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The Sunday Show - Neil de Beer: SA is run by an “illegitimate government without a quorum”
In his latest hard-hitting Sunday Show with BizNews, Neil De Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement (UIM) , slams the way the African Congress (ANC) is operating without a national mandate in the Government of National Unity (GNU). “This government doesn't have a quorum. There's not a singular…
Evil or just thick? ANC doubles down on job-killing policies that earned world mining’s wooden spoon
As public consequences of the ANC’s destructive economic policies ratchet higher, Cyril Ramaphosa and his lackeys follow its bat-eared playbook - double down. The President’s economically incoherent ramblings in Parliament this week are mirrored in his party’s Mineral Resources Bill proposal that reinforces the idiocy which has driven the country…
Leon Kluge’s fynbos triumph at Chelsea - with foxes sipping rooibos
South Africa’s fynbos stole the show at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, earning three prestigious awards with an unprecedented display of 25,000 stems of cut flowers. Leading the team in London was Leon Kluge, a renowned botanist and landscape designer with global accolades. Kluge told BizNews that the team -…
BizNews Rugby: Juan de Jongh and Rudy Paige ruck and roll through URC insights and career reflections
In this week’s BizNews Rugby Show, former Springboks Juan de Jongh and Rudy Paige join insider Rory Steyn and co-host Patrick Kidd for a lively, wide-ranging conversation on the upcoming URC quarterfinals and their remarkable rugby journeys - from small-town beginnings to the world stage. They unpack the strengths and…
Dawie Roodt: ‘Clueless’ Ramaphosa’s doubling down on BEE policy will accelerate SA economic disaster
One of South Africa’s top economists, Efficient Group’s Dawie Roodt, tears into what he believes is the sheer economic idiocy expressed by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament yesterday. He says the billionaire ANC leader’s redoubling of an approach which has boosted his own bank account but made South…
Prof. William Gumede: Blueprint to reset SA
South Africa needs a new generation of leaders - maybe a non-politician to run the country. That is the view of Professor William Gumede of the School of Governance at Wits University. “I think…that maybe we need less of the hard people…a lot of our leaders, our political leaders, many…
BN Briefing: Cyril doubles down on BEE; Pollak warns delusional ANC; Gumede: new politicians needed
President Ramaphosa defends BEE amid growing economic frustration; Washington insider Joel Pollak unpacks how the Oval Office meeting really played out; and Prof. William Gumede charts a political path forward for South Africa. Internationally, Donald Trump pushes to slash foreign student quotas at Harvard while facing legal setbacks on his…
Pollak’s damning Oval Office assessment: Trump achieved exactly what he wanted and Cyril got nothing
Trump Administration insider Joel Pollak shares how the US side reviewed last week’s Oval Office smackdown - and it doesn’t bode well for SA’s immediate future on trade or international relations. Pollak, once tipped as a likely US Ambassador to SA, provides perspective on the Ramaphosa camp’s clumsy spinning of…
R33-billion in pension funds squandered on high-risk, politically-driven investments
The business rescue of Daybreak - a poultry farm bought by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) in 2015 for R1.2 billion rand - is not the only horror story involving the irresponsible use of the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF). In this interview with BizNews, Zirk Gous, the spokesperson for…
BN Briefing: Daybreak is one of many; Afriforum’s 45m-view video; Cyril flunks body language test
In this episode of the BizNews Briefing the body monitoring investments made for State pensioners says the Daybreak disaster is by no means an exception; we hear the story behind the Afriforum’s blockbuster video production on challenges to Afrikaners; Ian Cameron explains why analysing farm murders is complex; a global…
Ian Cameron: The facts on farm attacks & crime stats
In his latest interview with BizNews, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, busts myths and misconceptions about farm attacks. He speaks about the role that illegal foreigners sometimes play in these attacks and gives a breakdown of which nationalities rank in which provinces. He also shares…
Gradually, then suddenly……Afriforum’s Ernst van Zyl on ending SA’s Republic of No Consequences
Fresh from celebrating his 45 million-viewed documentary on the Afrikaner’s struggles, Afriforum’s Ernst van Zyl shares his insights on last week’s Oval Office smackdown. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.
BN Briefing: Chief Rabbi on "cursed" Ramaphosa; Hekpoort squatter crisis; Trump's corporate backlash
In today's BizNews Briefing, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein breaks ranks with a bold rebuke following SA’s Oval Office humiliation. Neil de Beer weighs in on who should have been there. Hekpoort reels from a squatter crisis, Trump faces corporate backlash, and Elon Musk lashes out in Qatar. Plus: Coronation, Stefanutti,…
BN Blitsbrief: Starlink nader aan SA lansering; PRASA-vermorsing ontbloot; Pumas se SA Beker-titel
BizNuus Blitsbrief - ’n kragtige oorsig van die belangrikste plaaslike en internasionale nuus, vinnig en feitlik, binne minute. Bly ingelig met nuus wat saak maak.
Squatter, sewage - and crime -crisis in the Cradle of Humankind
Hekpoort residents are in an epic battle to get the Mogale City Council to stop an influx of tens of thousands of apparently unemployed vagrants in the area. In this interview with BizNews, attorney Christopher Bean describes the drama surrounding the council’s building of 208 low-cost houses in an area…
BN Briefing - Endres: Trump put a dead pig on the table; Malema: Trump wants me dead
In today’s BizNews Briefing, SA softens BEE rules for telecoms to woo Starlink and mend US ties post-Trump meeting. Bronwyn Nielsen unpacks the policy shift and gathers wide-ranging reactions to Ramaphosa’s Oval Office visit - from RW Johnson and Neil de Beer to Julius Malema and Ronald Lamola.
De Beer: SA’s “hiding to hell” in a week of international political intrigue - and domestic drama
“There was no meeting. It was a hiding to hell. It was an absolute slap to us.” That is the take of Neil De Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement (UIM), on last week’s meeting between presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Donald Trump in Washington. “… it was embarrassing…
BizNews Rugby: Nick Mallett on Madiba; iconic Bok moments; European cup finals; and more
In this episode of the BizNews Rugby Show, Springbok icon Nick Mallett joins Rory Steyn to relive iconic rugby moments, from a Mandela-hosted lunch celebrating 17 straight Bok wins to brilliant tries dreamt up by Henry Honiball and Rassie Erasmus. Mallett also shares unmatched insight into this weekend’s European finals,…
Corné Mulder: “Predictable, avoidable catastrophe” - Cyril’s GNU partner not invited to Washington
Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder is breathing fire in this interview where he laments the “catastrophe” inflicted on South Africans in the Oval Office this week. Mulder says Trump asked the right questions to which the SA delegation has no answers because of wilful ignorance or outright denial. Attempts…
MycoPro boom: How Warren Mkhize turned fungi into fortune
With 24% of young university graduates unemployed in South Africa, Warren Mkhize found himself struggling to secure work in 2020. Then, during a thunderstorm, he spotted mushrooms growing from the ground, which spark an idea. Researching South Africa’s mushroom industry, he discovered its high success rate and lack of barriers…