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Play the share market, win prizes, with SA's hottest new game - Fantasy Fund Manager
Always wanted to play the share market but never known how to? Fantasy Fund Manager a new game which borrows from its wildly popular Sports equivalents, is a fun and free introduction to investing in equities - and easy as pie to participate. In this interview Corion's Garreth Montano tells…
BNC#5 – Essential Stafford Masie: is SA getting left behind? The future of ChatGPT, BTC, and AGI
Stafford Masie, technology entrepreneur, former Google Africa Chief and advocate for emerging technologies, discusses the rapid growth of ChatGPT and its potential to transform businesses and society, stressing the implications of AI and the necessity for businesses to be focused on these areas for future planning. Masie also shares his…
Cows are coming home for Makhoba Farms and unemployed KZN youth – Nyosi Empowerment CEO Evan Jones
One of the success stories of land that was transferred back to the community is Makhoba Farms, a 10,000-hectare farm at the foothills of the Maluti Mountains. Makhoba Farms, assisted by Nestlé, is currently producing four and a half million litres of milk for the country every year. To equip…
BNC#5 COVID panel discussion with Dr Aseem Malhotra, Professor Tim Noakes and PANDA’s Nick Hudson
At the fifth BizNews Conference in March, BizNews founder Alec Hoff facilitated a COVID panel discussion 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. Neither of these prolific individuals is…
Message of hope as 10-party coalition governing SA's #5 Metro beating the odds, delivering turnaround
Nelson Mandela Bay's 10-party coalition is now seven months old and, according to executive mayor Retief Odendaal, has already notched up some remarkable wins. Apart from keeping all partners onside in reputably the largest governing coalition on earth; focused maintenance and fast-tracking of existing projects has removed the very real…
Prof Filatova’s icy Siberian shower on Opposition hopes that 2024 will end ANC rule
SA/Russia expert Prof Irina Filatova sees many parallels in the way people in the two countries are disconnected from economic reality by outdated ideology. The Russian-born and educated historian, academic and author says this fact, along with possible support from Moscow, will ensure the ANC retains political power after SA’s…
Gayton McKenzie (Part 2) - By-election results, Rob Hersov, and the major political change coming to SA
In Part Two of today's early morning interview, Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie offers his insights on critical by-election results in South Africa, including the key message from the Swellendam vote where the PA/DA split vote opened the door for an unlikely ANC win, despite a 20% drop in its…
Gayton McKenzie’s reckoning - PA Leader explains why he’s back in the anti-ANC fold (Part One)
In Part One of an extended early morning interview with the leader of the Patriotic Front, Gayton McKenzie explains why his kingmaking party is set to switch sides (again) in Gauteng - and why this time it’s likely to be for keeps. A central personality in South Africa’s edge-of-the-seat political…
"The evidence is so clear" – Dr Aseem Malhotra on COVID vaccine harms.
Consultant cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra made waves in September 2022 when he published a two-part paper titled 'Curing the pandemic of misinformation on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines through real evidence-based medicine' in the Journal of Insulin Resistance. Although Malhotra had been a public health advocate for a decade before the publication…
Mashaba rolls dice to bring PA into a rejuvenated Rainbow Coalition - and take back Jhb Metro
Action South Africa, a member of the anti-ANC/EFF Rainbow Coalition, today threw down the gauntlet for other members to bring the Patriotic Alliance back into the fold - and immediately take back control of the Johannesburg Metro. ASA's leader Herman Mashaba served notice of a vote-by-raised-hands motion of no confidence…
Cape Independence about to take a big step with imminent Bill tabled in WC Provincial Parliament
In the past three years, the Cape Independence Advocacy Group has firmly put the topic of Western Cape secession onto the agenda in the SA province that's succeeding where the rest are failing. According to the CIAG's Phil Craig, the separation process is about to be another huge step forward…
BNC#5: COVID: the collapse of scientific integrity after decades of pharmaceutical collusion and public health system failures – Dr Aseem Malhotra
COVID saw an influx of irrational and baseless lockdown restrictions and public health regulations, the devastating effects of which will be felt for decades to come. The unprecedented nature of these measures also signified a radical departure from health guidelines established prior to COVID's arrival. The trap, however, is to…
Wendy Addison on bringing down Leisurenet, two-faced Richard Branson, life after whistleblowing
It's just over two decades since accountant Wendy Addison tipped off SA's Exchange Control authorities that something smelly was happening at Leisurenet, owner of 87 gyms and a darling of the JSE. As a result of her whistleblowing, Addison, a CA (SA), was forced to flee to the UK, accompanied…
It's Parly v Concourt on reforming how SA MPs get elected - politicians, incl CR, applying ‘Stalingrad’
It’s three years since the Constitutional Court instructed Parliament to approve a new Electoral Act that will transform SA’s polity and encourage its best citizens to become MPs. Political parties, including president Cyril Ramaphosa, want none of it, and have applied ‘Stalingrad’ tactics to delay the end of a system…
Premier Winde on why Western Cape outperformance on growth, jobs, security set to continue
The Democratic Alliance's 'Governance Prospectus' is flourishing. The Western Cape province, the only one of nine run by South Africa's official opposition, is already well established as an economic growth and security outlier. Of the 169 000 net new South African jobs created in 2022, 167 000 were in the…
Meet Gcobani Ndzongana, LAND Party leader, EFF co-founder, who wants a broad Left Front and ANC out
The prosperous and peaceful Western Cape resort town of Hermanus was rocked by violent protests in 2018, led by Gcobani Ndzongana, a political activist who helped to create the Economic Freedom Fighters. His LAND Party has grown in the five years since then, a highlight being the victory in a…
Local is lekker again: March's pullback in SA stocks in March makes them a 'buy' - Bacher
It was a bumpy March for investment markets, especially on the JSE, where share prices followed the rest of the world lower - but did not participate in the late bounce. However, Corion's David Bacher reckons that divergence opens up a buying opportunity for active investors, and his house has…
Five years on, five times cleared, Mahloele wants punitive damages from “liar” Holomisa
In 2018, parliamentarian Bantu Holomisa went public with a slew of allegations against Harith founder Tshepo Mahloele - accusing him of being the kingpin in a network of corruption and worse than the Guptas. After being cleared by a fifth successive investigation, this time by the PIC and GEPF, Mahloele…
Meet Dr Marc Liebscher, the German White Knight riding to rescue of Steinhoff's retail shareholders
Steinhoff's management and board were given a bloody nose at December's Annual General Meeting when all the important proposals were voted down because of the opposition of Germany's leading Shareholder Protection association SDK. The investment activist body, established in the 1950s, boasts numerous coups including imploded multinational Wirecard. It speaks…
BNC#5: "By evolution or creation, humans were designed to eat fat and protein" – Prof. Tim Noakes
Professor Tim Noakes' presentation at the BizNews Conference in March detailed the failures of medical science and the imitation scientists who fervently serve at the behest of "The Science". Noakes' grasp of the complexities of the ongoing yet unseen pandemics of diabetes and obesity exemplified a perfect marriage between incontrovertible…