Category: Syndication
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BN Daybreak: SA’s criminal justice under scrutiny; Chip stock jitters; Netflix’s next growth story
Listen here In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, political commentator Solly Moeng examines South Africa’s deepening criminal justice crisis. On the global stage, President Trump demands harsher Iran sanctions as Middle Eastern oil routes shift. Meanwhile, Chinese tech startups Moonshot AI and DeepSeek prepare for massive IPOs, investors confront AI energy bottlenecks, Netflix pivots to…
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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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BN Daybreak: Amazon beats Starlink; PIC’s Lanseria crisis; Netflix’s slowdown; AI’s big margins
Listen here In today’s BizNews Daybreak we dive into Amazon’s quiet maneuver past Starlink into South Africa’s satellite internet market via Herotel. We also examine the Public Investment Corporation’s escalating governance crisis over the Lanseria Airport transaction, alongside policing gaps fueling local pharmaceutical drug crimes. Internationally, we cover SpaceX’s scrubbed Starship launch, Netflix’s disappointing sales…
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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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Nouriel Roubini on BizNews: Gulf tensions simmer, but oil shocks aren’t what they were in the 1970s
Nouriel Roubini argues that even as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz simmer unresolved, oil shocks have lost their power to derail economies the way they did in the 1970s. Strategic reserves, energy efficiency gains, OPEC discipline breakdowns and the AI investment boom have all blunted the impact, he writes. For South Africa, a net…
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Matisonn: Zille’s blue bakkie brigade hits Joburg streets while ANC hasn’t even found its candidate
Two DA campaign fronts collided this week. In Tshwane, mayoral candidate Cilliers Brink launched an urgent court bid accusing council speaker Mncedi Ndzwanana of manipulating a vote to suspend city manager Johann Mettler while letting CFO Gareth Mnisi off on serious misconduct charges, by disqualifying 13 councillors’ votes after the fact. Mnisi already faces scrutiny…
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BN Daybreak: PIC executive exodus; South Africa House shut in London; US interest rate hikes
Listen here In today’s BizNews Daybreak, US-Iran tensions steady oil and Korean tech stocks slide. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh defends his personal trading, while South Africa’s PIC faces a deepening executive exodus. We also unpack more on the DA’s Tony Leon lobbying scandal, the temporary closure of London’s SA House, and a blunt warning from…
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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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BN Daybreak: Trevor Manuel on SOE corruption; Trump’s fresh strikes on Iran; SA’s police DNA backlog
Listen here In today’s BizNews Daybreak: Trevor Manuel delivers a scathing account of how South Africa lost SAA and Eskom, while the IRR’s John Endres warns that trying to wait out the Trump administration could cost the country billions in investment. We also unpacks the first monthly drop in US consumer prices since 2020 under…
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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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Trevor Manuel delivers blunt diagnosis to NDR: SAA “was stolen,” Eskom destroyed by greed
Trevor Manuel ran South Africa’s finances for thirteen years under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, delivering genuine budget surpluses rather than the interest-adjusted kind. That record gives weight to what he told a mostly ANC audience at last week’s NDR and Economic Strategy seminar: South African Airways “wasn’t privatised, it was stolen,” and Eskom, once…
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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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BN Daybreak: Iran war oil surge; Apple sues OpenAI; Endres on SA’s fixed investment woes
Listen here In today’s BizNews Daybreak we cover the escalating US-Iran conflict and its impact on soaring crude oil prices. In South Africa, Dr. John Endres critiques low fixed investment rates, SARU faces backlash over overpriced Springbok tickets, and over 53,000 undocumented foreign nationals are successfully repatriated. Finally, Apple hits OpenAI with a massive trade-secrets…
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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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Over 53,000 foreign nationals sent home as Musina processing centre eases migration crunch
A month after President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled a five-point migration plan, South Africa’s deportation drive has shifted from policy to large-scale execution. More than 53,000 foreign nationals have been processed for deportation or voluntary repatriation, with Malawians making up the vast majority. The speed of the Musina processing centre’s construction, and the heavy reliance on…
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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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BN Daybreak: US Strikes on Iran; Teen mall bomb plot; Springbok ticket anger hit SA
Listen here As fresh American strikes on Iran trigger sirens in Bahrain, global traders are left asking whether the world’s most vital oil chokepoint is still open for business. Congressman Greg Stanton warns of surging fuel prices and a war with no clear endgame, new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh heads to Capitol Hill to face…