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		<title>WSM: Is a vote for a small party wasted? | Jaundiced Eye</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg twice handed its mayoralty to a party that won less than 1% of the vote. With 547 parties and almost 137,000 candidates chasing 10,526 council seats on 4 November, Jaundiced Eye columnist William Saunderson-Meyer argued that most of those names were vanity projects or job-seekers, and that the big parties quietly benefited from the clutter. He told Alec Hogg why ActionSA's Herman Mashaba could end up a kingmaker but not a queenmaker in Joburg, how two party leaders reached powerful parliamentary posts on well under half a percent of the national vote, and why a cross next to a no-hoper might end up somewhere the voter never intended. ]]></description>
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		<title>How the ACDP has resisted coalition bribery | Wayne Thring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Local Government Elections looming, all eyes are on KZN. In this interview with Chris, Steyn, eThekwini Mayoral Candidate and Deputy President of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), Wayne Thring, describes how his party resisted bribery involving millions and even an offer of an ambassadorship. “Our councillors were offered incentives, millions of Rands, to join a particular coalition bloc which was with the ANC and the current coalition bloc in eThekwini. And they resisted, they refused. And that's the calibre. I myself was enticed with positions when I was serving in 2013. I was enticed with positions at a national level. I was offered an ambassador position if I would resign from the ACDP to join the ruling party. I refused.” As for his party’s decision to stay out of the Government of National Unity (GNU), he said: “We were invited and positions obviously were forwarded for the ACDP. But because of the tainted track record that the ANC have, we would have found ourselves having to defend, like the coalition partners are now having to defend at a national level, some of the policies of the ANC. Or if not defending, having to be quiet and silent so as not to rock the boat.” Thring is adamant that his party would never go into a coalition with the ANC, MKP and the EEF. “We have boots on the ground currently in all of the wards across eThekwini to ensure that a party like the MKP, and I must add ANC and EFF, amongst some of the others…we are working hard to ensure that political parties like these do not cause more damage, bring more chaos to South Africa…” ]]></description>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Cape Independence's IEC fight; Dlomo R12m spy trial; Orion-Glencore; Netflix, GM slide</title>
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		<title>BN Edge | CAPEXIT's Jack Miller unpacks 19 years of fighting for Cape independence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen years after turning a Facebook group into a political party, Jack Miller still hadn't won the Cape its independence, and he told Alec Hogg he had made his peace with the possibility that he never might. What he hadn't given up on was the leverage. With the Cape Independence Party fielding candidates in almost every Western Cape ward on 4 November, Miller set out how a small slice of the vote could push the DA below 50% and turn CapeXit into a kingmaker with a single price: referendums. He described being carried out of the Cape Town council chamber, argued that voters' fear of the ANC was misplaced, explained why the Referendum Party ended up in the FF Plus rather than with him, and named the parties he would and wouldn't work with. He closed with a claim about South Africa's governments that few would share: that each has a shelf life, and the current one is nearing the end of its own. ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Zuma’s super spy’s secret trial</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former President Jacob Zuma's “super spy”, the once feared and powerful Thulani Dlomo, has gone on trial in great secrecy with a fellow former spy boss for allegedly making off with R12 million of State Security Agency (SSA) funds under false pretenses. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Willem Els of the Security Initiative for Africa (SIA) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) says: “If you look at the sheer amounts of money that are actually moving around and being moved within these agencies, this 12 million is maybe just sort of the tip of the iceberg.” Dlomo’s trial is the first major criminal action against the SSA in the post-Zuma era. In another major first, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry laid criminal charges against a subpoenaed witness for dodging his appearance, resulting in the airport arrest of former African National Congress (ANC) moneyman Suliman Carrim. “It is very crucial that Mr Carrim needs to come and answer some questions,” says Els. He also weighed in on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s belated reinstatement of National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola after the National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) dropped charges against him. “I think there was a lot of pressure on the Presidency to reinstate him and they had to do so because it seems that legally they did not have any leverage to further his suspension.” He urges for the SAPS Reset to “cut deep and hard”. ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Former President Jacob Zuma's “super spy”, the once feared and powerful Thulani Dlomo, has gone on trial in great secrecy with a fellow former spy boss for allegedly making off with R12 million of State Security Agency (SSA) funds under false pretenses. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Willem Els of the Security Initiative for Africa (SIA) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) says: “If you look at the sheer amounts of money that are actually moving around and being moved within these agencies, this 12 million is maybe just sort of the tip of the iceberg.” Dlomo’s trial is the first major criminal action against the SSA in the post-Zuma era. In another major first, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry laid criminal charges against a subpoenaed witness for dodging his appearance, resulting in the airport arrest of former African National Congress (ANC) moneyman Suliman Carrim. “It is very crucial that Mr Carrim needs to come and answer some questions,” says Els. He also weighed in on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s belated reinstatement of National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola after the National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) dropped charges against him. “I think there was a lot of pressure on the Presidency to reinstate him and they had to do so because it seems that legally they did not have any leverage to further his suspension.” He urges for the SAPS Reset to “cut deep and hard”.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Mining in SA not impossible; who leads Joburg mayoral race?; Wicknell Chivayo's motives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A copper mine that had sat idle and flooding for 35 years finally had its first Glencore tranche unlocked, and Orion Minerals CEO Tony Lennox argued that South Africa's reputation as a near-impossible place to mine had been overdone. Michael Marchant of Open Secrets explained why Wicknell Chivayo flaunted Rolls-Royces and cash while millions of Zimbabweans struggled, and what that showmanship may really have been buying. Wayne Sussman's walk through the latest Johannesburg poll held a surprise about Helen Zille and a blunt message from residents about how their city is run. Reuters rounded things off with Wall Street's return to chip stocks after a bruising week. ]]></description>
