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Warren Wheatley breaks his silence on his FSCA debarment
Three trades, R301 in total, and a 20-year ban from the financial sector. Warren Wheatley, the chartered accountant who helped put together the Capitec empowerment deal and went on to found Altvest, now Africa Bitcoin Corporation, broke his silence to Alec Hogg days after resigning as CEO. The FSCA says he, his wife Tatum and his chief investment officer coordinated trades to inflate the share pri
Brent Bozell on the US-South Africa breakdown
Six months after warning a Hermanus room full of business leaders that Washington's patience was wearing thin, US Ambassador Brent Bozell returned to BizNews to explain what happened next. Five asks, a 15-day deadline and a six-page reply that, in his words, answered none of them. The result: visa bans on unnamed officials, every item on the negotiating table withdrawn, and a warning that there is
Mchunu, Mrs Matlala, Maumela, Mudzinganyama - and Meyer…
In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the second seizure of of electronic devices belonging to Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu; the arrest of tenderpreneur Cat Matlala’s wife, Tskanane; the rape case against suspended Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya; the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquriy; the BEE abuse by for
BN Daybreak: Sibiya rape charges; EMPD chief fired; NPA to charge Malema; Trump's Iran ultimatum
Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is in custody on rape, sexual grooming and human trafficking charges; police committee chair Ian Cameron tells BizNews it is chilling that he was once in line to lead the SAPS. Action Society's Juanita du Preez says EMPD chief Julius Mkhwanazi's firing took five arrests, and doubts Tembisa tender kingpin Hangwani Maumela's R1.9 billion tax bill will eve
Ian Cameron: General Sibiya on charges of rape, sexual grooming, human trafficking…
In their latest interview, Chris Steyn and Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, unpack a day of high drama with the court appearance this afternoon of suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya who is now facing charges of rape, sexual grooming, and human trafficking. The cases involve the alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl and the allege
BOTH Mbalula AND Malema now face criminal prosecution | Barry Bateman
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Barry Bateman of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit talk about the criminal prosecution now being faced by both ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula and EFF leader Julius Malema “This is the second case where AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit has succeeded in convincing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that a politician (Mbalula) should be prosecute
BN Daybreak: Threats to kill unravel tender empire, DA's odds in LGEs 2026, US-SA diplomatic fallout
A tenderpreneur bragged on video that he could kill women and walk free. By the end of the weekend he'd lost his company, his lease and his freedom of movement, with three government ministers now circling his contracts, his ratings and his immigration status. Action Society's Juanita du Preez joined Chris Steyn to unpack it, alongside the belated sacking of a suspended metro police chief and a te
Tender empire exposed after threat to kill women who said “No, thanks” | Juanita du Preez
In their latest chat, Chris Steyn and Juanita du Preez of Action Society talk about the video of the tenderpreneur threatening to kill women in the powder room of a Sandton restaurant after they turned down his advances. Transport Minister Barbara Creasy has now ordered an investigation into his tenders. Infrastructure Minister Dean McPherson has ordered an investigation into his ratings. And Acti
BN Daybreak: ANC ballot 'car crash'; Swimming SA sponsors; Rubio visa blunder; Buffett exits
Elections analyst Wayne Sussman tells Chris Steyn the local government poll is shaping up as a car crash for the ANC, which failed to submit any candidates in its Eastern Cape strongholds of Port St Johns and Ngquza Hill and lost proportional lists in Walter Sisulu and Sundays River Valley. Bank of America's Brad Ross says sponsors facing Swimming SA's missing R50 million should freeze, audit and
LGEs 2026: The ANC, DA, MKP, EFF, IFP, Freedom Front, Patriotic Alliance, ActionSA
In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Elections Analyst Wayne Sussman dissects the preparedness and likely outcome for South Africa’s top eight political parties ahead of the Local Government Elections in November. He predicts a “car crash” for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC “going into the election knowing that there are a number of …municipalities and ANC heartlands which are
