Jacaranda FM News interviews + soundbytes, 7 Aug Cele: If we don’t pray for change, South Africa is going to kill itself - Police Minister Bheki Cele believes South Africa needs divine intervention - as being a criminal is the new norm.
BizNews Radio, 25 May Flash briefing: Outcry against proposed ban on guns for self-defence; Eskom sashes debt; - Eskom, the beleaguered South African state power utility, reduced its debt by almost a fifth. Professional services firm McKinsey, which played a central role in state capture and corruption in the Jacob Zuma era, has repaid R870m to parastatal Transnet. The South African Reserve Bank is studying the benefits of issuing a digital currency for general retail purposes. The DA has launched a petition against the Firearms Control Amendment Bill which proposes a ban on firearm ownership for self-defence by civilians. Absa, Investec and the Development Bank of Southern Africa indicated they could support a bid by a Turkish company to supply emergency power to South Africa.
JJ Cornish educates us about a West African state comprising a small piece of the mainland and five islands - Equatorial Guinea. He shares stories about the Black Beach, the recent dynamite storage that blew up, and the high level of corruption that takes place there.