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Kevin Lings previews Budget 2023: Investment markets will punish SA if FinMin spends R80bn windfall on a permanent cost
South Africa's annual Budget, to be presented on Wednesday, comes at a crucial time in the electoral cycle for the ruling ANC. A watershed National election is penciled in for May 2024, at which the ANC looks sure to lose its control of Parliament. Adding to the pressure to dispense…
Herman Mashaba: Published polls are a joke - Action SA will be #1 or #2 in 2024, helped by thousands of newly registered voters
The founder and leader of Action SA is confident his party will benefit hugely from a silent revolution among 'gatvol' South Africans who had previously never bothered to become registered voters. Herman Mashaba says his party's army of volunteers is helping thousands of previously apathetic citizens sign up - a…
Mark Perchtold: Do your ETF homework - names of funds don't always agree what's in the tin
ETF specialist Mark Perchtold shines a spotlight on often startling differences between the nameplate of an Exchange Traded Fund and what’s actually under the hood - i.e., the shares it invests in. He offers some thoughts on the ETFs held in the BizNews portfolios (spoiler alert - he doesn’t agree…
Kokkie Kooyman: Bank lending data reflects SA's "privatisation by stealth" - businesses investing as State services fail
South Africa is a fresh example of how the invisible hand of free enterprise steps in when socialist fantasies collapse. Denker Capital co-founder Kokkie Kooyman uses the latest bank lending data to illustrate the point - SA businesses and, to some extent, citizens have been investing in new infrastructure to…
Forget 10 baggers; here's how Peregrine Capital's pioneering hedge fund delivered 100x for investors
The fairytale story of Peregrine Capital's pioneering hedge funds translated into unicorn-type returns for early investors, delivering a return of more than 100 times their capital. In this interview, the company's CEO and portfolio manager Jacques Conradie lifted the veil (a little) and even shared some specific examples. He spoke…
ANC's 2024 election trump cards - BIG and Russia. But WSM reckons both will come at a price.
Jaundiced Eye by William Saunderson-Meyer has been dissecting SA politics for three decades, making it the longest-running column of its kind. WSM's insights are applied to good use in this interview, where he picks up on his friend RW Johnson's warning about Russian influence in SA's watershed 2024 election and…
RW Johnson: DA's State of Disaster flip-flop - and beware Putin's influence on SA's 2024 Election
The BizNews tagline of "Get context. Know more" is appropriate in this brilliant summation by SA's premier political analyst, RW Johnson. He expands on a column he wrote for BN Premium members, where the former Oxford Don admits being baffled by the DA's flip-flop on the State of Disaster over…
Cyril's 'State of Disaster' power grab is irrational, just optics and politics. Courts will stop it. - Solidarity's Connie Mulder.
Activist group Solidarity is determined to expose president Cyril Ramaphosa's "State of Disaster" proposal as an ill-conceived and unnecessary power play that has everything to do with ANC politics and will do nothing to address SA's energy crisis. Connie Mulder, head of the Solidarity Research Institute, explains why the organization…
Piet Viljoen identifies JSE-listed stocks to benefit from SA's must-do electricity turnaround.
Value investor Piet Viljoen applies Second Level Thinking to SA's electricity crisis - and shares some fresh twigs in hos bundles of riskier but potentially high-performing stocks. The way Counterpoint's money manager sees it, fixing the problem is a not-negotiable. And as investments are made to address it, some JSE-listed…
Creating access to sexual healthcare from Diepsloot to Sandton with 'Uber for the Pill' – Contro CEO Alex Schmidt
Virtual health has been heralded for the past 10-15 years as the next disrupter of healthcare, but the uptake was slow until Covid-19. The pandemic served as an accelerator for healthcare providers and patients to adopt telemedicine. In a 2022 report, McKinsey concluded that, “the opportunity for technology and life…
How world sees SA: CNN's Richard Quest's big takeaway from CT visit: the "unimaginable" power outages.
CNN editor-at-large Richard Quest is among a handful of news industry personalities whose influence transcends national boundaries. So, impressions gathered during his latest visit to SA by this globally-respected 60-year-old really matter. While Quest diplomatically avoids commenting on the 2024 Election and admires SA's entrepreneurial spirit, his main takeaway from…
DA Leader clarifies "ANC coalition" post-2024; fixing Eskom; and hope for Joburg - and South Africa
Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen shares his thoughts on a range of subjects in this interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews.com. He provides straight answers to the questions many South Africans want answered. Like: Will the DA enter a coalition with the ANC after the 2024 Election; Did Mpho Phalatse's…
Blockchain co enabling solar investors to essentially become Eskom’ – SunCash CEO Ahren Posthumus
Momint is known for selling digital assets or non fungible tokens (NFTs). The most famous is probably the auction of a NFT of Nelson Mandela's arrest warrant sold for $310,000. And then there are the well-known bored ape NFTs, which are sort-after items for tech billionaires. But now, Momint CEO…
Watch out world says CEO Schalk Malan after Brightrock's founders sell 100% to Sanlam
Just shy of 13 years ago, Schalk Malan, Suzanne Stevens, and Sean Hanlon gave up executive jobs at Discovery Holdings to launch an insurance startup. This week their business, now SA's preferred life insurance company for independent financial advisors, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bellville-based giant Sanlam. Alec Hogg…
Prof. Jonathan Jansen - On advising young South Africans; Elon Musk's Twitter; the 2024 Election, and more
Globally respected academic Prof. Jonathan Jansen addresses some key questions – should young people leave the country; will the 2024 Election usher in a new dawn; are our politicians learning from the Metro coalitions; is Elon Musk a suitable custodian for Twitter – in this interview with Alec Hogg of…
Buying property at a discount with an entry point of just R1. Seriously.
Rupert Finnemore, head of Easy Properties and a 20-year veteran in the sector, offers a counter to Magnus Heystek’s warning to stay away from real estate. He explains that the sizable discounts Easy can negotiate through its crowd-funded chequebook and a low price entry point (investing from R1) provides unique…
Energy problems can be solved without state of emergency, but Eskom needs shock therapy – Prof William Gumede
What most South Africans would agree on is that urgent intervention is needed to solve the country’s energy crisis. President Cyril Ramaphosa has received support from the ANC National Executive that a state of disaster on energy could be declared but many South Africans are concerned that it would be…
Climate engineering is the greatest, most immediate threat to the human race – Dane Wigington of Geoengineering Watch on weather modification and we..
Every time the investigation into climate change – which has quickly emerged as one of the most contentious issues of our time – has reached a new depth, the complexity of the matter has intensified, with numerous factors crawling out of the woodwork. Gaining knowledge on the subject has been…
Stock market's January Jump among Top 10 since 1960 - but brace yourself for a probable hangover
Corion Capital's David Bacher says the stock market's rollicking start to 2023 made this the 9th best January since 1960. But he has a word of caution for those piling back into shares: Corion itself has been selling into the strength on the view that US markets, in particular, are…
Back story to Joburg's unlikely new Mayor: Kingmaker McKenzie explains his appointment - and what it means for 2024
South Africa's latest experience with coalition politics resulted in a significant elevation into Executive Mayorship of the country's richest Metro. Previously invisible Thapelo Amad, whose splinter political party received under 10 000 of the 933 000 votes cast in the 2021 election, has been engineered by 'Kingmaker' Gayton McKenzie into…