Swimming SA saga: Officials suspended, champions unpaid, and sponsors watching closely
Swimming South Africa has two officials suspended, a high performance centre with more than R50 million unaccounted for, and an Olympic champion who says she waited over a year for prize money the federation then charged her interest on. So what does a sponsor actually do with that? Bank of America's Brad Ross, speaking to Alec Hogg in a personal capacity, laid out the playbook: freeze the funds,
Rubio’s visa move a blunder: FW de Klerk Foundation appeals to Washington to reconsider
The Trump administration has escalated its pressure on South Africa, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing new visa restrictions over land expropriation laws and racial discrimination against the Afrikaner minority. Christo van der Rheede, executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, calls it a profound strategic blunder, one that risks handing the ANC a political gift ahead of local
How Alec Hogg's 45 years in journalism culminated in BizNews and its loyal "tribe"
This interview was livestreamed on Conscious Caracal on 11 September 2026. Find Ernst van Zyl's Conscious Caracal Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCeNFLCUJ2lM1S_H32ICVs4w
Before BizNews, there was a bank job Alec Hogg quit within three years, a company called Moneyweb he built from a room above his garage and then lost control of, and a High Court letter that convinced him to start all ov
BN Daybreak: ANC 'could collapse'; US visa ban; trillion-rand spaza economy; Fed hikes, Wall St up
FF+ leader Corné Mulder tells Alec Hogg that Pretoria's foreign policy has exhausted Washington's patience and that the ANC could collapse well before 2029. New US visa restrictions name no names, making official travel to America a gamble. Kasinomics author GG Alcock says the deportation drive barely dented a trillion-rand township economy, with spaza volumes back to normal within weeks of the Ju
Corné Mulder says SA could have a new government before 2029
South Africa just joined a short and unflattering list of countries facing individual US visa restrictions, and Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder says he saw it coming from a manifesto launch stage days before it happened. He tells Alec Hogg why he thinks Cyril Ramaphosa's habit of avoiding decisions has left the country exposed to an American administration that has run out of patience, why
GG Alcock says SA's R1-trillion "informal" economy is anything but
South Africa's townships are not a side economy. According to GG Alcock, author of the Kasinomics book series, they're a trillion-rand-plus market that the country's biggest listed companies are already quietly fighting over, from Shoprite's cash-and-carry pivot to Capitec's entrepreneur accounts to Pepkor's handset financing. Alcock, who grew up in a mud hut in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, and never we
Solly Moeng: BOTH Cyril AND Mashatile are too ill to run the country
In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng talk about both President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile having been declared unfit - because they are too ill - to perform official duties; the US the visa restrictions for certain - still unamed -government officials; the performance (or lack) of US Ambassador Roelf Meyer; the 181 lost candidate c
BN Daybreak: US visa ban on SA officials, AfriForum's farm attack report, SA banks resilient
Washington stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract this week. Marco Rubio named individual officials for visa restrictions over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement, and the US ambassador in Pretoria called it only the first move. Hudson Institute's Joshua Meservey explained why Washington chose a scalpel over a sledgehammer, and why South Africa's own dealings with T
SA joins Colombia, South Sudan on short list hit by this US visa tool. Meservey unpacks why
The night before this interview, Marco Rubio picked up a weapon Washington has never used against South Africa before: visa restrictions aimed at individual officials, not the country as a whole. Hours later, the US ambassador in Pretoria said it was only the start. Joshua Meservey of the Hudson Institute had spent months arguing publicly for exactly this approach, and told Alec Hogg why the scalp
Kooyman: Making SA investable again, pressure from Washington, and November’s election stakes
FirstRand just put its UK business up for sale after a motor finance mis-selling scandal turned an eight-year-old acquisition into a multi-billion-rand headache, and analyst Kokkie Kooyman of Denker Capital walked Alec Hogg through what it's actually worth. He explained why Capitec is quietly trying to build six versions of itself across Eastern Europe and Latin America, why South Africa's big thr
