Business leaders gathered for the ninth iteration of The Directors Event,dubbed SA's biggest board meeting, to impart insights and solutions to the problems that South African businesses are confronted with. Business Day TV's reporter Ntaoleng Lechela, provided detail regarding the key take-aways.

South Africa's energy crisis was in the focus at the ninth annual Directors Even, business leaders gather to share insights and explore solutions to the challenges faced by businesses in the country. Business Day TV spoke to Busi Mavuso, CEO of Business Leadership SA joined us to explore power-related challenges and how the business community can help address it.

In an effort to promote integration of the minority in economic ownership, South Africa's government put in place the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment policy. To fulfil this mandate, companies have BEE share reserves for the minority. Business Day TV spoke to Independent economist, Duma Gqubule and political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki who weighed in on the efficacy of BEE share schemes

South Africa has seen a significant increase in illicit trade and it is costing the economy R100 billion annually. That's according to a recent report by the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade. The body says SA lacks effective implementation of laws and resources to tackle the issue, and has called for improved measures to combat illicit trade. Business Day TV spoke to Esteban Giudici, Senior Policy Advisor at TRACIT for more insight.

US regulators are clamping down on crypto exchange firms and are suing Binance and Coinbase. Despite the legal action, Bitcoin has rallied and crossed the crucial $25,000 mark. Business Day TV discussed the moves at play with Luno's Christo de Wit.

According to South Africa's Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke, most of teh country's municipalities are not moving in the right direction. The AG has released a 144 page report, and out of SA's 257 municipalities, only 38 received a clean audit. Fruitless and wasteful expenditure meanwhile has more than doubled to R4.7 billion. Business Day TV spoke to the Financial Mail's Natasha Marrian for more detail on that.

African governments are fighting currency weakness amid elevated levels of inflation. Business Day TV explored the relationship between Africa's forex market and the inflation trajectory in greater detail with Irmgard Erasmus, Senior Financial Economist at Oxford Economics Africa

The private sector has teamed up with President Ramaphosa to help fix the country. JSE top 40 executives have been roped in to help tackle the energy crisis, crime and Transnet's rail and port issues. Business Day TV spoke to Martin Kingston, Chair of B4SA for more detail on the initiative.

Emira's diversification strategy is working in its favour,. The landlord has kept vacancies low at 4.7% and has posted growth in net asset value of just over 4%. The firm says its South African and US portfolios delivered pleasing performances, despite local and global challenges. Business Day TV unpacked the results with the company's CEO, Geoff Jennett.

The ETF market has cheered new JSE regulations, which allow any strategy that can qualify as a unit trust to be able to list on the exchange. 10X Investments has launched and listed its first actively managed ETF. Business Day TV discussed the merits of this move with 10X Investments CIO Anton Eser.