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Moments of Clarity

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Daily English South Africa Business · Business News
82 Episodes
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Harvard Medical icon Prof William Haseltine: Tip for SA - don't rely on a vaccine

Dr William Haseltine's career spans more than forty years at the forefront of medical research and application during which he educated a generation of scientists and physicians at Harvard Medical School, designed the strategy to develop the first treatment for HIV/AIDS, and led the team that pioneered the development of…
25 May 2020 1PM 2 min

Graham Raynor: Why PMB-made ventilators will go to the USA - and not SA

Graham Raynor of Clifford Machines and Technology in Pietermaritzburg is in the process of lodging the company's top quality ventilator in the US where authorities have fast tracked the approval process. In South Africa, where tens of thousands of respirators will be needed to meet an expected spike in Covid-19…
22 May 2020 10AM 1 min

Iain Ambler: Why SA's insane ventilator-sourcing regulations makes my head want to explode

Dusting off and modernising the blueprints of its Africa-customised ventilator was the easy part for Pietermaritzburg-based Clifford Machines. Actually getting a licence to make the life-saving equipment that is so desperately needed in the war against Covid-19 has been "like walking through mud." Iain Ambler's company stopped making the respirators…
22 May 2020 10AM 2 min

John Dludlu: All small business asks of Government is: Please treat us like adults

The Small Business Institute is becoming an increasingly vocal representative for enterprises that employ more than 3.9m South Africans. In this Moment of Clarity, the SBI's chief executive John Dludlu provides the thrust of his open letter to SA president Cyril Ramaphosa that's now gone viral: Please treat us like…
20 May 2020 1PM 1 min

Nobel prizewinner Prof Michael Levitt on why SA Govt applies irrational lockdown rules

From attempted arrests of three year olds to fuelling the counterfeit tobacco and alcohol markets, South Africa's often ridiculous lockdown regulations have had many nasty consequences. Providing us with a Moment of Clarity, Pretoria-born Stanford professor Michael Levitt explains why, despite the irrationality, SA's government persists with this apparent idiocy.
16 May 2020 7AM 1 min
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