Jacques Broodryk: Trump hits SA officials with “bombshell” visa restrictions
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Jacques Broodryk, the Chief Spokesperson for Community Safety at AfriForum, hails the announcement by the Trump administration of visa restrictions for those “responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against
Boardroom Talk: US announces visa restrictions on SA citizens relating to racism concerns
Washington has stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a new visa restriction policy aimed not at the country, but at named officials inside the Pretoria government, over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement. No names were published, but the bar for inclusion is deliberately low, and family members with a US visa, a green
BN Daybreak: Kempton Park bodies; ANC 'finished' in eThekwini; Chelsea flowers; AI slowdown
Action Society's Juanita du Preez tells BizNews six bodies in Kempton Park finally forced a multidisciplinary task team, years after the Gaby Ndaba case stalled on DNA backlogs, while the station tops the country for kidnappings with 76 in three months. DA eThekwini mayoral candidate Haniff Hoosen says the ANC is finished in the city and rates his chances against MK at 50/50. Leon Kluge recounts h
Leon Kluge: The botanist turning South Africa's flowers into gold
Leon Kluge pulled off a hat-trick no South African had managed before: three straight gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, the world's most prestigious garden show. But this year's win very nearly didn't happen. Storms and flooding tore through the Western Cape days before the harvest, cutting farmers off from the airport and leaving Kluge with no backup plan and no government funding to fall b
With the ANC finished, eThekwini's mayoral contest comes down to the DA and MK
Haniff Hoosen made the trip from Durban to BizNews's Hermanus studio with a blunt message: the ANC is finished in eThekwini, and what replaces it could be worse. The DA's mayoral candidate walked through how a metro that once out-drew Cape Town for tourists now loses 65% of its water to 13,000 active leaks, why he believes MK is running a placeholder candidate to make way for a scandal-tainted for
6 bodies found: Killing spree of “serial” rapist…
In this BizNews interview, Chris Steyn and Juanita du Preez, the national spokesperson for Action Society, talk about the killing spree of a suspected serial rapist (or group of rapists) in Ekurhuleni. By yesterday (Monday), five bodies had been found, four in Kempton Park, one in Olifantsfontein, and this morning (Tuesday), another one in Kwa-Thema. Four of the bodies were found in Kempton Park w
BN Daybreak: Cape Town's conviction crisis, terrorists on SA soil, AI stock wobble, BNC#9 wrap
Nineteen times out of twenty, the man Cape Town's police catch red-handed with an illegal gun walks free. JP Smith explains why, and why he's taking national government to court over it. Intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman lays out something most South Africans haven't clocked: 14 active Bitcoin wallets linked to Hamas, offices operating in the open, and Islamic State using our own organised cri
Cape Town's crimefighter, JP Smith, on the court battle that could reshape SA policing
JP Smith has spent years being told his city is one of the world's most violent. He didn't dispute it. He explained why. Nearly every gun his officers pulled off the street came back to bite them: nineteen times out of twenty, the man caught red-handed walked free, because Cape Town cannot investigate its own arrests. That fight over investigative powers, now heading to court against national gove
BN Daybreak: Pistorius 'big lie'; Hamas crypto wallets; Comp Com overreach; EE quotas; Wall St up
Retired senior advocate Chris Marnewick spent six years on the Pistorius trial record and tells Alec Hogg the conviction should have been culpable homicide, not murder, blaming social media groupthink for a "big lie" of gender-based violence. Analyst Jasmine Opperman reveals 14 active bitcoin wallets in South Africa channelling funds to Hamas. Financial Mail's Rob Rose unpacks how the Competition
Jasmine Opperman: Hamas-SA: 14 Bitcoin wallets
In this week’s NdB Sunday Show, intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman of Fulcrum Analytics, reveals to Chris Steyn that there are 14 active cryptocurrency wallets linked to Hamas in South Africa. “We know that Hamas has offices in South Africa. We know that they allowed freedom to move…And that there are definite financial streams going to Hamas, going to Hezbollah.” Opperman also shares the lates
