BNC#9 | Endres Q&A: Joburg tipping point, MKP succession headache, dwindling ANC vote, and more...

Loading player...
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 come back to a broken city once they believe the coalition running it will last, why Jacob Zuma's MK Party is still one succession fight away from falling apart, why South Africa's small business obsession with 18-year-old entrepreneurs is the wrong bet, and why he'd still rather live here than in a Britain he says has traded its freedom for the illusion of safety.
3 Sep 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

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…
4 Sep 5AM 37 min

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…
1 Sep 8AM 25 min