Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment,

and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments.

That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly,

a new weekend programme which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed

from the BBC's business team.

Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton.

In ancient myth, the priestess Cassandra warned all in sundry that the city of Troy would be

destroyed by the Greeks.

But she was cursed to have her warnings fall on deaf ears and she was written off as insane.

No one wants to listen to that kind of doom-laden prophecy anyway, even if it did turn out to be true.

In the program today, we'll discover how a few thousand years later, not much has really changed.

Governments around the world were repeatedly warned about an imminent pandemic, yet most were caught

seemingly unaware by it, with little done in the way of preparation.

So what other catastrophic warnings are being ignored and why?

We'll also be looking specifically at the South African response to COVID-19 as

cases their rise. This week, the president has reintroduced a ban on the sale of alcohol in a bid

to relieve hospitals of the pressure of related injuries. But, unsurprisingly, the country's

alcohol producers aren't impressed with this health-before-wealth tactic. We'll hear from them, as well as an opposition

politician, a little later. First, though, the Black Lives Matter movement continues to highlight

the inherent discrimination and racism facing people of colour in the US and beyond. And we've been

looking at how the world of finance perpetuates the inequalities between black and white people.

60% of African Americans don't have access to mainstream financial services.

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