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		<title>BN Edge | Orion CEO Tony Lennox: Glencore cash, Prieska, BHP, SA mining myths, takeovers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prieska copper-zinc mine had stood idle for 35 years, its lower workings filling with water. After eight months of negotiation spanning South Africa, Australia, Switzerland and Canada, the first US$40m of Glencore's US$250m package finally became unconditional, with money due to flow from the end of October. Orion Minerals chief executive Tony Lennox told Alec Hogg what that first cheque unlocked, what still stood between Orion and the far larger Deeps, and why he believed the story that South Africa makes mining near impossible was overrated. He also took on the risk of selling everything to a single buyer, the exit of a long-standing shareholder, BHP's interest in the Northern Cape, and whether a junior sitting between two giants could keep rowing its own boat. ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Edge | Orion CEO Tony Lennox: Glencore cash, Prieska, BHP, SA mining myths, takeovers</itunes:title>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: DA leads Joburg poll; Moeng on McKenzie; Wierzycka’s Anthropic bet; Max Smart’s rise</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analyst Wayne Sussman unpacks an eNCA/Markdata survey putting the DA on 35% in Johannesburg and the ANC just under 22%, in a city the ANC has always led, with MK, the EFF and ActionSA all above 10%. Commentator Solly Moeng says Patriotic Alliance supporters must decide whether they are backing Gayton McKenzie’s voice or real change. Magda Wierzycka tells Alec Hogg she turned down a $1.4 trillion offer for her Anthropic stake. Rally driver Max Smart charts his climb from motocross to the world stage. Plus Wall Street’s AI-led slide. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: DA leads Joburg poll; Moeng on McKenzie; Wierzycka’s Anthropic bet; Max Smart’s rise</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Analyst Wayne Sussman unpacks an eNCA/Markdata survey putting the DA on 35% in Johannesburg and the ANC just under 22%, in a city the ANC has always led, with MK, the EFF and ActionSA all above 10%. Commentator Solly Moeng says Patriotic Alliance supporters must decide whether they are backing Gayton McKenzie’s voice or real change. Magda Wierzycka tells Alec Hogg she turned down a $1.4 trillion offer for her Anthropic stake. Rally driver Max Smart charts his climb from motocross to the world stage. Plus Wall Street’s AI-led slide.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Wayne Susman: DA leads in 4 Metros, 2 to go…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of Electoral Roadshow with Chris Steyn, analyst Wayne Sussman unpacks the latest results from the eNCA MarkData Election Survey. In Johannesburg, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is way out in front on 35% of the vote, the African National Congress (ANC) second on 21,8%, uMkhonto weSizwe (MKP) third on 12,5%, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) fourth on 11.9% followed by ActionSA on 10.3%, and the Patriotic Alliance (PA) well below on 3.7% Here, the DA’s Helen Zille is the most popular mayoral candidate at 30,6% with ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba second at 23.4%. In Cape Town, the DA came in at 52,6% followed by the ANC at 23,6%, the EFF at 6.5%, the PA at 3.9%, and MKP at 1,5%. Here, the current mayor, the DA’s Geordin Hill-Lewis polled the highest at 55,4%. The elections survey results for Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay were discussed in last week’s show. The results for eThewini and Tshwane will be out next Sunday. The voters go to the polls in the Local Government Elections (LGEs) on 4 November. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Wayne Susman: DA leads in 4 Metros, 2 to go…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:45</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this edition of Electoral Roadshow with Chris Steyn, analyst Wayne Sussman unpacks the latest results from the eNCA MarkData Election Survey. In Johannesburg, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is way out in front on 35% of the vote, the African National Congress (ANC) second on 21,8%, uMkhonto weSizwe (MKP) third on 12,5%, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) fourth on 11.9% followed by ActionSA on 10.3%, and the Patriotic Alliance (PA) well below on 3.7% Here, the DA’s Helen Zille is the most popular mayoral candidate at 30,6% with ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba second at 23.4%. In Cape Town, the DA came in at 52,6% followed by the ANC at 23,6%, the EFF at 6.5%, the PA at 3.9%, and MKP at 1,5%. Here, the current mayor, the DA’s Geordin Hill-Lewis polled the highest at 55,4%. The elections survey results for Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay were discussed in last week’s show. The results for eThewini and Tshwane will be out next Sunday. The voters go to the polls in the Local Government Elections (LGEs) on 4 November.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show - Solly Moeng: SA Politicians: The good, the bad &amp; the …</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s NdB Sunday Show with me, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the politicians who have not sold their souls, those who have, those who are fit for office, those who not. Moeng gives his frank appraisal of politicians like Ian Cameron, Gayton McKenzie, Fadiel Adams, Paul Mashatile, John Steenhuisen, Herman Mashaba, Mmusi Maimane, Songezo Zibi, Duduzane Zuma…He explains why it would be unwise for Geordin Hill-Lewis to become a Minister. He comments on the ANC’s Constitutional Court’s victory that saw Fikile Mbabula collapse, possibly from relief. He also talks about the rumours that the late Ambassador Nathi Mthethwa’s family is moving to France where the former Police Minister died from a mysterious fall from a hotel. Lastly, he damns the conduct of former General Shadrack Sibiya. “I always say when you become powerful, you need a whisperer. You need somebody who's able to stand in front of you and say, But you can't do that. And you know that it comes from a good place. This person is not trying to destroy you. They know what you're capable of, or they know that you can be blind to certain things. So they're there to say, Don't do it. Let's go home. Let's go and have coffee, let's go and have tea, but don’t get involved because anything can happen.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show - Solly Moeng: SA Politicians: The good, the bad &amp; the …</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>30:18</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today’s NdB Sunday Show with me, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the politicians who have not sold their souls, those who have, those who are fit for office, those who not. Moeng gives his frank appraisal of politicians like Ian Cameron, Gayton McKenzie, Fadiel Adams, Paul Mashatile, John Steenhuisen, Herman Mashaba, Mmusi Maimane, Songezo Zibi, Duduzane Zuma…He explains why it would be unwise for Geordin Hill-Lewis to become a Minister. He comments on the ANC’s Constitutional Court’s victory that saw Fikile Mbabula collapse, possibly from relief. He also talks about the rumours that the late Ambassador Nathi Mthethwa’s family is moving to France where the former Police Minister died from a mysterious fall from a hotel. Lastly, he damns the conduct of former General Shadrack Sibiya. “I always say when you become powerful, you need a whisperer. You need somebody who's able to stand in front of you and say, But you can't do that. And you know that it comes from a good place. This person is not trying to destroy you. They know what you're capable of, or they know that you can be blind to certain things. So they're there to say, Don't do it. Let's go home. Let's go and have coffee, let's go and have tea, but don’t get involved because anything can happen.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Edge | Sygnia’s founder Magda Wierzycka says it’s time for the firm to reinvent or vanish</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week before Sygnia shareholders vote on an expanded share incentive scheme, Magda Wierzycka was not playing defence. Responding to a Financial Mail report that cast the plan as an enrichment scheme, she told Alec Hogg it was about holding on to a long-serving executive team and being able to hire a CFO, or a successor CEO, at today's market rates. Then she went further. With 30 days' notice and no restraint of trade, she said a weak vote would leave her asking whether she still wants to work for other shareholders, at a time when she believes stakes in private giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX can make her more than Sygnia has in 20 years. She also said the dispute with former partner Andre Crawford-Brunt was settled, previewed a fund giving South African investors access to those companies, and warned that every division at Sygnia would have to be rebuilt for the AI era. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Edge | Sygnia’s founder Magda Wierzycka says it’s time for the firm to reinvent or vanish</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>34:40</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A week before Sygnia shareholders vote on an expanded share incentive scheme, Magda Wierzycka was not playing defence. Responding to a Financial Mail report that cast the plan as an enrichment scheme, she told Alec Hogg it was about holding on to a long-serving executive team and being able to hire a CFO, or a successor CEO, at today's market rates. Then she went further. With 30 days' notice and no restraint of trade, she said a weak vote would leave her asking whether she still wants to work for other shareholders, at a time when she believes stakes in private giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX can make her more than Sygnia has in 20 years. She also said the dispute with former partner Andre Crawford-Brunt was settled, previewed a fund giving South African investors access to those companies, and warned that every division at Sygnia would have to be rebuilt for the AI era.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>From 185km/h on gravel roads to the ice of Sweden, Max Smart carves a new path in world rallying</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[South African rally driver Max Smart won Africa’s place in the FIA Rally Star Programme, where he raced for three years, and went on to the Junior World Rally Championship. Now competing in Spain, he leads the Spanish Gravel Rally Championship for PCR Sport by a single point going into the final round in Granada. In an interview with BizNews, Smart talks about winning a stage on ice in Sweden having never seen snow, and how he has come up with a way to finance the R600,000 a rally cost of competing, which includes his 20 Club sponsorship programme and learning the skills of a mechanic in his team’s workshop. And where did it all start? With a video game, and a momager who helps him keep it going. As a young driver going it alone, he is still building the partnerships that will keep his Ford Fiesta Rally2, “an absolute monster” of a car, on the road. - Linda van Tilburg ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>From 185km/h on gravel roads to the ice of Sweden, Max Smart carves a new path in world rallying</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>18:43</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South African rally driver Max Smart won Africa’s place in the FIA Rally Star Programme, where he raced for three years, and went on to the Junior World Rally Championship. Now competing in Spain, he leads the Spanish Gravel Rally Championship for PCR Sport by a single point going into the final round in Granada. In an interview with BizNews, Smart talks about winning a stage on ice in Sweden having never seen snow, and how he has come up with a way to finance the R600,000 a rally cost of competing, which includes his 20 Club sponsorship programme and learning the skills of a mechanic in his team’s workshop. And where did it all start? With a video game, and a momager who helps him keep it going. As a young driver going it alone, he is still building the partnerships that will keep his Ford Fiesta Rally2, “an absolute monster” of a car, on the road. - Linda van Tilburg]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Edge | Michael Marchant: how a Zimbabwean tycoon parked his fortune in SA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wicknell Chivayo handed out Rolls-Royces, posed with piles of cash and bought a R160 million home in Clifton. Then, days after Open Secrets asked the Hawks to investigate how R800 million from a Zimbabwean election contract landed in his South African accounts, his helicopter came down outside Harare. Michael Marchant, head of investigations at Open Secrets, traced how a man with a fraud conviction and a decade of damaging headlines moved money through South African banks, estate agents and luxury car dealers, and why the presidents who praised him at his funeral may have their own reasons to keep the myth alive. He argued this was never only Zimbabwe's problem: with his estate now up for grabs and a fresh FATF review looming, the Chivayo case had become a test of whether South Africa can stop being a parking lot for the continent's dirty money. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Edge | Michael Marchant: how a Zimbabwean tycoon parked his fortune in SA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>35:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wicknell Chivayo handed out Rolls-Royces, posed with piles of cash and bought a R160 million home in Clifton. Then, days after Open Secrets asked the Hawks to investigate how R800 million from a Zimbabwean election contract landed in his South African accounts, his helicopter came down outside Harare. Michael Marchant, head of investigations at Open Secrets, traced how a man with a fraud conviction and a decade of damaging headlines moved money through South African banks, estate agents and luxury car dealers, and why the presidents who praised him at his funeral may have their own reasons to keep the myth alive. He argued this was never only Zimbabwe's problem: with his estate now up for grabs and a fresh FATF review looming, the Chivayo case had become a test of whether South Africa can stop being a parking lot for the continent's dirty money.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Saunderson-Meyer on MK after Zuma; PA's Cilliers hits back at DA; Chivayo's R800m trail</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1729071</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Saunderson-Meyer tells Alec Hogg that MK will outlast Jacob Zuma: dead or alive, Zuma has shaped South African politics, and any ANC recovery has to run through a party he expects to grow and to take control of Durban's council. Patriotic Alliance co-founder Charles Cilliers hits back after the DA's Tertuis Simmers called the PA a criminal enterprise, accusing him of insulting poor voters. Open Secrets' Michael Marchant traces how the late Wicknell Chivayo's inflated R1 billion Zimbabwean election contract pushed R800 million into South African accounts. Plus the latest from Wall Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Saunderson-Meyer on MK after Zuma; PA's Cilliers hits back at DA; Chivayo's R800m trail</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>13:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[William Saunderson-Meyer tells Alec Hogg that MK will outlast Jacob Zuma: dead or alive, Zuma has shaped South African politics, and any ANC recovery has to run through a party he expects to grow and to take control of Durban's council. Patriotic Alliance co-founder Charles Cilliers hits back after the DA's Tertuis Simmers called the PA a criminal enterprise, accusing him of insulting poor voters. Open Secrets' Michael Marchant traces how the late Wicknell Chivayo's inflated R1 billion Zimbabwean election contract pushed R800 million into South African accounts. Plus the latest from Wall Street.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Jaundiced Eye: WSM on MKP, the Zuma factor, and the KZN battleground</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Jacob Zuma the glue holding MK together, or has the party already outgrown him? In the first of his weekly conversations with Alec Hogg on BizNews, William Saunderson-Meyer, whose Jaundiced Eye column has run every week since 1993, said he didn't buy the common wisdom. He argued that MK had tapped a deep well of grievance against the ANC, that it stood to grow in the local elections, and that the ANC's road back to power may run through MK. He sized up Duduzane Zuma as heir apparent, compared the family's split to Romulus and Remus, and described Gayton McKenzie as a hyena of the political wilderness. Then he laid out one set of numbers he keeps coming back to, and why it should worry anyone counting on a weaker ANC. