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Stafford Masie: Three execs gone overnight: Inside the crisis at Africa Bitcoin Corporation
Three weeks after BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Stafford Masie is back in the interview chair, this time as interim CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation. His predecessor Warren Wheatley, founder of Africa's first listed Bitcoin treasury company, along with his wife Tatum Keshwar-Wheatley and chief investment officer Akshay Karan, have just…
BNC#9 | Baloyi Q&A: Trump tariffs, Hormuz fallout, SA's offshore gas, what Sasol's worth to SA's GDP
Sasol's oil hedges are built for a $50-a-barrel world, its Qatar plant has been switched on and off every three weeks by fighting near the Strait of Hormuz, and its biggest customer market just hit it with a 30% tariff. CEO Simon Baloyi sits down to unpack how a company…
After GHL, Pappas and Brink, is Clinton Lerm the DA's next household name?
He's a businessman with eight companies and 400 staff who says politics was the last thing on his mind, until the DA picked him to take Overstrand's top job from its first black executive mayor. Clinton Lerm has already survived a Hawks investigation, a standing court interdict with a rival…
BNC#9 | Macpherson Q&A: The layers of the construction mafia, tax money in limbo, KZN vote crunch
At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson sat down for a wide-ranging Q&A on why R100 billion in municipal infrastructure grants gets sent back to Treasury every year, unspent, and what he's doing to stop it. He unpacks the layered structure of the construction mafia, explains why…
BN Daybreak: Feroz Khan dismissed; DA targets bad municipal managers; Joburg's future
In today's episode, Action Society discusses the dismissal of Major General Feroz Khan and ongoing police accountability issues. The IRR explores how a stable coalition could trigger a major turnaround for Johannesburg. We also hear about swift commission successes, while the DA lays criminal charges against South Africa's worst municipal…
Why the DA is criminally charging the managers of SA's worst-run municipalities
Municipal managers who bankrupt one town get quietly moved to run the next one. A council was shown proof that R100 million couldn't be accounted for, and chose to protect the man responsible rather than fire him. A docket has sat untouched for a year. And the official now suing…
Juanita du Preez: General Khan is toppled, but SA’s biggest crime bosses still have to be named…
The sacking of Major General Feroz Khan - who was tipped to be the next chief of Crime Intelligence (CI) in South Africa - has come amid speculation about who the really big villains behind the Big Five might be. In her latest interview with Chris Steyn, Juanita du Preez,…
BNC#9 | Endres Q&A: Joburg tipping point, MKP succession headache, dwindling ANC vote, and more...
Johannesburg could get its first outright DA majority in living memory, and John Endres thinks that single number, 50 percent, might matter more to South Africa's next twenty years than anything happening in parliament. In this wide-ranging Q&A from BNC#9, the IRR chief executive explains why talent and investment only…
BNC#9 | Duvenage Q&A: PIC's plunder problem, ANC's cadre curse, Joburg's odds, and a GNU report card
South Africa's public servants have R3.6 trillion sitting in a pension fund that Wayne Duvenage calls a plunder pot, and he's not being polite about who's been dipping into it. In this Q&A from BNC#9 , the OUTA CEO takes on the PIC's revolving door of chairmen, explains why cadre…
BN Daybreak: CR and Mashatile in crisis, saving AGOA, US has lost Iran war, Tatjana v Swimming SA
Ramaphosa's impeachment inquiry loses its evidence leader just as his court challenge opens, Mashatile is still nowhere to be seen, and Dr Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg at BNC#9 that the world's only superpower has lost a war it won't admit to losing. Then Tatjana Smith, SA's most-decorated olympian, finally…
Tatjana Smith takes on shambolic Swimming SA
The night before she raced for a World Championship title, Tatjana Smith wasn't thinking about her stroke. She was thinking about a fine. South Africa's most decorated Olympian tells Alec Hogg how Swimming SA threatened to fine her tens of thousands of euros for wearing the wrong swimwear, how her…
BNC#9 | 3 Amigos Q&A: AGOA on a knife's edge, fighting BEE in court, FF+ eyes Joburg coalition
Three of South Africa's toughest voices, one no-holds-barred Q&A. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus fielded questions from delegates on AGOA's future, a BEE court battle they say is being decided by judges swapped out overnight, and what business is prepared…
Solly Moeng: CR impeachment fight, Mashatile “poisoning” rumours, military “assassins” & more cop rot
In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about President Cyril Ramaphosa winning another round in his impeachment fight while the man waiting in the wings, Deputy President Paul Mashatile, has not been seen officially since July amid rumours that he might have been poisoned…
BNC#9 | Dr Abedian Q&A: America's lost war, SA's "non-alignment", Israel-Palestine, oil's big moment
America hasn't just lost ground in Iran, says economist Iraj Abedian, it's lost the myth of being unbeatable. Speaking at BNC#9, Abedian lays out the binary choice facing Washington and Tehran, the alliances quietly reshuffling around Israel, and the human cost hidden behind the headlines. Then comes the question every…
BN Daybreak: Mega metro plan slammed; Roodt's economic fix; Ian Cameron on Philippi; Wall St slides
AfriForum's Morné Mostert tells BizNews the ANC's plan to merge Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into one mega metro fails the science test - bigger municipalities don't perform better - and mainly boosts councillors' pay, which scales with size. From BNC#9, Dawie Roodt tells Alec Hogg he'd rebuild confidence by literally…
Morné Mostert: ANC’s “fantasy megatropolis” faces full-scale fight from AfriForum
According to Nomvula Mokonyane, First Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC), the party is considering a fundamental review of the country’s municipal structures, including the possible amalgamation of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into a single “megatropolis”. In his reaction, Morné Mostert, Local Government Affairs Manager for AfriForum, tells…
Hesitant about the stronger rand? Here's how to structure your hedging strategy — Sebastian Steyn (Sable International)
While many individual investors and emigrants are postponing major financial decisions amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and upcoming elections, Sebastian Steyn, Head of Dealing at Sable International, says businesses do not have the same luxury. Steyn told BizNews that South Africa’s growing Business Process Outsourcing sector and multinational SMEs continue to…
BNC#9 | Roodt Q&A: What he'd do as FinMin; SARB's crypto plan; SA's shrinking tax base and more...
The taxman, the Reserve Bank and your crypto wallet: Dawie Roodt doesn't hold back. In this Q&A straight after his BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist explains why officials want your phone and your passwords if you try to take money offshore, why roughly 200 000 taxpayers are propping…
BNC#9 | Cameron Q&A: SAPS patronage networks, Madlanga fallout, SA's new cartel problem, and more...
A brigadier's pips on a secretary with zero police experience. A rape kit that costs the state eight times what it should. A cocaine pipeline running through a West Coast holiday town. One year after he was shot at during an oversight visit in Philippi, Police Portfolio Committee chairperson Ian…
BN Daybreak: Mashele's new political party, Hersov on Jozi's mafia problem, Copelyn on offshore oil
Prince Mashele has a warning for KwaZulu-Natal: when Jacob Zuma dies, he believes MK's hold on the province won't survive him. On this Daybreak, the political analyst spells out the party he's quietly building to replace the ANC, who he says is bankrolling it, and why he'd rather copy Singapore…