The Editor's Desk - Mon 2 Fed 2026: Shoprite’s avalanche, Mining optimism, and the AI threat to software

South Africans looking to work or settle abroad, whether for a few years or permanently, are increasingly trapped in a bureaucratic maze created by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and National Treasury. In an interview with BizNews, immigration tax specialist William Louw of…

Bitcoin is down almost half from its peak, trading below $65k as a "crisis of faith" hits crypto. Wall Street is selling off, Amazon is tanking, and JSE miners are shedding value fast - and for the second time, Rio and Glencore are walking away from a potential merger. Alec…

Tonight’s BizNews Briefing unpacks the gold and silver whipsaw, with Peter Major pointing to Chinese margin rule changes as the core trigger. It then tracks signs of US-China stabilisation, examines South Africa’s tax and exchange-control headaches for emigrants, and closes with Cathie Wood’s latest read on where global investment flows…

More and more shocking testimony of police and political capture is being heard at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry and Parliament's Ad Hoc Committee. In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, policy and political expert Professor Theo Venter dissects the evidence of Witness F and other recent testimony. “I think…

In today’s analysis, I’ve unpacked how Anthropic’s new AI tools are dismantling the corporate software world and why the latest Epstein disclosures have the British establishment—and Peter Mandelson—under fire. I also take a look at the "derangement" in Zimbabwe, where government propaganda about bumper crops is being met with the…