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Every week the team led by Alec Hogg sit down with the people who actually move markets and shape policy: CEOs, investors, economists, constitutional lawyers and the politicians brave enough to take a straight question. We cover the JSE, global markets, corporate governance, the rule of law and the political economy that ties it all together.

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Jaundiced Eye: WSM on MKP, the Zuma factor, and the KZN battleground

Is Jacob Zuma the glue holding MK together, or has the party already outgrown him? In the first of his weekly conversations with Alec Hogg on BizNews, William Saunderson-Meyer, whose Jaundiced Eye column has run every week since 1993, said he didn't buy the common wisdom. He argued that MK…
15 Oct 8AM 24 min

BN Edge | Can Lesaka do to SA's big banks what fintech did in Brazil?

The company once known as Net1 has just posted its first full-year profit and is telling the market to expect adjusted earnings to compound at more than 40% a year. Executive chairman Ali Mazanderani, who says he has helped build seven multibillion-dollar fintechs from Brazil to Europe, told Alec Hogg…
15 Oct 4AM 44 min

The Zuma Effect: the plots and the power plays

Jaco Zuma’s ambition to become president of South Africa was rooted in personal interests: to evade the law and assuage his dire financial circumstances - and his faction used chilling tools to get and keep him in power for as long as possible. So says political scientist Professor Mcebisi Ndletyana,…
14 Oct 9AM 1 hr 06 min

“Ballito Bomb Boy” stabs 6-year-old girl in school attack

A six-year-old girl was critically injured in a school stabbing this morning allegedly by a former pupil who also planted a homemade bomb at a Ballito Mall in March. Describing the attack, Willem Ells of the Institute for Security Studies and the Security Initiative for Africa, says: “He was armed…
13 Oct 11AM 11 min

CEO Marek Masojada on Boxer's balance sheet and the battle for shoppers

Boxer's shoppers fill their pantries in grant week and run short by mid-month. Diesel has pushed up taxi fares, rice is selling for a fifth less than a year ago, and like-for-like sales barely moved. Yet the discounter sold nearly 4% more goods, opened its 600th store and cleared its…
12 Oct 10AM 24 min

The NdB Sunday Show: Pre-election instability could spread beyond government control

In this interview with Chris Steyn, Independent Intelligence Analyst Jasmine Opperman warns that an expansion of instability in South Africa in the lead-up to the Local Government Elections would likely be beyond the government's capability to control. “We have never seen the ANC in a crisis situation, political power-wise, as…
11 Oct 6AM 36 min

BizNews Edge: Alec Hogg weighs in on DiData, answers questions on ABC/Altvest

One of the Campus Six has cracked. Jason Goodall, former chief executive of Dimension Data and NTT, signs a statement naming four former colleagues and agrees to pay NTT R208.6 million. In a special BizNews Edge, Alec Hogg reads the private WhatsApp Goodall sent those same colleagues on the day…
9 Oct 12PM 25 min

BN Daybreak: Madlanga's Maumela question; Hoffman on DiData fraud; Afrimat; AI selloff

Political commentator Solly Moeng asks why the Madlanga Commission has heard Hangwani Maumela's name but has not called him, warning that commissions keep naming minions while the powerful are quietly protected. Paul Hoffman SC of Accountability Now unpacks Jason Goodall's bombshell confession over Dimension Data's Campus deal, saying it amounts…
8 Oct 11PM 15 min

Solly Moeng: The illusion of SA’s “clean-up’” commissions”...

In this interview, Chris Steyn talks to political commentator Solly Moeng about concerns relating to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s future handling of the recommendations of the Madlanga Commission. “We have to be supremely naive to think that the president doesn't go back to the party that deployed him to the top…
8 Oct 8AM 18 min
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