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Understanding Tax Emigration for South Africans leaving or living abroad
If you belong to the group of South Africans that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has referred to as "mobile higher-income earners" and you're contemplating leaving the country or are already part of the large pool of South Africa's emigrants, it's crucial to take into account the tax implications of emigration…
Terebinth’s Ann Sebastian: Applying maths to reverse archaic investing models - to very good effect
Head of equities at Terebinth Capital, Ann Sebastian, is having lots of fun participating in its co-sponsored Fantasy Fund Management game. But her day-to-day work is to select the right stocks to invest in. She does so through a model that applies mathematical formulae to bring together many disparate factors,…
Survivor’s resilience: 101-year-old Ella Blumenthal shares her holocaust journey from Auschwitz to Africa
In a world where encounters with Holocaust survivors are few, and most have surpassed their 90s or 100s, Ella Blumenthal stands out as an extraordinary individual. Her journey that she penned in her book, “I am Ella” with author Joanne Jowell, goes beyond mere survival, for she carries within her a remarkable absence…
Wagner stays, UN peacekeepers have to go...
The growing power of Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa is believed to be behind the sudden termination of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. BizNews speaks to Dr. Robert Zuber, director of the UN-based Global Action to Prevent War and Conflict. He was at the UN Security Council meeting on…
Breadline Africa to Tackle South Africa's Pit Latrine Crisis, Help 120,000 Children - Johan Nel
In the rural regions of South Africa, an astonishing number of schools continue to rely on pit toilets or latrines, which essentially consist of 3-metre-deep holes in the ground. Pit toilets not only strip pupils of their dignity and compromise hygiene, but they also pose significant risks to their safety…
FFM podcast ep9: A battle royale for June; the psychology behind value and growth investors; Richemont’s runway
The value versus growth debate has been a common theme across the Fantasy Fund Manager podcast, hosted by BizNews’ Stuart Lowman. Corion Capital’s Garreth Montani and Cuan Sauter from Moneybetter look behind the lens at the psychology and personality traits driving a value or growth investor. And on the subject…
PA’s Cilliers on Joburg by-election win, thrashing ANC, sending message to DA
Despite a recent ratcheting up of “negative campaigning” by its detractors, the Patriotic Alliance is shaping up as a potent force in South African politics - evidenced by yesterday’s comfortable victory over the ANC incumbent in a well contested by-election in Johannesburg. Co-founder Charles Cilliers explains how the victory was…
New voters can be kingmakers
South Africa’s estimated 13 million unregistered voters hold the power to change South Africa's future as the kingmakers in next year’s watershed national elections. This emerges from an interview with Werner Horn, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) member on the Party Liaison Committee of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). He tells BizNews…
Impact on SA (and Putin's local fans) of ructions in Russia - Prof Irina Filatova
Irina Filatova is a Russian history and political science professor who moved to SA in 1992 to take up a post at the University of KZN - but remains closely in touch with her homeland and fellow Moscow University faculty and students. Author of half a dozen books, including acclaimed…
Cyril! Clarens is calling....
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been challenged to visit Clarens in the Eastern Free State to be given advice on the implementation of poverty-relief programmes. The invitation comes from Garth Brook - an implementing agent for the past 16 years - who says: “And what we'll do is we'll explain very carefully…
ANC's damaging foreign policy: Ideology without moral authority
South Africa needs a professional diplomatic service to mitigate the damage caused by its foreign policy based on the ideological world view of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). That is the view of Terence Corrigan of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) who speaks to BizNews about…
John Steenhuisen: How the DA will beat EFF and the fragmenting ANC and win in 2024
In a rational world, the Democratic Alliance would be a shoo-in at South Africa’s National election next year. The only province where it has a majority, the Western Cape, proves the benefits of clean and efficient governance: crime is lower, property prices much higher, 98% of SA’s new jobs are…
Breast cancer: the scary truth about mammograms, birth control pills, more – Dr Susan Wadia-Ells
BizNews spoke to Dr Susan Wadia-Ells, author of Busting Breast Cancer, Five Simple Steps to Keep Breast Cancer Out of Your Body to discuss various factors contributing to breast cancer and shed light on the controversial practices and regulations surrounding its prevention and treatment. A fascinating discussion on mammograms, metabolic…
Exploring the impact of electoral reform on every South African citizen
Electoral reform is crucial in transforming South Africa’s democracy. Former member of the Independent Electoral Commission, Terry Tselane, and Senior lecturer at University of Pretoria, Dr. Sithembile Mbete participated in a panel discussion focused on the recent electoral reforms and their implications, specifically the inclusion of independent candidates in the…
SA-Russia relationship: South Africa is handcuffed to a losing horse - Dr Colin P. Clarke
South Africa is betting on a losing horse with its backing of Russia - and will face consequences for a foreign policy that “accommodates Moscow and other rogue regimes”. This warning comes from Dr. Colin P. Clarke, the Director of Research at the Soufan Group, a global intelligence and security…
Russian war games: Putin wounded by Prigozhin’s failed rebellion - Professor Abel Esterhuyse
A weekend of war games in Russia. A coup that wasn’t. A failed armed rebellion. A violent clash of egos between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his warlord Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin. BizNews speaks to Professor Abel Esterhuyse from the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University who says the failed…
RW Johnson: Implications for SA of a suddenly fragile Putin; Ramaphosa bombing in Paris
Political scientist RW Johnson reckons there are significant implications here in South Africa after the weekend's aborted coup in Russia by Prigozihn's Wagner forces. The ANC and local Communist Party's support for a suddenly fragile Putin exposes them - and there are implications, too, for the country's watershed election in…
Piet Viljoen lays into Naspers management for “feeding” at shareholder expense
Veteran money manager Piet Viljoen has been on the warpath against Naspers management in the runup to Tuesday’s release of the group’s financial results. He ripped into them in a social media post (see below), which sparked an interview with Alec Hogg where the manager of the Merchant West Value…
South African Startup Omnisient Using AI and Alternative Data to Help Millions Access Credit - Jon Jacobson
Two billion people in the world, most of whom live in emerging markets, do not have access to credit. They are excluded from financial systems because they have limited or no credit history. South African startup, Omnisient, which specialises in secure data sharing for businesses, wants to bring this section…
How the world sees SA: Eskom's "slow motion car crash" gets a global spotlight
In this edited version of a lengthy Bloomberg podcast that uses South Africa as a template for "what happens when the lights go out", we are treated to how the international market sees the country's 15 years of electricity blackouts - what caused them and whether the problem is now…