Category: Interviews
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NdB Sunday Show: A year without Neil de Beer – remembering the man who never backed down
Nearly a year after Neil de Beer’s death, the NdB Sunday Show looks back at the moments that made him impossible to ignore. From tearing into the NHI Bill to naming his own “ten most wanted” list of state capture figures, de Beer never softened a line for anybody. What most of his audience didn’t…
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Solly Moeng: Zuma & Duduzane, Cyril & Madlanga, Bozell & Lamola…
Listen here In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the headline-grabbing actions of former President Jacob Zuma and the headline grabbing non-action of current President Cyril Ramaphosa: Zuma appointing his son, Duduzane, as MKP’s Deputy President while Ramaphosa has been sitting on the second interim report of the…
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Stroke victim loses R450,000 disability money on online trading platform
Listen here Another BizNews tribe member has suffered a huge online trading platform loss. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Tommy Salem describes how he ended up on the FXSI platform after clicking on a clip showing AfriForum’s Kallie Kriel before losing R450 000 in two months. It was money Tommy could ill afford to…
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The defence industrialist warning South Africa is out of time, and what it stands to lose.
Listen here Ivor Ichikowitz turns sixty this year, and by his own account he’s never felt more energised. As founder of Paramount, the defence and aerospace group he built into a business operating in twenty countries, he’s used to controversy. But in this conversation with Alec Hogg, he’s not talking weapons. He’s talking about what…
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Kallie Kriel: AfriForum’s legal eagles to swoop on “Land Grab” Malema
Listen here In this interview with Chris Steyn, Kallie Kriel, the CEO of AfriForum, describes the legal battle being fought against the Expropriation Act in the Cape High Court this week. Detailing the implications of the act in current form, Kriel warns that after the Local Government Elections in November, municipalities under MK control could…
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Dr Lennit Max: Non-racial, merit-based appointments of four new police commissioners
Listen here In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, former Western Cape Provincial Police Commissioner, Dr. Lennit Max hails the appointments of four new provincial commissioners. “This time around I am very pleased that the Acting National Commissioner in her wisdom decided that there’s merit among people of colour.” He points out that all four…
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The NdB Sunday Show – The fall of Malema’s “Winnie” Johnson – and an Arab Spring brewing…
Listen here In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Jonathan Deal, the founder of Safe Citizen, talk about the fall of Investigations Directorate Against Organised Crime (IDAC) Chief Andrea Johnson – whom Economic Freedom (EFF) Fighter CIC Julius Malema likened to the late Winnie Mandela – and who was tipped to…
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Cityboy is back: his tip to win big in financial services? Trade your soul
Listen here A former top-ranked City of London stockbroker has written a manual for winning at business, politics and life. There’s just one catch: to follow it, you’d have to think like a psychopath. Geraint Anderson, the man behind the legendary “Cityboy” column, tells BizNews editor Alec Hogg why he built his new book around…
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R1-billion blended finance programme to transform real estate – Alessandro Scalco
Listen here In this interview with Chris Steyn, Alessandro Scalco of RMB Sustainable Finance shares the details of a R1 billion Blended Finance Programme to formalise and scale South Africa’s burgeoning affordable rental market. Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has partnered with INDLU, a property financial technology company that empowers landowners to build, manage, and earn…
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Murder, mayhem, treachery, and court battles = SA politics: Solly Moeng
Listen here In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator Solly Moeng, talks about four political parties joining in a Constitutional Court bid to try and overturn President Cyril Ramaposa’s impeachment committee interdict; a murder investigation into the death of General Sindile Mfazi, who was investigating an unauthorised undercover operation to cover up wrongdoings…
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Ian Cameron: 41,000 killed with illegal guns and the factional battle for control of SAPS
Listen here In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police, talks about the revelation that – in the last four financial years – over 41,000 murders were committed with unlicensed firearms, but fewer than 400 murders with licensed firearms whilst the government is pushing for stricter…
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Zuma in crisis: Disgruntled MKP members to vote ARU – Jabulani Khumalo
Listen here In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, the real founder of MKP, Jabulani Khumalo, comes out in support of The African Renaissance Unity Party (ARU) founded to lobby for the interests of traditional chiefs and their communities. With Khumalo’s battle to reclaim control of the party – “hijacked” by former President Jacob Zuma…
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Eva Crouwel – When the State comes to your Gate….
Listen here An anti-immigration raid on a private housing estate in the Western Cape is causing a furore. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Eva Crouwel, a property owner on High Riding Estate, describes how police in a fleet of about six vans – accompanied by Home Affairs officials – descended on the estate last…
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The NdB Sunday Show – Mark Regev: Israel and SA, Israel and the US, and the end game of the Iran War
In the latest NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn spoke to Mark Regev, the former senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the bilateral relationship between South Africa and Israel, he says: “… it’s clear we’re going through a difficult period. South Africa says it wants to promote peace and justice in the Middle…
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Lance Dickson: Turning outrage into consequence: the AI cluster built for South Africa’s next boycott
Listen here Lance Dickson kept having the same conversation. A failing council. A price hike nobody could explain. Everyone complained. Nothing changed. So he built Ryze instead, a self-funded civic action platform designed to convert that outrage into organised economic consequence. In his latest interview with Irakli, the founder unpacks the six-agent AI cluster running…
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Sean Peche: SpaceX, Tesla, Alphabet — where smart money goes while everyone chases AI
Listen here Sean Peche has spent 2026 doing the opposite of the crowd. While the market piles into AI, memory chips and Elon Musk’s every pivot, the Ranmore founder has been selling Tesla, walking away from SpaceX and quietly buying into Adobe and Tencent instead. In this conversation with Alec Hogg, the South African-born, UK-based…
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Parliament faces protest over lagging legislation for a provincial referendum: Heindrich Wyngaard
Listen here In this interview with Chris Steyn, Heindrich Wyngaard, the executive chairperson of Cape Forum, details plans for a protest outside the National Assembly next month over the long wait for appropriate legislation to enable a provincial referendum . “And we are also planning to be present at that Home Affairs Portfolio Committee meeting…
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Director’s Cut – Helen Zille: Time is running out for bankrupt Joburg to be saved
Listen here Helen Zille has swapped the Iron Lady tag for “DJ Gogo”, but the numbers she puts on the table are dead serious. In this conversation with Alec Hogg, she says Johannesburg only spent half of an eight billion rand infrastructure budget last year, warns that DA supporters staying home on election day could…
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Director’s Cut – Dr Iraj Abedian: Hormuz stand-off could cost SA more than pain at the petrol pump
Seven months into the Iran war, economist Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg that Donald Trump has lost more than the battle for the Strait of Hormuz: he’s lost America’s standing as the world’s dominant power. Abedian explains why the narrow waterway carries a third of global oil, why the mullahs are more afraid of each…
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Pele Collins: From SpaceX to Y-Combinator: Unlocking the giant origami structures of orbit
Listen here Pele Collins went from leading the SpaceX parachute engineering team that brought American astronauts safely home to co-founding a Y Combinator-backed deep tech startup, Beyond Reach Labs. In his latest interview with Irakli, the proudly South African engineer reveals how his team is tackling the ultimate pick-and-shovel play for the next era of…