Boardroom Talk: Philosopher Agrizzi explains how bribery can be used to make...
Alec Hogg has experienced an interesting relationship with SA’s most famous whistleblower, former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please login here....
View ArticleCoalitions require maturity – is SA grown up enough politically?
By Paul O’Sullivan* The fiasco in Johannesburg serves to prove that South African politics is not yet mature enough to maintain a coalition. When political parties with different agendas form a...
View ArticleDon’t like paying for electricity? – become a cabinet minister
If you want to evade the hardships of living in South Africa – the almost constant loadshedding, the water cuts and other major problems – become a minister. On top of substantial salaries, and a huge...
View ArticleRevisiting practice of Second Level Thinking, when investing and living your...
Investment guru Howard Marks refers to as Second Level Thinking, a practice of deliberately and methodically reaching beyond the obvious. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please...
View ArticleJohannesburg – a tale of City corruption?
According to DA Johannesburg caucus leader and former mayor Mpho Phalatse, an unlawful coalition of the corrupt, led by the ANC, has already initiated sweeping changes to the City’s senior management,...
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The BizNews tribe has spoken: Rob Hersov turns talk into action
Rob Hersov joined Alec Hogg of BizNews to share his practical solution “to save South Africa from the ANC,” as he puts it. Aside from extreme praise and death threats, Hersov has also received...
View ArticleFormer Mayor Dr Mpho Phalatse: ‘Corrupt’ ANC already back to old ways in...
The DA’s Joburg leader Dr Mpho Phalatse has gone from medic to politician and from leading the opposition in SA’s biggest city to becoming its mayor; and then being controversially deposed after an...
View ArticleRamaphosa announces ‘sweeping reforms’ to combat corruption
By Paul Vecchiatto and S’thembile Cele (Bloomberg) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he’ll implement sweeping reforms in response to recommendations by a judicial panel that probed...
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Boardroom Talk: KW Miller, the critic whom Eskom and its media lackeys...
The BizNews Premium Podcast: Premium Briefing Ep 6 – Alec’s essential market overview Why US shares saw their best three-week run since 2020 and the importance of the 10 year US treasury yield seeing...
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Eskom’s R680 billion spending spree = less electricity
South Africans have grown so used to frequent power cuts across the country, it’s become akin to daily bread. The instability in the electricity supply, combined with the rising tariffs, has had a...
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SA growth hobbled by Eskom and Transnet failures
Without turning around the two largest public enterprises, Eskom and Transnet, not much can be done to boost our growth rate or halt South Africa’s decline, writes Jonathan Katzenellenbogen for the...
View ArticleLula narrowly wins Brazil’s presidency in historic comeback
Lula da Silva won in a dramatic comeback for the left-wing politician who was languishing in a jail cell for corruption just three years ago. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members...
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How will SA’s electricity problems ever be solved?
Eskom is disintegrating and taking the whole economy down with it. Andrew Kenny writes on the Daily Friend that as a desperate measure it seems we must privatise the national electricity supply, even...
View ArticleGlobal energy restructuring veteran KW Miller has seen many messes, but says...
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...
View ArticleBoardroom Talk – Energy turnaround specialist KW Miller on Eskom: both...
It was worth the wait. He was full value – joining the dots in the Eskom mess in a way that makes a lot of sense. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please login here. Not yet...
View ArticleTheft from Health departments an appalling indictment of SA morality
Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, revealed that R121 554 424.75 has been stolen in 76 different cases of corruption in public hospitals countrywide since January 2020. The provinces most badly...
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Pots and kettles – and Paul O’Sullivan
If we could mine ironies and sell them on the global market, we’d save our economy. We’ve just hit a particularly rich seam with Zuptoid and former spy chief, Arthur Fraser, whom Paul O’Sullivan’s...
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Procurement corruption in the crosshairs
The Public Procurement Amendment Bill will be tabled in Parliament in March next year and aims to reduce the scope for looting and procurement corruption. The State Capture Inquiry highlighted how the...
View ArticlePaul O’Sullivan: Cyril had the facts on allegedly corrupt “very high risk”...
The key question from this cracking interview with forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan is whether Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of SA’s “very high risk” police commissioner was the result of...
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In battling corruption “no half-measures will do”– Adv Hoffman
South Africa can no longer afford to pay lip service to battle corruption, as any continued dilly-dallying will only propel us towards failed statehood. For well over a decade, the most critical...
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