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Morné Mostert: ANC’s “fantasy megatropolis” faces full-scale fight from AfriForum
According to Nomvula Mokonyane, First Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC), the party is considering a fundamental review of the country’s municipal structures, including the possible amalgamation of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into a single “megatropolis”. In his reaction, Morné Mostert, Local Government Affairs Manager for AfriForum, tells Chris Steyn that his
BNC#9 | Roodt Q&A: What he'd do as FinMin; SARB's crypto plan; SA's shrinking tax base and more...
The taxman, the Reserve Bank and your crypto wallet: Dawie Roodt doesn't hold back. In this Q&A straight after his BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist explains why officials want your phone and your passwords if you try to take money offshore, why roughly 200 000 taxpayers are propping up the entire country, and why he thinks the new Transformation Fund could spell the end of BEE as
BNC#9 | Cameron Q&A: SAPS patronage networks, Madlanga fallout, SA's new cartel problem, and more...
A brigadier's pips on a secretary with zero police experience. A rape kit that costs the state eight times what it should. A cocaine pipeline running through a West Coast holiday town. One year after he was shot at during an oversight visit in Philippi, Police Portfolio Committee chairperson Ian Cameron sits down at BNC#9 to talk about what he's actually found inside South Africa's police service,
BN Daybreak: Mashele's new political party, Hersov on Jozi's mafia problem, Copelyn on offshore oil
Prince Mashele has a warning for KwaZulu-Natal: when Jacob Zuma dies, he believes MK's hold on the province won't survive him. On this Daybreak, the political analyst spells out the party he's quietly building to replace the ANC, who he says is bankrolling it, and why he'd rather copy Singapore than "African democracy." Then Rob Hersov makes the case that Johannesburg is being run like 1920s Chica
BNC#9 | Mashele Q&A: MKP after JZ, Zille for Jozi, Singapore's blueprint, and who funds SA politics?
Prince Mashele has a warning for KwaZulu-Natal: when Jacob Zuma dies, MK goes with him. In this Q&A from BNC#9, the political analyst behind a new project to unseat the ANC gets blunt about the money he can't yet raise, the small group he says quietly bankrolls South African politics, and why he'd rather copy Singapore than "African democracy." He also names names on who he's backing in Johannesbu
BNC#9 | Hersov Q&A: Joburg's mafia problem and Zille's odds; BEE and EWC; corporate silence; AI bets
Rob Hersov isn't sure Helen Zille can fix Johannesburg. Not because she isn't capable, but because of who she'd be fighting: an "international mafia" he says has spent 20 years perfecting the art of looting the country's richest city and knows exactly how to disappear when the pressure's on. In this unfiltered BNC#9 Q&A, Hersov compares Joburg to 1920s Chicago, weighs up whether South Africa needs
BN Daybreak: SA's early election loophole; Wiese on title deeds; Nurture Brands' R10bn plan
In today's episode, Ron Weissenburg explains the constitutional path to an early South African national election before 2029. Nurture Brands discusses their ambitious goal to build a R10 billion business through strategic consolidation. Christo Wiese unpacks how property title deeds could unlock dignity and economic wealth for millions, while David White highlights the hidden benefits of B-BBEE pr
The NdB Sunday Show - Ron Weissenberg: How to change the regime next year - without a revolution!
