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Healthy earth, healthy people: Miss Earth SA regional finalist
Johannesburg physiotherapist Tamlin-Jade Johnson is a regional finalist in the Miss Earth SA competition. She talks to Marika Sboros about why we all need to keep our earth healthy for our health's sake.
Fight fatigue and feel fabulous: Celynn Erasmus and Joni Peddie
The authors of a fabulous new book, The Fab Quotient, teach you simple, effective ways to recharge body and mind.
Meikles – Zim icon ready to apply hard learnt lessons into Africa
The Zimbabwe based Meikles group has aired its grievance with the government but says there are still difficulties over the debt that is owed. Talking to Alec Hogg at the World Economic Forum for Africa, the group’s top duo, John Moxon and Thabani Mpofu, also said they are looking to…
Futuregrowth Good News : home loans to low income, first-time buyers
South Africa is in urgent need of some inspiring good news and Futuregrowth Asset Managers are the team to help us out. Their impressive work in the debt and equity markets is well respected always making sure that there is a social upliftment or development angle to their much needed…
Transnet Acting CEO Siyabonga Gama on the developmental role of State Owned Enterprises
Transnet Acting CEO Siyabonga Gama tells Tim Modise that Black Economic Empowerment is an imperative for the growth and future of South Africa’s economy. He says the R30 billion loan from China is going to be used to build locomotives that will generate 55 000 new jobs. He says Transnet…
Julius Malema and Tim Modise: Why global business is ready for a radical change to SA economy
Julius Malema says the compromises at the CODESA talks set the economic empowerment of black South Africans back in the rush to obtain political freedom. He says the state is competent enough to run national banks and mining companies, citing China as an example. He says the DA’s Mmusi Maimane…
Alec speaks with FK Day, World Bicycle Relief
Alec speaks with FK Day, World Bicycle Relief by Biznews.com
Hanneli Rupert: WEF Young Global Leader, fashion entrepreneur
The South African contingent among the WEF's Young Global Leaders programme has some auspicious graduates, JSE chief executive Nicky Newton King, global social entrepreneur Taddy Blacher and sought-after analyst Martyn Davies among them. The latest intake includes Hanneli Rupert, scion of SA's most powerful business family. As you'll hear in…
Luke McKend on Google's 'Project Loon'
Luke McKend on Google's 'Project Loon' by Biznews.com
Karen Harris of Bain & Company on the new 'Economics of Distance'
Karen Harris of Bain & Company on the new 'Economics of Distance' by Biznews.com
Lewis Pugh: Stop eating fish to save the oceans
Lewis Pugh: Stop eating fish to save the oceans by Biznews.com
Alec speaks with Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura
Alec speaks with Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura by Biznews.com
Raelene Rorke: Miss Teen SA to WEF Global Shapers
Alec Hogg speaks to the founder of Springage Raelene Rorke, discussing her career from the early days in Umtata to being a part of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers program.
Accenture's Peter Lacy talks Leapfrog opportunities in Africa
Accenture's Peter Lacy talks Leapfrog opportunities in Africa by Biznews.com
Gary Coleman: Global disruption wave provides Africa's leapfrog opportunity
For over a decade, I've had the privilege of sharing the same WEF-week Davos hotel with a team from Deloitte. That provided a fast track to the firm's global leaders, including super-smart Gary Coleman who has shared many insights over the years on the way he sees the business world…
Alec Hogg speaks with Thomas Konditi, GE Sub saharan Africa
Alec Hogg speaks with Thomas Konditi, GE Sub saharan Africa by Biznews.com
Ms Portia Molefe on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in West Africa
Ms Portia Molefe on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in West Africa by Biznews.com
Jimmy Manyi: Black CEOs, Chairpersons bank accounts transformed not the companies
President of the Progressive Professionals Forum Jimmy Manyi tells Tim Modise that private sector corruption is much worse than what is happening in the public sector through initiatives like ‘transfer pricing’ and that the media is colluding in its silence. He goes on to say that corporate South Africa is…
General George Casey: Bringing the lessons learnt in military to business
Alec Hogg speaks to General George Casey, former U.S. army chief of staff, about managing an organisation the size of Walmart and bringing the lessons learnt in war back to the boardroom.
Tim Modise speaks inner city development with TUHF CEO Paul Jackson
Tim Modise speaks inner city development with TUHF CEO Paul Jackson by Biznews.com