BNC#9 | Wrap-up panel: Joburg, Zuma, AI, JSE v S&P, gold, small caps, and conference highlights
At the close of BNC#9, Alec Hogg sat down with David Shapiro and Piet Viljoen to unpack the conference. Viljoen made the numbers case for South Africa: bar the two big banks, every stock in his portfolio trades at a discount of thirty percent or more to what he thinks it is worth, and the market is effectively paying investors fifteen percent a year just to stay put. Shapiro made the human case, a
BNC#9 | Le Roux Q&A: Sakeliga's 2026 scorecard, BEE and FMD wins, SARB next in line
Piet le Roux runs the organisation that has taken on the South African state more than any other business group this year, and he came to BNC#9 to explain why. Sakeliga beat the government on foot and mouth disease vaccines, international airline licensing and estate agents' BEE certificates in 2026 alone, and it wasn't finished. In this Q&A with Piet Viljoen, le Roux traced Sakeliga's strategy ba
SA's Competition Commission has become a handbrake on the economy: Rob Rose
Bryan Brownrigg was never a currency trader. He sold foreign exchange to Standard Bank's institutional clients for 23 years. But when the Competition Commission decided that 28 banks had run a single conspiracy to rig the rand, his name went into the complaint anyway, and it took a decade and a Constitutional Court ruling to get it out again. Financial Mail editor Rob Rose told Alec Hogg how one w
He built a $1.5bn bank. Now Revolut, Discovery Bank and PEP are circling
In this interview with Irakli Rekhviashvili, Tyme Group co-founder Coenraad Jonker gives his take on what actually protects a digital bank once the competition catches up, and why he thinks the old rules of banking no longer apply. On competitive advantage, he says: "I'm saying to my guys increasingly, I don't think there is a moat. I liken it to the time when people lived in walled cities with tr
Was Oscar Pistorius convicted of the wrong crime? A 36 year advocate says groupthink sentenced him
For six years, retired senior advocate Chris Marnewick worked through the 3,000 page record of the Oscar Pistorius trial, line by line, against the judgments that decided his fate. His conclusion, set out in a new book, is that the Supreme Court of Appeal got it wrong: Pistorius should have been convicted of culpable homicide, not murder. Marnewick argued that the cross-examination crossed lines a
BN Daybreak: DA's fake doctor, Sky the police dog, SA Sports mafia, Eskom's AI opportunity
A Cape Town councillor who admitted to faking his medical degree is reportedly still in line for a promotion, and political commentator Solly Moeng says the DA cannot say no to this one without starting to look like the ANC it built itself against. Meanwhile, a police dog named Sky died after being left injured and unattended overnight at a facility Parliament's police portfolio committee chair Ia
BNC#9 | Masie Q&A: Eskom's extra gigawatts are AI's gateway into SA economy
Stafford Masie says the AI industry is not actually running out of electricity, it is running out of places to plug in. The real bottleneck for OpenAI and Anthropic in the United States is grid connection points that can absorb the violent power swings inference computing demands, without blowing transformers or blacking out whole regions, as happened in Portugal last year. His argument at BNC#9:
Four federations, four suspensions. Graeme Joffe says it's a "deeply rooted cancer"
Graeme Joffe started digging into South African sports administration back in 2012, and it cost him his career, his safety, and, he says, his ability to ever go home again. Talking to Alec Hogg, Joffe walked through everything that has unravelled since: the presidents of SASCOC, Athletics South Africa and Swimming South Africa all suspended within weeks of each other, the entire executive of Karat
Ian Cameron: Another SAPS cover-up exposed!
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, exposes a huge cover-up over many years of animal maltreatment at the SAPS Roodeplaat Veterinary facility. Speaking following the death of the arson-detection dog Sky, he said: “That hospital, if this is the way that they look after animals, is as good as a morgue for animals. It's almos
BNC#9 | Shapiro Q&A: SA's ideology problem, reading market signals, and how AI tripled his output
At BNC#9, veteran stockbroker David Shapiro told delegates that AI had roughly tripled his own output, and he is not slowing down at 78. He argued that South Africa's real obstacle is not regulation but ideology, and that it is costing the country a venture capital industry, a functioning collateral-free lending market, and a mining sector he believes is sitting on far more gold than it is using.