In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Ron Weissenberg of The Accountability Group (TAG), tells Chris Steyn how South Africa could have a new government by next year instead of after the 2029 national elections. He says it can be achieved in accordance with a Constitutional provision for Parliament to be dissolved between national elections once a minimum of three years have passed since it was e
“Failure is the best MBA”: Riël Malan on risk, resilience and building big
Riël Malan joins Alec Hogg in Hermanus for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, resilience and building businesses with purpose. From growing up in a farming family and launching Fruits Unlimited to creating 36 startups and leading Nurture Brands, Malan reflects on failure, leadership, partnerships and the lessons learned along the way. He discusses his transformative sabbatical, th
David White: "Entrepreneurial time poverty," DRG's dot-com crash and B-BBEE's "success formula"…
"Running a business is really complicated," says David White, founder and CEO of DRG, BusinessFit SA and The Africa Marketing Initiative, and the resulting "entrepreneurial time poverty" is what quietly kills small businesses long before bad ideas do. In conversation with Irakli Rekhviashvili, White explains how BusinessFit's open source self-assessment platform works as a "mentor multiplier" for
BNC#9 | Johnny Copelyn: From a banned union organiser to SA's most patient dealmaker
Johnny Copelyn turned a one million rand trade union investment fund into HCI, a business now worth well over ten billion rand, without ever raiding the pockets of the workers who backed him. In one of his last interviews as CEO, he talks candidly about a bank that nearly went under on his watch, buses set alight in a running battle with the taxi industry, and why HCI is still ploughing money into
BN Daybreak: DA eyes 6 metros; Zuma on MK's land plans; Zambia lessons; Cape Town costs; Nvidia
In today's BizNews Daybreak, Geordin Hill-Lewis outlines the DA's ambitious push to govern six metros. MK Deputy President Duduzane Zuma confirms that land expropriation without compensation will happen as party policy. We also explore why South Africa’s anxious youth should look to Zambia's optimistic turnaround. Plus, BOSA’s Roger Solomons warns about Cape Town’s rising unaffordability, and US m
Roger Solomons: Fighting to make Cape Town affordable again…
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Build One South Africa (BOSA) mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town, Roger Solomons, describes how unaffordable it has become for ordinary citizens to live and do business in the Mother City. “I've crisscrossed the city, not just during this campaign trail, but during my public service, across all of Cape Town, all 118 wards, and the overwhelming majority
Zambia shows SA what happens when government treats the country like a business
Zambia just handed Hakainde Hichilema a landslide second term, and its youth have gone from 10% optimistic about the future to 55% in under six years. Paramount Group founder and Africa Youth Survey chair Ivor Ichikowitz explains why, and doesn't hold back on what it says about South Africa, where youth optimism is the lowest of the 16 countries the survey covers. His verdict on what Pretoria coul
BNC#9 | GHL Q&A: Would the DA ever work with MKP? Plus ANC collapse, AI, policing, BEE, and more...
Five metros are up for grabs, the ANC has slipped to third place in its own heartland, and Geordin Hill-Lewis says the party's decline can no longer be reversed. In this Q&A with Alec Hogg and the BNC#9 floor, the DA federal leader and Cape Town mayor lays out exactly how close the race in Johannesburg and Durban really is, why he will not go near an MK coalition, what the Madlanga Commission has
BN Daybreak: SA's new mining bill; Offshore gas rulings; State corruption inquiry; Nvidia Earnings
Today’s episode covers South Africa’s new illegal mining bill, which introduces R100 million fines and 30-year sentences to target criminal syndicates. Niall Kramer discusses recent Constitutional Court judgments regarding offshore gas drilling and public consultation processes. We also examine nepotism allegations surrounding Gayton McKenzie and the ANC's deployment tactics. Finally, Paul Hoffman
BNC#9 | Paul Hoffman: Everything you need to know about Madlanga, IDAC, and justice in SA
A commission of inquiry can't jail anyone. It can't force government to do anything at all. So what is the Madlanga Commission actually for, and what happens if its final report just gets filed away like so many before it? Accountability Now's Paul Hoffman walks through 25 years of scrapped anti-corruption units, three trips to the Constitutional Court, and one narrow legal route that could still
BNC#9 | Piet le Roux: Applying 'state-proofing' to foreign policy to rescue ties with Washington
Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux takes the "state-proofing" argument he's built at home and points it at Washington. His case: South Africa isn't the country the 1994 constitution describes any more, and the US still treats it like it is. He walks through what's actually at stake for America, then lays out three ways it could respond, from writing South Africa off to a new, differentiated approach that r
BNC#9 | Christo Wiese: Steinhoff, land, 'white monopoly capital', and what keeps him betting on SA
Christo Wiese built one of South Africa's biggest retail empires on a simple rule: trust people, even when it's risky. Then Markus Jooste broke that trust and took Steinhoff down with him. In this rare fireside chat at BNC#9, Wiese talks for the first time in years about why he's never forgiven Jooste, the strange twist that let him sue to get land back, and a story about a Steinhoff-linked figure
South Africa's untapped offshore prize: Namibia is booming next door. Why aren't we?
