The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement is lauded as the biggest free trade accord in the world while BRICS has the potential to open other key markets for the continent. Business Day TV explored the power of this collaboration for Africa with renowned researcher, Petrus de Kock.

South Africa's recent trip to Russia came amid rising tensions between the U.S and SA. Escalations were followed by the US accusing Pretoria of providing weapons to Russia in the country's invasion of Ukraine. To unpack SA and Russia's recent security meeting and the impact it could have on SA/US relations in greater detail, Business Day TV spoke to Business Day journalist, Thando Maeko.

It has been a tough first half for Quantum Foods as the poultry producer was hit by a triple whammy of high feed raw material costs, the damaging impact of load-shedding and an inability to recover higher production costs. These factors led to an 82% drop in headline earnings per share. Business Day TV unpacked the performance in greater detail with the company's CEO, Hennie Lourens.

Life Healthcare has posted a near 13% rise in interim revenue, but this did not filter through to its bottom line, as net profit slipped 8.2%.. During its reporting period, the private hospital operator had to contend with an impairment to goodwill within the UK-based Alliance Medical Group; an interest charge after settling a tax dispute with Sars and an IT hardware failure. Business Day TV spoke to the CEO of Life Healthcare, Peter Wharton-Hood for more insight.

Southern Sun is back in the black. The hotel group has delivered annual profit of over R1 billion from a loss of R156 million previously, as it benefitted from a recovery in the travel and tourism industry. Business Day TV unpacked the performance with CEO Marcel von Aulock.