Category: Interviews
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Director’s Cut: Dr Frans Cronje – Why the DA’s biggest threat isn’t the ANC
Frans Cronje delivers a hard-hitting assessment of the Democratic Alliance’s internal turmoil, John Steenhuisen’s dramatic fall from grace, and what it means for South Africa’s political future. He argues the DA’s biggest challenge is proving it can govern better than the ANC, warns that voter confidence is slipping, and explains why Helen Zille’s Johannesburg ambitions…
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Willem Els – Failed food court bomb attack could have killed and maimed many
Listen here Chilling details have emerged of a recent failed bomb attack in the packed Food Court of the Ballito Junction Regional Mall. The device was placed by a 15-year-old radicalised teen intent on committing mass killing, but it failed to explode. The FBI alerted The Hawks, but the bomb had already been placed. The…
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BizNews Edge: Dr Frans Cronje on what the Steenhuisen interview really cost the DA
Listen here Dr Frans Cronje joins Alec Hogg for a wide-ranging catch-up that reframes the week’s political noise into something more useful: a structural theory of why the DA is stuck and what it actually has to do next. His regime change argument is sharp — South Africans have lost confidence in the ANC, but…
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Solly Moeng: Cyril’s “dustbin” appointments and the Leon-Steenhuisen “mud pit”…
Listen here In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Solly Moeng, blasts President Cyril Ramaphosa for his appointments of Ayanda Dlodlo as Ambassador to France and Dina Pule to Cabinet. “…the ANC still looks in its own dustbin of people they’ve thrown in the past to say, OK, maybe this one, people have forgotten who…
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BizNews Edge: WSM says Steenhuisen’s News24 interview wasn’t a confession — it was a ransom note
Listen here William Saunderson-Meyer has been watching South African politicians for more than three decades. His verdict on John Steenhuisen’s News24 interview is unsparing: it was a ransom note. Not a whistleblower’s disclosure, not a principled stand — a threat, published in the open, by a man who cannot accept his own demotion and needs…
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Herman Mashaba: The “curse” of the GNU – and the missing mayoral chain…
Listen here In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, ActionSA President Herman Mashaba speaks about the collapse of service delivery in Johannesburg where he is campaigning for a second stint as Mayor. He reveals the shocking admission made to him by current African National Congress (ANC) Mayor Dada Morero, and why he doesn’t speak to…
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BizNews Edge: Chery, Rosslyn, and the R40bn subsidy nobody wants to talk about
Listen here Trade expert Donald MacKay joins BizNews to unpack what really happened at the old Nissan plant in Rosslyn. On the surface, Chery’s arrival looks like a foreign investment win. Underneath it is a subsidy programme costing South African taxpayers over R40 billion a year — spread across just seven companies — and a…
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The NdB Sunday Show – Lauren Evanthia: Zuma’s Gupta reunion, Cyril’s Pule problem, Intel boss’ secrets…
Listen here In the latest NdB Sunday Show Chris Steyn talks to Lauren Evanthia, the founder of the Organic Humanity Movement (OHM), about former President Jacob Zuma’s reunion with one of the Guptas in India in the presence of a South African diplomat, while South Africa is struggling to find the Guptas and extradite them…
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Six months on, the fire is still burning — KZN farmer Pete Kean counts the FMD cost | BizNews Edge
Listen here Six months ago, KwaZulu-Natal farmer Pete Keene came to BizNews with a warning nobody wanted to hear. His herd was a hundred percent infected with foot and mouth disease, the government’s response had a zero percent chance of working, and the law wouldn’t even let him reach for a needle and syringe. Today,…
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Willem Els and Richard Chelin: Fake weight-loss drugs flood the market, and Cat’s plea deal is rejected
Listen here In this interview with Chris Steyn, Willem Els of the Institute for Security Studies (SS) and Richard Chelin, an independent governance specialist, describe how organised crime syndicates have transitioned from making fake Covid-19 vaccines to flood the South African market with fake pharmaceuticals, particularly lifestyle drugs, like those for weight loss. They also…
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BizNews Edge: “A whistleblower needs clean hands” — Paul O’Sullivan’s case against General Mkwanazi
