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BN Daybreak: Helen Zille on Joburg and Mark Burke; Gold's return; Bitcoin's rise; US tariffs
In today's BizNews Daybreak, Helen Zille discusses the tough reality of politics and addresses the Mark Burke controversy. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick explains why central banks are hoarding gold to anchor credibility. Africa Bitcoin Corporation CEO Warren Wheatly highlights Bitcoin's decreasing volatility and absolute scarcity. Finally, get the latest US…
BNC#9 | Warren Wheatley: The case for Bitcoin, AI and the new plumbing of global finance
Bitcoin has gone quiet, and Warren Wheatley says that's the point. While the price sits well off its highs, the CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation says the real story is happening underneath: banks, insurers and even governments building the plumbing that turns Bitcoin into collateral. Wheatley explains how his own…
BNC#9 | The case for gold: Meryl Pick on what comes next for the world you built wealth in
Central banks aren't buying gold to make money. They're buying it because they no longer fully trust the system the rest of us take for granted. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick takes BNC#9 back to a hotel in New Hampshire in 1944, to the deal that made the dollar the centre…
Helen Zille: The Burke saga, a response to Corné Mulder, and the battle for Joburg and beyond
Helen Zille left her husband, sons and grandchildren in Cape Town to chase what she calls one of the toughest jobs of her career: mayor of Johannesburg. In this wide-ranging conversation with Alec Hogg, she explains why she'd rather walk straight into opposition than repeat the "extortion" coalition deals that…
BN Daybreak: NPA drops police charges; Burke defends crypto fintech; US markets bounce back
In today's episode, the NPA formally drops corruption charges against high-ranking police officers following unravelling testimony at the Madlanga Commission. Meanwhile, an MP breaks his silence on his fintech, Kastelo, explaining its cryptocurrency arbitrage model and denying accusations of siphoning money out of South Africa. Finally, we cover Wall Street's…
The NdB Sunday Show: Jonathan Deal - “Snake oil” Fadiel & the villainous plotters unmasked…
“Oily, sneaky. I think if he was in the Wild West in America, he would make a very good snake oil salesman.” That is the verdict by Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal on suspended MP Fadiel Adams testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. In Deal’s latest appearance on the…
Mark Burke breaks his silence on the Kastelo storm: “The ANC will not succeed”
Mark Burke discusses Kastelo’s regulatory dispute with the South African Reserve Bank, explaining the company’s compliance processes, client mandates, offshore investment transactions and decision to halt operations amid the blocking order. He also addresses the political fallout, media coverage and his decision to step back from the DA’s finance cluster…
Fire and Glory: Chad le Clos and dad Bert on 21 medals, Sea Point blaze and the road to LA 2028
South African swimming legend Chad le Clos has made history, becoming the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history with 21 medals., In this interview with Biznews, Chad and his father, Bert, reflect on a nine-year quest to reach this milestone, which is a journey Chad says ranks alongside his…
Marc Dhalluin - A Saffer’s crusade against global ad fraud…
There are more online ads sold and paid for every single day than there are human beings on earth to consume those ads. That is the revelation from Marc Dhalluin of TruthsetsOnline, a South African based in Los Angeles, whose passionate mission is fighting global ad fraud. He talks to…
BN Daybreak: Steinhoff texts; Naspers' Tencent deal; Chad le Clos' LA push
Today's episode explores the aftermath of the Steinhoff crash with previously unseen texts from Markus Jooste. We also unpack how Naspers secured its legendary $33 million Tencent deal despite tough negotiations. In sports, Chad prepares for his "last dance" at the LA 2028 Olympics. Finally, we cover Wall Street's slump…
BNC#9 | Rhys Summerton: The "100% success rate" trade every investor is ignoring
Buy anything worth $600 billion and you can't lose money, says Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton. That's the easy trade. The hard one is spotting a great serial acquirer before the market notices, and Summerton has the scars and the returns to prove it. He walks through the five things he…
BNC#9 | Hans Hawinkels: He made the "best deal in history," and Naspers still got rid of him
He spent three months convincing two reluctant shareholders to sell. He drove across the Hong Kong border in a train packed "like sardines" to negotiate with four young founders through an interpreter. He talked Naspers into betting $32 million it barely had on a loss-making Chinese chat app called QQ…
BNC#9 | The AI reckoning: Stafford Masie says jobs, healthcare & banking are all about to transform
Your phone tells you which menu items will wreck your afternoon before you've ordered. Your investment portfolio is run by an agent that never sleeps. And the loyalty programme you've belonged to for years? It might not survive contact with your own smartwatch. At BNC#9, former Google South Africa boss…
BNC#9 | Bernard Mostert: Steinhoff turned his R3.2bn payout to nought. He still waits for answers.
Ten years ago this month, Bernard Mostert and Braam van Huyssteen signed away their shoe empire for R3.2 billion in Steinhoff shares. Within eighteen months those shares were worth almost nothing, and the men who bought Tekkie Town had walked South Africa into its biggest corporate fraud. In this fireside…
BN Daybreak: DA's R4bn probe; Masie on AI healthcare; Summerton on serial acquirers; US Markets
In today's episode, political commentator Solly Moeng unpacks the R4 billion Reserve Bank investigation involving DA finance spokesperson Mark Burke's former company. Additionally, Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton reveals the essential traits of successful serial acquirers, and former Google SA boss Stafford Masie warns that AI will disrupt traditional health models…
BNC#9 | John Endres: IRR polling data shows South Africans all want the same thing. Growth.
The ANC's national support has slipped to a new low. Almost a million South Africans have left the country in a generation. And yet the IRR's John Endres reckons South Africa has a better shot at real reform than Britain does. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Endres lays out new…
Solly Moeng: Burke bombshell, Kallie and Jacinta cosy up, Fadiel’s fate, Matlala’s murky world…
The once carefully curated moral image of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is showing more cracks. In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng discuss the R4-billion South African Reserve Bank (SARB) investigation into the company founded by DA Finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke, and the pro bono…
BNC#9 | Wayne Duvenage: Over R200bn in bad govt deals, undone: Inside OUTA's war on waste
Twelve years ago Wayne Duvenage quit as CEO of Avis to fight a toll fee he believed was unjust. Government has since written off R43 billion in e-toll debt. A separate R200 billion power ship deal is dead too. Now, at BNC#9, the OUTA chief executive explains how a small…
BN Daybreak: Duvenage calls for citizen oversight; Endres on ANC voter decline; Wall Street slump
In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, we cover OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage’s call at BNC#9 for civilian-led accountability and AI to combat corruption, alongside IRR CEO John Endres's polling data showing ANC support dropping below 50% across key demographics. Reuters details Wall Street's slip driven by soaring bond yields and…
BNC#9 | Fired for pitching an 'unlistable' idea, Afrimat CEO v Heerden built a R10bn company anyway
Fired from a small quarrying company in 2005 for pitching an idea a lawyer called "unlistable," Andries van Heerden went and built it anyway. Twenty years on, that idea is Afrimat: a R10 billion JSE-listed miner spanning iron ore, manganese, anthracite, rare earths and now cement, after last year's Lafarge…