Episodes

  • Craig Gradidge: Is the ANC stealing our pension funds?

    Craig Gradidge: Is the ANC stealing our pension funds?
    Oct 20 2020
    In our Friday Finance webinar, BizNews editor Jackie Cameron spoke to award-winning financial planner Craig Gradidge of Gradidge Mahura Investments in Johannesburg. As the executive director of a diversified investment advisory and wealth management business, Gradidge is well-positioned to tell us exactly what the ANC plans to do with our pension funds.
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    7 mins
  • Bagraim: ANC’s ‘existential’ threat to estate agents via BEE ownership an election ploy, unconstitutional

    Bagraim: ANC’s ‘existential’ threat to estate agents via BEE ownership an election ploy, unconstitutional
    May 6 2024
    The DA’s shadow minister of labour Michael Bagraim says his party will fight the ANC-driven proposal that will force thousands of South African estate agents to hand over to new owners or close down their businesses. In this vibrant interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, Bagraim also discusses suggestions that the party’s weakening in the polls is directly correlated to a refusal to rule out a coalition with the ANC (as a ‘least worst’ option for SA after May 29.)

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    24 mins
  • Anglo bid helps SA stocks outperform in April, but a wild ride for Mag7

    Anglo bid helps SA stocks outperform in April, but a wild ride for Mag7
    May 3 2024
    In the monthly update of investment markets, Corion’s David Bacher takes us through the highlights for April where South African equities outperformed - and quarterly results lent fresh volatility to Wall Street’s Magnificent Seven. Bacher explains the reasons for the past month’s performance of various investment markets - and looks ahead to what we can expect in May. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.
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    22 mins
  • Bad news busters - GG, Wheatley heading for London to tell real SA business story

    Bad news busters - GG, Wheatley heading for London to tell real SA business story
    May 2 2024
    BizNews will be taking its successful conference format to London on May 15, sharing insights with SA expats a fortnight before the watershed 2024 Election. Among the seven keynote speakers are SA informal market specialists GG Alcock and Warren Wheatley - one a rurally raised white zulu; the other a highly educated chartered accountant - offering a similar tale of a nation with huge potential and abundant hope. They shared a taster of their messages with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, who will be hosting the landmark May 15 event.

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    23 mins
  • Sakeliga attacking ‘next-level’ BEE, advises more State-proofing no matter who wins Election’24

    Sakeliga attacking ‘next-level’ BEE, advises more State-proofing no matter who wins Election’24
    May 1 2024
    In this powerful interview, Sakeliga’s CEO Piet le Roux unpacks his organisation’s fightback against the ‘third wave’ of BEE typified in efforts to make it compulsory for SA’s 40 000 estate agencies. Despite Pretoria’s growing legislative encroachment, Le Roux is upbeat about South Africa’s future: ‘State-proofing’ is being rapidly adopted by businesses and is laying the foundation for growth in the collective power of businesses to counter a weakening and increasingly ineffective central government. He told BizNews editor Alec Hogg that the next decade will be turbulent, but is confident the nation will emerge a lot stronger.

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    25 mins
  • Set aside political crony’s R21-billion gas tender-Kevin Mileham

    Set aside political crony’s R21-billion gas tender-Kevin Mileham
    Apr 30 2024
    A controversial gas tender awarded to a man who was named 176 times in the Mpati Commission report into malfeasance at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) should be terminated with immediate effect. That is the call from Kevin Mileham, the Democratic Alliance's (DA’s) Shadow Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy following earlier warnings by his party that Equator Holdings “run, owned, and managed” by Lawrence Mulaudzi does not have the money and technical skills to fulfil the tender requirement of rebuilding PetroSA’s critical gas infrastructure - and is now “shopping around” for potential funders and technical partners for the project. “PetroSA is a failing State-owned entity. And you don't fix that by giving tenders to cronies,” Mileham says. Meanwhile Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe “is very, very quiet about this whole issue” - and is “more interested in campaigning right now than in dealing with the issues in the entities that are under his control”.

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    8 mins
  • De Beer: Daggers flying in MK, Gayton’s good battle strategy, Political enemies on coffee dates…

    De Beer: Daggers flying in MK, Gayton’s good battle strategy, Political enemies on coffee dates…
    Apr 29 2024
    In a wide-ranging, pre-election preview, United Independent Movement (UIM) President Neil de Beer torpedoes rumours of a Multi-Party Charter (MPC) collapse; gives his take on the daggers flying in former President Jacob Zuma’s MK party; and hails Patriotic Alliance (PA) President Gayton McKenzie’s combat strategy, saying the “Green Machine” is moving down to the Cape like an “oil slick” and has left the Democratic Alliance (DA) overwhelmed by the Brown Child Revolution. He discusses a post-election three-faction scenario comprising the MPC, the RET (Radical Economic Transformation), and the African National Congress (ANC). “And the question is, whom of those three are going to have coffee with whom, except I know they already having coffee.” However, De Beer vows that his UIM party would never form a government with the ANC or the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). “Then we go it alone. We cannot sit with this country's fiscal, economical enemy.”

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    29 mins
  • Gayton declares all-out war on the DA…

    Gayton declares all-out war on the DA…
    Apr 28 2024
    Patriotic Alliance (PA) President Gayton McKenzie has declared all-out war on the Democratic Alliance (DA) after his recent olive branch to the opposition party “expired”. Speaking to BizNews after another two by-election victories, he says: “It's war. It's full-out war. We are not playing. I extended the olive branch because I do think that the Western Cape will not be best served with the ANC (African National Congress) coming back…And they then answered that by insulting me…” McKenzie says the PA has been winning 80% of the by-elections it has fought, and he doesn’t think the DA will get 35 per cent of the vote in the Western Cape. Meanwhile, he says Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) leader Julius Malema understands that the upcoming election is a match between the EFF and the PA. “So I'm saying that if you are a white person, it's no longer time to vote for your normal parties… Let's keep Malema out. I'm the only guy that can stand up to that fool. I'm the only one that can stand up to that mafia. South Africa doesn't deserve a guy like Malema.”
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    25 mins