Namibia struck oil and became the hottest investment story on the continent. Mozambique's tax take is about to jump sharply on the back of gas. Right next door, South Africa is sitting on a geological basin that industry figures compare to the discovery of gold in Johannesburg, and it has just taken another direct hit in the Constitutional Court. OPASA's Niall Kramer joins Alec Hogg to explain wha
Solly Moeng: Mthethwa suicide mystery, McKenzie’s “nepotism”, Matlala-Maumela link - and R167m bust
In their latest BizNews chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng cover the deepening mystery surrounding the apparent suicide in Paris of former Police Minister and ambassador Nathi Mthethwa; Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie’s “nepotistic” appointments of Minister of Arts and Culture; the relationship between Tenderpreneurs Cat Matlala and Hungwani Maumela, the nephew
R100-million fines for kingpins as illegal mining booms into national security crisis…
Illegal mining kingpins are in the crosshairs when a new Illegal Mining Bill becomes law with R100 million fines and 30-year prison sentences on the cards. However, Independent Governance Expert Richard Chelin tells Chris Steyn that in the six years it has taken the government to draft the bill, illegal mining has gone from “a regulatory headache to a national security crisis…but beyond the money,
BNC#9 | Piet Viljoen cuts through the BS: What actually drives your returns (it's not complicated)
He's run money through three decades of market cycles, from Allan Gray to Investec to his own boutique, RECM. Now Piet Viljoen stands in front of a room of investment professionals and calls a chunk of his own industry's output, by his own word, bullshit. Jargon, product complexity, benchmarks, forecasts, fee layers: Viljoen takes a scalpel to each one and asks a single question of every part of t
BN Daybreak: State-proofing SA; Covid’s market scars; Viljoen on investment complexity
In today’s episode, Piet le Roux discusses "state-proofing" South Africa and urges a shift in United States foreign policy. David Shapiro unpacks Covid-19's lasting scars on global markets and the Federal Reserve's recent inflation struggles. We also explore how the investment industry uses Rube Goldberg-like complexity to generate revenue rather than solve uncertainty. Finally, catch up on Wall S
BNC#9 | David Shapiro: How AI quietly saved the global economy in 2022, and what markets do next
David Shapiro has watched the market from a JSE trading floor since 1972, through every crisis from the Asian meltdown to the pandemic. At BNC#9 he makes the case that a single 2022 invention quietly kept the global economy afloat despite punishingly high interest rates, and explains why the new Fed chair's own words about inflation are more revealing than they sound. He also names the industries
BNC#9 | Zuma Q&A: EWC, BEE, election'24's 'missing' numbers, coalition talks, grants, and more...
Seven days into the job as MK's first deputy president, Duduzane Zuma sat down with Alec Hogg at BNC#9 and didn't play it safe. He says land expropriation without compensation isn't a threat, it's already policy. He says the grants system his own party is often accused of wanting to expand can't run forever. And he says the 2024 election result the country has moved on from shouldn't have been acc
BN Daybreak: Helen Zille on Joburg and Mark Burke; Gold's return; Bitcoin's rise; US tariffs
In today's BizNews Daybreak, Helen Zille discusses the tough reality of politics and addresses the Mark Burke controversy. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick explains why central banks are hoarding gold to anchor credibility. Africa Bitcoin Corporation CEO Warren Wheatly highlights Bitcoin's decreasing volatility and absolute scarcity. Finally, get the latest US market wrap, including Trump's Canadian auto t
BNC#9 | Warren Wheatley: The case for Bitcoin, AI and the new plumbing of global finance
Bitcoin has gone quiet, and Warren Wheatley says that's the point. While the price sits well off its highs, the CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation says the real story is happening underneath: banks, insurers and even governments building the plumbing that turns Bitcoin into collateral. Wheatley explains how his own company used exactly that mechanism to borrow at 3% offshore and lend to African SME
BNC#9 | The case for gold: Meryl Pick on what comes next for the world you built wealth in
Central banks aren't buying gold to make money. They're buying it because they no longer fully trust the system the rest of us take for granted. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick takes BNC#9 back to a hotel in New Hampshire in 1944, to the deal that made the dollar the centre of the financial universe, and asks what happens if that deal is quietly coming apart. Along the way: why one in four ounces of newly
Helen Zille: The Burke saga, a response to Corné Mulder, and the battle for Joburg and beyond
Helen Zille left her husband, sons and grandchildren in Cape Town to chase what she calls one of the toughest jobs of her career: mayor of Johannesburg. In this wide-ranging conversation with Alec Hogg, she explains why she'd rather walk straight into opposition than repeat the "extortion" coalition deals that helped bring Joburg to its knees, takes on the DA's Mark Burke controversy head-on, and
BN Daybreak: NPA drops police charges; Burke defends crypto fintech; US markets bounce back
