RC 261007SAfm
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
The episode focused on South Africa’s electricity surplus, mining investment constraints, offshore retirement savings and increasingly sophisticated digital scams.
- 18:29
South Africa now has electricity supply exceeding demand, prompting plans for 4,600 megawatts of battery storage and 5,000 megawatts of gas-to-power capacity.
- 18:34
The Electricity and Energy Department is exploring exports to Zambia and wider regional markets, but inadequate interconnectors currently limit South Africa’s ability to supply the copper belt.
- 18:17
PwC said precious-metals miners benefited from high gold and PGM prices, while bulk commodities remain constrained by logistics, exchange rates and export difficulties.
- 18:45
Alan Gray rejected calls to restrict offshore retirement investments, arguing South Africa lacks sufficiently diversified local opportunities and needs better-governed, viable infrastructure projects instead.
- 18:56
Scammers are combining data breaches, social-media information and publicly shared documents to impersonate banks; consumers should independently verify callers and use trusted security checks.