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Jaundiced Eye: WSM on MKP, the Zuma factor, and the KZN battleground</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:51</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is Jacob Zuma the glue holding MK together, or has the party already outgrown him? In the first of his weekly conversations with Alec Hogg on BizNews, William Saunderson-Meyer, whose Jaundiced Eye column has run every week since 1993, said he didn't buy the common wisdom. He argued that MK had tapped a deep well of grievance against the ANC, that it stood to grow in the local elections, and that the ANC's road back to power may run through MK. He sized up Duduzane Zuma as heir apparent, compared the family's split to Romulus and Remus, and described Gayton McKenzie as a hyena of the political wilderness. Then he laid out one set of numbers he keeps coming back to, and why it should worry anyone counting on a weaker ANC.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Edge | Zille, Simmers and the DA's coalition problem: with the PA's Charles Cilliers</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1728877</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier in the week, the DA's Tertuis Simmers sat in the same BizNews studio and called the Patriotic Alliance a criminal enterprise dressed up as a party. Charles Cilliers, the PA co-founder and former newspaper editor who wrote Gayton McKenzie's life story, came back with his reply. He told Alec Hogg what he made of the vote-buying claims in George, why he believes the DA cannot lead a coalition, and his version of the Joburg deal that collapsed over a single mayoral committee post. He took on the Beaufort West fundraising questions and the "coloured nationalist" label, and explained why the PA would still hold its nose and work with a party it finds nauseating. He would not say what the PA's first demand will be if it holds the balance of power after 4 November. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Edge | Zille, Simmers and the DA's coalition problem: with the PA's Charles Cilliers</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Earlier in the week, the DA's Tertuis Simmers sat in the same BizNews studio and called the Patriotic Alliance a criminal enterprise dressed up as a party. Charles Cilliers, the PA co-founder and former newspaper editor who wrote Gayton McKenzie's life story, came back with his reply. He told Alec Hogg what he made of the vote-buying claims in George, why he believes the DA cannot lead a coalition, and his version of the Joburg deal that collapsed over a single mayoral committee post. He took on the Beaufort West fundraising questions and the "coloured nationalist" label, and explained why the PA would still hold its nose and work with a party it finds nauseating. He would not say what the PA's first demand will be if it holds the balance of power after 4 November.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Edge | Can Lesaka do to SA's big banks what fintech did in Brazil?</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1728779</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company once known as Net1 has just posted its first full-year profit and is telling the market to expect adjusted earnings to compound at more than 40% a year. Executive chairman Ali Mazanderani, who says he has helped build seven multibillion-dollar fintechs from Brazil to Europe, told Alec Hogg why he believes South Africa's big banks are structurally unable to win the township economy, and why local capital has been too cautious to back the challengers. He also set out what the pending Bank Zero deal would do to Lesaka's debt, why nine in ten South African merchants still don't take card payments, and why he accepted a pay deal that only works if the share price does. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Edge | Can Lesaka do to SA's big banks what fintech did in Brazil?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>44:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The company once known as Net1 has just posted its first full-year profit and is telling the market to expect adjusted earnings to compound at more than 40% a year. Executive chairman Ali Mazanderani, who says he has helped build seven multibillion-dollar fintechs from Brazil to Europe, told Alec Hogg why he believes South Africa's big banks are structurally unable to win the township economy, and why local capital has been too cautious to back the challengers. He also set out what the pending Bank Zero deal would do to Lesaka's debt, why nine in ten South African merchants still don't take card payments, and why he accepted a pay deal that only works if the share price does.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: DA to win NMB outright?; Ndletyana on Zuma, MK; Lesaka's growth; Wall Street latest</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1728653</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela Bay has been through nine coalitions in ten years by Retief Odendaal's count, and the DA's mayoral candidate said he would not try to run a ten-party government again. Political scientist Professor Mcebisi Ndletyana, co-author of The Zuma Effect, explained why Jacob Zuma's comeback came as no surprise to him, and why he believes MK is as chaotic as the man who founded it. Lesaka executive chairman Ali Mazanderani argued that the market was already waking up to the fintech's story, and that cash was not coming back. Reuters rounded off the show with the latest from Wall Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: DA to win NMB outright?; Ndletyana on Zuma, MK; Lesaka's growth; Wall Street latest</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>17:11</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela Bay has been through nine coalitions in ten years by Retief Odendaal's count, and the DA's mayoral candidate said he would not try to run a ten-party government again. Political scientist Professor Mcebisi Ndletyana, co-author of The Zuma Effect, explained why Jacob Zuma's comeback came as no surprise to him, and why he believes MK is as chaotic as the man who founded it. Lesaka executive chairman Ali Mazanderani argued that the market was already waking up to the fintech's story, and that cash was not coming back. Reuters rounded off the show with the latest from Wall Street.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The Zuma Effect: the plots and the power plays</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaco Zuma’s ambition to become president of South Africa was rooted in personal interests: to evade the law and assuage his dire financial circumstances - and his faction used chilling tools to get and keep him in power for as long as possible. So says political scientist Professor Mcebisi Ndletyana, the co-author of the “The Zuma Effect”, a five hundred-page work regarded as the definitive work on the Zuma era. In this interview with Chris Steyn, he describes what happened behind the scenes with the making of a personality cult, the remaking of the African National Congress (ANC), the disbandment of The Scorpions, the manipulation of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and other law enforcement institutions, as well as Zuma’s “intelligence project” Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhewebane. “So you have these series of undeserving people who don't expect to have these positions on their own merit. They're shocked that they're even appointed. So they spend most of their time paying back this debt to the president for doing something that they never thought they would ever achieve in their lives.” As for Zuma’s “revenge” MKP, Professor Ndletyana says: “MKP couldn't escape Zuma's personality because JZ believes in personalised rule. So he's formed the party in his own image. When Zuma dies, the party dies.