The Editor's Desk - Tuesday 18 November 2025

In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and intelligence Analyst Alwyn Swart of Fulcrum Analytics talk about the instrumentalisation of the intelligence apparatus by administrations across the ideological spectrum; as well as the links between high-ranking officials and external parties using South Africa as a proxy, not…

Three weeks after BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Stafford Masie is back in the interview chair, this time as interim CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation. His predecessor Warren Wheatley, founder of Africa's first listed Bitcoin treasury company, along with his wife Tatum Keshwar-Wheatley and chief investment officer Akshay Karan, have just…

Sasol's oil hedges are built for a $50-a-barrel world, its Qatar plant has been switched on and off every three weeks by fighting near the Strait of Hormuz, and its biggest customer market just hit it with a 30% tariff. CEO Simon Baloyi sits down to unpack how a company…

He's a businessman with eight companies and 400 staff who says politics was the last thing on his mind, until the DA picked him to take Overstrand's top job from its first black executive mayor. Clinton Lerm has already survived a Hawks investigation, a standing court interdict with a rival…

At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson sat down for a wide-ranging Q&A on why R100 billion in municipal infrastructure grants gets sent back to Treasury every year, unspent, and what he's doing to stop it. He unpacks the layered structure of the construction mafia, explains why…