Solly Moeng: DA in danger of becoming the ANC
In his latest weekly chat with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator, Solly Moeng urges action from the Democratic Alliance (DA) over reports that the party is considering promoting Cape Town councillor - and fake doctor - Abdulkader “AK” Elyas to either Parliament or the Western Cape legislature despite guilty findings relating to the falsification of his qualifications. “If it doesn't act against h
"Two suspensions don't fix 20 years": Roland Schoeman joins the fight against Swimming SA
Roland Schoeman won three Olympic medals for South Africa. In this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, Schoeman says that didn't buy him any protection from Swimming South Africa: he describes being flown home from the US at the federation's own expense just to hear a second doctor confirm what the first had already told them, and being blocked from a World Cup he'd already paid his own way t
BN Daybreak: 54 days to elections, 48,000 tons of gold untouched, SOE failures, Piet Viljoen
Fifty four days out from South Africa's local government elections, Geordin Hill-Lewis told BizNews nobody else is even campaigning yet, and made his case for why the DA could end up governing seven of the country's eight big metros. Sam Montsi, whose memoir Defying Barriers charts a career from exile in Lesotho to running businesses on two continents, told Chris Steyn where the politicisation of
BNC#9 | Wheatley Q&A: Will the SARB take your crypto? And Eskom's missed Bitcoin windfall
Editorial note: This session was recorded at BNC#9 on Thursday 13 August 2026. In the days after this Q&A, the FSCA announced 20-year debarment orders against Warren Wheatley and two colleagues over share trading in Altvest Capital (Africa Bitcoin Corporation's predecessor) in September 2022, along with a combined R10 million in administrative penalties. Wheatley has resigned from the board; Staff
BNC#9 | Viljoen Q&A: The investment advice most fund managers won't give you
Piet Viljoen doesn't read the news, doesn't watch the Fed, and thinks most of what the investment industry sells you is jargon designed to make simple things sound complicated. In his Q&A at BNC#9, he went after executive pay, looked at private equity's real return profile, explained why he avoids AI stocks entirely, and unpacked the regulations that let his fund own crash-prone stocks but cap it
GHL: Seven metros could flip from ANC control, what voters want most, and the DA's jobs record
Cape Town created 418,000 jobs in five years while the rest of the country's economy shrank last quarter. Its new DA leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, thinks that number is the party's best argument for why voters should hand it six or seven of South Africa's major metros on 4 November, from Johannesburg to Durban. He talks to Alec Hogg about the jobs data, the ANC's Gwede Mantashe getting caught on cam
Sam Montsi: Keep “crazy” people out of power!
