Rand hedge stocks have long been seen as the panacea for a weakening rand. But are investors actually buying into the thoroughbreds or their poorer cousins? David Nathanson, global equity specialist, at Bellwood Capital discusses how to identify pure rand hedges

South Africa's government has announced plans to reignite growth. This includes re-prioritising around 50 billion rand within the existing budget. Lumkile Mondi, Senior Lecturer at the Wits provides his assessment of President Cyril Ramaphosa's plans to stimulate growth.

The SARB has hit pause on local interest rates - keeping it at 6.5%. This, as the economy slipped into a technical recession and as the bank expects inflation for the year to average at 4.8%. but with investor sentiment towards emerging markets posing significant risk to the local unit, it still puts the spotlight on upward inflationary pressure... So given the risks Chief Emerging Market's analyst at SEB, Per Hammalund joined Business Day TV on the line now with his take on Thursday's call.

The South African Reserve Bank has kept rates on hold at 6.5%, it has warned of a myriad of risks. We unpacked the decision with our panel of experts, Annabel Bishop, Chief Economist at Investec, Kevin Lings, Chief Economist at Stanlib and Kwaku Koranteng, Head of Institutional at Absa multi-management. Here's that conversation.

Pan African Resources has withheld its annual dividend. This as it reported a loss of around 1.5 billion rand, due to lower gold production, higher costs and an impairment of 1.78 billion rand - associated with the closure of Evander mines' underground operations. Cobus Loots, CEO of Pan African Resources joined us to discuss what this set of numbers suggests for the group going forward.

The World Bank released its 2018 report on Doing Business in South Africa, the report compares business regulations for domestic small to medium-sized firms in nine urban areas and four maritime ports with the aim of revealing whether the regulations enhance business activity or constrains it. The report highlights that although there are improvements in the ease of doing business in the country, the pace of the reforms are slow. Moussa Traore, World Bank Project Leader of the Subnational Doing Business Unit joined us to discuss the findings of the report in greater detail

Standard Bank, Absa, FNB and Nedbank have concluded their testimonies at the State Capture Inquiry regarding the closure of Gupta-linked bank accounts in 2016. A common thread which emerged from their evidence is that certain members within the ruling party unceremoniously summoned the banks to meetings at ANC headquarters to give reasons for their decisions and by certain inferences suggested that the banks should reverse the closures. Cas Coovadia, MD of the Banking Association of South Africa joined Business Day TV on the line with his take on what played out at the inquiry.

The CEO initiative has committed itself to avoid job cuts as far as possible, Nicky Newton-King is part of the initiative as CEO of the JSE, she joined Business Day TV on the line to discuss their position and what it means for business during this recessionary period.

Aviation group, Comair released a record set of full-year numbers the company's CEO, Erik Venter joined us to discuss the finer details behind the rumbers.

The US stock market's recorded its longest bull run since World War 2 this August, We were joined by Vikram Mansharamani from Kelan Advisors with his perspective