In today's episode, the NPA formally drops corruption charges against high-ranking police officers following unravelling testimony at the Madlanga Commission. Meanwhile, an MP breaks his silence on his fintech, Kastelo, explaining its cryptocurrency arbitrage model and denying accusations of siphoning money out of South Africa. Finally, we cover Wall Street's latest moves, where strong US services
The NdB Sunday Show: Jonathan Deal - “Snake oil” Fadiel & the villainous plotters unmasked…
“Oily, sneaky. I think if he was in the Wild West in America, he would make a very good snake oil salesman.” That is the verdict by Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal on suspended MP Fadiel Adams testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. In Deal’s latest appearance on the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Deal details the dramatic unraveling of nefarious plots and the vindication of tho
Mark Burke breaks his silence on the Kastelo storm: “The ANC will not succeed”
Mark Burke discusses Kastelo’s regulatory dispute with the South African Reserve Bank, explaining the company’s compliance processes, client mandates, offshore investment transactions and decision to halt operations amid the blocking order. He also addresses the political fallout, media coverage and his decision to step back from the DA’s finance cluster. Burke maintains that Kastelo acted within
Fire and Glory: Chad le Clos and dad Bert on 21 medals, Sea Point blaze and the road to LA 2028
South African swimming legend Chad le Clos has made history, becoming the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history with 21 medals., In this interview with Biznews, Chad and his father, Bert, reflect on a nine-year quest to reach this milestone, which is a journey Chad says ranks alongside his iconic 2012 Olympic gold. However, this athletic peak was met with a personal disaster: a blaz
Marc Dhalluin - A Saffer’s crusade against global ad fraud…
There are more online ads sold and paid for every single day than there are human beings on earth to consume those ads. That is the revelation from Marc Dhalluin of TruthsetsOnline, a South African based in Los Angeles, whose passionate mission is fighting global ad fraud. He talks to Chris Steyn about his mentor Dr Augustine Fou; the methods they use to uncover ad fraud, the types of ad fraud out
BN Daybreak: Steinhoff texts; Naspers' Tencent deal; Chad le Clos' LA push
Today's episode explores the aftermath of the Steinhoff crash with previously unseen texts from Markus Jooste. We also unpack how Naspers secured its legendary $33 million Tencent deal despite tough negotiations. In sports, Chad prepares for his "last dance" at the LA 2028 Olympics. Finally, we cover Wall Street's slump driven by rising Treasury yields and a notable dip in retail stocks.
BNC#9 | Rhys Summerton: The "100% success rate" trade every investor is ignoring
Buy anything worth $600 billion and you can't lose money, says Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton. That's the easy trade. The hard one is spotting a great serial acquirer before the market notices, and Summerton has the scars and the returns to prove it. He walks through the five things he looks for before backing management with a chequebook, tells the inside story of turning a forgotten R4 indust
BNC#9 | Hans Hawinkels: He made the "best deal in history," and Naspers still got rid of him
He spent three months convincing two reluctant shareholders to sell. He drove across the Hong Kong border in a train packed "like sardines" to negotiate with four young founders through an interpreter. He talked Naspers into betting $32 million it barely had on a loss-making Chinese chat app called QQ. It became Tencent, one of the most valuable companies on earth, and the single biggest driver of
BNC#9 | The AI reckoning: Stafford Masie says jobs, healthcare & banking are all about to transform
Your phone tells you which menu items will wreck your afternoon before you've ordered. Your investment portfolio is run by an agent that never sleeps. And the loyalty programme you've belonged to for years? It might not survive contact with your own smartwatch. At BNC#9, former Google South Africa boss and Discovery board member Stafford Masie skips the slides and goes straight for the uncomfortab
BNC#9 | Bernard Mostert: Steinhoff turned his R3.2bn payout to nought. He still waits for answers.
Ten years ago this month, Bernard Mostert and Braam van Huyssteen signed away their shoe empire for R3.2 billion in Steinhoff shares. Within eighteen months those shares were worth almost nothing, and the men who bought Tekkie Town had walked South Africa into its biggest corporate fraud. In this fireside chat, Mostert breaks a five-year public silence to talk through the due diligence that missed
BN Daybreak: DA's R4bn probe; Masie on AI healthcare; Summerton on serial acquirers; US Markets
In today's episode, political commentator Solly Moeng unpacks the R4 billion Reserve Bank investigation involving DA finance spokesperson Mark Burke's former company. Additionally, Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton reveals the essential traits of successful serial acquirers, and former Google SA boss Stafford Masie warns that AI will disrupt traditional health models like Discovery Vitality. Final
BNC#9 | John Endres: IRR polling data shows South Africans all want the same thing. Growth.