In this interview with Chris Steyn, business icon and author Sam Montsi, gives his take on revelations at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, as well as the worldwide impact of US President Donald Trump’s actions. On political and police capture by crime cartels, he says: “It's frightening what has happened in the leadership of some of the organs of State where people have infiltrated and tried to
Central banks are dumping the dollar for gold, and SA has left its 48,000 tons untouched
South Africa has already mined a quarter of all the gold ever pulled out of the ground, and it still has 48,000 tons sitting under the Witwatersrand. So why has annual output collapsed from 1,000 tons to 88? Dr Duarte da Silva, once South Africa's go-to tech guru and now a gold analyst, tells Alec Hogg why central banks are dumping dollars for gold, why he thinks the Witwatersrand's "death" has be
BN Daybreak: Cameron on SAPS cover-ups, rescuing a failing business, Gold v Bitcoin, AI market spook
A parliamentary watchdog says someone inside SAPS management is lying about missing vehicles, and the good cops are paying for it. A CEO who once got locked out of his own email explains how he turned around a company that had defaulted on its debt for sixteen straight months. A veteran gold fund manager weighs up whether Bitcoin can ever do what gold has done for centuries. An investor who bought
BNC#9 | Summerton Q&A: Winner-takes-all investing, stubborn boards, hostile bids, and the AI future
Rhys Summerton bought into a company that had lost 99.5% of its market value and told the independent directors their pay was being halved on day one. At BNC#9, the Milkwood Capital founder and iOCO joint CEO laid out how a fund manager turned operator actually runs the acquisition game: why control of the cash flow matters more than a board seat, why he thinks South Africa's King Code has been "n
He worked for R1 a month to save a failing business. Now Carl Neethling will never list again
Carl Neethling didn't set out to run Ascendis Health. A small, almost accidental shareholding tripped a JSE disclosure threshold, and not long after that he was locked out of his own email on the day he took the company over. What he found inside: nineteen accountants who, in his words, spent their days counting money that no longer existed, a head office costing more each year than the whole busi
BNC#9 | Meryl Pick Q&A: Gold, Bitcoin, the Dollar - and where central banks are hedging their bets
Old Mutual almost closed its gold fund in 2019. A ballot most clients ignore drew a 13% response, and that was enough to keep it alive. Six years later it has gone from R400 million to R4 billion, and the fund's manager, Meryl Pick, was at BNC#9 taking questions on everything that got her there. Speaking to delegates, she explained why Warren Buffett's scepticism on gold is a product of the era he
Cameron’s message for Cachalia: I will not stop asking questions
In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, has a very direct message for Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia who - at the SAPS National Commemoration Day for fallen heroes - introduced him to the Free State MEC as “Chairperson Cameron, the one that always lambasts the police in the media” . Cameron says: “I thought to mys
BN Daybreak: Swimming SA scandal, women voters keep ANC ticking, how long to fix SAPS
Ten years after Brett Redelinghuys was banned for trying to expose problems from the inside, World Aquatics has provisionally suspended Swimming SA's president and CEO over abuse of power allegations, vindicating his years-long fight. Elsewhere, IRR pollster Hermann Pretorius tells Chris Steyn why South African women, not men, are the ANC's real firewall against the DA. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg
BNC#9 | Hoffman Q&A: Asking the ANC to fight corruption is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas
Paul Hoffman has sued Jacob Zuma so many times that he calls him his "number one sponsor," because every case Zuma lost came with a costs order. At BNC#9, the Accountability Now advocate took questions on the private member's bill that could finally give South Africa an independent, Chapter 9 anti-corruption commission, why he thinks IDAC is structurally doomed and headed for a constitutional chal
BNC#9 | Van Heerden Q&A: Afrimat's Lafarge bet, fixing SA towns, untapped gold, Transnet turnaround
Afrimat's Andries van Heerden bought a struggling cement business for its quarries, not its cement, and is now watching a Chinese buyer take on the part he didn't want. In this Q&A from BNC#9, he tells Alec Hogg what actually scares him in a takeover, why Transnet's turnaround is the best he's seen in years, and why he still won't chase lithium at today's price. Along the way: fixing a Free State
Hermann Pretorius: Women voters favour the ANC, but the DA is tipped for big Metro victories…
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Hermann Pretorius of the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) unpacks his polling results on South Africa’s women voters from 2021 to 2026, including the key finding that women voters are keeping the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the Democratic Alliance (DA). “..all the years from 2021 till now, the ANC has an advantage among women voters.. if only men
He fought Swimming SA for years. Finally the world body caught up
