Mental Fitness Tips

Mental Fitness Tips

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Mental Fitness Tips episodes

  • Illicit Alcohol Trade Is Costing South Africa Billions
    The illicit alcohol trade is costing the South African Fiscus around USD$492-million (in 2017) in lost taxes. In addition cheaper, therefore more accessible, illegal alcohol products encourage binge drinking and underage alcohol consumption and pose a serious risk to the health and safety of individuals as they contain potentially dangerous substances.
    Quinton Walker of Euro Monitor joins us for the conversation about a research that was commissioned by South African Breweries.
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    14 min
  • The Business of Recruitment - CV Desk
    Job seekers reach out to placement or recruitment agencies for a job, however not many people think what it takes to run the recruitment agency successfully. In the SME Monday feature, we speak to Mokgaetjie Margaret Mboyane, popularly known as Ms Maggie Mo on her journey to running a growing a successful recruitment agency
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    15 min
  • Credit Life Insurance: Enlightening Loan Holders - Nkazi Sokhulu
    With every loan (personal, student, home and credit-card loan) that is obtained from a financial services provider, in the repayment there-of lies an element of credit life insurance that very few people pay attention to. The limited knowledge of this element means that loan-holders also do not know what it is intended for. Yalu, a credit life insurance provider specialises in this space and is educating people about this, whilst providing them affordable and transparent cover. Nkazi Sokhulu, CEO of Yalu joins us to explain this.
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    26 min
  • The Demise of VBS Bank
    On this show, we explore all the role players who could have played a better role in the business of VBS Bank, which has been been placed under curatorship. From the forensic reports released to the public, an amount of around R2bn (c$141m) is reported having been siphoned out the coffers of the bank.
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    1 hr 8 min
  • Separation of duties between Accountants, Auditors and Directors (Non-Exec)
    In the wake of the VBS Bank scandal which was revealed in "The Great Bank Heist" report by Advocate Terry Mudau and Werksman Attorneys, the seems to be blurred lines that existed on the functions of each of the role players, who separately had different functions and were charged with governance and responsibility. We attempt to unpack these roles with the Ms. Kantha Naiker, and Accountant and Executive in her own right.
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    10 min
  • Regulatory Body Shortcomings in the VBS Scandal
    The banking environment is one that is heavily regulated because the banking institutions are entrusted with millions and billions of depositors monies, therefore governments responsibility is to ensure that depositors do not lose.
    This was however not true in the case of VBS Bank in South Africa. Justin Kettle breaks down the responsibilities and functions of the bodies and where they failed in this regard.
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    10 min
  • What Economists Think About Minister Nene's Gupta Testimony
    It may be said that honesty is the best policy, however, this doesn't seem to be the case for Finance of South Africa, Mr. Minister Nhlanhla Nene. His confession to having met the infamous Gupta family has hauled him over hot coal, with many people calling for head to be chopped off.
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    15 min
  • Investing Locally in South Africa
    Despite the dire economic conditions that South Africa finds itself in, resulting in a technical recession (2 quarters of negative growth), some financial analysts and advisers are still optimistic about local investments, holding a view that things will improve. Adam Helper gives his view on this and what he thinks will happen in the future.
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    13 min
  • Back To The Future - The Land Discussion
    Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was a phenomenal political activist who championed the agenda of the Black South African to be equally treated and benefit on the resources of the land. As a result, Masingita Masunga is holding a dialogue where she is planning to getting divergent views on this topic with a view of finding solutions to this matter.
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    14 min
  • EcoStuxure - Schneider Electric's move to embracing technology
    The organisations that are going to prosper and survive in this age of information technology are those who embrace it and are not afraid to change in order to adapt it into their processes.
    Schneider Electric has developed a technology called EcoStuxure for this very reason. Quinton McCutcheon, Head of EcoStuxure joins us to discuss this.
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    13 min

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