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WEF: SA 2016 risks - jobs, social instability & infrastructure failure
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological. Alec Hogg is in London and he caught…
Discovery UK CEO: Taking Vitality to the Brits. Sports inspired.
Biznews founder Alec Hogg is currently in London on a short tour before tackling the alps of Davos for the next instalment of the World Economic Forum. While in London he caught up with Neville Koopowitz, CEO of Discovery UK. It's a fascinating discussion around Discovery's progress in the market,…
Prof Eli Lewis on a holy grail: a cure for type 1 diabetes
Dr Eli Lewis, professor of clinical biochemistry and pharmacology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His team may have stumbled across one of modern medicine's most enduring holy grails: a safe, effective way to reverse type 1 diabetes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrew Canter: Foreign investor trust in SA will take years to rebuild
Bond specialist Andrew Cantor, chief investment officer at Futuregrowth, explains why foreigner investors panicked at the firing of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene - and how confidence built up over 20 years wan be destroyed virtually overnight. Canter worries trust in the fiscal prudence of the SA Government has been broken,…
Nick Binedell: SA's watershed week - what it means for the future
Founder and former dean of GIBS, Nick Binedell, joined Alec Hogg in the Biznews studios to unpack the dramatic events of the past five days. He is delighted at the unexpected turn of events which led to former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan being reappointed - and suggsts there will be…
SA’s top numerologist Sandy Smith: 2016 a bad year for Zuma, better for SA
For rational minds, the ancient art (science?) of numerology ranks right down there with sangoma soothsaying and gypsy crystal balls. But for thousands of years stretching back to the ancient Greek Pythagoras, numerology has attracted devotees who don’t make any important decision without it. South Africa’s leading numerologist Sandy Smith’s…
Russell Loubser: SAA - only voters can stop the plundering by ANC cronies
Russell Loubser doesn't know how to sugar coat - and certainly hasn't deviated from his norm in this hard-hitting interview with Biznews.com's Alec Hogg. The long-time ex-CEO of the JSE reflects on his decision to step away from South African Airways in September 2012 because he "had lost confidence in…
Futuregrowth IS developmental investing at its best.
While shocking news abounds on almost every media platform you care to engage with, Futuregrowth Asset Management located in Cape Town continues to turn out good news stories year after year. Not only are they engaged in financing and assisting the most incredible developmental projects in South Africa, but they’re…
John Battersby: Watching and hearing Malema in London - why he was a hit with UK investors
After 35 years in journalism, John Battersby became the inaugural London-based driver of Brand South Africa. During more than a decade of waving the flag for investment and tourism, he got to meet global movers and shakers. So there are few better placed than the London-based director of the SA-UK…
Jannie Mouton: So far, so brilliant. Now it’s up to PSG’s “Youth League”
Alec Hogg says being at PSG Group's 20th anniversary last night was a great privilege. In those two decades, the now R60bn group started from scratch in November 1995 by then recently fired stockbroker Jannie Mouton, has delivered compounded growth of 54% a year to shareholders. An investment of R100…
Irina Filatova: SA’s future? Moscow fantasy. Centralised. Not Nationalised.
Irina Filatova is a Russian professor who moved to South Africa in 1992 when she joined the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In this fascinating interview with Alec Hogg, the two explore the communist movement in South Africa and how it ties in with the Soviet Union. Filatova says the ideological influence…
Martin Wolf warns SA; Putin outrages at Turkey
Martin Wolf warns SA; Putin outrages at Turkey by Biznews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Safari's township focus on sweet spots attracts rave reviews from property investors
In this special podcast, Safari Investments CEO Francois Marais explains the unique strategy which has money managers excited about his company - despite their cautious approach to the sector in general. Safari was a pioneer in township retail shopping centres and is now in the process of building its third…
Dow Theory, AGMs and Nando's in the headlines
Dow Theory, AGMs and Nando's in the headlines by Biznews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
South America dumps socialism, ANC continues regardless
South America dumps socialism, ANC continues regardless by Biznews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SA Govt's inability to execute, Rand, ISIS funding in today's headlines
SA Govt's inability to execute, Rand, ISIS funding in today's headlines by Biznews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meet Peter Mountford: SA's most underrated CEO, from R350m to R10bn in 6yrs
The most valuable accolades for any CEO are those spontaneously offered by investment professionals. Over dinner last week, two of SA’s leading money managers, Cy Jacobs (36One) and Duncan Artus (Allan Gray) named Super Group’s Peter Mountford as SA’s most under-rated CEO. To find out why, we invited Mountford into…
Wylie lays into Competition Commission, plus Faure, Rupert and Jones make news
Wylie lays into Competition Commission, plus Faure, Rupert and Jones make news by Biznews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Moeletsi, MTN, Elon and Jake grab today's headlines
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Meet Moeletsi Mbeki: Fixing SA all about choices - can't have it both ways
Entrepreneur, scholar and author Moeletsi Mbeki is celebrated in South Africa for his outspoken criticism of the Zuma Administration, once describing them "like children playing with a hand grenade." In this in-depth interview with Biznews.com's publisher Alec Hogg he shares stories from his formative years, what shaped his philosophy, his…