The Ides of March are fast upon us - when debts fall due and leaders watch their backs….but for now, join Simon Brown, co host is Giulietta Talevi and joining them as they scamper through the debris is Sasfin Securities' David Shapiro.

South Africa's economic growth in Q4 surprised to the upside - coming in at 3.1%. We spoke to Dawie Roodt, Chief Economist at Efficient Group about the direction the economy is taking and forecast of 2018's performance.

The recent earnings season has seen South Africa's big four banks produce robust earnings, rising above the political uncertainty of last year. But their earnings were helped along by lower impairment provisions which boosted the moderate growth in earnings. We caught up with Costa Nastas, head of Banking and Capital Markets at PwC on the firms’ analysis of major banks.

MTN is back in the black, the mobile phone operator has reported annual headline earnings of 3.3 billion rand. MTN CEO Rob Shuter spoke to Business Day TV for more on their FY results

Sanlam is looking to Africa for growth. The company plans to purchase the remaining 53% shareholding in Saham Finance for 1 billion dollars. Business Day TV’s Stephen Gunnion caught up with Ian Kirk, CEO of Sanlam for more.

Currency movements have weighed on Standard Bank's earnings but the bank has still come out on top when compared to its peers. Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala spoke to Business Day TV their results for the year that was.

Alishia Seckam caught up with Mpact CEO Bruce Strong on their latest results and how the low demand is impacting their profits

Professor Jannie Rossouw, Head of the School of Economics and Business Sciences at Wits joined Business Day TV to discuss the SARB’s independence

Kaizer Nyatsumba, CEO of the Steel and Engineering Federation of Southern Africa spoke to Business Day TV about Trumps plans to up the import tariffs on steel and aluminium

FirstRand's CEO, Johan Burger, gives us insight into the bank's interim results reporting a 6% rise in interim profit.