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6 MONTHS OF “NO ACCOUNTABILITY” FOR SA’s ELECTRICITY MINISTER Another 52 weeks of load-shedding - Samantha Graham-Mare
South Africa’s ever-optimistic Minister of Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has had “no accountability” for six months. That has emerged from a BizNews interview with the Democratic Alliance's (DA’s) Shadow Minister of Electricity, Samantha Graham-Mare. She shares the details of her many failed attempts to engage the Minister to collaborate on solving…
BLOOD HAS A VOICE: Tales from the autopsy table - Dr Hestelle van Staden
Blood has a voice. That is the title of a book written by one of South Africa's top forensic pathologists, Dr. Hestelle van Staden, who has conducted thousands of autopsies - and is one of between only 60 and 70 qualified specialist forensic pathologists in the country. As such she…
Andrew Vintcent - Depressed JSE stocks’ ‘new normal’ is only a temporary trough
One of SA's best-performing fund managers is adamant that South African shares are discounting the worst but will rebound strongly, just like in every previous cycle. Andrew Vintcent of ClucasGray, whose returns in the past three years have been double those of the market, is confident that the worst is…
ISRAEL BURIES IT SONS AND DAUGHTERS... Ambassador Eli Belotsercovsky: We will not succumb to this terror
n this interview with BizNews, Ambassador Eli Belotsercovsky vows: “We will not succumb to this terror…Israel will do anything in order to defend its citizens…” The Ambassador gives an update on current Israeli military operations in the northern part of Gaza where Hamas is using civilians as human shields. He…
FFM podcast ep24: Navigating market tensions, Gold bulls, Bling bears, rates higher for longer?
Welcome to the Fantasy Fund Manager podcast, the nexus where finance and real-world events collide. This week, Stuart Lowman navigates through the tumultuous waves of the market with Corion Capital’s Garreth Montano and Caelib Hannibal from Sharenet, exploring the impact of geopolitical tensions, humanitarian crises, and the ever-volatile resource counters…
How to unlock SA’s enormous sporting talent pool: South Africa should be a “top sporting nation” in the World-Brad Bing
How can South Africa unlock the potential of its incredible sporting talent pool? According to Brad Bing - founder and managing director of Sporting Chance, an NGO focused on youth sports development and health education in South Africa - “South Africa keeps underselling itself as a top, top sporting nation.”…
South Africa’s oldest wildlife sanctuary CROW struggling to survive – Clint Halkett-Siddall
CROW is South Africa's oldest wildlife rehabilitation centre. For the past 43 years, the centre has been rehabilitating and releasing wild animals and birds. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which suspended their international volunteer programme for two years, combined with the devastating 2022 floods in Kwazulu-Natal and the current…
Solar breakthrough: power already cheaper than Joburg, CT - gap widening
In another informative interview, GoSolr co-founder and CEO Andrew Middleton explains how the company's cost per kw/h was already in line with Joburg's before City Power announced a 13% increase and is lower than Cape Town's. Middleton unpacks why this cost advantage will keep widening - and the self-confessed 'solar…
PLEASE, DON’T HURT MY KID… Israeli mother’s plea to Hamas terrorists who abducted her 12-year-old special needs daughter
A 12-year-old girl who has special needs is one of the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists during the worst ever terror attack on Israeli soil. In this emotional interview with BizNews, Noya’s mother Galit Dan pleads with the kidnappers not to harm her daughter. “Don't hurt her. The Quran says…
Former Springbok Captain Wynand Claassen blasts flag furore, ’Chappie’ kit, and ‘G&T' board room brigade
Former Springbok Captain Wynand Claassen has mauled the South African government for its sluggishness in updating anti-doping regulations. This blunder could've had the Proteas and Springboks playing without their national flag. In a candid interview with BizNews, Claassen is incredulous that the Department of Culture and Sport allowed two international…
THE KILLING FIELDS OF KZN: Political assassins killing for contracts & Municipal funds transferred at gunpoint…
KwaZulu-Natal is also known as “The Killing Fields” of South Africa. That is because of the high number of political murders in that province where scores of councillors and officials have been murdered. BizNews speaks to Arise SA President Mpho Dagada, who has just been there to investigate. He describes…
UNDICTATED: Frans Cronje on big KZN voter swing - and ANC endorses Hamas barbarism
In this episode of UNDICTATED, independent political and economic analyst Dr Frans Cronje tackles two topical subjects with BizNews editor Alec Hogg - massive voter shifts in KZN and the ANC’s monumental foreign affairs blunder. Cronje, who heads the Social Research Foundation, shares the latest research on voters in South…
Israel-Hamas Escalation Eclipse Ukraine-Russia War, Exposes Israeli Intelligence Failure - Prof Theo Venter
For the past two years, the world has watched with alarm as Ukraine faced a brutal invasion by Russia. The conflict had a profound effect on the global economy, with rising energy prices and consumers feeling the pinch. However, the Ukraine crisis has been suddenly eclipsed by another flashpoint in…
Mr President, Please sack your “Darling” - Ghaleb Cachalia
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has been urged to immediately sack his “darling”, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. That call is being made by Ghaleb Cachalia, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises. “In the private sector, if that was your responsibility, they would be holding your feet…
Local v Offshore: Piet, Magnus agree on portfolio structure, warn on marketing scams
Two years into the R1m challenge to settle which is better, JSE or global investing, the performances of protagonists Piet Viljoen and Magnus Heystek have significantly narrowed. Following a flying start, Piet’s “Local is Lekker” portfolio has stalled, with Magnus’s offshore-focused investments clawing back after a horrific first few months…
UNDICTATED: Myths and facts on Tshwane strike - face-off with national implications
Tshwane’s Executive Mayor, Cilliers Brink, may represent the most rational hope for reversing South Africa’s prolonged decline into poverty. Brink’s leadership in confronting organized labour epitomises the country's challenges in the coming years. After decades of ANC compliance and regular capitulation to increasingly unsustainable demands of trade unions, Tshwane’s DA-led…
SA SECRETS “STOLEN”?Intelligence Committee meetings cancelled - Diane Kohler-Barnard
Has South Africa’s State Security Agency (SSA) been hacked? And did the new Head of Crime Intelligence get his Security Clearance in just five days? These are big issues for the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) Dianne Kohler-Barnard who sits on the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence. But she tells BizNews that…
TERROR IN TSHWANE: Shots, stones, petrol bombs in capital city close to collapse
South Africa’s capital city, Tshwane, has been gripped by violence amid ongoing strike action by some municipal workers over a 0% salary increase. Community Safety MMC Grandi Theunissen of the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) tells BizNews that there have been cases of attempted murder, torching of vehicles, arson, stone-throwing, tyre-slashing,…
ISRAEL AT WAR: “Whole families erased”, 100s dead, 1000s wounded in worst ever terror attack
Israel has declared war on Hamas after the worst terror attack in its history. In an interview with BizNews, it’s ambassador in South Africa, Eli Belotserovsky, describes how- under a barrage of missiles - armed bands of terrorists penetrated Israel through tunnels, in boats and by paragliders. More than 700…
SA tech company harnessing Cape waves for energy - Impact-Free Water
When discussing clean energy solutions, wind and solar often steal the spotlight. However, there's another potential source of energy that's worth exploring—wave energy. Some scientists believe that, if fully harnessed, wave energy could theoretically meet the world's electricity needs. However, technologies needed to harness wave energy are still in the…