The Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone (RBIDZ) is KZN's Special Economic Zone for sustainable quality investments, world-class industrial infrastructure and attracting local and foreign investors. Recently, as part of commemorating his 100 days in office and beyond, RBIDZ hosted leader of government business and MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA), Siboniso Duma for an oversight inspection

Welcome To the Personal Finance’s Podcast show with me Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our Pension Plain episode for the month of November, where we cover retirement everything, everyone, and everywhere. This week the 14th annual Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index - MCGPI - for short was released, which is a comprehensive study of 44 global pension systems, accounting for 65 percent of the world’s population.

The benchmark rates retirement income systems around the world, highlighting some shortcomings in each system, and suggests possible areas of reform that would help provide more adequate and sustainable retirement benefits.

My guest today is Belinda Sullivan, head of corporate consulting strategy at Alexforbes, and Mercer’s strategic partner in Africa.

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Welcome To  the Personal Finance Podcast show with me Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our monthly financial planning episode, and we are talking about Education. We all understand the value of a good education, and that we want to provide our children - or even ourselves - with the best possible skills for the future. But with the rising cost of secondary and tertiary education, which can include everything from school fees to textbooks, will keep anyone up at night. 

Today, I have Liberty financial advisor, Maxine Muller as my guest, who has been with the company since 2017, with a focus on risk and estate planning. Welcome Maxine.

Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show with me content editor - Ruan Jooste. This is our final episode of the 4-part tax series, during the month of October and November, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Taxation, or Sait for short. Today we talk about the impact of auto-assessment on the filing of individual tax returns. 

My usual guest is Keith Engel, CEO of Sait and founder and owner of Tax Maverck, Andre Bothma. Andre has over 12 years of experience in the tax and accounting industry with a keen focus on consulting and tax planning. He has over 33k followers across various social media platforms where he educates ordinary South Africans on their taxes.

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Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show with me content editor - Ruan Jooste. This is the third episode of our 4-part series, during the month of October, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Taxation, or Sait for short. Governments around the world are using sustainability tax measures to reduce emissions, meet their commitments on carbon neutrality and tackle climate change, as well as to raise revenue and fund important policy objectives. While these goals are shared, the policies established to achieve them vary greatly.

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In our second instalment of our four episode Tax Month series, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Tax Practitioners, or SAIT for short, we will be unpacking Research and Development Incentives - or R&D as the bean counters refer to it .

Welcome To  the Personal Finance’s Podcast show with me, Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our Pension Plain episode for the month of October, where we cover pension everything, everyone, and everywhere.

The financial services dispute resolution landscape is being radically reshaped to ensure a consistent framework across the financial services sector whilst providing for quick and cost-efficient review of an aggrieved party’s grievance.

Along with the proposed amendments is a name change for the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator (OPFA) which will be renamed the “Retirement Funds Ombud” and for the Pension Funds Act to be called the “Retirement Funds Act”.

Today we had Muvhango Lukhaimane, the South African Pension Fund Adjudicator, in the studio who talked us through the release of her annual report this week, as well as the extensive regulatory reform in financial services over the last five years. But first we spoke about the significant role her office plays in protecting the interests of every single member of a retirement fund in the country, whether active contributor or pension recipient.

Muvhango Lukhaimane commenced her responsibilities as Deputy Pension Funds  Adjudicator on 1 June 2012 and was appointed Pension Funds Adjudicator on 1 July 2013.

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In this first episode of African Talk, host Shifaan Ryklief speaks to liberation struggle war veteran and former member of the Pan African Parliament, Pandelani Nefolovhodwe; political analyst Kim Heller and a former journalist and corporate strategist, Oupa Ngwenya. We take a closer look at media freedom in South Africa and dive into what unfolded in 1977 when certain publications were banned.

Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show with me content editor - Ruan Jooste. This is the first episode of a 4-part series, during the month of October, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Taxation, or Sait for short, which we famously dubbed Tax Month, as we will not only see the Medium-Term Budget Review be presented in parliament on the 26th, but also have various Tax amendments enacted, as announced in February Budget. There are also a variety of tax changes that have been implemented recently, especially in line with retirement reform, one being the streamlining of pension and provident funds from a tax perspective.

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Welcome To Personal Finance’s  Podcast show with Content Editor Ruan Jooste. It is the Financial Planning episode for the month of October, and we are discussing delays in winding up deceased estates, especially in lieu of the long delays at the Master of the High Court in South Africa at the moment. 

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