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Prof Adrian Puren, head of the Centre for HIV and STIs at NICD

Stephen Katzenellenbogen, senior executive and private wealth manager at NFB Private Wealth Management

Chantal Marx, head of equity research at FNB Wealth and Investments & Nadir Thokan, portfolio manager at Corion Capital

As the country enters level 2 of the lockdown that doesn’t want to end, the assessments are being carefully weighed, and debated about the approach we have taken in the face of an economy that has been bent beyond recognition. Has the ANC’s corruption addiction tipped the scales? Where were the opposition during all of this? Michael Avery speaks Professor Susan Booysen is Director of Research at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) and Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance; Richard Calland, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town, and a Founding Partner in political risk consultancy, The Paternoster Group; & Professor Alex van den Heever, chair in the field of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at the Wit's School of Governance, about the political fallout from Covid 19

Once thought of as the preserve of the very wealthy, philanthropy is now a mainstream financial activity and includes giving at a community level as well as supporting non-governmental organisations and non-profits. Citadel Head of Philanthropy Jean de Villiers discusses making the transition from captaining the Boks to leading CSI at wealth management company, Citadel. Michael Avery finds out how the culture of the Boks influenced de Villiers’s philanthropic journey and why should you include philanthropy in your financial planning process, especially now during Covid 19?

Investment is just as much about picking winners as it is identifying losers. In fact, statistically, the odds of picking losers is far greater than the chances of picking winners.In this interview Michael Avery talks to Jean Pierre Verster, CEO of Protea Capital Management, about how to short stocks. Click here to find out which sectors he’s shorting.

Cobie Legrange, co-founder of Rex Solom Invest

Most of South Africa’s children have already lost three months of formal education due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Children whose parents or caregivers have been able to take on the role of educator may have been able to keep up with the curriculum. But the break in schooling will have had the greatest impact on children who live in poverty – that’s the majority in the country. Craig Pournara, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, University of the Witwatersrand, shares how the COVID-19 disruption could be a chance to lay a firmer school maths foundation in South Africa. But it will require these three things to be in place.

CEO Theo Loock

CEO Andries Greyling