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>The Zuma Effect: the plots and the power plays</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>1:06:00</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jaco Zuma’s ambition to become president of South Africa was rooted in personal interests: to evade the law and assuage his dire financial circumstances - and his faction used chilling tools to get and keep him in power for as long as possible. So says political scientist Professor Mcebisi Ndletyana, the co-author of the “The Zuma Effect”, a five hundred-page work regarded as the definitive work on the Zuma era. In this interview with Chris Steyn, he describes what happened behind the scenes with the making of a personality cult, the remaking of the African National Congress (ANC), the disbandment of The Scorpions, the manipulation of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and other law enforcement institutions, as well as Zuma’s “intelligence project” Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhewebane. “So you have these series of undeserving people who don't expect to have these positions on their own merit. They're shocked that they're even appointed. So they spend most of their time paying back this debt to the president for doing something that they never thought they would ever achieve in their lives.” As for Zuma’s “revenge” MKP, Professor Ndletyana says: “MKP couldn't escape Zuma's personality because JZ believes in personalised rule. So he's formed the party in his own image. When Zuma dies, the party dies.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Edge | Dry taps, broken services, no management: can Nelson Mandela Bay be saved?</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1728445</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retief Odendaal ran Nelson Mandela Bay for eight and a half months before a no-confidence vote removed him in 2023. Three weeks out from the 4 November local elections, with a new poll putting the DA and ANC almost level in the metro, the DA's mayoral candidate told Alec Hogg why his party has gone to court to make mayor Babalwa Lobishe personally liable for leasing a R25m municipal transformer to a private company. He laid out how a metro with cash in the bank keeps handing infrastructure money back unspent, why he says its top management posts sit empty, and why he will not sign up for another ten-party coalition. He also explained why, despite all of it, he still calls Nelson Mandela Bay the country's most fixable metro. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Edge | Dry taps, broken services, no management: can Nelson Mandela Bay be saved?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>34:26</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Retief Odendaal ran Nelson Mandela Bay for eight and a half months before a no-confidence vote removed him in 2023. Three weeks out from the 4 November local elections, with a new poll putting the DA and ANC almost level in the metro, the DA's mayoral candidate told Alec Hogg why his party has gone to court to make mayor Babalwa Lobishe personally liable for leasing a R25m municipal transformer to a private company. He laid out how a metro with cash in the bank keeps handing infrastructure money back unspent, why he says its top management posts sit empty, and why he will not sign up for another ten-party coalition. He also explained why, despite all of it, he still calls Nelson Mandela Bay the country's most fixable metro.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Mulder on GNU's lifespan; Simmers on premiership; MacKay on SA's decline; Ballito teen</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1728203</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder tells BizNews the government of national unity could technically run to 2029, but Parliament can dissolve itself from May next year and a new ANC president elected in a year's time could recall Cyril Ramaphosa. Mulder also reveals the DA agreed early on to leave international relations to the ANC, and says the FF+ has declared a dispute under the GNU's deadlock-breaking mechanism over the US standoff. Plus DA Western Cape leader Tertuis Simmers on the premiership, Donald MacKay on what really hollowed out manufacturing, Willem Els on the Ballito teen, and Wall Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Mulder on GNU's lifespan; Simmers on premiership; MacKay on SA's decline; Ballito teen</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>20:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder tells BizNews the government of national unity could technically run to 2029, but Parliament can dissolve itself from May next year and a new ANC president elected in a year's time could recall Cyril Ramaphosa. Mulder also reveals the DA agreed early on to leave international relations to the ANC, and says the FF+ has declared a dispute under the GNU's deadlock-breaking mechanism over the US standoff. Plus DA Western Cape leader Tertuis Simmers on the premiership, Donald MacKay on what really hollowed out manufacturing, Willem Els on the Ballito teen, and Wall Street.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>“Ballito Bomb Boy” stabs 6-year-old girl in school attack</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1728106</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A six-year-old girl was critically injured in a school stabbing this morning allegedly by a former pupil who also planted a homemade bomb at a Ballito Mall in March. Describing the attack, Willem Ells of the Institute for Security Studies and the Security Initiative for Africa, says: “He was armed with a homemade firearm as well as a kitchen knife with a six-inches long blade. And apparently he discharged the firearm and it did not function. So there could have been some more fatalities there, but then he attacked the little girl.” Els recalls a previous interview in which he spoke to Steyn about how the “Lone Wolf” teenager had “idolised the Columbine shooters in America and that he wanted to do the same in order to cement his name in history…” As for why this teenager was roaming the streets after the failed bomb attack, Els - who is also an explosives experts - charges: “I think we need to ask those questions high up and more questions should be asked because what we gathered is that the police that attended the scene handed the IED back to his parents. That is completely, completely against the law to do that. “ ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>“Ballito Bomb Boy” stabs 6-year-old girl in school attack</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>11:39</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A six-year-old girl was critically injured in a school stabbing this morning allegedly by a former pupil who also planted a homemade bomb at a Ballito Mall in March. Describing the attack, Willem Ells of the Institute for Security Studies and the Security Initiative for Africa, says: “He was armed with a homemade firearm as well as a kitchen knife with a six-inches long blade. And apparently he discharged the firearm and it did not function. So there could have been some more fatalities there, but then he attacked the little girl.” Els recalls a previous interview in which he spoke to Steyn about how the “Lone Wolf” teenager had “idolised the Columbine shooters in America and that he wanted to do the same in order to cement his name in history…” As for why this teenager was roaming the streets after the failed bomb attack, Els - who is also an explosives experts - charges: “I think we need to ask those questions high up and more questions should be asked because what we gathered is that the police that attended the scene handed the IED back to his parents. That is completely, completely against the law to do that. “]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge | Corné Mulder on coalitions, the DA, the PA and the GNU’s shelf life ahead of Nov 4</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1727951</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week after an ANC committee chair floated treason and suggested stripping critics of their citizenship, Corné Mulder joked that the state had better move fast, because his tax return was due. Then he got serious. The Freedom Front Plus leader told Alec Hogg why he believed the threat had no constitutional footing, why he had moved to invoke the GNU's deadlock-breaking mechanism rather than fight it out in a cabinet he called stacked against his party, and why he thought the ANC was misreading Washington. He also told the story of a grandfather sentenced to death for a killing that never happened, set out who he would and wouldn't govern with in Tshwane, Joburg and the Western Cape, and explained why he expected the FF+ to be the good story of the 4 November vote. