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A-Plus Show - Ep 11 - Cyril must go, state-proofing communities, solving loadshedding, rand collapses

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BizNews A-Plus Show duo Alec Hogg and Michael Appel are back with episode 11 of their weekly round-up of business, investments, news and politics banter you need to know. In focus this episode: AfriForum working to "state-proof communities"; ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang says Ramaphosa must step down; mass small-scale power generation could end loadshedding in 12 months; Cape Town unrepentantly focused on purchasing power from individuals/businesses; SA on a slippery slope to failed statehood; Magnus Heystek on rand nosediving 17% in three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Jul 2022 11PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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