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Hipster Flies help SA biotech company take flight - Dominique Malan Maltento
Maltento, a pioneering biotech company based in Cape Town, has successfully concluded a capital raise of £3.3 million (R63.78 million) from Sand River Venture Capital. The funding injection will enable Maltento to significantly scale up its business, which centers around farming black soldier flies for animal feed. Operating from their…
SA's reading crises will create more unemployables - Nic Spaull
81% of Gr4 learners in South Africa could not read for meaning in any language in 2021 - and South Africa experienced the largest decline in reading outcomes (-31 points) of all 33 countries/regions with data in 2016 and 2021. Professor Nic Spaull of the Economics Department at Stellenbosch University…
FORSA's Ellerbeck: ANC's proposed censorship law not about 'Hate Speech', but to criminalise 'Speech' elites 'Hate'
After years of a slow and tortuous process, the ANC's Hate Speech Bill is now within a few weeks of being promulgated. The Democratic Alliance has fought the proposal all the way because it says it is an attempt to criminalise dissent, rather than address something already well covered by…
"We have no reason to be against nuclear energy other than prejudice & stupidity" – Dr Patrick Moore.
In Part Two of the BizNews interview with Dr Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace and the most prominent figures in the field of environmentalism, Moore makes a compelling case for nuclear energy. Moore shares why he was silenced on the topic of nuclear energy during his years…
Ian Cameron: No justice without political connections
Action Society SA is being swamped with unsolved murder cases, including the killing of Pastor Liezel de Jager. The NPO’s Ian Cameron shares details of some of the worst cases of police incompetence their investigators are trying to deal with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FFM podcast ep3: A Richemont bonanza while My History joins the tab
Into the third week of Fantasy Fund Manager, the interest is still growing as over 3500 users have joined the fun with a critical education driver behind the initiative. Corion Capital's Garreth Montano and Chris Clarke from Money Better joined BizNews' Stuart Lowman. The most brought-in stock for the week…
Last Chance Saloon for Steinhoff shareholders - Liebscher says vote now against management or lose €1 500m
Steinhoff shareholders are staring down the barrel after the company's management is approaching the Dutch courts to force through a decision voted down at the annual general meeting. But all is not yet lost, says German Shareholder Association lawyer Dr Marc Liebscher, whose organisation is fighting for Steinhoff's small shareholders…
FFM insight: Sharenet’s Dylan Bradfield - why TKG, BLU better bets than VDC, MTN
Sharenet portfolio manager Dylan Bradfield has taken a deep dive into the telecoms options in our inaugural Fantasy Fund Manager game and offers some canny advice. Bradfield, a value investor at heart, explains in some detail why the shares of Telkom and Blue Label have explosive upside potential - while…
Australia opens doors to 400,000 migrants, creating best opportunity in a decade – Sam Hopwood Sable International
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a net outflow of overseas migration from Australia for the first time since World War II, resulting in a critical skills shortage and numerous unfilled vacancies. To address this, Australia welcomed 400,000 migrants in 2022 but found the need for even more people "to do the…
Conservation in Africa: At the mercy of armed groups - Kurt Steiner
Kurt Steiner, the first head of Law Enforcement for African Parks, now an independent consultant, reveals how at least 24 armed groups have settled in conservation areas in Africa; how militias in one area alone are netting $ 70 million a year from the charcoal trade; and how over 1000…
I seek justice for my daughter - A father's plea from Henk van Zyl
One morning in October 2021, Pastor Liezel de Jager went for a jog. She returned to her home only to be murdered. Her killer left her body at the back door. He is still free. Seeking justice for his daughter is Henk van Zyl, a former police colonel, a former…
“Lifeless” Cyril lacks petrol for second term - Sam Mkokeli
So, what do you call a President of a country who appears to have lost interest in his job and with every crisis that comes across his desk, he kicks the proverbial can down the road by appointing a retired judge to investigate. The term ‘dead man walking’ comes up…
SA arms-to-Russia claims - more questions than answers with Prof Abel Esterhuyse
BizNews speaks to Professor Abel Esterhuyse from the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University. He calls President Cyril Ramaphosa’s handling of the issue “bizarre”, and says if SA did supply Russia with weapons in contravention of sanctions, there would be a paper trail. Learn more about your ad choices…
Sean Peche on power of executive culture: Japan's corporate advantage, SA Govt's obvious deficiency
Leading global fund manager Sean Peche has a rational perspective on why the Rand has tanked in the past week - it lies primarily with the deficiency in the SA Government's executive culture, laid bare through the arms-to-Russia scandal. Peche explains that to use an investment analogy, the "share price"…
Harry Oppenheimer's biography - Michael Cardo's world class book on a globally revelevant South African
In this interview we meet Michael Cardo, an MP for the Democratic Alliance, and a quite superb biographer. His first book was about the far-sighted politician Peter Brown, whose Liberal Party called for a universal franchise in Apartheid South Africa in the 1960s - and was banned for its trouble…
"Trust the science" = "Trust the psychopath" – Part 2 of the BNC#5 COVID panel discussion
In March, at the fifth BizNews Conference, a COVID panel discussion was held between consultant cardiologist and public health advocate Dr Aseem Malhotra, world-renowned sports scientist Professor Tim Noakes and PANDA (Pandemics ~ Data & Analysis) Chairman and co-founder Nick Hudson. The discussion that followed explored science and its desecration,…
Dawie Roodt on SA arms-to-Russia impact - Higher interest rates, inflation, no GDP growth
The recent dispute between the South Africa and the United States over claims from the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa that South Africa had supplied weapons and ammunition to Russia would have a negative impact on South Africa’s economy. That’s according to Sufficient Group Economist Dawie Roodt who anticipated some…
SA a failing state on the cusp, stirring analysis from Dr Edward Mienie
BizNews speaks to Dr Edward Mienie, the Executive Director and Professor of Strategic & Security Studies and External Relations at the University of North Georgia in Atlanta about South Africa’s rapid slide towards a Failed State. He warns that drastic measures are needed to ensure effective governance because a Failed…
Solve air link issue to unlock Africa tourism potential – Richard Quest CNNå
CNN editor-at-large Richard Quest is back in South Africa where he chaired sessions at the 2023 African Indaba in Durban and ended up befriending Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille. During a visit to Cape Town in February this year he told Alec Hogg that his big takeaway was the “unimaginable”…
RW Johnson on SA arms to Russia: Pretoria's torpedo for motor industry, AGOA, ARV supplies - for starters
South Africa's foremost political scientist RW Johnson provides context on the US's accusation that South Africa has been supplying arms to Russia. It's reminiscent of PW Botha's "Rubicon" blunder in August 1985, which sparked massive disinvestment, demand for immediate repayment of foreign debt, an economic collapse and rocketing interest rates…