This site requires JavaScript to be enabled. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings, or upgrade to a modern browser.

BN Briefing: SA pursues Israel genocide case despite Trump; Abedian: “SA must protect national interest”

Loading player...

In today's episode of the BizNews Briefing: the FT reports that South Africa will not stand down on it's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ - this after pressure from US President Donald Trump. BizNews speaks to the FT's David Pilling, as well as Iraj Abedian. In other news, tensions between Elon Musk and OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman heat up; Rwanda faces global backlash for its involvement with M23 rebels in DRC; US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is in no hurry to lower interest rates; and AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel outlines the scope of the recently-passed Expropriation Act.

12 Feb 2025 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

BNC#9 | Meryl Pick Q&A: Gold, Bitcoin, the Dollar - and where central banks are hedging their bets

Old Mutual almost closed its gold fund in 2019. A ballot most clients ignore drew a 13% response, and that was enough to keep it alive. Six years later it has gone from R400 million to R4 billion, and the fund's manager, Meryl Pick, was at BNC#9 taking questions on…

8 Sep 7AM 33 min

Cameron’s message for Cachalia: I will not stop asking questions

In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, has a very direct message for Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia who - at the SAPS National Commemoration Day for fallen heroes - introduced him to the Free State MEC as “Chairperson Cameron,…

8 Sep 6AM 21 min

BN Daybreak: Swimming SA scandal, women voters keep ANC ticking, how long to fix SAPS

Ten years after Brett Redelinghuys was banned for trying to expose problems from the inside, World Aquatics has provisionally suspended Swimming SA's president and CEO over abuse of power allegations, vindicating his years-long fight. Elsewhere, IRR pollster Hermann Pretorius tells Chris Steyn why South African women, not men, are the…

7 Sep 11PM 15 min

BNC#9 | Hoffman Q&A: Asking the ANC to fight corruption is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas

Paul Hoffman has sued Jacob Zuma so many times that he calls him his "number one sponsor," because every case Zuma lost came with a costs order. At BNC#9, the Accountability Now advocate took questions on the private member's bill that could finally give South Africa an independent, Chapter 9…

7 Sep 10AM 38 min

BNC#9 | Van Heerden Q&A: Afrimat's Lafarge bet, fixing SA towns, untapped gold, Transnet turnaround

Afrimat's Andries van Heerden bought a struggling cement business for its quarries, not its cement, and is now watching a Chinese buyer take on the part he didn't want. In this Q&A from BNC#9, he tells Alec Hogg what actually scares him in a takeover, why Transnet's turnaround is the…

7 Sep 8AM 35 min

All episodes