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge | Corné Mulder on coalitions, the DA, the PA and the GNU’s shelf life ahead of Nov 4</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>1:05:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A week after an ANC committee chair floated treason and suggested stripping critics of their citizenship, Corné Mulder joked that the state had better move fast, because his tax return was due. Then he got serious. The Freedom Front Plus leader told Alec Hogg why he believed the threat had no constitutional footing, why he had moved to invoke the GNU's deadlock-breaking mechanism rather than fight it out in a cabinet he called stacked against his party, and why he thought the ANC was misreading Washington. He also told the story of a grandfather sentenced to death for a killing that never happened, set out who he would and wouldn't govern with in Tshwane, Joburg and the Western Cape, and explained why he expected the FF+ to be the good story of the 4 November vote.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: DA edges ANC in Ekurhuleni, Simmers rules out working with PA, SA consumers squeezed</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1727757</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DA finished first in Ekurhuleni, the metro that once carried the ANC over the line in Gauteng, but by less than two percentage points, and with no party anywhere near a majority. Wayne Sussman took Chris Steyn through the first eNCA MarkData metro poll and explained why the East Rand mattered more than many people assumed. In Hermanus, the DA's Western Cape leader Tertuis Simmers told Alec Hogg he would never govern with the Patriotic Alliance. Asked whether the DA took coloured voters for granted, he answered with job-seeker databases, housing lists and a lottery draw for public works jobs, and described the message he believed the PA was selling. Boxer chief executive Marek Masojada described what happened in his stores once grant-week money ran out, and what his shoppers had stopped putting in their trolleys. Reuters closed with oil's jump after attacks on a Saudi airport, a reminder of the fuel costs Masojada said were already squeezing South African households. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: DA edges ANC in Ekurhuleni, Simmers rules out working with PA, SA consumers squeezed</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>13:29</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The DA finished first in Ekurhuleni, the metro that once carried the ANC over the line in Gauteng, but by less than two percentage points, and with no party anywhere near a majority. Wayne Sussman took Chris Steyn through the first eNCA MarkData metro poll and explained why the East Rand mattered more than many people assumed. In Hermanus, the DA's Western Cape leader Tertuis Simmers told Alec Hogg he would never govern with the Patriotic Alliance. Asked whether the DA took coloured voters for granted, he answered with job-seeker databases, housing lists and a lottery draw for public works jobs, and described the message he believed the PA was selling. Boxer chief executive Marek Masojada described what happened in his stores once grant-week money ran out, and what his shoppers had stopped putting in their trolleys. Reuters closed with oil's jump after attacks on a Saudi airport, a reminder of the fuel costs Masojada said were already squeezing South African households.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>CEO Marek Masojada on Boxer's balance sheet and the battle for shoppers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boxer's shoppers fill their pantries in grant week and run short by mid-month. Diesel has pushed up taxi fares, rice is selling for a fifth less than a year ago, and like-for-like sales barely moved. Yet the discounter sold nearly 4% more goods, opened its 600th store and cleared its long-term bank debt. On results day, chief executive Marek Masojada told Alec Hogg what his customers are leaving on the shelf, how AI went from taking meeting minutes to the core of the business in six months, how deals with controlling shareholder Pick n Pay are kept at arm's length, and what stands between Boxer and a thousand stores. He also named the question he expected investors to press hardest. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>CEO Marek Masojada on Boxer's balance sheet and the battle for shoppers</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>24:55</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Boxer's shoppers fill their pantries in grant week and run short by mid-month. Diesel has pushed up taxi fares, rice is selling for a fifth less than a year ago, and like-for-like sales barely moved. Yet the discounter sold nearly 4% more goods, opened its 600th store and cleared its long-term bank debt. On results day, chief executive Marek Masojada told Alec Hogg what his customers are leaving on the shelf, how AI went from taking meeting minutes to the core of the business in six months, how deals with controlling shareholder Pick n Pay are kept at arm's length, and what stands between Boxer and a thousand stores. He also named the question he expected investors to press hardest.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Tertuis Simmers on George, Knysna and the Western Cape towns the DA wants back</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 23 days to go to the local government elections, the DA's Western Cape leader Tertuis Simmers sat down with Alec Hogg in Hermanus and drew a hard line. He said he would never govern with Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance, and described what he said he had seen with his own eyes during the by-elections that cost the DA three wards in George. He spoke about the 2024 building collapse in George that killed 34 people, why no one has yet been charged, and the one outstanding report he said is holding up the police. Simmers set out the party's battle plan town by town, from Knysna, which he called a blueprint for poor local government, to Bitou, where the DA has twice missed an outright majority by fewer than 30 votes. He also owned up to the biggest mistake of his ministerial career, and answered the question he said follows him everywhere: does he want to be the next premier? ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Tertuis Simmers on George, Knysna and the Western Cape towns the DA wants back</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>1:06:13</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With 23 days to go to the local government elections, the DA's Western Cape leader Tertuis Simmers sat down with Alec Hogg in Hermanus and drew a hard line. He said he would never govern with Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance, and described what he said he had seen with his own eyes during the by-elections that cost the DA three wards in George. He spoke about the 2024 building collapse in George that killed 34 people, why no one has yet been charged, and the one outstanding report he said is holding up the police. Simmers set out the party's battle plan town by town, from Knysna, which he called a blueprint for poor local government, to Bitou, where the DA has twice missed an outright majority by fewer than 30 votes. He also owned up to the biggest mistake of his ministerial career, and answered the question he said follows him everywhere: does he want to be the next premier?]