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Pretoria teenage swimming sensation Lara van Niekerk glides onto the international stage
Lara van Niekerk was relatively unknown in international sport until recently. But after her success at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where she broke records and won gold medals in the 50m and 100m breaststroke - beating fellow South African and Olympian Tatjana Schoeman - she is sure to leave…
BBB Ep 28 - Wall St rebounds from 'Pelosi panic'; Naspers share price floor; More Bain pain via Hain; SoftBank cutting AliBaba stake; Oil falls after ..
Another good session for the BizNews share portfolio favourites as Wall Street rebounded after Tuesday's concerns over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. The JSE also had a winning session with a rise in financials offsetting the drop by gold shares. Insight, too, from Naspers which rose 4% after…
Action SA gathering momentum - Herman Mashaba on by-election results, coalitions and ejecting the ANC in 2024
Successful entrepreneur turned political leader Herman Mashaba is hard at work building structures and putting together the personnel to make Action SA a major force in South Africa's 2024 National Election. The party has appointed provincial leaders in six of the country's nine provinces and promises to fill the other…
The powerful effects of music on the human brain – musician and neuroscientist Dr Alan Harvey
Music has stood the test of time, prevailing as one of the cornerstones of human society since the discovery of the first musical instrument, a vulture-bone flute, approximately 50,000 years ago. Its endurance as a conduit for stories and a medium of communication exceeds even that of the written word…
‘We exist to be money experts who do good’ – Nedbank CIB’s Zhann Meyer
Bronwyn Nielsen spoke to Zhann Meyer, Head of Agricultural Commodities at Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking, to explore what it means for Nedbank CIB to be ‘purpose led’. Meyer explained how the bank is working towards the alignment of its purpose to be money experts who do good by using…
UK govt's Bain ban an 'embarrassment to our government' - Athol Williams
Whistleblower Athol Williams believes the UK government's three-year ban imposed on controversial global consultancy firm Bain and Company should be an embarrassment to the South African government and its inaction. Following sustained pressure from former UK cabinet minister Lord Peter Hain, the UK government banned Bain from tendering for any…
Helen Zille calls 'Hokaai' on SA optimism post-2024: Nelson Mandela Bay an example of political chaos that may await
Iron Lady of SA Politics, Helen Zille, has sounded a warning on growing blind optimism of South Africa post-ANC rule - ie what awaits after the 2024 National Election where the ANC is likely to lose control of a Parliament it has governed for 28 years. While Zille says the…
Bain's walk of shame as Hain says it must 'feel the pain'
Bain & Company - found by two commissions of inquiry to have been implicated in state capture - has been banned for three years from tendering for any public sector work by the UK government for "grave professional misconduct" in South Africa. Former UK cabinet minister Lord Peter Hain has…
BBB Ep 27 - Bain gets real SA-related pain with 3 year UK ban; Markets fret as Pelosi teases China; 'Generation Moonshot' investors
Bain and Co, the US consultancy which has been brazening out its destructive role in SA State Capture, has been banned from any UK government contracts for three years. The ban is the first concrete steps taken against the Boston-based firm and follows a campaign by SA-born former UK cabinet…
Electoral bill remains 'unconstitutional' - Independent Candidate Association
Dr Michael Louis - founder of the Independent Candidate Association (ICA) - is ringing the warning bell that the electoral bill, as it stands, is deeply flawed and unconstitutional. In a wide-ranging interview with BizNews, Louis explains the genesis of the June 2020 Constitutional Court ruling and how the Bill of…
Visionary brings personal wildlife encounters to a global audience - WildEarth's Graham Wallington
South African viewers are likely to be familiar with WildEarth, the DSTV channel that is giving people the experience of actually being on a game drive in one of our amazing game parks. WildEarth, founded by Emily and Graham Wallington, has a global audience of 50 million viewers. Johannesburg-born Wallington,…
Author, extreme athlete, adventurer, myth-buster, story-teller Kim van Kets's bucket list challenge: running Africa from top to tail.
This year's BizNews conference will be opened by lawyer-turned-extreme-athlete Kim van Kets who personifies South Africa's deep potential. Best known for having completed the first 'triathlon' of SA's 6 762 border in 148 days, in this fascinating podcast with Alec Hogg she explains that when her daughter finished school, her…
BBB Ep 26 - Equities take a breather; Oil slips below $100; Coal booms, Thungela profits rocket; China's facing a foreign debt crisis
After going gangbusters in July, share markets in the US (and SA) took a breather yesterday easing back a few points. On the local market, a trading update from coal producer Thungela Resources revealed a 20x jump in its profits for the six months to end June, supporting a surge…
BBB Ep 25 - Stocks end strongly, making July best month since April 2020; Arcelor Mittal's appeal for investors; Crypto back in favour; China fears pr..
While the Western World celebrates July as the best month for stock markets since April 2020's Covid lockdown bounce, China is seeing ominous signs of social unrest in the wake of massive property development company defaults. Also in this episode of the BizNews Breakfast Briefing, investors jump back into crypto…
Gloves off in FMF fracas: Chairman Judge Rex v Schalkwyk says Leon Louw has been fired, "simply isn't telling the truth", warns him to stop telling su..
There is no affection between Free Market Foundation president Leon Louw and those who still serve the organisation. After an emotional BizNews interview where co-founder Louw called for funders to end their association with the organisaton that he calls "my life's work", in this podcast FMF chairman Judge Rex van…
Meet Dr Joanna Moncrieff – the psychiatrist who capsized our erroneously entrenched understanding of depression
The link between depression and serotonin, that depression was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, was first posited in the 1960s. To this day, this hypothesis has reigned supreme as scientific fact with, perhaps, one of the most significant consequences being the widespread use of antidepressants. Earlier this…
Securing SA’s ‘porous borders’ falls to the new Border Management Authority
The man at the helm of the newly established Border Management Authority (BMA), Dr Nakampe Masiapato, is under no illusion as to the challenge that awaits him in securing the 4,772km borderline of South Africa. The BMA is currently incubated within the Department of Home Affairs but will be exiting…
BBB Ep 24 - Amazon zooms, Apple jumps after quarterlies; Rand, Gold, Bitcoin rise again; Unpacking ANC's Taliban; US technically in recession
Amazon shares surged 13.5% higher in the after-market as the group's quarterly results surprised on the upside. There was a similar reaction to Apple Inc, with its share price gaining 4.5% after the official close, despite a double digit percentage drop in profit. This buoyancy came after a fourth successive…
Moving beyond a mere awareness of SA’s mental health crisis
Earlier this week, Afrika Tikkun Services released a statement highlighting the severity of the mental health crisis facing South Africa’s youth. The statement indicated: “Young people are hungry for hope. They are starved for vision and a guiding hand to show them how to prosper.” In order to find out…
Investment insight: Arcelor Mittal shaping up as perfect geared bet for promised SA economic rebound after 2024
After enjoying a sustained run recently, steelmaker Arcelor Mittal's share price fell 12.5% on the release of interim results today. CEO Kobus Verster says the pullback was largely because of anticipation among investors that the company's turnaorund would be capped by a return to dividend payments. Verster explains in this…