The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) says it will publish invitations to apply (ITAs) for the licensing process for the Wireless Open Access Network (WOAN) and the International Mobile Telephony (IMT) spectrum by no later than Friday. Business Day TV caught up with Nedbank CIB's Preshendran Odayar for more on the matter.

Sasfin has plunged into the red. The financial services group has reported an annual loss of over R48 million, due to a jump in credit provisions. Business Day TV spoke to CEO Michael Sassoon for greater perspective on the numbers.

Capitec’s half-year headline earnings plunged by 78%, largely due to the impact of lockdown regulations, which necessitated a hefty credit impairment charge. Business Day TV spoke to CEO Gerrie Fourie for his take on the performance.

Very few companies in SA exist where incentives are even remotely aligned with shareholder value. Generally it appears remuneration committees and Boards seem to think if you align remuneration to metrics like EBITDA and revenue growth that this is value creative, without realising that these can and very often are grown while destroying value. This lack of knowledge is remarkable as the most powerful thing one can do to improve performance is to align incentives with shareholder value. How are shareholders going to get alignment with management here in SA? Michael Avery talks to Chris Logan of Opportune Investments and David Holland of Fractal Value Advisors about what the starting premise is for your interactions with these companies?

South Africa faces a revenue shortfall of over R300 billion, and a steep sin tax hike has been touted as a possible solution for that gap. Business Day TV unpacked the proposal with Keith Engel, CEO of the South African Institute of Tax Professionals and Corné van Walbeek, the Director of UCT's Research unit on the economics of excisable products.

EPP has felt the pinch of Covid-19. During the group’s half-year, the Polish landlord introduced rental discounts and while this resulted in an improvement in rental collections it weighed on the company's performance with a 36.4% drop in net property income. Business Day TV spoke to EPP’s CEO Tomasz Trzoslo about the strategies the group is putting in place to deal with the challenging operating environment.

The local unit has seen much volatility due to Covid-19, but some analysts are optimistic that a rebound may be on the cards once the dust settles on the pandemic. Business Day TV spoke to John Cairns from RMB about the local unit's performance and the possibility of a rand rally.

Remgo has reported a 61.4% slump in full-year headline earnings. It says the performance is largely due to the pandemic, and its impact on Remgro's underlying investments. Business Day TV unpacked the performance, and the company's outlook with Remgro CEO Jannie Durand.

African Rainbow Capital Investments (ARC Investments) has caved into investor pressure and abandoned plans to use funds from a rights offer to pay fund management fees. Business Day TV caught up with ARC co-CEO Johan van der Merwe to discuss the decision in detail.

President Cyril Ramaphosa used his morning letter to announce that Government has now gazetted ministerial determinations that will enable the development of more than 11,800 megawatts (MW) of additional power generation. To give a sense of the scale of this development, SA currently has in the region of over 30,000 MW of electricity available on the national grid each day. So this is over a third of our current capacity that will go out to tender. Are we truly on the road to real reforms. Business Day TV is joined by Chris Yelland MD at EE Business Intelligence and Alistair Campbell MD of Vantage GreenX about this new development​.

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