than 2-million South Africans found work between June and October 2020, according to the latest round of data from the Nids-Cram survey. But hunger — and child hunger in particular — persists. Michael Avery spoke to two of the lead researchers Nic Spaull, an economist at Stellenbosch University and Reza Daniels, Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT), as well as Rudi Dicks, Head of the Project Management Office inside the Presidency.

Gold Fields says it will be a big spender in 2021 as it looks to fund growth opportunities and sustain operations so that it can keep production above two million ounces a year. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam spoke to the miner's CEO, Nick Holland for more detail on the spending plans.

Sibanye-Stillwater is planning to invest R6.8bn in SA projects. This includes the K4 mine which the company acquired when it bought Lonmin. The miner's CEO Neal Froneman, however says the investments shouldn't be seen as a sign of confidence in the country as policy uncertainty, electricity supply constraints and the risk of social disruption still remain key hurdles to unlocking significant investments. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam caught up with Froneman to discuss this in more detail.

Michael Avery talks to a panel about the attractive commodity levels and that government might want to score an own goal

Inflation increased slightly in January to an annual rate of 3.2%. The latest print shows that inflation remains well below the mid-point of the reserve banks target band of 3% to 6%. This has sparked some hope amongst analysts that another interest rate cut could be on the cards. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam unpacked the detail of the data released with PWC economist, Christie Viljoen.​

SAA has received an additional R5 billion from government to assist with the payment of severance packages. Business Day TV's Alishia Seckam spoke to Christopher Shabangu, Chair of the SA Cabin Crew Association for more detail.