Category: Syndication
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BN Daybreak: NATO Summit tension; AI stocks slump; Zuma’s Gupta meeting
Listen here Kyiv faces fresh Russian missile strikes ahead of the NATO summit in Turkey, while tensions linger following the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader. Meanwhile, OPEC+ quotas drop oil prices, Alibaba blocks a US blacklist order, and investors fret over an AI chip stock pullback. Locally, Jacob Zuma’s Gupta meeting and Cyril Ramaphosa’s controversial…
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Boardroom Talk: A R57bn handshake – How Chery cashed in on two subsidies
Cameras loved the Rosslyn ribbon-cutting on Friday. As did the controversial politicians Paul Mashatile and Panyaza Lesufi. The substance is thinner. Chery didn’t build a factory — it inherited Nissan’s ageing one – once listed on the JSEW as “Automakers” – promised to retain a few hundred existing workers, and dressed it all up as…
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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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While Pretoria drafts Expropriation Bills, Rupert just hands out title deeds
Johann Rupert’s Reinet Foundation and Remgro have recapitalised Khaya Lam, the Free Market Foundation’s title deed project, pushing the total number of transfers past 24,000 since 2018. Municipal tenants — many holding apartheid-era occupancy rights with no mortgage value — become full title-holders through patient conveyancing work, turning what Hernando de Soto called “dead capital”…
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John Matisonn: Mbeki’s “counter-revolution” theory: blame everything on 2008, not the borders
In his bluntest rebuke yet of Cyril Ramaphosa, Thabo Mbeki has dismissed the president’s warnings on illegal immigration as speculation dressed up as policy. The timing matters: Mbeki spoke just before June 30’s nationwide protests, which cost the state R600 million to police and will now recur weekly through November’s local elections. Mbeki’s actual argument…
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BN Daybreak: Dina Pule’s cabinet return; O’Sullivan on Mkhwanazi, Apple’s blacklisted chip deal
Listen here Ramaphosa has handed the R300 billion social grants portfolio to Dina Pule – the minister Parliament once fined for persistently lying about a contractor relationship. Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan meanwhile spent six hours before the commission this week – speaking to Alec Hogg yesterday, he lays out uncomfortable history on General Mkhwanazi that…
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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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BN Daybreak: SA National Shutdown; S&P best quarter in 6 years; Anthropic unbanned
Listen here South Africa’s anti-immigrant national shutdown deadline arrived with violence in Johannesburg and the world watching. The S&P closed its best quarter in six years, Anthropic’s export controls were quietly lifted overnight, and Tony Leon is not just firing back at John Steenhuisen – he’s now weighing legal action. Sign up for your early…
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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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BizNews Edge: Stranger than fiction – Jooste’s consigliere meets ET-type end
Listen here Today’s BizNews Edge covers three stories that cut to the heart of South African business and politics. John Steenhuisen has broken publicly with the DA, naming Geordin Hill-Lewis and Tony Leon in allegations that threaten serious damage to the party just months before the 2026 municipals. Prosus, once a byword for discount and…
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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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‘AfriMAGA’, bots and broken promises — Steenhuisen’s bombshell DA exit interview
John Steenhuisen has torched his exit from the DA with a scorched-earth interview, accusing new leader Geordin Hill-Lewis of breaking a personal commitment to keep him as Agriculture Minister and fingering Tony Leon’s firm Resolve Communications as complicit in his removal. Writing for BizNews, veteran political analyst John Matisonn unpacks the more serious damage: a…
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BN Daybreak: Strait of Hormuz showdown as US and Iran head back to Doha
Listen here Vessels are still threading the Strait of Hormuz, but a Bloomberg analyst calls it Schrodinger’s Strait: you never know if it’s open until you try to get through. With traffic down to a fraction of normal and ships taking hits, owners are weighing whether the world’s most vital oil route is worth the…
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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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BN Daybreak: Mark Pincus on consumer AI; SA election violence; and the Strait of Hormuz
Listen here The Zynga founder and OpenAI investor can’t understand why analysts cap consumer AI at $500 billion in what he sees as a $6 trillion market – he thinks that gap is exactly where the real opportunity lies. Oil spiked as Iran struck a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz mid-negotiation, OpenAI stalled…
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The BizNews Edge: African Bank’s Billion-Rand Acquisition Trap
Listen here African Bank swung to a loss of nearly a billion rand after a four-year spree of buying and bolting together three banks to build a full-service lender, and the bad debt charge is still climbing. The contrast is brutal: a focused platinum-and-chrome miner, Tharisa, is printing cash with profit up more than sixfold,…
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Boardroom Talk: Welcome back Michael Sachs – The man who said no to Zuma — and yes to SA
Michael Sachs headed National Treasury’s budget office from 2015 to 2017, a period when President Jacob Zuma was pushing a multi-trillion rand nuclear build programme that economists warned would have bankrupted the country. Sachs was among the officials who resisted. He left government in 2017 and moved into academia. President Cyril Ramaphosa has now appointed…