Paul O’Sullivan: The Zondo Commission missed the mark
Ace forensic investigator and founder of Forensics for Justice, Paul O’Sullivan, spoke to BizNews founder Alec Hogg about the Zondo Commission’s investigation officially coming to an end. As is...
View ArticleImpressed SA’s speak: “Paul O’Sullivan is incredible and certainly knows how...
Ace forensic investigator and founder of Forensics for Justice, Paul O’Sullivan, spoke to BizNews founder Alec Hogg about the Zondo Commission’s investigation officially coming to an end. As is...
View ArticleLooting of South Africa is no accident – James Myburgh
Who would have thought, at the dawn of democracy, that South Africa would find itself looted and plundered almost to the point of collapse 28 years later? And by the very liberation movement, now...
View ArticleIs Koko still telling porkies? Kusile corrupt chips start to fall
‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive,’ former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko must be thinking to himself. Two former employees of engineering firm Asea Brown Boveri...
View ArticleSouth Africans speak out: “We’re behind ‘tell it like it is’ Hersov”
By Courtney van der Walt In September last year, global entrepreneur Rob Hersov rocked South Africa with a hard hitting speech at the BizNews Conference – accusing Corporate SA of being complicit in...
View ArticlePremium: Best investment book ever shines fresh light on EM tolerance of...
In Brazil, Lula 'jailed for corruption' da Silva is favourite to win the presidential race. Which doesn't mean we have to accept it. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please login...
View ArticleBheki Cele’s potholed road to the top – Paul Hoffman
Reading this account of police chief Bheki Cele’s sordid record, it’s easy to conclude that the arrogance we’ve seen him display stems from a well-founded belief that he considers himself untouchable....
View ArticleSecuring SA’s ‘porous borders’ falls to the new Border Management Authority
The man at the helm of the newly established Border Management Authority (BMA), Dr Nakampe Masiapato, is under no illusion as to the challenge that awaits him in securing the 4,772km border of South...
View ArticleDaily Insider: Hain (+Williams) give Bain & Co real pain – banned for 3 years...
START YOUR MORNING BY LISTENING TO TODAY’S BIZNEWS BREAKFAST BRIEFING PODCAST – Bain gets real SA-related pain with a 3 year UK ban; Markets fret as Pelosi teases China; ‘Generation Moonshot’...
View ArticleBain’s walk of shame as Hain says it must ‘feel the pain’
Bain & Company – found by two commissions of inquiry to have been implicated in state capture – has been banned for three years from tendering for any public sector work by the UK government for...
View ArticleSLR: Give me old-fashioned South African corruption any time!
In a bad new epidemic of hypocrisy and wokedom that Simon Lincoln Reader calls an outbreak of ‘California Blue”, involving examples of cosplay disguised as activism such as “Prince” Harry’s mouthing...
View Article‘We know we have to say we’re sorry, but…’ Bain’s open letter of apology
Stephen York, the managing partner of Bain SA, has written an open letter to South Africans – see below – apologising for the company’s participation in the capture of SARS and admitting that Bain...
View ArticleHow world sees SA: What happened to Mandela’s dream?
Our partners at the Financial Times have a fantastic podcast episode that tracks the fortunes of President Cyril Ramaphosa since he took over the reins of power from embattled former head of state...
View ArticleMeet the SARS chief: Revenue service on the road to recovery
Edward Kieswetter was appointed commissioner of the South African Revenue Service in May 2019, and has been working tirelessly to try to establish a modern, professional service removed from the...
View ArticleBain & Co – still trying to gloss over the shocking facts
Stephen York, Bain & Company’s managing partner in South Africa, took out a page three, full-page advert in Business Day necessitated, he said, because much of what South Africans had read and...
View ArticleAction against Ben la Grange must be the norm, not the exception
By Joe Kleinhans There is an important principle locked up in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) action against the former Chief Financial Officer of Steinhoff, Ben la Grange. He was fined R2...
View ArticleFrom the archives: The back story to ‘Stop Me If You Can’: Paul O’Sullivan on...
Published on 26 April 2022 Ace forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan launched his new book Stop Me If You Can. At the launch, BizNews founder Alec Hogg sat down with O’Sullivan for a fascinating...
View ArticleTransnet: OUTA is calling the latest round of arrests “better late than never”
OUTA chief investigator on state capture Rudie Heyneke reacts to the arrests of former Transnet and Gupta-linked Regiments executives charged with contravention of the PFMA, fraud, corruption and...
View ArticleLiving in hope in Zimbabwe
Cathy Buckle continues to rise above the daily frustrations of living in a country given over to the greed and corruption of its politicians – does that ring a bell? – by focusing on the natural...
View Article‘NHI: a recipe for endemic corruption and further fostering of entrenched ANC...
In the first four articles of this series, Michael Settas succinctly outlined factors pointing to the NHI proposal being politically motivated and highlighted the grave shortcomings in the country’s...
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