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DA weighs British help in getting answers on South Africa House | Ryan Smith
The Democratic Alliance is considering seeking help from British political parties as it tries to get answers about the costly renovation of South Africa House in London. Ryan Smith, the DA's spokesperson for international relations and cooperation, told Biznews in an interview that key information remains difficult to obtain despite…
Cutting through the noise: Alec Hogg's five signals on South Africa
By BizNews editor Alec Hogg's count, South Africans have bolted nine gigawatts of solar onto their roofs, more than three times what the state's own renewables programme has delivered. There are more than three private security guards for every police officer. And on the road past Richards Bay, he and…
BN Daybreak: MTN's US terror case; Dirco hides R170m bill; Macpherson on KZN; Wall Street rallies
Six US anti-terrorism lawsuits against MTN have moved into discovery, and Simone Heradien warns the claims - that MTN paid protection money to tower operators in Iran, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - could reach Cyril Ramaphosa, who chaired the group at the time, and feed Donald Trump's executive order on…
The NdB Sunday Show: Strip-club HQ of Sandton SAPS, CR’s Meyer move, and MTN “terror funding” case…
In the latest NdB Sunday Show, gender activist and former president of the Pretoria Diplomatic Association, Simone Heradien, talks to Chris Steyn about The Grand - also known as the unofficial HQ of the Sandton Police - where suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya was arrested on rape and…
BizNews Edge: Macpherson on GNU, the battle for Durban and trillion-rand infrastructure logjam
Ipsos had MK on 55% in eThekwini and the DA on 17%. Dean Macpherson told Alec Hogg he did not trust those numbers, and said the DA would end up either the largest party in Durban or the largest party in its governing coalition. The DA's KwaZulu-Natal chairperson walked through…
BN Daybreak: Macpherson on the trillion-rand logjam; Malema appeal; AfriForum on GBV cold cases
Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson tells BizNews the infrastructure debate is no longer about money but procurement: of 2,800 big tenders published in a year, only one in six was awarded, and 90% of failures trace to weak feasibility work. His department now spends R600 million over three years preparing…
Solly Moeng: “It’s the list of devils”
“If we're going to look for angels in this stuff, we're not going to find angels. It's the LEAST of the devils, it's WHOM do we choose, what is the thing to focus on, the least worst thing to focus on.” These are the words of political commentator Solly Moeng…
BizNews Edge: What a very public fall taught Rael Levitt, and how he's come back from it
In December 2011, Rael Levitt brought the hammer down on Quoin Rock, Dave King's Stellenbosch wine estate. Within months, Auction Alliance, the business he had spent 20 years building, was gone. In studio with Alec Hogg, Levitt went back over the auction that undid him: the vendor bidder he placed…
GBV suspects on the run | Barry Bateman
The Private Prosecution Unit of AfriForum has taken up a number of cold cases in which the police have failed to trace or arrest or re-arrest known suspects. In this interview with Chris Steyn, the unit’s Barry Bateman, reveals details of some of those cases as well as the responses…
BN Daybreak: McKenzie's LGE forecast, Cameron on Cyril's GBV lies, Land Bank's empty pot, SA Sport
Gayton McKenzie told Alec Hogg he had never been wrong with a prediction, then put the DA at 38% in Cape Town and named the councils he expected the PA to win outright. The real obstacle in Joburg, he said, was not the DA but Helen Zille, though he still…
David Lupafya: the Land Bank backed black farmers, then pulled the rug
David Lupafya spent 25 years at AT&T, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin before coming home to grow grain on 1,300 hectares outside Potchefstroom. He did what careful farmers do: planned a season ahead and put more than R5 million of his own money down on tractors, a combine and implements, counting…
Ian Cameron - You lied blatantly, Mr President
In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, has a very blunt response to President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest address to the nation in which he outlined measures to deal with gender-based violence: “The president lied”. One “blatant lie” was increased police…
McKenzie: LGEs ‘26, Zille and Jozi, GNU strength test, sports governance crisis, SA's coalition era
Gayton McKenzie said he had no time to sue Helen Zille, but plenty to say about her. Five weeks before the local government elections, the Patriotic Alliance leader and Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture gave Alec Hogg his account of the Joburg coalition deal he said the DA had…
BN Daybreak: Swimming SA crisis; Murder suspect vanishes; Operation Prosper fails; F1 bid; Wall St
Comrades board member Rory Steyn tells Alec Hogg that Swimming South Africa, whose top two officials are suspended by World Aquatics, needs the governance overhaul cricket went through - a majority of independent directors, with Olympian Tatjana Smith the ideal candidate. Fourteen months after their daughter's murder, her parents are…
Rory Steyn on who really runs South African sport
In two years, Comrades runners threw out a board accused of vote-buying and steering tenders to friends, and cut ties with the provincial and national athletics bodies to run their own race. Swimming South Africa had to wait for an integrity panel in Switzerland to act. Rory Steyn, Nelson Mandela's…
Our daughter was stabbed with enough force to kill a wild bear… | Paul and Sue Sullivan
In this interview with Chris Steyn, two grieving parents describe their 14-month fight to bring to justice the alleged killer of their daughter Kerry Vorster. The suspect's whereabouts are a mystery after he was released, allegedly without paying bail, having no physical address and without providing a contact number. The…
The retirement system’s unfair bet and how you can improve the outcome – Fred Van der Vyver
Two equally responsible South Africans can do everything right, save diligently, keep their costs down, earn a decent long-term return, and still retire with very different outcomes. Fred Van der Vyver, executive head of product solutions at Old Mutual Corporate, tells BizNews the reason often comes down to nothing more…
BN Daybreak: SA's mass killings crisis, intelligence in disarray, Calitz on Hormuz, fixing Joburg
Twenty-seven people were killed in two mass shootings in a single weekend, and the DA's Lisa Schickerling wanted to know where the police were. She told Chris Steyn why growing criminal networks had to be dismantled, and why the leadership of the private security regulator, raided by the SIU and…
Criminals - NOT cops - patrol SA’s streets of fear… | Lisa Schickerling
In this interview Chris Steyn and Lisa Schickerling, the Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson on Police, talk about a country in the grip of fear in the wake of mass killings, multiple murders, crime increasing in areas where the SANDF have been deployed, and suspended Deputy National Commissioner of Police General…
BN Daybreak: IS raid in Niassa; Froneman's F1 bid; Cilliers on democracy; Zille rules out ANC
Jasmine Opperman tells Chris Steyn the Islamic State's raid on a Niassa hunting camp was opportunistic resupply, not ransom: a splinter group pushed back west by security pressure, burning a communications tower, clinic and police station and taking up to 14 vehicles. Neal Froneman explains to Alec Hogg why landlocked…