Brett Redelinghuys was banned for ten years by Swimming South Africa for trying to fix it from the inside. This week, the two men who banned him, president Alan Fritz and CEO Shaun Adriaanse, were provisionally suspended by World Aquatics itself, over allegations of abuse of power and fake documents. In between: a R111 million high-performance swimming centre in Franschhoek that has never held a s
BN Daybreak: Masie on ABC c-suite shuffle, who really runs crime in SA, a lesson from Yuppiechef
Three senior executives are gone from one of South Africa's flashiest bitcoin bets this week, and the company's new interim boss won't say how big the alleged share manipulation was. An intelligence analyst says the crime bosses everyone is fixated on are just middle management, answering to people we never hear about. Andrew Smith explains what it actually costs to hand your company over to outsi
The Hidden cost of selling your business: Andrew Smith’s Yuppiechef story
What really happens after the entrepreneurial dream comes true? Andrew Smith, co-founder of Yuppiechef, opens up about building a business from a side hustle into a retail powerhouse, taking venture capital, navigating rapid growth, surviving Covid, and ultimately selling the company. Drawing on years of handwritten journals, he shares candid lessons about ambition, control, investors, partnership
The NdB Sunday Show - Alwyn Swart: The Big 5 are only “middle managers”, spies in power plays, Trump & Israel…
In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and intelligence Analyst Alwyn Swart of Fulcrum Analytics talk about the instrumentalisation of the intelligence apparatus by administrations across the ideological spectrum; as well as the links between high-ranking officials and external parties using South Africa as a proxy, not only for political influence but also to do business in the inter
Stafford Masie: Three execs gone overnight: Inside the crisis at Africa Bitcoin Corporation
Three weeks after BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Stafford Masie is back in the interview chair, this time as interim CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation. His predecessor Warren Wheatley, founder of Africa's first listed Bitcoin treasury company, along with his wife Tatum Keshwar-Wheatley and chief investment officer Akshay Karan, have just been handed 20-year debarments by the FSCA, longer than the ban h
BNC#9 | Baloyi Q&A: Trump tariffs, Hormuz fallout, SA's offshore gas, what Sasol's worth to SA's GDP
Sasol's oil hedges are built for a $50-a-barrel world, its Qatar plant has been switched on and off every three weeks by fighting near the Strait of Hormuz, and its biggest customer market just hit it with a 30% tariff. CEO Simon Baloyi sits down to unpack how a company this exposed to global chaos stays standing, what a $12 billion bet on Louisiana is actually returning, and why he thinks South A
After GHL, Pappas and Brink, is Clinton Lerm the DA's next household name?
He's a businessman with eight companies and 400 staff who says politics was the last thing on his mind, until the DA picked him to take Overstrand's top job from its first black executive mayor. Clinton Lerm has already survived a Hawks investigation, a standing court interdict with a rival party leader, and a question about political stability he still calls "strange." In this conversation with A
BNC#9 | Macpherson Q&A: The layers of the construction mafia, tax money in limbo, KZN vote crunch
At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson sat down for a wide-ranging Q&A on why R100 billion in municipal infrastructure grants gets sent back to Treasury every year, unspent, and what he's doing to stop it. He unpacks the layered structure of the construction mafia, explains why his department is about to auction off nearly a thousand state properties, and lifts the lid
BN Daybreak: Feroz Khan dismissed; DA targets bad municipal managers; Joburg's future
In today's episode, Action Society discusses the dismissal of Major General Feroz Khan and ongoing police accountability issues. The IRR explores how a stable coalition could trigger a major turnaround for Johannesburg. We also hear about swift commission successes, while the DA lays criminal charges against South Africa's worst municipal managers. Finally, we cover Wall Street's tech-led rally am
Why the DA is criminally charging the managers of SA's worst-run municipalities
Municipal managers who bankrupt one town get quietly moved to run the next one. A council was shown proof that R100 million couldn't be accounted for, and chose to protect the man responsible rather than fire him. A docket has sat untouched for a year. And the official now suing DA parliamentary leader George Michalakis for speaking out is, by law, supposed to be politically neutral. Michalakis ta
Juanita du Preez: General Khan is toppled, but SA’s biggest crime bosses still have to be named…
The sacking of Major General Feroz Khan - who was tipped to be the next chief of Crime Intelligence (CI) in South Africa - has come amid speculation about who the really big villains behind the Big Five might be. In her latest interview with Chris Steyn, Juanita du Preez, the national spokesperson of Action Society, says: “...there were other people pulling strings and giving funding and so on bec
BNC#9 | Endres Q&A: Joburg tipping point, MKP succession headache, dwindling ANC vote, and more...
