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GUEST - Charles Stuart, PwC Africa Entertainment & Media Leader Africa’s entertainment and media sector is on a growth trajectory that’s outpacing global averages and the numbers tell the story. According to PwC’s Africa Entertainment & Media Outlook 2025–2029, Nigeria’s industry expanded by 11.2% in 2024, with Kenya growing 7.1% and South Africa 6.2%, driven by a wave of digital innovatio...

GUEST – Amogelang Montane, Human Resources Business Partner at Business Partners Limited Running a business is often portrayed as a path to independence and success. But behind the scenes, many entrepreneurs are quietly battling overwhelming levels of stress. In a survey of more than 400 early-stage startup founders, 72% reported that entrepreneurship has impacted their mental health, with 37% suf...

Even when employees are fairly paid, financial stress can quietly undermine productivity, engagement, and morale. In this conversation Craig Raath, Group Director of Business Development at 21st Century, unpacks the hidden costs of financial strain in South African workplaces and shares practical strategies employers can implement to support their teams. From Earned Wage Access to payroll-linked s...

GUEST - Mongezi Mtati, Senior Brand Strategist of Rogerwilco and Township CX Report Lead. Township consumers are rewriting the rules of South Africa’s retail and cultural economy, according to the fifth annual Township Customer Experience (CX) Report 2025, released today by Rogerwilco in partnership with Field & Insights Africa and MoyaApp. The report, based on insights from 1 600 residents ac...

GUEST - Mannee De Wet, Managing Director and co-founder of Planet Fitness We take a closer look at the business of gyms in South Africa, an industry that has had to constantly adapt to shifting consumer trends, health and wellness demands, and the pressures of a challenging economic climate. At the centre of this story is Planet Fitness, a brand that has grown from its very first club in Benoni ba...

Guest - Leila Moosa, senior associate at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr The global movement to give workers the “right to disconnect” from employer communication outside of working hours is gaining momentum, with Australia the latest country to adopt such laws. While South Africa has no immediate plans to follow suit, legal experts say businesses cannot afford to ignore the trend.

Guest – Gareth Cremen – Partner in the Business Restructuring, Rescue & Insolvency team at Cox Yeats? In South Africa, business rescue has often been misunderstood and underutilised. A significant number of companies only consider initiating business rescue proceedings when they are already in dire financial straits — often at the brink of collapse. For many owners and directors, the process i...

Guest – Raymond Ledwaba – founder of ITTHYNK Gaming and the AfriGames Consortium Africa’s gaming industry isn’t emerging, it’s exploding. In 2024 the market generated $1.8 billion in revenue, a 12.4% year-on-year increase, growing six times faster than the global average. With 349 million gamers across the continent (304 million on mobile alone), Africa added 32 million new players in just one yea...

Guest – Ryan Pellatt, Operations Executive at Fournews [Owners of News Café, Soul Souvlaki and MOYO] What’s driving restaurant industry success in South Africa? According to Stats SA, income from the food and beverages industry grew by 4.5% year-on-year in May 2025, with 95% of South Africans dining out at least once a month. It’s a lucrative space, but it takes more than good food to build stayin...

Guest – Alan Mukoki – CEO of SACCI Business confidence in SA improved in July, with the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (Sacci) business confidence index (BCI) rising to 116.7, up from 113.2 in June. The latest reading is also 7.6 points higher than a year ago. The average for the BCI in the first seven months of 2025 was 118.6 — 7.7 index points higher than the 110.9 for the corresponding p...

Guest – Matsie Mpshe, Founder and Managing Director at The Transformation Firm and Founder of the SMME Empowerment Summit. South Africa has over 2.5 million small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs), employing nearly 10 million people. Yet, many of these businesses are still viewed by corporates through the narrow lens of CSI or supplier development compliance. What if we have it backwards? What...

Guest – Tanya Tosen, Tax and Remuneration Specialist at Tax Consulting SA. In a tightening economy, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) is under increasing pressure to collect every cent it can to shore up the South African fiscus. While many compliant businesses play by the rules, it is becoming clear that some large corporates are pushing the envelope too far sometimes unintentionally, but...

Guest – David Morobe, Executive General Manager for Impact Investing at Business Partners Limited. SME confidence is climbing in 2025, with more business owners viewing the economy and government efforts as supportive of growth. But the pressure isn’t off. The latest Business Partners SME Confidence Index shows cash flow, economic conditions, and limited funding remain the top barriers. To overcom...

GUEST - Elize Kruger, Independent Economist BankservAfrica’s index posts a stronger reading, indicating an improved GDP performance The BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI), measuring the value of all electronic transactions cleared through BankservAfrica on a monthly basis at seasonally adjusted real prices, improved for the second consecutive month in June 2025, indicating a more op...