Listen here Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan spent over six hours giving sworn testimony to the Madlanga Commission on Monday — and his argument cuts straight through the mythology around General Ntlantlam Mkwanazi. O’Sullivan says the man hailed as a rare whistleblowing cop has in fact been part of the problem since 2012, when he unlawfully…
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Solly Moeng – Political handgrenades: Steenhuisen & Shongwe, Shutdown violence, and Khan shot
Listen here South Africa is not only dealing with a National Shutdown this week, but also with a couple of political hand grenades. In his latest chat to Chris Steyn, political commentator Solly Moeng his gives take on the alleged assassination attempt on Crime Intelligence (CI) boss General Feroz Khan just days before he was…
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BizNews Edge: Corné Mulder on Steenhuisen’s fall: sympathy, not schadenfreude — and a warning for SA
Listen here Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder gives BizNews the clearest outside read yet on the Democratic Alliance’s implosion — tracing the Steenhuisen saga back to Trump’s first executive order, the Oval Office “dim the lights” meeting, and a coalition built without a negotiated platform. Mulder explains why he feels sorry for his old…
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Wendy Addison: Execs could face criminal accountability for mistreating whistleblowers…
Listen here In this interview with Chris Steyn, South Africa’s first high-profile whistleblower, Wendy Addison, describes scorched earth legal action being launched to ensure executives face criminal accountability for failing whistleblowers. Addison, a Council of Europe Whistleblowing Expert, confirms that a criminal docket has been raised against a top South African corporation and its directors…
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The NdB Sunday Show: Lauren Evanthia – Heat on Hill-Lewis, “Cat” cuts a deal, Mbalula blames Zuma, Jacinta’s agenda…
Watch here: Listen here: In the latest edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Lauren Evanthia, the Founder of the Organic Humanity Movement (OHM), talks about fears that the National Shutdown this week could spark unrest with African National Congress (ANC) SG Fikile Mbalula accusing former President Jacob Zuma of fuelling anti-immigrant violence:…
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DA supports ANC to pass R71-billion Metro budget, political hits, by-elections result | The Electoral Roadshow with Wayne Sussman
In the latest edition of The Electoral Road Show, Chris Steyn and elections analyst Wayne Sussman talk about Ekurhuleni finally managing to pass a R71-billion budget thanks to the Democratic Alliance (DA) supporting the African National Congress (ANC). Sussman warns: “…we know the Freedom Front did far better in Ekurhuleni than the City of Johannesburg…
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Solly Moeng: Phala Phala “protection” for CR, spate of political killings, and why I left ActionSA
Listen here Election year 2026 is turning deadly and dirty. In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, political commentator Solly Moeng slams the Speaker of Parliament for not opposing President Cyril Ramaphosa’s urgent bid to stave off his impeachment inquiry. “I for one should not be surprised if the Speaker would have been called into…
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Willem Els: Mkhwanazi’s Mexico warning, the R1-billion bust – but no boots on the ground
Listen here Following the recent R1-billion drug bust at Beitbridge, there is renewed focus on the warning by KZN Provincial Police Commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that South Africa could become another Mexico or El Salvador if politically- and police-connected drug cartels were not dealt with. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Willem Els of the…
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The NdB Sunday Show: Lauren Evanthia – Zuma fires Duduzile, Cyril ponders DA wish list, Mashatile in China, & councillor & activist gunned down…
Listen here “..We need to reach a point where the people as individuals and as a population are stronger than governing systems, and those governing systems can’t be in a position to control; they need to simply govern, build infrastructure, fix roads – not have control and power over people.” That is the call from…
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SpaceX, Anthropic or OpenAI? Anthony Ginsberg and Magnus Heystek reveal their biggest AI bets
SpaceX’s blockbuster debut has reignited debate over whether Elon Musk is building the world’s most valuable company – or the next great market bubble. In this wide-ranging discussion, Magnus Heystek and Anthony Ginsberg unpack the investment case behind SpaceX, Starlink, Anthropic and OpenAI, weighing extraordinary growth potential against eye-watering valuations. From AI breakthroughs and satellite…