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Ian Cameron: 41,000 killed with illegal guns and the factional battle for control of SAPS
In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, talks about the revelation that - in the last four financial years - over 41,000 murders were committed with unlicensed firearms, but fewer than 400 murders with licensed firearms whilst the government is…
BizNews Edge: Cyril's impeachment battle heads to ConCourt, billions wiped off AI chip stocks
Two judges signed the same court order and can't agree on what it actually stops. Now Ramaphosa's impeachment fight is headed to the Constitutional Court, with the ANC's own GNU partner pushing Parliament to keep working in the background regardless. Meanwhile South Africa's bookmakers want prediction markets like Polymarket treated…
BN Daybreak: SARB rate shock; US-Iran tensions; Zuma MK finance battle; SAPS Estate raid
In today's episode, we cover the US-Iran diplomatic talks and escalating tech wars with China's new DUV lithography machines. Locally, Jabulani Khumalo warns of Jacob Zuma's alleged plot to seize MK Party finances. We also examine a warrantless SAPS and Home Affairs raid on a Western Cape estate. Finally, Alec…
Zuma in crisis: Disgruntled MKP members to vote ARU - Jabulani Khumalo
In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, the real founder of MKP, Jabulani Khumalo, comes out in support of The African Renaissance Unity Party (ARU) founded to lobby for the interests of traditional chiefs and their communities. With Khumalo's battle to reclaim control of the party - “hijacked” by former…
Eva Crouwel - When the State comes to your Gate….
An anti-immigration raid on a private housing estate in the Western Cape is causing a furore. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Eva Crouwel, a property owner on High Riding Estate, describes how police in a fleet of about six vans - accompanied by Home Affairs officials - descended on…
BizNews Edge: Rand slides on steady rates, Musk's AI warning, shake-up at IDAC, and more...
Elon Musk tells The Economist that AI will out-think the whole of humanity within five years, and he sounds strangely at peace with that. Back home, the Reserve Bank blindsided everyone with a shock rate hold, the Rand took its worst knock in months, and Citigroup walked away from a…
BN Daybreak: SA-Israel tension; Nvidia-OpenAI deal; US tariffs; Fed rate outlook; Energy Risks
In today's BizNews Daybreak, we explore global market pressures, starting with new US Section 301 tariffs affecting South Africa and 60 other economies. Former Israeli adviser Mark Regev discusses strained Pretoria-Israel relations and ICJ genocide charges. Furthermore, we preview upcoming central bank rate decisions, Nvidia’s potential $250B OpenAI data center…
The NdB Sunday Show - Mark Regev: Israel and SA, Israel and the US, and the end game of the Iran War
In the latest NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn spoke to Mark Regev, the former senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the bilateral relationship between South Africa and Israel, he says: “... it's clear we're going through a difficult period. South Africa says it wants to promote peace…
Unlocking High-Yield Private Debt: The Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund
Join the leadership team at Jaltech for an exclusive overview of the new Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund - a spin-off from their highly successful Section 12J investment strategy. Designed to target structured debt funding for established, mid-sized South African businesses, this fund addresses an unserved niche left open by traditional…
Lance Dickson: Turning outrage into consequence: the AI cluster built for South Africa's next boycott
Lance Dickson kept having the same conversation. A failing council. A price hike nobody could explain. Everyone complained. Nothing changed. So he built Ryze instead, a self-funded civic action platform designed to convert that outrage into organised economic consequence. In his latest interview with Irakli, the founder unpacks the six-agent…
BN Daybreak: Zille on Joburg's last chance; AI stock warnings; Cape gangs; Civic tech
In today's BizNews Daybreak, Helen Zille warns Johannesburg faces its final chance to reverse municipal collapse. Heindrich Wyngaard explains why military presence alone cannot dismantle the Cape Flats' deep-rooted gang economy. Lance Dickson introduces "Ryze," a platform channeling public rage into organized civic action. Finally, Sean Peche cautions investors against…
Sean Peche: SpaceX, Tesla, Alphabet — where smart money goes while everyone chases AI
Sean Peche has spent 2026 doing the opposite of the crowd. While the market piles into AI, memory chips and Elon Musk's every pivot, the Ranmore founder has been selling Tesla, walking away from SpaceX and quietly buying into Adobe and Tencent instead. In this conversation with Alec Hogg, the…
BizNews Edge: Helen Zille - "Joburg's expenditure on infrastructure is actually criminal"
Joburg is bankrupt, and Helen Zille says the city did it to itself. In her director's cut interview, the DA's mayoral candidate explains why half of Johannesburg's infrastructure budget went unspent last year, how "wasted" ward votes are quietly handing the ANC an advantage, and what she really thinks about…
Parliament faces protest over lagging legislation for a provincial referendum
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Heindrich Wyngaard, the executive chairperson of Cape Forum, details plans for a protest outside the National Assembly next month over the long wait for appropriate legislation to enable a provincial referendum . “And we are also planning to be present at that Home Affairs…
Director’s Cut - Helen Zille: Time is running out for bankrupt Joburg to be saved
Helen Zille has swapped the Iron Lady tag for "DJ Gogo", but the numbers she puts on the table are dead serious. In this conversation with Alec Hogg, she says Johannesburg only spent half of an eight billion rand infrastructure budget last year, warns that DA supporters staying home on…
BN Daybreak: Helen Zille on Mashaba; Tech earnings; AI hacking; Iraj Abedian on the Iran conflict
In today's BizNews Daybreak, we cover overnight tech earnings with mixed results from Alphabet, Tesla, IBM, and Texas Instruments. Economist Dr. Iraj Abedian weighs in on the global fallout of the Middle East conflict, while SA engineer Peli Collins discusses his new space startup, Beyond Reach Labs. Meanwhile, OpenAI admits…
Director's Cut - Dr Iraj Abedian: Hormuz stand-off could cost SA more than pain at the petrol pump
Seven months into the Iran war, economist Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg that Donald Trump has lost more than the battle for the Strait of Hormuz: he's lost America's standing as the world's dominant power. Abedian explains why the narrow waterway carries a third of global oil, why the mullahs…
Pele Collins: From SpaceX to Y-Combinator: Unlocking the giant origami structures of orbit
Pele Collins went from leading the SpaceX parachute engineering team that brought American astronauts safely home to co-founding a Y Combinator-backed deep tech startup, Beyond Reach Labs. In his latest interview with Irakli, the proudly South African engineer reveals how his team is tackling the ultimate pick-and-shovel play for the…
BizNews Edge: Dr Iraj Abedian - Where SA fits in the Strait of Hormuz standoff
South Africa's BRICS bet on Iran is about to cost you at the pump. As the Strait of Hormuz standoff drags on, economist Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg why a third of the world's oil is stuck behind a 33km bottleneck, why Dubai is now more exposed than Israel, and…
Boardroom Talk: RIP RW Johnson - leaving a huge hole in your nation's heart
In today's Boardroom Talk, Alec Hogg confirms the death of RW Johnson, one of South African political writing's sharpest and most combustible voices, and reflects on a decade of working with him: the audiobook that started it, the necrotising fasciitis he refused to let slow him down, the Steenhuisen column…