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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…
19 Nov 2015 6AM 31 min

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…
16 Nov 2015 5AM 50 min

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…
13 Nov 2015 7AM 43 min

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…
12 Nov 2015 12AM 9 min

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…
11 Nov 2015 7AM 14 min

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…
4 Nov 2015 4AM 13 min

Lessons for SA? Ex-Georgian PM - rooting out corruption, growth in 5yrs

The former Prime Minister of Georgia, and McKinsey partner, Nika Gilauri caught up with Tim Modise at the Biznews studio, talking about his career in the Georgian government and how he became Prime Minister at the age of 33. Gilaur , who first started out as the country's Energy Minister,…
3 Nov 2015 4AM 22 min

Piet Viljoen - the ultimate value investor: Darkest before dawn?

The Value Investor's value investor Piet Viljoen has taken a big hit with the decision by Nedbank to move the billions in its Managed unit trust away from the company. Like other authentic value managers, few of whom remain, Re:CM's performance has been poor over the past couple of years…
2 Nov 2015 5AM 19 min

EFF's Dali Mpofu: Changing the Constitution. Tackling inequality, poverty.

Advocate Dali Mpofu says the huge turnout at the march organised by the EFF demonstrates that South Africans are fed up with the current economic structure of the country. The march took place in Johannesburg where the 50,000 demonstrators presented memoranda to the Reserve Bank, Chamber of Mines and the…
30 Oct 2015 5AM 20 min

Matthew Lester: SETA's, UIF should be raided, then #feesmustfall

Rhodes University tax professor Matthew Lester has focused a lot of his attention on the root cause of the #feesmustfall campaign which sparked national protests by university students. He unpacks the numbers and explains how free tertiary education can be address through a little creative thinking on the over-funded UIF…
29 Oct 2015 10AM 19 min

Tshepo Matlala: Property's slow transformation. Needs aggressive Govt drive.

Tshepo Matlala of SAIBPP says black owned property companies have a 2 percent share of the R400 billion property sector. He says that 4 of the companies blacklisted were created through government opportunities. Matlala also says the sector has been very slow to transform due to a lack of support…
21 Oct 2015 6AM 14 min

Makgoba: Student protests failure of leadership – a ’picnic’ of what’s to come

Professor Malegapuru William Makgoba, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kwazulu-Natal and Deputy Chairperson of the National Planning Commission, says the student protests sweeping across South Africa are due to poor leadership at the institutions. Makgoba says the transformation of these institutions is overdue and the students have taken the…
20 Oct 2015 5AM 15 min
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