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BN Briefing: Musk regrets offending Trump, is State Capture back in SA? BEE theft in billions
In today’s BizNews Briefing, Elon Musk walks back anti-Trump posts as the fallout threatens SpaceX and Tesla. In South Africa, both Houses of Parliament pass the 2025 fiscal framework with DA support, while NPA head Shamila Batohi warns of internal sabotage - and earns a presidential summons. Plus, the Free…
Cost of BEE quantified - 4m lost jobs; trillions in GDP. Will Ramaphosa now remove his blinkers?
A groundbreaking new report by the Free Market Foundation and Solidarity Research Institute delivers a devastating audit of Cyril Ramaphosa’s pet policy. Quantifying the true cost of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment for the first time, researchers reveal how it hollowed out South Africa’s economy, blocked investment, entrenched unemployment - and…
BN Briefing: Taming BEE in lion's den; Starlink; BHI 2.0; Zimbabwe 2007; US, China agree...
In today's BizNews Briefing, the United States and China commit to advancing their Geneva consensus, while back home, the BEE discussion reignites with Sakeliga’s resurfaced 2022 address. Farm safety takes centre stage as DA leader John Steenhuisen vows stronger protection for South Africa’s farmers, and the Starlink saga continues as…
BN Briefing: Trump's uneasy China; Zille to turn Jozi heads; farm attacks plan; clueless Siri
In today's BizNews Briefing, Donald Trump dishes on US-China trade talks as global markets hang in the balance. Helen Zille teases a bold Joburg mayoral run, with IRR’s John Endres unpacking the city’s make-or-break stakes. The DA unveils a hard-hitting 10-point plan to combat farm attacks. UIM’s Neil de Beer…
Ian Cameron: 10-Point plan to fight farm attacks
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has drawn up a 10-point plan to deal with farm attacks. In this interview with BizNews, Ian Cameron, the DA spokesperson on Police, says the plan will be submitted to the Minister of Police “and there's a lot of engagement ahead of us regarding rural safety”…
Heavy handed regulators ground small airplanes, helicopters, put 300 000 jobs at risk
A sudden policy shift by South Africa’s Civil Aviation Authority threatens to ground over 1,400 light aircraft, cripple aviation training and tourism, and unravel an entire industry ecosystem. Experts warn that a rigid, unconsulted engine overhaul rule could devastate local aviation, all under the guise of safety - despite a…
Helen Zille: How a Mayor Zille will rescue Jo’burg
The possibility of Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille as the next Mayor of Johannesburg has the country talking. In this interview with BizNews, Zille says although she has not yet made up her mind, she is “tending in the direction of doing so”. If she were to…
BN Briefing: Trump on Elon, Gayton on scrapping BEE & Minister of Higher Education’s secret panel
In today’s BizNews Briefing, Bronwyn Nielsen covers Donald Trump’s latest comments on his feud with Elon Musk, while experts weigh in on what the clash means for Tesla’s future. Back home, Gayton McKenzie calls for scrapping BEE at the Black Business Council Summit - amid growing criticism for his no-shows…
The Sunday Show - Neil de Beer: “Economic genocide” - by the “twats” in Government
In his latest Sunday Show with BizNews, Neil de Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement (UIM), likens the “unraveling” of South Africa’s economy to “economic genocide”. He says the country’S BEE and related laws do not constitute a “package of investment”, but a “hand grenade….that will explode economically”…
Comrades King Bruce Fordyce: How South Africa’s oldest race transcends sport and unites the nation
In this special episode of the BizNews Rugby Show, Rory Steyn sits down with South Africa's ultimate ultra-distance icon, Bruce Fordyce, at the Comrades Marathon Expo in Durban. The pair reflect on the evolution of rugby, tales from the road, unforgettable Madiba moments, and the legacy of Comrades legends like…
Adrian Gardiner: The visionary who pioneered rewilding at reserves in the Eastern Cape, isn’t done yet
For decades, Adrian Gardiner has led the charge in rewilding farm land in the Eastern Cape, but he’s still chasing bigger ambitions. His vision is to transform the province into a wildlife jewel, stretching from Plettenberg Bay to the Karoo. In this interview with BizNews about the newly released book…
British business migration rules tightened, but opportunities remain in UK Expansion Worker Visa
The British government has significantly tightened visa and settlement rules in a white paper published in May. The reforms have shortened the list of occupations eligible for sponsorship, ended exemptions for social workers, raised salary thresholds, and imposed stricter regulations on businesses seeking to expand into the United Kingdom. However,…
Piet Croucamp: Ramaphosa fears Mantashe’s knock on the door…
The “embarrassment of being removed” is “foremost” in the thinking of President Cyril Ramaphosa. So says political analyst Piet Croucamp who deems the break between the president and African National Congress (ANC) Chair Gwede Mantashe as irreparable. “Mantashe was the person who knocked on Thabo Mbeki’s door to tell him…
Sean Peche meets Howard Marks - one of world’s top money managers shares key takeaways from his guru
Morningstar’s latest performance data puts Sean Peche’s Ranmore Fund in the top one percentile for virtually every performance period in the last five years. In this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, the ace money manager shares insights from a lunchtime meeting last week with the investing guru who inspires…
BN Briefing: Trump bans 12 countries from US; Zuma on Shivambu; and Danny Jordaan’s grilling
In today’s BizNews Briefing, Bronwyn Nielsen reports on Donald Trump’s sweeping new travel ban and MK Party turbulence as Floyd Shivambu is redeployed to parliament amid party infighting. Julius Malema weighs in with scathing commentary. Meanwhile, Danny Jordaan is grilled in Parliament over football leadership failures, and Bloomberg explores looming…
Toby Chance: R2-billion lotteries corruption & the Economic Justice alternative to BEE
Corruption. Black Economic Empowerment. And that R100-billion Transformation Fund…These are topics being debated hotly on a daily basis in South Africa. In his latest interview with BizNews, Toby Chance, the Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson on Trade, Industry and Competition, speaks about corruption at the Lotteries Commission were whistleblowers were “really…
BN Briefing: ANC unyielding on race quotas; Fort Hare corruption; SA's flora wins big at RHS Chelsea
Alec Hogg unpacks the ANC’s push for strict race quotas in the workplace, with insights from Solidarity’s Connie Mulder and DA’s Toby Chance. The Fort Hare scandal escalates as whistleblowers are jailed for exposing corruption. Plus: South Africa claims gold at the Chelsea Flower Show, New Zealand attracts record immigration,…
Connie Mulder: Workplace quotas and economic chaos - ANC’s risky employment equity push
In this in-depth interview, Alec Hogg speaks with Connie Mulder, head of the Solidarity Research Institute, about the ANC’s latest employment equity regulations. Mulder explains how the government's racial targets for workplace demographics are not only impractical but potentially damaging to South Africa’s economy. He reveals the hidden costs of…
Grant Abbot: Corruption & capture & victimisation of whistleblowers at SA universities
Bad governance involving collusion between councils and management is enabling corruption and capture at some of South Africa’s historic universities. That is the charge from National Tertiary Education Union Secretary General Grant Abbott who says: “We've coined the term, you use the Corruption Mafia and that's a very good term…
BN Briefing: ANC's BEE double-down; O'Sullivan details deepening Mantengu saga; Musk’s xAI win
In this episode of the BizNews Briefing, Alec Hogg unpacks the ANC’s repeat failures on BEE and mining policy as debt and youth unemployment climb - with insights from DA MP James Lorimer. (Ret.) Colonel Chris Wyatt shares US fallout from Ramaphosa’s Oval Office debacle, and Paul O’Sullivan responds to…