The JSE has stripped Fortress of it REIT status, saying the property company no longer meets its minimum requirements. This follows a tussle between shareholders and executives, as they failed to reach an agreement on Fortress’ dual share structure. Business Day TV caught up with the company’s CEO, Steven Brown and CFO, Ian Vorster for more detail.

Poultry producer Astral Foods expects a huge drop in its headline earnings in its next half-year results, because of load-shedding as it looks to recover input costs by hiking selling prices. Business Day TV spoke to CEO of Astral Foods, Chris Schutte for more insight.

The idea of a new state bank has resurfaced, at a time when public trust in state-owned entities is critically low. Business Day TV discussed the viability of a state-owned bank with Kokkie Kooyman from Denker Capital

South Africa’s delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos showcased the country as an investment destination amid a dire energy crisis. Business Day TV spoke to BrandSA's Sithembile Ntombela for a look at how South Africa was received at the WEF.

The South African Reserve Bank is expected to increase rates at its upcoming meeting and analyst forecasts range from a 25 basis point hike to a 50 basis point hike. Business Day TV spoke to Siobhan Redford, Economist at RMB for her view.

The South African Post Office is looking to reduce its working hours and retrench employees, as it seeks to cut its wage bill. Business Day TV spoke to SAPO CEO Nomkhita Mona for more detail on the current state of the utility.

For this week's trade of the week, independent analyst Loyiso Mpeta takes a look at insurance stocks by unpacking the technical analysis he's done on Discovery, Momentum, Old Mutual and Sanlam.

Even though African banks have proven resilient over the last two to three years, 2023 may be the year that global and domestic shocks undermine credit drivers for African lenders. This is expected to add to existing operating environment risks as highlighted by Fitch Ratings in its outlook for African banks this year. Mahin Dissanayake, Head of African Banks at Fitch Ratings spoke to Business Day TV about the research.

Eskom's board chair and CEO seem to have contrasting views on the outlook for electricity outages. Eskom chairperson Mpho Makwana has stated that permanent load-shedding will have to be implemented to give Eskom room to conduct the necessary maintenance to its power stations. While Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter says that permanent stage 2 and stage 3 load-shedding will not guarantee that Eskom could keep load-shedding at those levels. Busibness Day TV spoke to Business Day journalist Denene Erasmus for more.

There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel in terms of the future of load-shedding. Government has given a timeline of 12 to 18 months to bring the power crisis to an end while Eskom Chair Mpho Mkwana suggests 2 to 3 years with permanent stage two or three of load shedding in place and Eskom CEO, Andre De Ruyter says "it's all too unpredictable." Will load shedding get worse before it gets better? To find out, Business Day TV spoke to energy analyst, Ted Blom for his views.