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Discount retailer Boxer is accelerating its expansion strategy with 50 new stores added over the past year and a growing focus on liquor outlets attached to supermarkets. In an interview with BizNews, Marek Masojada says the retailer remains confident in its low-cost model despite mounting pressure from rising energy costs…

Fresh pressure builds for President Cyril Ramaphosa as a Constitutional Court ruling on the Phala Phala matter sparks talks of a constitutional crisis and potential impeachment. Globally, President Trump labels Iran’s latest nuclear proposal "totally unacceptable" while the UK and France prepare a defensive naval mission in the Strait of…

In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, US intelligence analyst, retired Colonel Chris Wyatt comments on the latest developments in the trouble-hit presidencies of South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump. With African National Congress (ANC) officials in crisis meetings this weekend over the possibility that he could…

In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn hosts the iconic whistleblower, Cynthia Stimple who, as Group Treasurer, blew the whistle at SAA. Now the director of Courage Hub, a new group to support whistleblowers, Stimpel recalls her own traumatic experiences as a whistleblower, and outlines all the…

In this interview with BizNews, Ryan Passmore – Durban-based fintech founder of ZenFund Connect – unpacks why he believes South Africa's student funding system is broken, and how he proposes to fix it. Passmore points to the "missing middle": households earning between R350,000 and R600,000 a year, who are too…