Shapers Podcast

Today is woman’s day in South Africa. And my guest is a woman who is boldly opening new frontiers through the radical digital transformation of her family business, Associated Media Publishing. A com…

Over the course of the past ten years, Gareth Ackerman engineered a massive corporate overall and turnaround of South Africa’s largest retailer, Pick 'n Pay with an entirely new senior leadership tea…

Musa Kalenga is a prime example of a new wave of digital entrepreneurs in Africa. In his concentrated and highly successful career, he managed to distinguish himself not only as a free-thinking entre…

Riël Malan talks to Nyimpini Mabunda, who left a highly successful corporate career for the uncertainty of the entrepreneurial world. We talk to him about his journey and how he planned and executed …

Dr Michael Mol is no stranger to most South Africans. His face graced our small screens for 12 years in one of the most successful travel & lifestyle programs Top Billing - a show that is still runni…

Allon Raiz is "a collector of entrepreneurs." He has built, in the words of The Economist, "the only true business incubator on the African continent”. And he has done this without any government ass…

There are few examples of successful African technology companies. In this episode, Riël Malan talks to the CEO's & co-founders of 3 tech startup companies based in Cape Town (South Africa) that has …

Ntombi Langa-Roys grew up in exile with a father that was actively involved in coordinating the struggle against apartheid. She sat around the table with her parents with many noteworthy struggle lea…

A lot has been written about “the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid.” Add to that the alluring prospects of Africa's population that are set to double by 2050. So theoretically, you have a cocktai…

In 1970. Philip Krawitz took over a single small specialized store, that was founded by his grandfather in 1933. Under his leadership that one store, grew to a group of over 260 stores (Cape Union Ma…

Richard Cock needs no introduction to classical music lovers in South Africa. He has been creating music for more than 50 years and weathered the storms through turbulent times in South African music…

Arthur Gillis has carved a spectacular career in the hospitality sector over the course of more than four decades. From humble beginnings as a tour guide on an ostrich farm, to the building, and head…

As humans, we often make excuses. We’re too young, we’re too old, we don’t have money, we don’t have connections, we don't have the right skills, we're not the right gender or race. My guest today br…

The New digital economy holds great potential for progress and disaster. We need to rethink everything - how we interact, how we do business, how we spend our free time - and fundamentally who we are…

"The beauty of being a researcher, is you keep on being reminded of your own bubble." Riël Malan has a discussion with Andrea Gevers, CEO of Ask Afrika, the largest independent market research compan…

Riël Malan sits down with Anthony Farr the CEO of the Allan & Gill Gray Foundation to discuss the most interesting social entrepreneurial venture in Africa today.

Alan Gray built the largest fund man…

Gil Oved is the co-founder of the creative council, an iconic business that he co-created over the scope of the last 18 years from only an idea and recently sold to Publicis, the well known French Mu…

In this first episode, I sit down for a candid conversation with one of the most inspiring young business leaders in Africa and South Africa today.

Themba Baloyi is a textbook example of what determ…

We are launching Shapers, Makers, Builders & Breakers in January 2019.

In this introductory episode, Riël discusses what you can look forward to in the episodes that will follow in 2019.