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FFM podcast ep25: 'This too shall pass', the barbell strategy, pick and pray, energy stocks
Dive into the world of finance with our latest podcast episode with Stuart Lowman as he delves into the world of investment strategies and market dynamics. In this episode, he discusses the impact of geopolitical risks on the financial landscape with experts David Bacher and Grant Morris. Discover their insights…
Voters warming to coalition government, rejecting BRICS, ANC crashing - Ray Hartley
A survey conducted by the Brenthurst Foundation has found that support for the ruling ANC party has dropped from 48% in 2022 to 41%. The poll also showed that the gap between the ANC and opposition parties has shrunk and that the Multi-party Coalitions (MPC) - which combines the votes…
HOW HITMEN SLAY SA’s “AGENTS OF JUSTICE: “Defend the Defenders” - Call by 27 Civil Rights Groups
Whistleblowers are “agents of justice”, but in South Africa, they are more likely to be persecuted and assassinated than honoured and protected. Now civil society has had enough: 27 international and local civil society groups have joined forces to demand that the South African government protects its “Human Rights Defenders”…
UNDICTATED: Summers’s challenge exposed by Pick n Pay’s ’truly awful” results, shares drop 14%
Today Pick n Pay released the last set of pre-Sean Summers financial results, numbers so bad that an already depressed share price promptly dropped another 14%. The group’s 70-year-old CEO, reinstalled two weeks back some 15 years after he retired, suggested the best thing about the numbers is that founder,…
Israeli Investments Paused, Tech Sector Tested, Yet Confident in Resilience - Yadin Kaufmann
Israel is often lauded as the “Startup Nation” for its exceptional talent in fostering innovative technology startups. However, the recent escalation of conflict between Israel and Hamas, marked by an unprecedented attack that claimed over 1400 lives and resulted in numerous hostages, has posed a significant challenge to the tech…
NO TO THE POLITICS OF ENEMIES Trust a major issue for a future coalition Rev Dr Kenneth Meshoe
African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) President the Reverend Dr Kenneth Meshoe has spoken out strongly against “the politics of enemies". In an interview with BizNews he gives the reasons why his party rejected the Moonshot Pact; explains why the ACDP has now joined the Multi-Party Charter; and gives feedback on…
DA push for extra overseas voting stations, aims to register 200,000 expat voters
South Africans residing abroad will now have the opportunity to register online for the first time, marking a significant shift from the previous process that required physical visits to South African diplomatic missions, often located far from their places of residence. In 2019, this traditional approach resulted in just 31,000…
6 MONTHS OF “NO ACCOUNTABILITY” FOR SA’s ELECTRICITY MINISTER Another 52 weeks of load-shedding - Samantha Graham-Mare
South Africa’s ever-optimistic Minister of Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has had “no accountability” for six months. That has emerged from a BizNews interview with the Democratic Alliance's (DA’s) Shadow Minister of Electricity, Samantha Graham-Mare. She shares the details of her many failed attempts to engage the Minister to collaborate on solving…
BLOOD HAS A VOICE: Tales from the autopsy table - Dr Hestelle van Staden
Blood has a voice. That is the title of a book written by one of South Africa's top forensic pathologists, Dr. Hestelle van Staden, who has conducted thousands of autopsies - and is one of between only 60 and 70 qualified specialist forensic pathologists in the country. As such she…
Andrew Vintcent - Depressed JSE stocks’ ‘new normal’ is only a temporary trough
One of SA's best-performing fund managers is adamant that South African shares are discounting the worst but will rebound strongly, just like in every previous cycle. Andrew Vintcent of ClucasGray, whose returns in the past three years have been double those of the market, is confident that the worst is…
ISRAEL BURIES IT SONS AND DAUGHTERS... Ambassador Eli Belotsercovsky: We will not succumb to this terror
n this interview with BizNews, Ambassador Eli Belotsercovsky vows: “We will not succumb to this terror…Israel will do anything in order to defend its citizens…” The Ambassador gives an update on current Israeli military operations in the northern part of Gaza where Hamas is using civilians as human shields. He…
FFM podcast ep24: Navigating market tensions, Gold bulls, Bling bears, rates higher for longer?
Welcome to the Fantasy Fund Manager podcast, the nexus where finance and real-world events collide. This week, Stuart Lowman navigates through the tumultuous waves of the market with Corion Capital’s Garreth Montano and Caelib Hannibal from Sharenet, exploring the impact of geopolitical tensions, humanitarian crises, and the ever-volatile resource counters…
How to unlock SA’s enormous sporting talent pool: South Africa should be a “top sporting nation” in the World-Brad Bing
How can South Africa unlock the potential of its incredible sporting talent pool? According to Brad Bing - founder and managing director of Sporting Chance, an NGO focused on youth sports development and health education in South Africa - “South Africa keeps underselling itself as a top, top sporting nation.”…
South Africa’s oldest wildlife sanctuary CROW struggling to survive – Clint Halkett-Siddall
CROW is South Africa's oldest wildlife rehabilitation centre. For the past 43 years, the centre has been rehabilitating and releasing wild animals and birds. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which suspended their international volunteer programme for two years, combined with the devastating 2022 floods in Kwazulu-Natal and the current…
Solar breakthrough: power already cheaper than Joburg, CT - gap widening
In another informative interview, GoSolr co-founder and CEO Andrew Middleton explains how the company's cost per kw/h was already in line with Joburg's before City Power announced a 13% increase and is lower than Cape Town's. Middleton unpacks why this cost advantage will keep widening - and the self-confessed 'solar…
PLEASE, DON’T HURT MY KID… Israeli mother’s plea to Hamas terrorists who abducted her 12-year-old special needs daughter
A 12-year-old girl who has special needs is one of the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists during the worst ever terror attack on Israeli soil. In this emotional interview with BizNews, Noya’s mother Galit Dan pleads with the kidnappers not to harm her daughter. “Don't hurt her. The Quran says…
Former Springbok Captain Wynand Claassen blasts flag furore, ’Chappie’ kit, and ‘G&T' board room brigade
Former Springbok Captain Wynand Claassen has mauled the South African government for its sluggishness in updating anti-doping regulations. This blunder could've had the Proteas and Springboks playing without their national flag. In a candid interview with BizNews, Claassen is incredulous that the Department of Culture and Sport allowed two international…
THE KILLING FIELDS OF KZN: Political assassins killing for contracts & Municipal funds transferred at gunpoint…
KwaZulu-Natal is also known as “The Killing Fields” of South Africa. That is because of the high number of political murders in that province where scores of councillors and officials have been murdered. BizNews speaks to Arise SA President Mpho Dagada, who has just been there to investigate. He describes…
UNDICTATED: Frans Cronje on big KZN voter swing - and ANC endorses Hamas barbarism
In this episode of UNDICTATED, independent political and economic analyst Dr Frans Cronje tackles two topical subjects with BizNews editor Alec Hogg - massive voter shifts in KZN and the ANC’s monumental foreign affairs blunder. Cronje, who heads the Social Research Foundation, shares the latest research on voters in South…
Israel-Hamas Escalation Eclipse Ukraine-Russia War, Exposes Israeli Intelligence Failure - Prof Theo Venter
For the past two years, the world has watched with alarm as Ukraine faced a brutal invasion by Russia. The conflict had a profound effect on the global economy, with rising energy prices and consumers feeling the pinch. However, the Ukraine crisis has been suddenly eclipsed by another flashpoint in…