Special Report podcast

‘We feel we have turned the corner in terms of a very, very substantial focus on recovery, and we're quietly positive – but it's a tough business’: Andrew Shaw, chief strategy and planning officer, Transnet.

‘We are saying give us the opportunity to be able to implement the specific [public/private sector] interventions with greater speed and urgency before we take decisions to retrench workers – retrenchment of workers should be the last resort’: Rudi Dicks, project management office head in the presidency.

Visas and electricity are niggling points that persist – Sébastien de Place, president of the Foreign Trade Advisors for France in SA and a partner at Mazars.

Johan Stander, a member of the Highveld Syndication Action Group (HSAG), gives an update and shares insights into the legal battles and where things stand currently.

CEO Lungisa Fuzile says Standard Bank SA is not guilty of currency manipulation, and the ‘egregious’ allegation is down to confusion between its name and that of the British Standard Chartered Bank.

Nedbank chair Daniel Mminele on the group's appointment of Jason Quinn as CEO.

'Small nuclear energy generation has a very important contribution to make in totally solving the energy scarcity': André Pienaar, founder and CEO of C5 Capital.

'The next stage of growth will be quicker and with more innovation than ever before; make sure each of your investments somehow has exposure to it’ – André Pienaar, the South African heading up big international venture capital company C5.

Benny Oeyen from Anglo American shares background on the groundbreaking H2 Moves Berlin project.

‘It makes absolute sense that every molecule of gas we can use to replace pollutive fuels is clearly the right way to go’: Kinetiko Energy CEO Nick de Blocq.

‘The minister’s dismissal of appeals by five environmental groups is an important step forward and we will hopefully submit our final environmental report soon’: commercial director Mehmet Katmer.

The ultimate end game would be to replace coal as a fuel source with a completely carbon-free alternative, says Mike Peo from Nedbank CIB.

Citibank pledges R1.4bn for Phase 1, which includes a runway, a passenger terminal, and a cargo terminal development beside the Vaal River – MTP Aviation Solutions CEO Petko Atanassov.

Tshepo Mahloele, who chairs Harith and the Takatso Consortium, says he personally finds SAA offers ‘a very warm and fuzzy’ service.

André Pienaar of C5 Capital, which owns a majority stake in the company that sent a mission into space on Sunday (and is doing alterations to the International Space Station, among other things), talks about the democratisation of space, Nasa’s plan to go back to the moon, and the ‘sexy new space suits’ today’s astronauts get to wear.