Donald Mackay

Then Solomon Wang on the questions facing the President's former advisor.

We also hear from Donald MacKay on what he thinks the JSC should be telling investors.

And later, Benitez on why joining a medical aid early matters.

And we wrap with the latest from Wall Street.

The JSC is waiting to find out whether it will be hit with a penalty after a competition complaint, which could be as much as 10% of its annual income.

The JSC has denied the allegations.

Donald MacKay of XA Global Trade Advisors tells Christine why he thinks the exchange should be more open with investors while it waits.

You are also unhappy with the conduct of a JSE while it is waiting.

It has been a long wait to find out whether the Johannesburg Stock Exchange will be hit with a penalty of 10% of its annual income.

With me is Donald MacKay, the CEO of XA Global Trade Advisors.

Welcome, Donald.

Morning, Chris.

But the world has now changed and we have to adapt to it.

Thank you.

That was Donald MacKay, the CEO of XA Global Trade Advisors, speaking to BizNews.

I'm Chris Steyn.

Later, Bisaka's Ali Mazanderani on what a 5,000 rand loan really costs.

And Donald MacKay on why a six-month trade investigation now takes more than three years.

And we wrap with the latest from Wall Street.

On the electoral roadshow, analyst Wayne Sussman tells Christine that across the six big metros surveyed, the ANC hasn't come out on top in a single one.

A tariff investigation is supposed to take six months.

That's the Commission's own benchmark.

Donald MacKay of XA Global Trade Advisors tells Alec Hogg what the average is now and how long the oldest open case has been waiting.

A tariff investigation, according to ITAC themselves, you can check this on their own website, should take around six months.

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Donald Mackay of XA Global Trade Advisors has been counting the cost of a trade system that can't make decisions.

He released a blockbuster report this week He wrote the report himself so that any blowback lands on him, not on his staff.

Donald, good to have you back.

The secrecy is what concerns me even more than the agreement itself.

Let's shine a searchlight onto the agreements and we'll discover that light is the best disinfectant, certainly against corruption.

Donald Mackay is with XA Global Trade Advisors and this has been your Biz News Edge on a subject that is so relevant.

Customs paid last year 68 billion rand.

Mm.

These were people like Donald Mackay, uh, for example, professor of neuroscience at Keele.

whose ability to think through issues was just on a par, um, well, wasn't on a par with just about anyone else.

He was an incredible thinker.

I had many questions, Andrew.

Mm.

Now, if, uh, if Donald Mackay had thought those through, then even if I couldn't, that was good to do.

So you're now, you're now training to be a Methodist minister.

South Africa currently has anti-dumping duties in place against nine countries.

Now, Donald Mackay, director of XA Global Trade Advisors, was direct about what the system has become.

He goes on to say that the problem is that what you should be using a tariff for is to give protection for a certain period while the sector gets onto its feet.

This Or at least it seems to him, is simply evergreen protection.

But anyway, Sandy Stewart is a tune that uses a ton of B's.

And so my first attempts at playing around with it was playing it on Donald Mackay's chanter, right? Angus Mackay's brother.

which is a significantly lower pitch, which means I'm able to tune my drones to their B, and it makes for a cool sound.

So here is Sandy Stewart against B drones on a Dong Makai Channer. . . Yeah, I guess I should have saved that as a spooky Halloween kind of sound.