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Join the Conversation: Climate change responsibilities between developing and developed nations
The developed world must take responsibility and lead in terms of climate financing, but the developing world must also act responsibly in terms of their own stance towards combatting climate change. Simon Angombe is Associate Dean at the School and Agriculture and Fisheries at the University of Namibia. Learn more…
Join the Conversation: How the WWF is working to tackle the climate crisis
WWF is working to tackle the climate crisis in a variety of ways. From encouraging governments to implement more ambitious climate policies, to supporting the shift to renewable energy, to working with cities, businesses, and communities to create a climate resilient, net-zero future. We caught up with Laurent Magloire Some, Head…
'Bad times fit' - Ocean Basket's recipe to tackle overseas markets – CEO Grace Harding
Ocean Basket has been fishing in other waters since 2008 and when everybody battened down the hatches and pulled in the lines during the Covid-19 pandemic, the advice of the company’s founder was: it’s time to think about growing. The seafood restaurant, loved by South Africans, has just opened its…
SA paleoscientists save Stilbaai rock depicting 'A day at the beach' in the Middle Stone Age
On a rugged, remote stretch of coast east of Stilbaai in the Southern Cape, palaeoscientists Charles Helm and Jan de Vynck have discovered a rock believed to contain one of the oldest examples of our human ancestors drawing symbolic expressions in the sand. This important find was about to fall into…
Join the Conversation: Namibia wants climate financing to see results!
Namibia is one of the climate change vulnerability hotspots in the Southern African region. Adaptation is of primary importance to the country and high on the government's agenda to guarantee the welfare of Namibia's people while reducing risks and building resilience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Corion's 'best ideas' money managers beating market, Vintcent adds Kaap Agri to outperforming portfolio
Innovative Corion Prime Equity unit trust keeps delivering the goods with the fund, and the best ideas of its four external fund managers, comfortably beating their benchmark this year. Corion's hand-picked money managers remain bullish about South African shares, believing them to have fully discounted all of the bad news…
Join the Conversation: Should developed nations compensate developing nations for loss sustained owing to the climate crisis?
At this African COP for the first time since the adoption of the UN climate Convention parties have agreed to introduce loss and damage funding as an agenda item at the climate conference. The bottom line is that developing nations want to be compensated for the loss and damage inflicted…
Join the Conversation: Farmers need to produce more with less on less
This year's climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt sees four pavilions dedicated to food and farming. Theo de Jager former President of The World Farmers’ Organisation says every farmer knows what he or she can do better on their farms. Farmers need to produce more with less on less…
Elimination of CO2 is a suicide pact – Professor William Happer on climate change misconceptions and hysteria
It’s safe to assume no one consciously sets out to challenge a narrative as deeply entrenched and emotionally charged as climate change. Dr William Happer, an American physicist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, certainly didn’t. It was only in 1991, upon Happer’s appointment by…
The Gupta's dairy project could come back to kick Zwane in the teeth
Mosebenzi Zwane is one of 16 accused in the state’s case against a coterie of Gupta acolytes and hangers-on. It’s the state versus seven individuals and nine companies. Among them, the former MEC (also former minister) Zwane, the former head of department Peter Thabethe, the former CFO Seipati Dhlamini, and…
Sun comes out in October after September's nightmare - Corion Capital’s David Bacher on keeping a cool head
September’s Corion Report was aptly titled ‘A Nightmare on All Streets’ after record market downturns, the report did however end on a high note, with the cheery notion that the ‘sun will come out tomorrow’ and it did exactly that in October. The Dow Jones rebounded with returns of 14%,…
Trucking industry having a torrid time as diesel costs continue to spike
An overall feeling of dismay is probably the best way to describe how transport operators are processing the latest diesel price hike on Wednesday. While petrol increased by 51c/l, it's the continuing hike in diesel - this month by R1.40/l - that will be straining the economic lifeblood of our…
‘The great pandemic fraud’ – bioterrorism expert and internist Dr Meryl Nass draws parallels between the Ebola, anthrax, and Covid-19 epidemics
As far back as March 2020, Dr Meryl Nass, a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and anthrax expert, proposed that the pathogen we know today as “SARS-CoV-2” was likely made in the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab. BizNews spoke to Nass to discuss the basis of her lab…
All you ever wanted to know about Crypto but were too shy to ask
Alec Hogg of BizNews is joined by country head of Luno, Christo de Wit, and Ashleigh Hale, co-head of Corporate at Bowmans in the first episode of this four-part series which demystifies the complicated world of crypto currencies, what exactly they are, their various utilities and how to get involved…
Mandatory registration of NPOs opens door for "govt interference and politicisation" - HSF
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) is concerned by two pieces of legislation the government is aiming to push through as it seeks to comply with recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to avoid greylisting. The HSF has made submissions to Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance, taking issue with…
JWO prize winner wants to link Africa's isolated conservation areas - Dr Elizabeth le Roux and Jonathan Oppenheimer
As humanity demands space to continue to grow and prosper, they increasingly interact and compete for resources with wildlife. Conservationist Jonathan Oppenheimer described it as humanity being like an ocean that erodes the spaces of wilderness, which is “terrifying”. To promote research for the preservation of the continent’s natural environment,…
36ONE’s Cy Jacobs on the genius of Hedge Funds for retail investors.
When co-founding 36ONE almost two decades ago, top SA money manager Cy Jacobs used the opportunity to launch a long/short hedge fund. Initially only for big clients, this massive out performer was made available to retail investors six years ago. In this interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews, Jacobs explains…
"This is an opportune moment to push back" - Sakeliga on govt's race-based employment ideology
South Africa's business sector needs to stand together in denouncing the race-based employment ideology government is seeking to implement if pending legislation is signed into law in its current form. So believes Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux, in conversation with BizNews correspondent Michael Appel. Dis-Chem-gate has shone a light on…
Global energy restructuring veteran KW Miller has seen many messes, but says nothing comes even close to the Eskom disaster
Now that the ANC government has finally admitted defeat on Eskom by ending its monopoly and last week promising to assume up to ⅔ of its massive debt burden, the facade is being stripped from SA's teetering electricity provider. Global energy turnaround specialist KW Miller, who calls Eskom an "operationally…
Mazzone’s challenge to Malema – seconds out!
Fighting talk! The challenger to the Supreme Limelight Taker and Gucci’s Favourite Customer – the yacht-cruising Mr Julius Malema – is none other than the DA’s Ms Natasha Mazzone, who is gloves off and ready to go. It’s the metaphorical equivalent of Muhammed Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard; one all…