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The liquidation of Comair leaves the airline industry shocked
Rampa Rammopo, CEO of Lanseria International Airport, chats to Victoria Ashwin about the impact of Comair announcing its announced liquidation on the industry. Comair is the franchise partner to British Airways and low-cost carrier Kulula. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#FeelGoodFriday - Ninjas in Cape Town...what?
Reinie Swart (28) is the CEO and founder of a company doing good and changing lives. It's that simple. Doing this requires getting their hands dirty. He far prefers the moniker Eco Ninja - also the name of his company - over any stiff corporate label. He and his team…
A-Plus Show Ep 7- Guptas in cuffs, questions about Ramaphosa's stolen millions, Tongaat Hulett's continued catastrophes
BizNews A-Plus Show duo Alec Hogg and Michael Appel are back with episode 7 of their weekly round-up of business, investments, news and politics banter you need to know. In focus this episode: Alec unpacks some of what's emanating from his weekly Boardroom Talk column where he was in discussion…
Grindrod Bank CEO on why merging with African Bank wasn’t a shotgun wedding - will it last?
African Bank has bought Grindrod Bank for R1.5bn, and if you understand the players in the banking sector, you’ll know that this merger doesn’t necessarily make sense on face value. The two banks could not be further apart in their business models: one focused on unsecured lending in the retail…
Gupta arrests - 'I had a smile on my face'
Fugitives from justice in South Africa, Atul and Rajesh Gupta, are in custody following their recent arrest in Dubai after Interpol issued a Red Notice. Veteran journalist Rajesh Sundaram has extensive real-life experience with the infamous Gupta family. He was flown to South Africa to launch the Gupta's television station…
Ketamine shows up Big Pharma treatment of mental health issues
South Africa is facing myriad crises. One of them is depression. Recent statistics indicate that 23 South Africans commit suicide every day and for every person that commits suicide, 10 have attempted it. This is disturbing, on every level. Even Big Pharma’s extensive catalogue of purported ‘cures’ have, evidently, fallen…
Meet Michael Appel - the new editor of BizNews
At the beginning of June, Michael Appel was appointed editor of BizNews, only the second person to hold this post in the almost nine year history of the company. In this interview with BizNews founder Alec Hogg we get to hear the story of how the much-travelled son of a…
No More Sugar Coating Tongaat Hulett: A Rights Issue Under Fire - commentary from Hamish Rudland and Chris Logan
Tongaat is looking to raise R5bn in a rights issue that is 12 times its current market value of R400m. The Rudland Family through Magister Investments will partially underwrite R2bn of the rights offer provided that a waiver is approved by regulators. Related parties to Magister were found to have…
No-nonsense Judith February a 'Jill of all trades'
She's a writer, a columnist, an author, a lawyer, political analyst, former sports administrator, trustee at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, as well as the new executive officer at Freedom Under Law (FUL). Judith February has more titles than Rafa Nadal. She's a veritable 'Jill of all trades' (I don't know…
Editorial: Guptas arrested. Did you ever think you'd see the day?
Two of the Guptas on Interpol's Red Notice list have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates with the focus now shifting to their extradition back to SA amid an inevitable fight back. Late on Monday evening South Africa’s Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services released a veritable bombshell. It…
Put the alleged crime aside, the optics aren't great for Ramaphosa - analyst
Former spy boss Arthur Fraser, who’s also the man who freed former President Jacob Zuma on medical parole when he was Correctional Services head, this week laid a criminal complaint against President Cyril Ramaphosa. Fraser claims he has the evidence to prove that Ramaphosa concealed the February 2020 theft of…
Tim Noakes, world’s #3 nutritional scientist, aligns with UKZN’s Aldous, a fresh voice in tradition of courageous truth-seekers.
In this expansive interview world leading medical and nutritional scientist Dr Tim Noakes explains why relates to UKZN professor Colleen Aldous, whose independent stance on the use of Ivermectin has made her a lightning rod for criticism from officialdom. Noakes, who is on the verge of releasing findings from fresh…
Magnus opening up a Mauritius alternative to Hermanus for SA’s wealthy
Independent financial advisor Magnus Heystek has been scouting around the ‘Boere Monaco’ in Mauritius and has found a property development he’s endorsing. Heystek and the developers of the Black River project will be meeting prospective investors in the coming week. Pricing is in line with seaside properties in Hermanus, a…
SA’s paraglider made the first legal flight off Everest by cashing in annuity – Pierre Carter
It took 55-year-old Pierre Carter just 20 minutes to fly from a point near the summit of Mount Everest before he landed near the Nepalese settlement of Gorakshep high in the Himalayan mountains. With this jump, he has opened the door, or more accurately, the skies above the peak for…
BizNews A-Plus Show - Ep 6 - Investor horror at Gold Field's recent acquisition; state capture arrests; costly pints
BizNews A-Plus Show duo Alec Hogg and Michael Appel are back with episode 6 of their weekly round-up of business, investments, news and politics banter you need to know. In focus this episode, Gold Field's share price dropped over 20% after its $6.7bn acquisition of Yamana Gold; Corion Capital's report…
David Bacher on investment markets: May was "hell of a ride", its last week finally breaking the worst stretch in 21 years.
The Corion Report, released monthly, highlights the whip-sawing given to investors who decided this year listened to the old adage to 'sell in May and go away'. In this podcast, Corion's David Bacher looks back at the critical numbers of the highly volatile month and tells BizNews founder Alec Hogg…
Gold Fields CEO Chris Griffith to shareholders - Hang in there; Mr Market's reaction to $6.7bn Yamana deal is all wrong
Shareholders were unimpressed by the proposed $6.7bn price which SA's Gold Fields Limited has agreed on to buy Canadian peer Yamana Gold. The acquiring company's share price dropped 22% on the news and shows little signs of recovering, But Gold Fields CEO Chris Griffith believes Mr Market has this one…
Hope springs for long Covid patients – Neurologist Ashleigh Bhanjan explains new therapy
Until now, the medical prospects for persons suffering from long Covid have been very bleak. As recently as three weeks ago, BizNews republished an article by our partners at The Wall Street Journal covering long Covid. The central message and, essentially, advice to patients struggling with long Covid symptoms was…
NPA’s Investigating Directorate strikes; more arrests by mid-July
The NPA’s Investigating Directorate (ID) announces it is striking back against those allegedly involved with state capture. There were a string of recent Transnet-related arrests, all tied to dealings with the infamous Gupta family. The country’s collective patience has worn thin and there has been little in the way of…
Fuel price increases dire for poor, but there is a silver lining for the Rand – TreasuryOne’s Andre Cilliers
The government has decided to extend the fuel levy relief for two months. It meant that a predicted R4 per litre hike did not materialise. But the measure could not prevent increases in petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin, with petrol rising by R2.43 a litre for 93 octane unleaded fuel…