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Boikanyo Foundation: Providing mobility to children with cerebral palsy in South Africa – Marilyn Bassin
In South Africa, families with children who have cerebral palsy face significant challenges in providing adequate care, often resorting to carrying them on their backs due to the scarcity of proper mobility aids. The Boikanyo Foundation, founded by Dion Herson, is dedicated to addressing this issue by providing renovated, specialised…
Meet Glenn Orsmond - an accountant among pilots, dubbed ‘second most hated person in aviation’
Former Comair and OneTime CEO’s autobiography ‘Crash and Burn’ provides a fascinating insight into a career in South Africa’s highly visible, ever-turbulent airline industry. In the book, a filter-free Orsmond rips the bandaid obscuring truth behind the spectacular collapse of 70-year-old airline Comair - and much more. BizNews editor Alec…
NewsWrap with Alec Hogg Ep1 - Libyans; Patricia’s freedom; Stock Rotation and plenty more…
In the debut episode, editor Alec Hogg provides context on the past week’s developments of relevance for the BizNews tribe.
July may have been start of market’s Great Rotation back to value, SA - Bacher
In our regular wrap of the past month’s performance of investment markets, Corion’s David Bacher explains why history may show the past 31 days were a major watershed, with value-driven investments taking over from growth. He unpacks the implications of a Great Rotation, which would help South African equities and…
Bitcoin's future, interest rates, SA investment hurdles, and key investments in health and nuclear power - Vinny Lingham
Vinny Lingham discusses Bitcoin's different futures under Trump vs. Biden, predicting significant impacts on the cryptocurrency's value. He anticipates US interest rate cuts in December, criticizes South Africa's investment climate, and highlights his focus on conscious health and nuclear power as key investment themes, including fish farming with SeaTopia.
Election observer Masuku unpacks Venezuela's election amid fraud allegations, riots and controversy
Riots broke out in Venezuela following the presidential election on Sunday. BizNews spoke to one of South Africa's election observers there. In this interview, Madala Masuku, the Deputy SG of the South African Communist Party (SACP), gives a detailed explanation of the election system that is both electronic and manual,…
Acquitted SAPS whistleblower reveals secret military training camp cover-up…
A not-guilty verdict was handed down today for South African Police Services (SAPS) Whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale - after almost two years of threats to her life liberty. This after she had been accused of spreading false allegations, circulating WhatsApp messages, and defamation. In this interview with BizNews, she goes into…
Total’s gas exit - PetroSA blunder loses SA R80bn investment, R100bn in lost taxes
SA’s Government of National Unity faces a major stress test after oil major Total yesterday announced its exit from a highly prospective gas field off the Southern Cape coast. The French multinational and its partners had already invested R8bn in exploring the field, around 10% of the total investment to…
Alec Hogg answers questions about South Africa after Election ’24
In a fund-raising talk for Rotary in Hermanus last week BizNews editor Alec Hogg answers the pressing questions of the BizNews tribe. Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your…
OMBA’s Sean Ashton: Rational perspective on Wall Street’s ‘Great Rotation’
In this interview, OMBA’s Sean Ashton delves deeper into last week’s research report where he unpacked the relative appeal of investing in the traditional S&P500 index and its equally weighted cousin - explaining how it is essentially a call on the timeless debate of Growth vs Value. Ashton uses the…
Alec Hogg on what investors, local and foreign, think of the GNU
In a fund-raising talk for Rotary in Hermanus last week, BizNews editor Alec Hogg addressed how local and international investors have reacted to the results of Election’24 and the Government of National Unity. Cutting through the noise, he eschewed popular narratives in favour of hard data that explains a perception…
De Beer: SA - A portal to terror
South Africa has become the new gateway to terror. So says Neil de Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement. He spoke to BizNews after the arrest of 95 Libyan nationals at a suspected secret military training camp and the sanctioning by US authorities of an ISIS operative as…
Why SA “irritates” “most” African countries…
The African National Congress (ANC) has acted like “they're powerful players on the African stage”, but South Africa “really irritates most” other African countries because “they're always sticking their noses in everywhere”. So says the former Director of African Studies at the U.S. Army War College, retired Colonel Chris Wyatt,…
Trump & Biden: The Cover-ups - with Colonel Chris Wyatt
Kimberly Cheatle - who has resigned as the Director of the Secret Service - following the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump should be charged criminally for negligence, dereliction of duty, and also perjury before Congress. This is the call from Colonel Chris Wyatt, the former Director of…
Springbok songbird KB Motsilanyane storm the business world, inspired by Kolisi and ‘uncle Rassie’ Keabetswe ‘KB’ Motsil
Keabetswe ‘KB’ Motsilanyane led her compatriots in a stirring rendition of Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika before the Loftus clash between the Boks and Ireland. On social media, it has been described as “the greatest ever.” KB read the crowd exceptionally well, a skill that will serve her well as she pivots…
Magnus Heystek sees hope for SA's economic revival: Calls for bold tax reforms
In an interview with BizNews, Magnus Heystek urges South Africa to embrace bold economic reforms, suggesting radical tax breaks as a key strategy to rejuvenate the struggling economy. Heystek argues that by adopting innovative policies, such as offering flat-rate taxes to attract high-net-worth individuals and businesses, South Africa could significantly…
’Kasipreneur Tsitso Setai of Lokshin Auctions - turning forgotten assets into cash, in one location after another
As GG Alcock keeps reminding us, there a lot happening in areas ignored by the formal sector. In this interview he introduces us to the man introducing the auctioneering into South African townships, Tsitso Setai of Lokshin Auctions. Given wealth disparities and the way auctions turn one person’s unwanted into…
Pragmatic Mashaba on ANC deal: We’re rescuing Joburg from political power-mongering
Action SA founder and leader Herman Mashaba has shown pretty much anything is possible in South Africa’s new-look political arena. This week the man who has maintained a virulently anti-ANC stance, turned pragmatic by striking a deal with his avowed rival - in the interests, he says, of breaking the…
Olympic surprises? Assessing SA’s swimming, rowing gold medalists and the emerging talent
South African swimmers and rowers have overachieved in recent Olympics, delivering the lion’s share of the nation’s few medal winners. Tokyo 2021 gold and silver medalist Tatjana Smith (nee Shoenmaker) leads the country’s 12 swimmers while 2012 gold medal winning John Smith is one of three SA rowers at Paris…
Dirty war: Organised Crime v/s SARS & the citizens of SA
The recent attempted assassination attempt on a SARS advocate and the still unsolved assassinations of liquidator Cloete Murray and his son who who had done work for SARS have shone the spotlight on the threats faced by SARS for going after organised criminals for tax evasion. In this interview with…