The ANC's national support has slipped to a new low. Almost a million South Africans have left the country in a generation. And yet the IRR's John Endres reckons South Africa has a better shot at real reform than Britain does. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Endres lays out new IRR polling on the diaspora, fresh data on where SA's politics is heading, and the case for why the country's youth, not its
Solly Moeng: Burke bombshell, Kallie and Jacinta cosy up, Fadiel’s fate, Matlala’s murky world…
The once carefully curated moral image of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is showing more cracks. In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng discuss the R4-billion South African Reserve Bank (SARB) investigation into the company founded by DA Finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke, and the pro bono security provided to former DA Mayor Tania Campbell by tenderpreneur and attem
BNC#9 | Wayne Duvenage: Over R200bn in bad govt deals, undone: Inside OUTA's war on waste
Twelve years ago Wayne Duvenage quit as CEO of Avis to fight a toll fee he believed was unjust. Government has since written off R43 billion in e-toll debt. A separate R200 billion power ship deal is dead too. Now, at BNC#9, the OUTA chief executive explains how a small civil society organisation keeps winning fights against the state, why one insurance sector board recently refused a minister's d
BN Daybreak: Duvenage calls for citizen oversight; Endres on ANC voter decline; Wall Street slump
In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, we cover OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage’s call at BNC#9 for civilian-led accountability and AI to combat corruption, alongside IRR CEO John Endres's polling data showing ANC support dropping below 50% across key demographics. Reuters details Wall Street's slip driven by soaring bond yields and tech losses, and ad investigator Marc Dhalluin breaks down how fake traffic
BNC#9 | Fired for pitching an 'unlistable' idea, Afrimat CEO v Heerden built a R10bn company anyway
Fired from a small quarrying company in 2005 for pitching an idea a lawyer called "unlistable," Andries van Heerden went and built it anyway. Twenty years on, that idea is Afrimat: a R10 billion JSE-listed miner spanning iron ore, manganese, anthracite, rare earths and now cement, after last year's Lafarge acquisition. At BNC#9, the man rated by his peers as South Africa's best miner lays out the
BNC#9 | Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi: Turning around an SA giant through Trump, tariffs and turmoil
He started out as a bursary student from a village with no electricity or running water. Now Simon Baloyi runs one of South Africa's biggest industrial employers. In his first full year as CEO (2024) he turned a loss of nearly R70 a share into double-digit profit. Baloyi's BNC#9 keynote takes us inside that turnaround: the internal battle to hold the strategy together through Trump's tariffs, the
BN Daybreak: US-SA trade ultimatum; Baloyi on Sasol's profit pivot; Knysna's crisis; Lafarge cleanup
Wall Street dipped as investors braced for retail earnings from Home Depot, TJX and Walmart. In Knysna, Ron Weissenberg says a R70-80 million provincial intervention has barely dented entrenched corruption despite Hawks investigations. From BNC#9, Theo de Jager detail 14 Washington meetings pushing the US to link trade to farm-murder action, BEE exemptions and Expropriation Act changes. Sasol's Si
BNC#9 | '3 Amigos': Mulder, Papenfus, de Jager on a strained GNU, US-SA relations, FMD crisis + more
They've been dubbed 'the Three Amigos', and a year on from their first appearance as a trio at BNIC#2 in Hermanus, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus are back with an inside account of the Washington meeting that could reshape South Africa's relationship with the United States. They reveal the exact conditions US officials say must be met before trade relations are restored, ex
Why king maker coalitions and municipal interventions fail…
With The Hawks investigating corruption at Knysna Municipality amid a failing intervention, Ron Weissenberg of The Accountability Group (TAG) tells Chris Steyn why interventions and money are not the solution. “They tend to paper over the problems and they address… emergencies on a short-term basis. However, when the money ends and the resources are withdrawn, we are left with exactly the same sta
BNC#9 | Dean Macpherson: SA has a trillion rand for infrastructure, but it can't spend it (yet)
South Africa has budgeted a trillion rand for infrastructure over the next three years. It's spending less than it did twelve months ago. Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson lays out why: a tender system that awards roughly one in six bids, a construction mafia that until recently shut down sites almost daily, and a state entity that was bankrupt and whose boss allegedly tried
BN Daybreak: Malema WhatsApp claims; Mulder on GNU capture; Construction mafia arrests surge
Back from BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Daybreak opens with Safe Citizen's Jonathan Deal on the Madlanga Commission, where WhatsApp chats allegedly link Julius Malema to Major-General Feroz Khan and tobacco businessman Mohammadh Sayed. Malema calls it ordinary parliamentary oversight. At the conference, FF+ leader Corné Mulder warns GNU parties risk being co-opted, while Gerhard Papenfus says BEE and
The NdB Sunday Show: Malema’s WhatsApps, Mchunu’s R700 000 forklifts, Matlala’s paper trail...
