Category: Interviews
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Director’s Cut – Veteran money manager James Gubb: Oracle’s shock downgrade signals the first crack in the AI bubble
Former hedge fund manager and CFA James Gubb argues the AI boom is real, but many investors are backing the wrong winners. In this interview with Alec Hogg, he explains why Oracle’s credit downgrade could signal deeper cracks, why OpenAI and hyperscalers face mounting pressure, how China’s AI advances are reshaping competition, and why energy…
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CR Impeachment would cause big fractures in the GNU: Richard Chelin
Listen here In this interview with Chris Steyn, Independent Governance Expert Richard Chelin predicts that an impeachment of President Cyril Ramaphosa would have grave consequences for the Government of National Unity (GNU) – particularly in the light of Vice President Paul Mashatile’s keenness to work with parties other than the Democratic Alliance. “I think we…
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Director’s Cut — Chris Pappas reverses course: the real reason he’s running for uMngeni mayor again
Listen here Chris Pappas was set to leave politics for the private sector. Instead, he’s back, seeking a second term as uMngeni mayor after talks from colleagues, community leaders and supporters. In this candid interview with Alec Hogg, Pappas explains why he changed course, reflects on the DA’s prospects ahead of the 2026 local elections,…
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Ian Cameron: 722 Generals & Brigadiers @ R3.6bn, more pressure on CR and another cloud over Mchunu…
Listen here In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police, reveals that the South African Police Service (SAPS) has 722 brigadiers and generals that cost nearly R3.6 billion in pay and maintenance. In addition, only five of 823 senior SAPS officers underwent lifestyle audits in the…
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The NdB Sunday Show: Bring down SA’s “Political Ponzi Scheme”! | with Solly Moeng
Listen here In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator Solly Moeng lays into President Cyril Ramaphosa – in particular over his desperate court battle to stave off an impeachment hearing. He also reviews a week of extraordinary dramatic scenes at the Madlanga Commission of Enquiry with more pressure building…
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Director’s Cut — Dr Mark Burke: What is behind the governance crisis at the R3.5 trillion PIC
South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation is facing its biggest governance crisis in years. With CEO Patrick Dlamini suspended, senior executives resigning, and the Financial Sector Conduct Authority launching a formal investigation, questions over transparency, accountability, and the safety of government workers’ pension funds are mounting. DA finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke unpacks the unfolding turmoil,…
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Cops fight crime in private vehicles as their “role models” are arrested: Richard Chelin, Willem Els
Listen here In their latest interview with Chris Steyn, Willem Els of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Richard Chelin, an independent governance expert, share details of the war on drugs and crime in South Africa. Describing the struggle of dedicated detectives, Els reveals “for the past three months at one of the units…
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BizNews Edge: R3.5tn pension fund manager PIC in crisis as FSCA launches Section 135 probe
Listen here The PIC’s governance crisis has reached the regulator. Hours after suspending CEO Patrick Dlamini and acting CIO August Uys, the board now faces a formal FSCA Section 135 investigation into governance, leadership and transparency at the R3.5 trillion asset manager. DA federal finance chairperson Dr Mark Burke tells Alec Hogg why this is…
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Solly Moeng: Revenge politics & criminal vengeance – Leon, Steenhuisen, Hill-Lewis, Johnson, Mashazi, Malema
Listen here In his latest chat with Chris Steyn, political commentator Solly Moeng dissects the widening scandal around Tony Leon’s lobbying amid former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen’s mission of vengeance and the damaging fall-out for the party. “…what is very clear is that the DA is no longer just walking on still waters…Geordin…
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Director’s Cut – Ryan Smith: Dirco neglect, not a planned upgrade, behind South Africa House closure
South Africa House, the country’s historic diplomatic landmark in London’s Trafalgar Square, has closed for major renovations, sparking fierce political debate. The DA accuses DIRCO of years of neglect, poor maintenance and a lack of transparency, while government insists the closure is temporary and planned. Ryan Smith argues the controversy exposes wider failures across South…
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BizNews Edge: How South Africa House fell into disrepair on Dirco’s watch
Listen here South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, a fixture of SA’s diplomatic presence in London since 1933, has closed its doors, with the DA’s Ryan Smith blaming decades of Dirco neglect and Dirco insisting it’s a planned upgrade. Alec Hogg unpacks the row, plus three stories reshaping money and power: the PIC’s suspension of…
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BizNews Edge: How an “unlawful” Pretoria factory churned out fake weight-loss jabs for years
Listen here South Africa’s weight loss jab boom has a dark underside. A Pretoria pharmacy, iDexis, was producing roughly 84,500 units of semaglutide a month — more than Novo Nordisk’s entire local sales of Ozempic and Wegovy — under the guise of a one-off “compounding” exemption meant for individual patients. Regulators only inspected the premises…
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Ian Cameron: “Strategic” top cop corruption & shock DNA backlog
Listen here In this wide-ranging interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police, details the shocking DNA testing backlog. “…this is literally how a child rapist, a child murderer, any murderer or rapist for that matter walks free. This is literally the way that the State, the inability of…
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Director’s Cut – John Endres: Why SA’s growth story still isn’t landing — and what would change that
In this Director’s Cut of BizNews editor Alec Hogg’s conversation with IRR CEO John Endres, the full, unedited exchange goes well beyond BEE and the diaspora. Endres unpacks why R1.8 trillion in corporate reserves and R1.5 trillion parked offshore still isn’t flowing home, why Washington’s frustration with Pretoria is bipartisan and deepening, and why Treasury’s…
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BizNews Edge: Why the IRR’s John Endres is more bullish on SA than Britain
Listen here John Endres, CEO of the Institute for Race Relations, tells BizNews that the elite consensus defending BEE is cracking, even as its beneficiaries defend it loudest. He points to the Starlink saga – blocked partly over empowerment shareholding while a pricier, slower rival wins state favour – as proof the policy is running…
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A world-first: the bond that pays out when nature wins
Listen here In this BizNews interview, Irakli Rekhviashvili sits down with the three people behind FirstRand’s R2.5 billion Cape Water Performance-Based Bond, the first time a commercial bank anywhere in the world has tied a bond’s payout to nature. The Nature Conservancy’s Louise Stafford traces it to 2018, when Cape Town’s dams were weeks from…
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The NdB Sunday Show – Willem Els: The deadly recipe of the Ballito bomb boy…
Listen here In this edition of NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, explosives expert Willem Els of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) reveals just how deadly a bomb-making recipe was used by the 15-year-old boy who wanted to commit mass killing at a Ballito mall. “what was really alarming for me when I look…
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SA rugby’s ticket strategy prices Bok fans out of stadiums — and puts grassroots rugby at risk
Listen here Springbok ticket prices have soared, suites have been taken over under “clean stadium” rules, and loyal supporters are being squeezed out. BizNews Rugby’s boots-on-the-ground reporter, Rory Steyn, speaks to representatives from legendary Joburg rugby clubs and bitter rivals Pirates and Wanderers, as well as chartered accountant and former Sun International CEO, David Coutts-Trotter,…
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Jasmine Opperman: Ex-SAAF General jailed in the US as an SA agent…
Listen here A former brigadier general in the South African Air Force (SAAF) has been jailed in the United States after she pleaded guilty to one count of acting as an agent of South Africa and one of making a false statement in her security clearance application. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Jasmine Opperman,…