Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week

Bestselling author and broadcast legend Bruce Whitfield returns with a bold new News24 podcast. Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week won’t waste your time. Instead, each episode will focus on the one business news story that will change your world.Listeners will also get investment and personal finance advice from top experts, and the inside track on SA’s most successful hustles. Join us every Thursday at 17:00.

Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week is a business podcast hosted by News24, with 58 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

News24 hosts Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week, a business show with 58 episodes published.

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  Episode #59

  Jozi’s gold rush isn’t done. Plus: Jockey turns 150

  Aug 20, 202641 minS1

  In this episode, DRDGold CEO Niël Pretorius explains how the company extracts 1.93 grams of gold per tonne of mine-dump material, and why, at $4 000 an ounce, that amounts to R4.2 billion in profit, while simultaneously cleaning up Soweto’s dust problem and reversing a century-long environmental legacy. Bruce McMurray of Jockey South Africa speaks on keeping a 150-year-old underwear brand relevant, why more than 95% of its products are still made locally through a 75-year manufacturing partnership, and what e-commerce is forcing the factory to rethink.News24 Business editor Helena Wasserman discusses the SPAR board chair quitting under pressure from revolting independent retailers, the US debt approaching $40 trillion, and food price inflation at its lowest in 16 years. And Graeme Korner of Korner Perspective explores why the JSE has been a damp squib in 2026, why precious metals are finding their mojo again, and why he thinks the US bond market intervention is a dangerous gamble. This podcast is sponsored by Capitec.To catch every episode, click the follow and subscribe buttons on News24’s Spotify, Apple, and YouTube podcast channels, or catch up on past episodes here. Editions drop on Thursdays at 17:00.

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  Episode #58

  Boerie gets a glowup – and where do seized Lambos go?

  Aug 13, 202632 minS1

  In this episode, ENS head of forensics practice Steven Powell goes behind the scenes of asset forfeiture, using the Tembisa Hospital scandal to explain what actually happens after the cameras leave and the Lamborghinis have been seized, and why South Africa’s ability to secure convictions amid a Financial Action Task Force review matters more than most people realise. Neil Swart of the Belly Restaurant Group joins Bruce to talk about Buri, the new Cape Town concept built entirely around the boerie roll. Gary Booysen of Rand Swiss speaks on Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO and the Goldman Sachs warning about $1.3 trillion in AI infrastructure commitments quietly sitting off-balance-sheet. And Helena Wasserman reviews gold at a 10-week high, Shoprite’s Sixty60 growing to a third the size of Pick n Pay, and the court ruling that cleared business mogul Patrice Motsepe of a R3 billion claim, just as 37% of South Africans say they want him as their next president. This podcast is sponsored by Capitec.To catch every episode, click the follow and subscribe buttons on News24’s Spotify, Apple, and YouTube podcast channels, or catch up on past episodes here. Editions drop on Thursdays at 17:00.

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  Episode #57

  The SA EdTech that beat Silicon Valley. Plus: Nedbank’s quiet comeback

  Aug 6, 202639 minS1

  In this episode, Nedbank CEO Jason Quinn unpacks flat headline earnings that hide 12% underlying growth, explains the NCBA acquisition in Kenya and what it means for Nedbank’s African ambitions, and reads a South African banking landscape as being disrupted from every direction. Nick Miller of Teach Me 2 and Coachbit tells the story of building a tutoring platform from a UCT engineering dorm to TIME’s global EdTech list, via a Silicon Valley startup that lost to TikTok and taught him everything about digital addiction. Helena Wasserman discusses Glencore’s Iran war windfall, Sasol’s remarkable 75% share price surge and South Africa’s strange new problem of a grid producing too much solar power during the day. And Jean Pierre Verster of Protea Capital Management addresses why Pick'n Pay is still loss-making and tracking behind its own recovery targets, plus the AI memory stock crash that wiped 40% off some of the sector’s biggest names in a single month. This podcast is sponsored by Capitec.To catch every episode, click the follow and subscribe buttons on News24’s Spotify, Apple, and YouTube podcast channels, or catch up on past episodes here.Editions drop on Thursdays at 17:00.

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  Episode #56

  Is Woolworths quietly becoming an Edgars? Plus: The man reimagining Cape Town’s CBD

  Jul 30, 202634 minS1

  In this episode, Murray Clark, co-founder and CEO of Neighbourgood, talks about The Acre at Golden Acre, converting Cape Town’s iconic 27-floor CBD office block into 417 apartments with flexible leases, co-working spaces and shared amenities. It’s a bold bet on city centre living and adaptive reuse done right.News24 Business editor Helena Wasserman unpacks a results-heavy week: Woolworths holding premium pricing as sales slow, Boxer growing but disappointing the market, Canal+ celebrating its best subscription month in a decade, and Anglo American preparing to let De Beers go for cheap. Meryl Pick of Old Mutual digs into whether Woolworths is quietly becoming an Edgars in its clothing division, and what a food-first CEO signals about the group’s future direction. And, Sean Coleman of the South African Bookmakers Association discusses the R50 billion leaving South Africa’s shores through unregulated gambling platforms every year, why prediction markets are the fastest-growing frontier of that problem, and what happens if nobody acts. This podcast is sponsored by Capitec. To catch every episode, click the follow and subscribe buttons on News24’s Spotify, Apple, and YouTube podcast channels, or catch up on past episodes here. Editions drop on Thursdays at 17:00.

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  Episode #55

  A R21bn fintech empire hides inside Pepkor. Plus: The last old-school hotelier passes the keys

  Jul 23, 202634 minS1

  In this episode, Arthur Gillis, the last of the old-school hoteliers, reflects on 50 years in the industry, growing Protea Hotels from four properties to 116 across seven countries, negotiating its R2 billion sale to Marriott in 2014, and now handing the keys of Platinum Hospitality Holdings to his son Anton after deliberately leaving the room during the board process that appointed him. Patrick Schofield of BackaBuddy tells the story of a platform he inherited with no staff, no momentum, and R14 000 raised in its first month, to now being on track to reach R1 billion raised and 1 million donors in 2026, sustained by a bold decision to drop platform fees entirely in favour of optional donor tips. News24 Business editor Helena Wasserman unpacks Pepkor’s R21 billion fintech play targeting township traders, a trusted employer scheme cutting visa times from months to days, and Gareth Penny’s consortium emerging as the preferred bidder for De Beers. And Peter Armitage of Anchor Capital tells us why South African bonds are attracting record foreign capital and why the AI spend is the one secular force holding global markets together despite oil, inflation and rising long bond yields. This podcast is sponsored by Capitec. To catch every episode, click the follow and subscribe buttons on News24’s Spotify, Apple, and YouTube podcast channels, or catch up on past episodes here. Editions drop on Thursdays at 17:00.

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