In the latest edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal take a deep dive into the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry after 159 days of testimony. “I think that we could say that this week the Madlanga Commission stopped being about one scandal and started looking like a stress test of the entire institution of the South African Police Se
BNC#9 | Dr Iraj Abedian: SA's 80-year bond with Iran, and why America's Middle East era is ending
Reza Shah of Iran died in exile in a house in Johannesburg in 1944. Eighty-two years later, an Iranian-born South African economist stood up at BNC#9 to explain why that strange, half-forgotten history still shapes how Pretoria thinks about Tehran, and why the war now raging between Iran, Israel and the United States might be the moment historians look back on as the start of America's retreat fro
BN Daybreak: Dawie Roodt slams ANC; Ian Cameron on SAPS; Wall Street highs; OpenAI and Anthropic
Today on BizNews Daybreak, Wall Street celebrates record highs while OpenAI and Anthropic eyes a massive IPO. Locally, Dawie Roodt blames ANC ideology for South Africa's economic woes, and Ian Cameron exposes severe dysfunction and backlogs within SAPS. On the global front, Dr. Iraj Abedian analyses America’s retreat from the Middle East, and Javier Blas details the high-risk, "dark" oil tanker tr
BNC#9 | Dawie Roodt: "Incompetent" ANC is the "most destructive force South Africa has ever seen"
Dawie Roodt says South Africa's taxpayers are being squeezed harder than ever, and he has the fresh numbers to prove it. In this BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist walks from 300,000 years of human history to the latest Reserve Bank bulletin to make one argument: the state is spending and taxing more than it ever has, while a shrinking pool of taxpayers carries the load. He explain
BNC#9 | Ian Cameron: "Fire, fire, fire more": Five-point plan to fix SAPS, and how long it will take
Half of South Africa's police stations don't answer their own phones. There's a DNA backlog running past 300,000 cases, sitting behind rapists who are still walking free. And SAPS spends R102-billion a year on salaries for a leadership structure of 722 generals and brigadiers. Ian Cameron, chair of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, lays out exactly where SAPS is broken, names the general
BNC#9 | Rob Hersov: Why mafia, gangsters and tenderpreneurs make SA so difficult to turn around
Rob Hersov became a household name in South African business circles for one speech and two words. Four years on, he's back on the BizNews stage with a harder, more complicated message: the country is not fixed, the ANC is not gone, and the crisis is deeper than most people admit. But he's also putting his own money down, on the West Coast, on a Cape Town-area development, and on a young entrepren
BN Daybreak: Mashele on the ANC’s terminal decline; Hersov on SA’s investability; Nvidia $500B plan
In today's BizNews Daybreak, Prince Mashele predicts the ANC's terminal decline by 2034, while Rob Hersov warns South Africa is uninvestable due to a massive illicit economy. Globally, subdued US inflation eases Fed pressure, and Nvidia unveils a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan. Plus, we hear Bernard Mostert's inside story on Steinhoff's red flags, Cisco's AI-driven earnings, and further updat
BNC#9 | Prince Mashele: ANC is finished; Zille for Jozi; where his new movement will show its hand
Prince Mashele doesn't do polite predictions. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, the political analyst and author of The Fall of the ANC lays out exactly how he believes South Africa's governing party ends: not with a bang, but a slow bleed to zero seats within two elections. He explains why Johannesburg matters more than any other contest on the ballot, why he expects Cyril Ramaphosa's own comrades to
BNC#9 | GHL: Four months into the job, the new DA leader's plan to get 50 + 1%
Four months after taking over as DA federal leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis used his first BNC address to lay out exactly how he plans to close the gap on the ANC, why Cape Town's gun conviction numbers should worry everyone, and what one ANC mayor told him in private that he says has stayed with him. With the DA and ANC now separated by just seven points nationally, and Johannesburg's local election t