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>DA in knife-edge lead over the ANC in two metros | The Electoral Roadshow with Wayne Sussman</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1727278</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of the Electoral Road Show with Chris Steyn and analyst Supremo Wayne Sussman, he unpacks the polling results of the first two of six metros surveyed in the highly scientific eNCA MarkData 2026 election poll. In Ekurhuleni, the DA emerged first with 31.2% of the vote, the only party to breach that 30% mark. Second was the ANC with 29.4%. A distant third was MKP at 11.5%. The EFF came in fourth place at 9.2%. In Nelson Mandela Bay, the DA is in the lead with 37.7% of the vote just ahead of the ANC on 37.4%. Coming in third is the EFF at 8%. “The job for the DA as the leading party is how can they stretch that lead in the coming weeks. The job for the ANC is to re-emerge, try to re-emerge as the largest party in Ekurhuleni. And the other parties will be looking at these polls and saying, look, this is a golden opportunity. The ANC is not doing well. What can they extract from the ANC? There's a lot to play for, for each and every single one of the major parties over the next few weeks.” Sussman says questions about service delivery and other key issues produced “very worrying responses for those in government, for those leading. The electorate is not satisfied with the state of local government, with the way our cities are being run.” In next week’s show, the polling results for Johannesburg and Cape Town will be unpacked. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>DA in knife-edge lead over the ANC in two metros | The Electoral Roadshow with Wayne Sussman</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>23:07</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this edition of the Electoral Road Show with Chris Steyn and analyst Supremo Wayne Sussman, he unpacks the polling results of the first two of six metros surveyed in the highly scientific eNCA MarkData 2026 election poll. In Ekurhuleni, the DA emerged first with 31.2% of the vote, the only party to breach that 30% mark. Second was the ANC with 29.4%. A distant third was MKP at 11.5%. The EFF came in fourth place at 9.2%. In Nelson Mandela Bay, the DA is in the lead with 37.7% of the vote just ahead of the ANC on 37.4%. Coming in third is the EFF at 8%. “The job for the DA as the leading party is how can they stretch that lead in the coming weeks. The job for the ANC is to re-emerge, try to re-emerge as the largest party in Ekurhuleni. And the other parties will be looking at these polls and saying, look, this is a golden opportunity. The ANC is not doing well. What can they extract from the ANC? There's a lot to play for, for each and every single one of the major parties over the next few weeks.” Sussman says questions about service delivery and other key issues produced “very worrying responses for those in government, for those leading. The electorate is not satisfied with the state of local government, with the way our cities are being run.” In next week’s show, the polling results for Johannesburg and Cape Town will be unpacked.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Opperman on pre-election instability; DiData's R350m riddle; ABC board defies majority</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1727005</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman warns Chris Steyn that instability ahead of the local elections could expand beyond the state's capacity to control, with the military underfunded and crime intelligence unable to pay sources. David Shapiro and Alec Hogg return to the Dimension Data Campus saga, asking why Jason Goodall would sign away R350 million, and whether the remaining directors' defence that NTT's Japanese owners knew all along can hold. Alec also unpacks Africa Bitcoin Corporation, where the board has publicly opposed its own 76% shareholder bloc's push for two new directors. Plus Wall Street's Friday rally. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Opperman on pre-election instability; DiData's R350m riddle; ABC board defies majority</itunes:title>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>13:14</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman warns Chris Steyn that instability ahead of the local elections could expand beyond the state's capacity to control, with the military underfunded and crime intelligence unable to pay sources. David Shapiro and Alec Hogg return to the Dimension Data Campus saga, asking why Jason Goodall would sign away R350 million, and whether the remaining directors' defence that NTT's Japanese owners knew all along can hold. Alec also unpacks Africa Bitcoin Corporation, where the board has publicly opposed its own 76% shareholder bloc's push for two new directors. Plus Wall Street's Friday rally.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show: Pre-election instability could spread beyond government control</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726966</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Independent Intelligence Analyst Jasmine Opperman warns that an expansion of instability in South Africa in the lead-up to the Local Government Elections would likely be beyond the government's capability to control. “We have never seen the ANC in a crisis situation, political power-wise, as now. The fact of the matter is at the political level, they’re lost. If we look at their law and order, they are completely out of their depth. The military can only do so much, and once that fails, we have nothing else to fall back on.” She was speaking with the country in the grip of anti-immigration riots that have seen buildings and businesses and vehicles torched and looted with physical clashes between police and protestors. “I cannot help but think that the MK’s hand is involved in all of this…The quicker the ANC starts realising that ethnicity is a real issue and people are taking pride, the better. I just don't think that the police intelligence capability, nor national intelligence has the ability to realise that we must be careful here. We are walking into a spider web that can destabilise.” Opperman also gives the details behind the ransom paid for the South African held captive by Islamic State Mozambique, describes how they use collaborators to cash out ransoms at dedicated crypto currency ATMs, and identifies by name for the first time the IS leadership just across the border from South Africa. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show: Pre-election instability could spread beyond government control</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>36:41</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Independent Intelligence Analyst Jasmine Opperman warns that an expansion of instability in South Africa in the lead-up to the Local Government Elections would likely be beyond the government's capability to control. “We have never seen the ANC in a crisis situation, political power-wise, as now. The fact of the matter is at the political level, they’re lost. If we look at their law and order, they are completely out of their depth. The military can only do so much, and once that fails, we have nothing else to fall back on.” She was speaking with the country in the grip of anti-immigration riots that have seen buildings and businesses and vehicles torched and looted with physical clashes between police and protestors. “I cannot help but think that the MK’s hand is involved in all of this…The quicker the ANC starts realising that ethnicity is a real issue and people are taking pride, the better. I just don't think that the police intelligence capability, nor national intelligence has the ability to realise that we must be careful here. We are walking into a spider web that can destabilise.” Opperman also gives the details behind the ransom paid for the South African held captive by Islamic State Mozambique, describes how they use collaborators to cash out ransoms at dedicated crypto currency ATMs, and identifies by name for the first time the IS leadership just across the border from South Africa.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Alec Hogg weighs in on DiData, answers questions on ABC/Altvest</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726800</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the Campus Six has cracked. Jason Goodall, former chief executive of Dimension Data and NTT, signs a statement naming four former colleagues and agrees to pay NTT R208.6 million. In a special BizNews Edge, Alec Hogg reads the private WhatsApp Goodall sent those same colleagues on the day he settled, puts the four’s detailed reply on the record, and asks why a man would pay that much to say something untrue. Paul Hoffman SC explains why the appeal court may never consider the statement at all. Alec then turns to Africa Bitcoin Corporation, formerly Altvest, where the board has publicly opposed its own controlling shareholder. And he answers the questions put to him on social media: how BizNews came to own shares in the company, why it hasn’t sold them, and the disclosure he admits he should have made. