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7,448 Episodes
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Revisiting Ginsberg’s brilliant Nov ’22 tech stock call - says boom not over

Innovative international index fund company Ginsblobal’s South African founder made a very public and as it happens, accurate call back in November 2022. In this interview, we revisit Anthony Ginsberg’s view that the tech wreck was overdone - plus he shares thoughts on what lies ahead for tech stocks, including…
28 Feb 2024 7AM 21 min

How TUKS, a heavyweight in vet science, is harnessing alumni to boost funding

Universities globally, like Harvard, are significantly funded by their alumni, with Harvard’s endowment reaching over $50 billion in 2022 due to philanthropy. In South Africa, however, universities face financial challenges due to substantial government spending cuts and tuition fee increase restrictions. This has led the University of Pretoria (TUKS) to…
27 Feb 2024 5AM 19 min

Moeletsi Mbeki foresees another five years of ANC’s five deadly sins

If the polls are correct, the ANC faces the possibility of losing its majority in South Africa’s national elections on the 29th of May this year. So, what went wrong for Nelson Mandela’s once proud political movement? Businessman and independent political analyst, Moeletsi Mbeki has identified five deadly sins that…
21 Feb 2024 10AM 37 min

Ayanda gives Cyril another reality check…

Nobody articulated the rage of millions of South Africans better than Ayanda Allie when she responded to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent State of the Nation address. In this interview with BizNews, she describes how the president’s utterances made “something rose up inside me and it was like a fire shot…
21 Feb 2024 5AM 11 min

The ANC was in Moscow plotting against the West when Navalny died…

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) was in Russia “fighting” against neo-colonialism when Kremlin opposition politician Alexei Navalny died last week. This has emerged from a BizNews interview with Russian historian Professor Irina Filatova who says: “Just at the time when Navalny was killed, the ANC delegation was in…
20 Feb 2024 10AM 12 min

The very rational (to them) reason so many Americans support Trump

Former Oxford University professor RW Johnson nails the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s cult-like support in this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg. In it Johnson cautions that although it’s no foregone conclusion America’s Captain Chaos will return to the White House, he explains an “uber truth” behind his continued popularity…
20 Feb 2024 6AM 24 min

Daily poll updates confirms Zuma’s MK is Election’24 gamechanger

In this fascinating interview, the DA’s Election’24 campaign manager Greg Krumbock shares insights from the party’s historically accurate polling process, which taps voter opinion daily. Among numerous other conclusions, the numbers confirm SRF’s Frans Cronje’s assertion  that the re-entry of Jacob Zuma into the political fray guarantees South Africa is…
16 Feb 2024 5AM 18 min

Bad roads bring bad times to the ‘Berg…

Tourism, businesses, jobs, and livelihoods are under threat in the Drakensberg region where bad roads and unrepaired infrastructure have made travel perilous. In this interview with BizNews, Megan Bedingham of the Cavern, a popular ‘Berg resort, says occupancies in December last year (2023) in the Midlands and the Drakensberg area…
15 Feb 2024 5AM 10 min

Zuma’s MK lands another big by-election result; Gayton’s PA wins too

Predictions that Jacob Zuma’s re-entry into South African politics is a “gamechanger” were confirmed yesterday when his MK party produced a strong showing in just the second by-election it has contested, building on a 20% share grabbed earlier this month. It was also a big day for Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic…
15 Feb 2024 3AM 13 min
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