Alec Hogg: Stock market smacked by Delta variant

Got a note this morning from Greg Brooks, headmaster of the Drakensberg Boy's Choir school. Yesterday the lads produced a video rendition of a traditional Xhosa prayer to salute those helping restore the looting damage. Click here – it's four and a half minutes well invested.

On the subject of videos, being forced into a virtual studio has unexpectedly accelerated our strategy to engage more with the BizNews community. We now live broadcast most of our interviews on the BizNews TV YouTube channel. There's usually four of them Monday to Thursday, mostly determined by the news flow. But we're a little ahead today with two booked in advance – at 11am I'm talking to Ralph Mathekga, a respected SA political analyst often quoted by the FT and other leading global publications. Then at noon it's James Martin, head of Economic Development at the uMgungundlovu (PMB) District Municipality for an insight into the role played over the past week by taxi associations.

If you're interested in seeing BizNews content sausage being made, go to our channel on YouTube, click on both the "subscribe" button and the "notifications" bell – and you'll be pinged whenever we're about to start a live interview. So if you've got a gap at that time, you'll be the very first to catch the news as it happens. The wonders of technology!

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