BN Daybreak: Hill-Lewis on DA's future; Duduzane Zuma on MKP; Wiese on Jooste betrayal
In today's episode, Christo Wiese discusses Markus Jooste's betrayal and his fight for restitution. We also cover the DA's optimistic vision to reverse South Africa's decline and Duduzane Zuma's call for big business cooperation. Globally, signs emerge of a potential US-Iran arrangement over the Strait of Hormuz, while the US faces munitions shortages. Finally, AI stocks soar as CoreWeave and Supe
BNC#9 | Duduzane Zuma: Why the country should be grateful for JZ, and a stark choice for SA business
He once said he wouldn't join his father's party. Now he's its second-in-command. Barely a week into the job, Duduzane Zuma used the BNC#9 stage to tell South Africa's business leaders exactly what he thinks they've got wrong, about land, about the Reserve Bank, and about the "masses" he says the boardroom keeps ignoring. He splits the economy into three, calls out white monopoly capital by name,
BN Daybreak: Oil rallies; Anthropic deal; Intel $20B sale; Berkshire buybacks
Today's BizNews Daybreak covers Donald Trump’s stance on Iran and rising oil prices driving Brent crude past $87. Tech highlights include Anthropic’s $9.1 billion data center deal with Riot Platforms, Intel raising $20 billion through share sales, and security risks of rogue AI models. Plus, Berkshire Hathaway accelerates share buybacks to $4.5 billion.
NdB Sunday Show: A year without Neil de Beer - remembering the man who never backed down
Nearly a year after Neil de Beer's death, the NdB Sunday Show looks back at the moments that made him impossible to ignore. From tearing into the NHI Bill to naming his own "ten most wanted" list of state capture figures, de Beer never softened a line for anybody. What most of his audience didn't know while he was saying it: he was fighting cancer, quietly, the whole time. Chris Steyn revisits the
BN Daybreak: SA migration debates; Hormuz shipping deal; Fed rates; Elon Musk on SpaceX
Today’s episode covers South Africa’s immigration debate as Solly Moeng addresses local employment realities. We examine global tensions, including Iran’s Strait of Hormuz deal and oil market impacts. Plus, updates on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s inflation strategy, OpenAI’s upcoming 2027 smart device, Elon Musk’s massive SpaceX and Starlink V3 expansion plans, and Alphabet’s struggles with
BN Daybreak: Google DeepMind shakeup; Joburg election poll; Expropriation; Uber update
Today’s episode covers Google's AI leadership shakeup, vishing cyberattacks targeting major Wall Street hedge funds and Meta’s AI testing breach. Locally, Jacob Zuma appoints his son Duduzane as MKP deputy president while Ramaphosa holds back an interim commission report. Plus, SRF polling reveals the ANC collapsing in Johannesburg, Kallie Kriel dives into property rights warnings over expropriati
BizNews Edge: A 29% overnight jump, and CEO Alex Karp says Palantir is only getting started
Alex Karp just proved that conviction moves markets. Palantir's overnight 29% jump has Wall Street rethinking what it thought it knew about the company, and Karp isn't shy about telling you why. Elon Musk lays out exactly how far ahead SpaceX and Starlink already are, and how much further they're going, while South Africa keeps arguing with itself about letting Starlink in at all. Add a fresh Joha
Solly Moeng - Zuma & Duduzane, Cyril & Madlanga, Bozell & Lamola…
In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the headline-grabbing actions of former President Jacob Zuma and the headline grabbing non-action of current President Cyril Ramaphosa: Zuma appointing his son, Duduzane, as MKP’s Deputy President while Ramaphosa has been sitting on the second interim report of the Madlanga Commission for over two months. The
BN Daybreak: AfriForum targets Malema; Nedbank surges; SA pitches power to China; SpaceX
In todays Daybreak, AfriForum's CEO reveals an upcoming contempt of court case against Julius Malema for land grab calls. Paramount Group's founder warns of a potential uprising in South Africa. Locally, Nedbank report strong interim results, while a scam victim shares his R450,000 loss. Globally, SpaceX and AMD release earnings, and South Africa pitches a $180 billion energy plan to China.
