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Mashaba passes the leadership test - Dr Albert Wort, Leadership Diagnostician
There is a crisis of leadership amongst South Africa’s ego-driven politicians who are not serving the people with “character, caring, competence, commitment, and connectedness”. This has emerged from an interview with Leadership Diagnostician Dr. Albert Wort of the University of Johannesburg (UJ). He gives BizNews his take on the leadership…
Professionalising local government: fostering accountability
Once hailed as the beacon of democracy in Africa, South Africa's municipalities are grappling with significant challenges related to governance lapses and accountability. Part 3 of the 6-part series with Kagiso Trust, Professor Sam Koma from the University of Limpopo and Mankodi Moitse, CEO of Kagiso Trust, shed light on…
Ban the blue light mafia - Ian Cameron
Civil rights group Action Society’s Ian Cameron has launched a petition for a ban on the South African Police’s “Blue Light Mafia”. This after a video went viral on Twitter showing SAPS VIP Protection officers violently assaulting unarmed civilians on the N1 highway. Deputy President Paul Mashatile has now confirmed…
June’s perfect inversion for investors as May’s disasters become winners - Corion Report
The Corion Report, now in its sixth year, is a superb reference tool for the past month’s performance of asset classes. Compiler David Bacher, Corion’s CEO, explains why the big losers in May turned into the hardest runners in June, unpacks the unit trust sector’s winners and losers and shares…
Hlabisa: ANC food parcel bribery behind shock IFP by-election reverse
The IFP steamroller appeared to be gathering irresistible momentum since SA’s November 2021 Local Elections. In one by-election after the other, the IFP posted huge increases in the share of the vote and won an unprecedented eight wards off the ANC in the ruling party’s strongholds. So last week’s loss…
Ex-Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer shares inside story of loadshedding, transformation, CR’s plan
Eskomite Jan Oberholzer, an electrical engineer who retired as the utility’s COO at the end of April, spent Friday evening in Hermanus answering nothing’s-off-limit questions from BizNews’s Alec Hogg. Here are the highlights of that lengthy interview, providing the inside track on burning issues like why loadshedding has improved lately…
Understanding Tax Emigration for South Africans leaving or living abroad
If you belong to the group of South Africans that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has referred to as "mobile higher-income earners" and you're contemplating leaving the country or are already part of the large pool of South Africa's emigrants, it's crucial to take into account the tax implications of emigration…
Terebinth’s Ann Sebastian: Applying maths to reverse archaic investing models - to very good effect
Head of equities at Terebinth Capital, Ann Sebastian, is having lots of fun participating in its co-sponsored Fantasy Fund Management game. But her day-to-day work is to select the right stocks to invest in. She does so through a model that applies mathematical formulae to bring together many disparate factors,…
Survivor’s resilience: 101-year-old Ella Blumenthal shares her holocaust journey from Auschwitz to Africa
In a world where encounters with Holocaust survivors are few, and most have surpassed their 90s or 100s, Ella Blumenthal stands out as an extraordinary individual. Her journey that she penned in her book, “I am Ella” with author Joanne Jowell, goes beyond mere survival, for she carries within her a remarkable absence…
Wagner stays, UN peacekeepers have to go...
The growing power of Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa is believed to be behind the sudden termination of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. BizNews speaks to Dr. Robert Zuber, director of the UN-based Global Action to Prevent War and Conflict. He was at the UN Security Council meeting on…
Breadline Africa to Tackle South Africa's Pit Latrine Crisis, Help 120,000 Children - Johan Nel
In the rural regions of South Africa, an astonishing number of schools continue to rely on pit toilets or latrines, which essentially consist of 3-metre-deep holes in the ground. Pit toilets not only strip pupils of their dignity and compromise hygiene, but they also pose significant risks to their safety…
FFM podcast ep9: A battle royale for June; the psychology behind value and growth investors; Richemont’s runway
The value versus growth debate has been a common theme across the Fantasy Fund Manager podcast, hosted by BizNews’ Stuart Lowman. Corion Capital’s Garreth Montani and Cuan Sauter from Moneybetter look behind the lens at the psychology and personality traits driving a value or growth investor. And on the subject…
PA’s Cilliers on Joburg by-election win, thrashing ANC, sending message to DA
Despite a recent ratcheting up of “negative campaigning” by its detractors, the Patriotic Alliance is shaping up as a potent force in South African politics - evidenced by yesterday’s comfortable victory over the ANC incumbent in a well contested by-election in Johannesburg. Co-founder Charles Cilliers explains how the victory was…
New voters can be kingmakers
South Africa’s estimated 13 million unregistered voters hold the power to change South Africa's future as the kingmakers in next year’s watershed national elections. This emerges from an interview with Werner Horn, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) member on the Party Liaison Committee of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). He tells BizNews…
Impact on SA (and Putin's local fans) of ructions in Russia - Prof Irina Filatova
Irina Filatova is a Russian history and political science professor who moved to SA in 1992 to take up a post at the University of KZN - but remains closely in touch with her homeland and fellow Moscow University faculty and students. Author of half a dozen books, including acclaimed…
Cyril! Clarens is calling....
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been challenged to visit Clarens in the Eastern Free State to be given advice on the implementation of poverty-relief programmes. The invitation comes from Garth Brook - an implementing agent for the past 16 years - who says: “And what we'll do is we'll explain very carefully…
ANC's damaging foreign policy: Ideology without moral authority
South Africa needs a professional diplomatic service to mitigate the damage caused by its foreign policy based on the ideological world view of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). That is the view of Terence Corrigan of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) who speaks to BizNews about…
John Steenhuisen: How the DA will beat EFF and the fragmenting ANC and win in 2024
In a rational world, the Democratic Alliance would be a shoo-in at South Africa’s National election next year. The only province where it has a majority, the Western Cape, proves the benefits of clean and efficient governance: crime is lower, property prices much higher, 98% of SA’s new jobs are…
Breast cancer: the scary truth about mammograms, birth control pills, more – Dr Susan Wadia-Ells
BizNews spoke to Dr Susan Wadia-Ells, author of Busting Breast Cancer, Five Simple Steps to Keep Breast Cancer Out of Your Body to discuss various factors contributing to breast cancer and shed light on the controversial practices and regulations surrounding its prevention and treatment. A fascinating discussion on mammograms, metabolic…
Exploring the impact of electoral reform on every South African citizen
Electoral reform is crucial in transforming South Africa’s democracy. Former member of the Independent Electoral Commission, Terry Tselane, and Senior lecturer at University of Pretoria, Dr. Sithembile Mbete participated in a panel discussion focused on the recent electoral reforms and their implications, specifically the inclusion of independent candidates in the…