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Squeezed at home, priced out abroad: SA families can pivot to universities in Mauritius, UAE...
With South Africa’s premier universities oversubscribed and the cost of popular overseas destinations like the UK, US, Australia, and Canada soaring, families could pivot to highly competitive, cost-effective global alternatives. Sable International’s Brent Morris told BizNews in an interview that Mauritius, the UAE, and Malaysia now offer highly attractive degrees,…
David White: "Entrepreneurial time poverty," DRG's dot-com crash and B-BBEE's "success formula"…
"Running a business is really complicated," says David White, founder and CEO of DRG, BusinessFit SA and The Africa Marketing Initiative, and the resulting "entrepreneurial time poverty" is what quietly kills small businesses long before bad ideas do. In conversation with Irakli Rekhviashvili, White explains how BusinessFit's open source self-assessment…
BNC#9 | Johnny Copelyn: From a banned union organiser to SA's most patient dealmaker
Johnny Copelyn turned a one million rand trade union investment fund into HCI, a business now worth well over ten billion rand, without ever raiding the pockets of the workers who backed him. In one of his last interviews as CEO, he talks candidly about a bank that nearly went…
BN Daybreak: DA eyes 6 metros; Zuma on MK's land plans; Zambia lessons; Cape Town costs; Nvidia
In today's BizNews Daybreak, Geordin Hill-Lewis outlines the DA's ambitious push to govern six metros. MK Deputy President Duduzane Zuma confirms that land expropriation without compensation will happen as party policy. We also explore why South Africa’s anxious youth should look to Zambia's optimistic turnaround. Plus, BOSA’s Roger Solomons warns…
Roger Solomons: Fighting to make Cape Town affordable again…
In this interview with Chris Steyn, Build One South Africa (BOSA) mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town, Roger Solomons, describes how unaffordable it has become for ordinary citizens to live and do business in the Mother City. “I've crisscrossed the city, not just during this campaign trail, but…
Zambia shows SA what happens when government treats the country like a business
Zambia just handed Hakainde Hichilema a landslide second term, and its youth have gone from 10% optimistic about the future to 55% in under six years. Paramount Group founder and Africa Youth Survey chair Ivor Ichikowitz explains why, and doesn't hold back on what it says about South Africa, where…
BNC#9 | GHL Q&A: Would the DA ever work with MKP? Plus ANC collapse, AI, policing, BEE, and more...
Five metros are up for grabs, the ANC has slipped to third place in its own heartland, and Geordin Hill-Lewis says the party's decline can no longer be reversed. In this Q&A with Alec Hogg and the BNC#9 floor, the DA federal leader and Cape Town mayor lays out exactly…
BN Daybreak: SA's new mining bill; Offshore gas rulings; State corruption inquiry; Nvidia Earnings
Today’s episode covers South Africa’s new illegal mining bill, which introduces R100 million fines and 30-year sentences to target criminal syndicates. Niall Kramer discusses recent Constitutional Court judgments regarding offshore gas drilling and public consultation processes. We also examine nepotism allegations surrounding Gayton McKenzie and the ANC's deployment tactics. Finally,…
BNC#9 | Paul Hoffman: Everything you need to know about Madlanga, IDAC, and justice in SA
A commission of inquiry can't jail anyone. It can't force government to do anything at all. So what is the Madlanga Commission actually for, and what happens if its final report just gets filed away like so many before it? Accountability Now's Paul Hoffman walks through 25 years of scrapped…
BNC#9 | Piet le Roux: Applying 'state-proofing' to foreign policy to rescue ties with Washington
Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux takes the "state-proofing" argument he's built at home and points it at Washington. His case: South Africa isn't the country the 1994 constitution describes any more, and the US still treats it like it is. He walks through what's actually at stake for America, then…
BNC#9 | Christo Wiese: Steinhoff, land, 'white monopoly capital', and what keeps him betting on SA
Christo Wiese built one of South Africa's biggest retail empires on a simple rule: trust people, even when it's risky. Then Markus Jooste broke that trust and took Steinhoff down with him. In this rare fireside chat at BNC#9, Wiese talks for the first time in years about why he's…
South Africa's untapped offshore prize: Namibia is booming next door. Why aren't we?
Namibia struck oil and became the hottest investment story on the continent. Mozambique's tax take is about to jump sharply on the back of gas. Right next door, South Africa is sitting on a geological basin that industry figures compare to the discovery of gold in Johannesburg, and it has…
Solly Moeng: Mthethwa suicide mystery, McKenzie’s “nepotism”, Matlala-Maumela link - and R167m bust
In their latest BizNews chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng cover the deepening mystery surrounding the apparent suicide in Paris of former Police Minister and ambassador Nathi Mthethwa; Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie’s “nepotistic” appointments of Minister of Arts and Culture; the relationship between Tenderpreneurs Cat Matlala…
R100-million fines for kingpins as illegal mining booms into national security crisis…
Illegal mining kingpins are in the crosshairs when a new Illegal Mining Bill becomes law with R100 million fines and 30-year prison sentences on the cards. However, Independent Governance Expert Richard Chelin tells Chris Steyn that in the six years it has taken the government to draft the bill, illegal…
BNC#9 | Piet Viljoen cuts through the BS: What actually drives your returns (it's not complicated)
He's run money through three decades of market cycles, from Allan Gray to Investec to his own boutique, RECM. Now Piet Viljoen stands in front of a room of investment professionals and calls a chunk of his own industry's output, by his own word, bullshit. Jargon, product complexity, benchmarks, forecasts,…
BN Daybreak: State-proofing SA; Covid’s market scars; Viljoen on investment complexity
In today’s episode, Piet le Roux discusses "state-proofing" South Africa and urges a shift in United States foreign policy. David Shapiro unpacks Covid-19's lasting scars on global markets and the Federal Reserve's recent inflation struggles. We also explore how the investment industry uses Rube Goldberg-like complexity to generate revenue rather…
BNC#9 | David Shapiro: How AI quietly saved the global economy in 2022, and what markets do next
David Shapiro has watched the market from a JSE trading floor since 1972, through every crisis from the Asian meltdown to the pandemic. At BNC#9 he makes the case that a single 2022 invention quietly kept the global economy afloat despite punishingly high interest rates, and explains why the new…
BNC#9 | Zuma Q&A: EWC, BEE, election'24's 'missing' numbers, coalition talks, grants, and more...
Seven days into the job as MK's first deputy president, Duduzane Zuma sat down with Alec Hogg at BNC#9 and didn't play it safe. He says land expropriation without compensation isn't a threat, it's already policy. He says the grants system his own party is often accused of wanting to…
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…