Stroke victim loses R450,000 disability money on online trading platform
Another BizNews tribe member has suffered a huge online trading platform loss. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Tommy Salem describes how he ended up on the FXSI platform after clicking on a clip showing AfriForum’s Kallie Kriel before losing R450 000 in two months. It was money Tommy could ill afford to lose: “I had a stroke. So I was at home for a year and I was busy with the therapy and that
Why Africa's youth now trust China more than America
Ivor Ichikowitz turns sixty this year, and by his own account he's never felt more energised. As founder of Paramount, the defence and aerospace group he built into a business operating in twenty countries, he's used to controversy. But in this conversation with Alec Hogg, he's not talking weapons. He's talking about what his foundation's African Youth Survey reveals about a generation that trusts
BizNews Edge: SA is sitting on a defence asset it doesn't know it has; Malema; Tshwane and more
Thirteen votes vanish, a city manager gets his job back, and Tshwane's bondholders are left wondering what happens to every tender signed while he was out. Kallie Kriel tells Chris Steyn that AfriForum is coming for Julius Malema again, and this time the government's in the crosshairs too. Then Ivor Ichikowitz, the famously private founder of Paramount, breaks his silence on the defence empire he
Kallie Kriel: AfriForum’s legal eagles to swoop on “Land Grab” Malema
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Kallie Kriel, the CEO of AfriForum, describes the legal battle being fought against the Expropriation Act in the Cape High Court this week. Detailing the implications of the act in current form, Kriel warns that after the Local Government Elections in November, municipalities under MK control could use a section of the act to expropriate without compensation. “T
BN Daybreak: Record FSCA fines; New police bosses; US-China AI rivalries; Trump warns Iran
In today's episode, we cover South Africa's crowning as Africa's ransomware capital and the FSCA's record R2.8 billion in fines, including action against the Banxso deepfake scam. We also discuss the appointment of seasoned provincial police commissioners and new anti-corruption progress. Globally, we unpack President Trump's tariff lawsuits, OpenAI's security briefing following the Hugging Face b
Dr Lennit Max: Non-racial, merit-based appointments of four new police commissioners
In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, former Western Cape Provincial Police Commissioner, Dr. Lennit Max hails the appointments of four new provincial commissioners. “This time around I am very pleased that the Acting National Commissioner in her wisdom decided that there's merit among people of colour.” He points out that all four appear seasoned as well. “Lieutenant General Sizakhele Dyanti
BizNews Edge: Second prosecution boss falls at Madlanga Commission; ANC heads into a tough November
Two prosecution bosses down, and counting. The Madlanga Commission has just claimed its second casualty, and a leaked recording shows exactly how bad it got. Meanwhile fresh polling suggests the ANC is about to lose over 500 council seats, Interpol has crowned South Africa the ransomware capital of the continent, and the FSCA has landed a record R2.8 billion in fines, the bulk of which trace back
BN Daybreak: SA corruption probes; Trump’s Iran pause; SpaceX upcoming earnings, FIFA backlash
Today's BizNews Daybreak examines Japan’s US-coordinated currency intervention, OPEC+ production increases, and energy lobby opposition to US biofuels legislation. South Africa’s corruption commission delivers unprecedented accountability, while Donald Trump pauses planned Iran strikes pending rapid talks. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 opens at 7,489 and SpaceX prepares for a high-stakes earnings call th
The NdB Sunday Show - Jonathan Deal: The fall of Malema’s “Winnie” Johnson - and an Arab Spring brewing…
In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Jonathan Deal, the founder of Safe Citizen, talk about the fall of Investigations Directorate Against Organised Crime (IDAC) Chief Andrea Johnson - whom Economic Freedom (EFF) Fighter CIC Julius Malema likened to the late Winnie Mandela - and who was tipped to be a future National Director of Public Prosecutions; as well as the fall of three
BN Daybreak: Apple earnings; Amazon AWS; RMB housing; Anglo’s SA exit; Tesla China sale
Today's BizNews Daybreak covers Apple's quarterly results, Rivian's SUV success, and Anthropic's AI breach, alongside a semiconductor rally driven by Microsoft and Oracle. Football federations oppose FIFA selling World Cup stakes, while Donald Trump claims a Gaza disarmament agreement. Meanwhile, Alec Hogg discusses Anglo American’s South Africa exit, RMB launches a R1bn housing program, Geraint A
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