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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN-ZA · 197 episodes
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Welcome to South Africa’s favourite business news channel. We break down the biggest South African business stories, market moves, money trends and major developments shaping the country - keeping you informed and entertained with the most important news out there. Subscribe and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Facebook to stay ahead of the news and never miss a story.
Unknown Host hosts Business Bagel, a news show with 197 episodes published.
In Today’s Roundup: SARS wants to completely overhaul how VAT works in South Africa, with a system that could eventually calculate what businesses owe automatically - although full implementation may only arrive around 2
In Today’s Roundup: Weight-loss drugs were supposed to be bad news for Nestlé, but the food giant is now building products around the nutritional problems rapid weight loss can create. Meanwhile, South African coal miner
In Today’s Roundup: One of Shoprite’s fastest-growing businesses is now doing R25.5 billion in annual sales, with Sixty60 growing almost 5 times faster than the supermarkets it runs off. Meanwhile, the rand has hit its s
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In Today’s Roundup: One of Shoprite’s fastest-growing businesses is now doing R25.5 billion in annual sales, with Sixty60 growing almost 5 times faster than the supermarkets it runs off. Meanwhile, the rand has hit its s
In Today’s Roundup: MTN’s business is booming across Africa, with profits jumping 71% in Nigeria, but its shares still fell nearly 6% as an old investment in Iran came back to haunt it. Meanwhile, the owner of Varsity Co
In Today’s Roundup: The JSE is having a bumper year as South Africans pile into the market, with profits jumping nearly 17% as trading activity surges. Meanwhile, the financial regulator is investigating a strange scheme
In Today’s Roundup: South Africa’s biggest hospital group wants to use AI to spot when patients are in trouble hours before doctors can, while Spur has been hit with a R130 million charge over a dispute involving - of al
In Today's Weekly Roundup: South Africa’s biggest political story didn’t end with a sentence - it kicked off a legal battle that could decide whether Julius Malema keeps his seat in Parliament. At the same time, Ramaphos
In Today's Weekly Roundup: South Africa is moving toward a stricter definition of who gets to live and work in the country, as government backs a sweeping overhaul of immigration rules. At the same time, diplomatic signa
In Today's Weekly Roundup: Government has deployed more than 2,200 soldiers into gang hotspots across five provinces as shootings spike in parts of Cape Town - a heavy intervention that’s worked before, but never for lon
In Today's Weekly Roundup: South Africa’s land reform debate is back in motion - this time with more than 17,000 hectares in KZN handed back to communities nearly three decades after they were removed, raising the same u
In Today's Weekly Roundup: South Africa’s Post Office is edging closer to collapse, with liquidation now openly on the table after years of failed rescues. At the same time, government is quietly testing whether high-spe
In Today's Show: After nine months of producing the Daily Bagel show every single day, we’re stepping into the next chapter of Daily Bagel. In this video, we explain why we’re ending the daily show and what this shift al
In Today's Show: Artificial intelligence is quietly moving from answering questions to doing the work itself - with a new generation of “AI agents” now scheduling meetings, organising files, and triggering a surge in tec
In Today's Show: Brazil’s president has issued a blunt warning to South Africa: in an increasingly unstable world, countries that neglect their defence could one day find themselves exposed. Meanwhile, South Africa’s dem
In Today's Show: More than R2 trillion was wiped off the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in a single week as global tensions spooked investors and sent money fleeing emerging markets. South Africa is also quietly revisiting
In Today's Show: South Africa is trying to pull a R36 billion cannabis economy out of the shadows and into a regulated industry - a move that could eventually turn hemp into a multibillion-dollar export. Meanwhile, a new
In Today's Show: South Africa’s TV industry may be entering its biggest shake-up in decades after Canal+ pulled the plug on Showmax and began reshaping MultiChoice from the inside. Meanwhile, a very different technologic
In Today's Show: South Africa’s ride-hailing industry is heading into a regulatory shake-up as new rules force apps like Uber and Bolt to formally register - though so far, only one has done it. In Europe, policymakers a
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