Johannesburg could get its first outright DA majority in living memory, and John Endres thinks that single number, 50 percent, might matter more to South Africa's next twenty years than anything happening in parliament. In this wide-ranging Q&A from BNC#9, the IRR chief executive explains why talent and investment only come back to a broken city once they believe the coalition running it will last
BNC#9 | Duvenage Q&A: PIC's plunder problem, ANC's cadre curse, Joburg's odds, and a GNU report card
South Africa's public servants have R3.6 trillion sitting in a pension fund that Wayne Duvenage calls a plunder pot, and he's not being polite about who's been dipping into it. In this Q&A from BNC#9 , the OUTA CEO takes on the PIC's revolving door of chairmen, explains why cadre deployment is really just a mechanism to loot state entities, and gives his most direct answer yet on whether Johannesb
BN Daybreak: CR and Mashatile in crisis, saving AGOA, US has lost Iran war, Tatjana v Swimming SA
Ramaphosa's impeachment inquiry loses its evidence leader just as his court challenge opens, Mashatile is still nowhere to be seen, and Dr Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg at BNC#9 that the world's only superpower has lost a war it won't admit to losing. Then Tatjana Smith, SA's most-decorated olympian, finally says out loud what she's been fighting behind closed doors after Swimming SA's president an
Tatjana Smith takes on shambolic Swimming SA
The night before she raced for a World Championship title, Tatjana Smith wasn't thinking about her stroke. She was thinking about a fine. South Africa's most decorated Olympian tells Alec Hogg how Swimming SA threatened to fine her tens of thousands of euros for wearing the wrong swimwear, how her prize money sat in the federation's account for over a year, and why she's only speaking now that the
BNC#9 | 3 Amigos Q&A: AGOA on a knife's edge, fighting BEE in court, FF+ eyes Joburg coalition
Three of South Africa's toughest voices, one no-holds-barred Q&A. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus fielded questions from delegates on AGOA's future, a BEE court battle they say is being decided by judges swapped out overnight, and what business is prepared to do if government pushes further. Along the way: the maths behind Helen Zille's Joburg bi
Solly Moeng: CR impeachment fight, Mashatile “poisoning” rumours, military “assassins” & more cop rot
In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about President Cyril Ramaphosa winning another round in his impeachment fight while the man waiting in the wings, Deputy President Paul Mashatile, has not been seen officially since July amid rumours that he might have been poisoned. “We don't have a president who's able to focus on governing, on leading, on uniti
BNC#9 | Dr Abedian Q&A: America's lost war, SA's "non-alignment", Israel-Palestine, oil's big moment
America hasn't just lost ground in Iran, says economist Iraj Abedian, it's lost the myth of being unbeatable. Speaking at BNC#9, Abedian lays out the binary choice facing Washington and Tehran, the alliances quietly reshuffling around Israel, and the human cost hidden behind the headlines. Then comes the question every South African investor needs answered: which side should we be on? His answer w
BN Daybreak: Mega metro plan slammed; Roodt's economic fix; Ian Cameron on Philippi; Wall St slides
AfriForum's Morné Mostert tells BizNews the ANC's plan to merge Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into one mega metro fails the science test - bigger municipalities don't perform better - and mainly boosts councillors' pay, which scales with size. From BNC#9, Dawie Roodt tells Alec Hogg he'd rebuild confidence by literally cleaning up the country, then hand himself the finance ministry to build
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
Hesitant about the stronger rand? Here's how to structure your hedging strategy — Sebastian Steyn (Sable International)
While many individual investors and emigrants are postponing major financial decisions amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and upcoming elections, Sebastian Steyn, Head of Dealing at Sable International, says businesses do not have the same luxury. Steyn told BizNews that South Africa’s growing Business Process Outsourcing sector and multinational SMEs continue to receive revenue in foreign curr
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,
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