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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…
FFM podcast ep23: Dinner table reputations; Recession concerns; Pick n Pay; Implats
Join Stuart Lowman on the Fantasy Fund Manager podcast, navigating the thrilling journey through a 27-week investment competition. In this episode, delve into insightful discussions with financial experts Garreth Montano and Simon Du Plooy from Corion Capital, exploring market dynamics, investment strategies, and the impact of global economic shifts on…
UNDICTATED: Firing Cadres won’t fix Transnet while Pravin still runs show
Long-time property developer Francois Nortje has a vested interest in the country re-establishing its once-efficient logistics network. Then again, given its massive on the national treasury, so do all South Africans. However, we’re observing that the SACP/ANC government seems to misunderstand that simply firing the cadres it deployed at Transnet…
Peak interest rates are in sight - OMBA director Mark Perchtold
After the steep climbs in interest rates, we could finally be approaching the peak. That is according to Mark Perchtold, the founding director of OMBA Advisory and Investments. This perspective comes on the heels of remarks from prominent figures in finance. Bank of England Governor Ben Broadbent said it was…
CHRIS PAPPAS: “Bring it on!"; “This small mayor is making them terrified.”
This is the message Chris Pappas, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) candidate for Premier in KwaZulu-Natal, has for those who have accused him of nepotism. He speaks to BizNews after the Public Protector and the Speaker of the uMngeni municipality were both asked to investigate him. Pappas says the Speaker already…
UNDICTATED: Meet FirstRand’s new CEO, the quiet iconoclast Mary Vilakazi
When GT Ferreira, Laurie Dippenaar, and Paul Harris founded the FirstRand group in 1998, they were determined to disrupt South Africa’s then-stagnant banking industry. Now worth R350bn, their venture is now second only to Naspers among listed South African companies - and is comfortably the most valuable financial services group…