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John Battersby: Watching and hearing Malema in London - why he was a hit with UK investors
After 35 years in journalism, John Battersby became the inaugural London-based driver of Brand South Africa. During more than a decade of waving the flag for investment and tourism, he got to meet global movers and shakers. So there are few better placed than the London-based director of the SA-UK…
Jannie Mouton: So far, so brilliant. Now it’s up to PSG’s “Youth League”
Alec Hogg says being at PSG Group's 20th anniversary last night was a great privilege. In those two decades, the now R60bn group started from scratch in November 1995 by then recently fired stockbroker Jannie Mouton, has delivered compounded growth of 54% a year to shareholders. An investment of R100…
Irina Filatova: SA’s future? Moscow fantasy. Centralised. Not Nationalised.
Irina Filatova is a Russian professor who moved to South Africa in 1992 when she joined the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In this fascinating interview with Alec Hogg, the two explore the communist movement in South Africa and how it ties in with the Soviet Union. Filatova says the ideological influence…
Martin Wolf warns SA; Putin outrages at Turkey
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Safari's township focus on sweet spots attracts rave reviews from property investors
In this special podcast, Safari Investments CEO Francois Marais explains the unique strategy which has money managers excited about his company - despite their cautious approach to the sector in general. Safari was a pioneer in township retail shopping centres and is now in the process of building its third…
Dow Theory, AGMs and Nando's in the headlines
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South America dumps socialism, ANC continues regardless
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SA Govt's inability to execute, Rand, ISIS funding in today's headlines
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Meet Peter Mountford: SA's most underrated CEO, from R350m to R10bn in 6yrs
The most valuable accolades for any CEO are those spontaneously offered by investment professionals. Over dinner last week, two of SA’s leading money managers, Cy Jacobs (36One) and Duncan Artus (Allan Gray) named Super Group’s Peter Mountford as SA’s most under-rated CEO. To find out why, we invited Mountford into…
Wylie lays into Competition Commission, plus Faure, Rupert and Jones make news
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Moeletsi, MTN, Elon and Jake grab today's headlines
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Meet Moeletsi Mbeki: Fixing SA all about choices - can't have it both ways
Entrepreneur, scholar and author Moeletsi Mbeki is celebrated in South Africa for his outspoken criticism of the Zuma Administration, once describing them "like children playing with a hand grenade." In this in-depth interview with Biznews.com's publisher Alec Hogg he shares stories from his formative years, what shaped his philosophy, his…
Meet RW Johnson: The man whose book has altered SA's destructive trajectory
Our lives are punctuated by memorable events. For me, one of these was interviewing Rhodes scholar, Oxford don, author, journalist and political scientist Bill Johnson. His book, How long will South Africa survive? has topped the country's best-selling non-fiction list for well over a year. The audiobook version which I…
The imminent death of BRICS
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Ian Kilbride: Financial services entrepreneur - first Appleton, now Warwick
There's nothing run-of-the mill about financial services entrepreneur Ian Kilbride. Having travelled from the UK to SA by road in an old Bedford truck he met a local girl, got married and has lived in the Cape ever since. We've known each other for two and a half decades, during…
Andrew Canter on financial ethics: "1 in 5 will pay a bribe"
Biznews' Alec Hogg sits down with Futuregrowth's Andrew Canter with a specific focus on ethics in the financial services sector. Canter says ethics is key to managing people’s money, primarily because as much as people want good investment returns they first want to make sure their money’s being looked after…
Andrew Canter: State trying to screw billions from us, other ACSA co-owners
One has to turn back the clock to the 1990's when the South Africa government was looking to privatise assets. One of the units they sold stakes in was the Airports Company of South Africa. During the sale a 4 percent minority stake was taken up. Fast forward 20-something years…
BMW committed to manufacturing cars in SA for decades to come
The CEO of BMW SA, Tim Abbott says the JD Power Platinum Quality Plant Award won by the Rosslyn plant is the first for any manufacturer in South Africa and the highest for any BMW plant in the world. The vehicles produced at Rosslyn are exported to the United States…
SA's implications from China's sea of troubles
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Andile Mazwai: Financial disruptors - R45bn in Stokvels, 11m people
Andile Mazwai, CEO of the National Stokvels Association of South Africa tells Tim Modise that stokvels have played an important role in the lives of the black community for decades and continues to do so for many citizens who work in the informal sector. He says NASASA provides members with…