{"podcast":{"title":"Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week","slug":"bruce-whitfield-s-business-week-7413177","podcast_index_feed_id":7413177,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/107370458/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/news248","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44060134/44060134-1788442761775-455c49e846b1a.jpg","author":"News24","episode_count":62,"summary":"Bestselling author and broadcast legend Bruce Whitfield returns with a bold new News24 podcast. Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week won’t waste your time. Instead, each episode will focus on the one business news story that will change your world. Listeners will also get investment and personal finance advice from top experts, and the inside track on SA’s most successful hustles. Join us every Thursday at 17:00.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-11T04:20:42.058287+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bruce-whitfield-s-business-week-7413177"},"episode":{"title":"Is Woolworths quietly becoming an Edgars? Plus: The man reimagining Cape Town’s CBD","slug":"is-woolworths-quietly-becoming-an-edgars-plus-the-man-reimagining-cape-town-s-cbd","published_at":"2026-07-30T14:33:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bruce-whitfield-s-business-week-7413177/is-woolworths-quietly-becoming-an-edgars-plus-the-man-reimagining-cape-town-s-cbd","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bruce-whitfield-s-business-week-7413177","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/news248/episodes/Is-Woolworths-quietly-becoming-an-Edgars--Plus-The-man-reimagining-Cape-Towns-CBD-e3mogp9","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/107370458/podcast/play/123535593/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-30%2Fb1bfc20d-88fc-88f2-eb63-f34a0796b8fd.mp3","summary":"In this episode, Murray Clark, co-founder and CEO of Neighbourgood, talks about The Acre at Golden Acre, converting Cape Town’s iconic 27-floor CBD office block into 417 apartments with flexible leases, co-working spaces and shared amenities. It’s a bold bet on city centre living and adaptive reuse done right.News24 Business editor Helena Wasserman unpacks a results-heavy week: Woolworths holding premium pricing as sales slow, Boxer growing but disappointing the market, Canal+ celebrating its best subscription month in a decade, and Anglo American preparing to let De Beers go for cheap. Meryl Pick of Old Mutual digs into whether Woolworths is quietly becoming an Edgars in its clothing division, and what a food-first CEO signals about the group’s future direction. And, Sean Coleman of the South African Bookmakers Association discusses the R50 billion leaving South Africa’s shores through unregulated gambling platforms every year, why prediction markets are the fastest-growing frontier of that problem, and what happens if nobody acts. This podcast is sponsored by Capitec. To catch every episode, click the follow and subscribe buttons on News24’s Spotify, Apple, and YouTube podcast channels, or catch up on past episodes here. Editions drop on Thursdays at 17:00.","meta_description":"In this episode, Murray Clark, co-founder and CEO of Neighbourgood, talks about The Acre at Golden Acre, converting Cape Town’s iconic 27-floor CBD office…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2052,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bruce-whitfield-s-business-week-7413177/episodes/is-woolworths-quietly-becoming-an-edgars-plus-the-man-reimagining-cape-town-s-cbd/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bruce-whitfield-s-business-week-7413177/is-woolworths-quietly-becoming-an-edgars-plus-the-man-reimagining-cape-town-s-cbd.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}