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New voters can be kingmakers
South Africa’s estimated 13 million unregistered voters hold the power to change South Africa's future as the kingmakers in next year’s watershed national elections. This emerges from an interview with Werner Horn, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) member on the Party Liaison Committee of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). He tells BizNews…
Impact on SA (and Putin's local fans) of ructions in Russia - Prof Irina Filatova
Irina Filatova is a Russian history and political science professor who moved to SA in 1992 to take up a post at the University of KZN - but remains closely in touch with her homeland and fellow Moscow University faculty and students. Author of half a dozen books, including acclaimed…
Cyril! Clarens is calling....
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been challenged to visit Clarens in the Eastern Free State to be given advice on the implementation of poverty-relief programmes. The invitation comes from Garth Brook - an implementing agent for the past 16 years - who says: “And what we'll do is we'll explain very carefully…
ANC's damaging foreign policy: Ideology without moral authority
South Africa needs a professional diplomatic service to mitigate the damage caused by its foreign policy based on the ideological world view of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). That is the view of Terence Corrigan of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) who speaks to BizNews about…
John Steenhuisen: How the DA will beat EFF and the fragmenting ANC and win in 2024
In a rational world, the Democratic Alliance would be a shoo-in at South Africa’s National election next year. The only province where it has a majority, the Western Cape, proves the benefits of clean and efficient governance: crime is lower, property prices much higher, 98% of SA’s new jobs are…
Breast cancer: the scary truth about mammograms, birth control pills, more – Dr Susan Wadia-Ells
BizNews spoke to Dr Susan Wadia-Ells, author of Busting Breast Cancer, Five Simple Steps to Keep Breast Cancer Out of Your Body to discuss various factors contributing to breast cancer and shed light on the controversial practices and regulations surrounding its prevention and treatment. A fascinating discussion on mammograms, metabolic…
Exploring the impact of electoral reform on every South African citizen
Electoral reform is crucial in transforming South Africa’s democracy. Former member of the Independent Electoral Commission, Terry Tselane, and Senior lecturer at University of Pretoria, Dr. Sithembile Mbete participated in a panel discussion focused on the recent electoral reforms and their implications, specifically the inclusion of independent candidates in the…
SA-Russia relationship: South Africa is handcuffed to a losing horse - Dr Colin P. Clarke
South Africa is betting on a losing horse with its backing of Russia - and will face consequences for a foreign policy that “accommodates Moscow and other rogue regimes”. This warning comes from Dr. Colin P. Clarke, the Director of Research at the Soufan Group, a global intelligence and security…
Russian war games: Putin wounded by Prigozhin’s failed rebellion - Professor Abel Esterhuyse
A weekend of war games in Russia. A coup that wasn’t. A failed armed rebellion. A violent clash of egos between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his warlord Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin. BizNews speaks to Professor Abel Esterhuyse from the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University who says the failed…
RW Johnson: Implications for SA of a suddenly fragile Putin; Ramaphosa bombing in Paris
Political scientist RW Johnson reckons there are significant implications here in South Africa after the weekend's aborted coup in Russia by Prigozihn's Wagner forces. The ANC and local Communist Party's support for a suddenly fragile Putin exposes them - and there are implications, too, for the country's watershed election in…
Piet Viljoen lays into Naspers management for “feeding” at shareholder expense
Veteran money manager Piet Viljoen has been on the warpath against Naspers management in the runup to Tuesday’s release of the group’s financial results. He ripped into them in a social media post (see below), which sparked an interview with Alec Hogg where the manager of the Merchant West Value…
South African Startup Omnisient Using AI and Alternative Data to Help Millions Access Credit - Jon Jacobson
Two billion people in the world, most of whom live in emerging markets, do not have access to credit. They are excluded from financial systems because they have limited or no credit history. South African startup, Omnisient, which specialises in secure data sharing for businesses, wants to bring this section…
How the world sees SA: Eskom's "slow motion car crash" gets a global spotlight
In this edited version of a lengthy Bloomberg podcast that uses South Africa as a template for "what happens when the lights go out", we are treated to how the international market sees the country's 15 years of electricity blackouts - what caused them and whether the problem is now…
Coalition Government: DA the favourite, EFF the feared
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is in the strongest position to enter into a coalition government with the African National Congress (ANC) after next year’s general election. But a coalition with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) would be a feared outcome. That is the view of Professor Stig Jensen from the…
FFM podcast ep8: Volatility for starters; SA Inc for mains; and Life for dessert
It's a volatile environment investment professionals find themselves in, summed up succinctly by this week's guests, Corion Capital's Garreth Montano and Grant Morris from CluclasGray Asset Management, hosted by BizNews' Stuart Lowman. One of the building blocks behind Fantasy Fund Manager was education, and the first eight weeks have certainly…
Eugene Brink: New government needed to save SOEs; after de Ruyter's Eskom nightmare
A change of Government is needed to save South Africa’s State-owned Enterprises (SOEs). This after the horror management experience of former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter who tried “every which way to rectify the troubles and the travails that Eskom had and still has”, but did not have the necessary…
Perchtold on market surge: Here’s how we’re locking in profit, finding pockets of value
In this interview, Mark Perchtold, founding director of OMBA, delves into the stock market’s Bull v Bear debate, shedding light on the current dynamics. He highlights that while last year was clearly a bear market, this year has seen the ascendancy of the bull, which holds significant implications for investors…
SA Assassin's linked to Swedish PM's murder
Shadowy agents from South Africa’s Apartheid era are believed to have been involved in the assassination 37 years ago of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme. That is the conclusion of former Swedish diplomat and businessman Jan Stocklassa whose investigation was sparked by the discovery of research done by Stieg Larsson,…
Mulder skewers ANC’s political ploy to grab healthcare: “Just fix what we have, dammit”.
South Africans owe much to the efforts of its flotilla of activist non-profit organisations. Especially those like Solidarity’s Research Unit, which invests great effort in challenging seemingly endless irrational legislative proposals from the ANC- as it is doing once again after the ruinous National Health Insurance bill passed through Parliament…
Moeletsi Mbeki’s Rallying Cry for Business to Become Active in Politics to Save SA
Political analyst and Chairperson of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Moeletsi Mbeki says it’s evident from high employment, collapsing infrastructure, a deteriorating healthcare system and ailing security apparatus that the ANC government is not coping with its responsibilities and that the global status of South Africa has…