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Alec Hogg weighs in on DiData, answers questions on ABC/Altvest</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>25:57</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of the Campus Six has cracked. Jason Goodall, former chief executive of Dimension Data and NTT, signs a statement naming four former colleagues and agrees to pay NTT R208.6 million. In a special BizNews Edge, Alec Hogg reads the private WhatsApp Goodall sent those same colleagues on the day he settled, puts the four’s detailed reply on the record, and asks why a man would pay that much to say something untrue. Paul Hoffman SC explains why the appeal court may never consider the statement at all. Alec then turns to Africa Bitcoin Corporation, formerly Altvest, where the board has publicly opposed its own controlling shareholder. And he answers the questions put to him on social media: how BizNews came to own shares in the company, why it hasn’t sold them, and the disclosure he admits he should have made.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Unpacking both sides of the DiData Campus deal with David Shapiro</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726711</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days after their first take on the Dimension Data campus saga, David Shapiro and Alec Hogg came back to it with the remaining four directors' rebuttal in hand. The four said Jason Goodall's statement contradicted what he had said under oath, and that NTT's Japanese owners knew about the deal all along. Shapiro and Hogg asked how that defence squares with Goodall's account, and why a man who rose to run NTT would hand back so much money and implicate his former colleagues. Shapiro questioned what the six's claimed R70 million stake actually bought them, wondered aloud what the sixth man's silence means, and admitted he owed Jeremy Ord an apology over his account of the company's share sales two decades ago. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Unpacking both sides of the DiData Campus deal with David Shapiro</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>32:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two days after their first take on the Dimension Data campus saga, David Shapiro and Alec Hogg came back to it with the remaining four directors' rebuttal in hand. The four said Jason Goodall's statement contradicted what he had said under oath, and that NTT's Japanese owners knew about the deal all along. Shapiro and Hogg asked how that defence squares with Goodall's account, and why a man who rose to run NTT would hand back so much money and implicate his former colleagues. Shapiro questioned what the six's claimed R70 million stake actually bought them, wondered aloud what the sixth man's silence means, and admitted he owed Jeremy Ord an apology over his account of the company's share sales two decades ago.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Madlanga's Maumela question; Hoffman on DiData fraud; Afrimat; AI selloff</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726476</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political commentator Solly Moeng asks why the Madlanga Commission has heard Hangwani Maumela's name but has not called him, warning that commissions keep naming minions while the powerful are quietly protected. Paul Hoffman SC of Accountability Now unpacks Jason Goodall's bombshell confession over Dimension Data's Campus deal, saying it amounts to fraud and asking whether the criminal justice system will finally act. Afrimat CEO Andries van Heerden on the group's worst half ever, why cash generation held up, and the Lafarge lifeline. Plus Wall Street slides as an OpenAI revenue report hits chipmakers. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Madlanga's Maumela question; Hoffman on DiData fraud; Afrimat; AI selloff</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>15:41</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Political commentator Solly Moeng asks why the Madlanga Commission has heard Hangwani Maumela's name but has not called him, warning that commissions keep naming minions while the powerful are quietly protected. Paul Hoffman SC of Accountability Now unpacks Jason Goodall's bombshell confession over Dimension Data's Campus deal, saying it amounts to fraud and asking whether the criminal justice system will finally act. Afrimat CEO Andries van Heerden on the group's worst half ever, why cash generation held up, and the Lafarge lifeline. Plus Wall Street slides as an OpenAI revenue report hits chipmakers.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Solly Moeng: The illusion of SA’s “clean-up’” commissions”...</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726296</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview, Chris Steyn talks to political commentator Solly Moeng about concerns relating to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s future handling of the recommendations of the Madlanga Commission. “We have to be supremely naive to think that the president doesn't go back to the party that deployed him to the top leadership of the ANC and just look at who sits around the table in the party to say, guys, here's a report. What do we do about it? So the discussion that we should be having in South Africa is what happens when the people who must implement the recommendations of the commission's report are themselves a problem.” As for certain people still not being called or still avoiding appearances before the commission, Moeng says “It's very easy, in the current system, for the public to be thrown peanuts and we're like, yeah, yeah, things are happening. But the key honchos get away with a lot of stuff because of political management of the evidence that comes from the commissions. It cannot just give us peripheral evidence from the branches of a tree while the core evidence that sits in the trunk of the tree is not called because there might be some political sensitivities around such evidence.” Moeng also gives his take on the “three monsters of his own creation” being faced by suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: The illusion of SA’s “clean-up’” commissions”...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview, Chris Steyn talks to political commentator Solly Moeng about concerns relating to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s future handling of the recommendations of the Madlanga Commission. “We have to be supremely naive to think that the president doesn't go back to the party that deployed him to the top leadership of the ANC and just look at who sits around the table in the party to say, guys, here's a report. What do we do about it? So the discussion that we should be having in South Africa is what happens when the people who must implement the recommendations of the commission's report are themselves a problem.” As for certain people still not being called or still avoiding appearances before the commission, Moeng says “It's very easy, in the current system, for the public to be thrown peanuts and we're like, yeah, yeah, things are happening. But the key honchos get away with a lot of stuff because of political management of the evidence that comes from the commissions. It cannot just give us peripheral evidence from the branches of a tree while the core evidence that sits in the trunk of the tree is not called because there might be some political sensitivities around such evidence.” Moeng also gives his take on the “three monsters of his own creation” being faced by suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: CEO van Heerden unpacks Afrimat's toughest six months since listing</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726299</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afrimat has been on the JSE for 20 years and has never had a half like this one. A strong rand and Iran-driven shipping costs battered its iron ore exports, the ferrochrome smelters that bought its anthracite went quiet, and the group swung to a headline loss. Yet a day after the trading update, Andries van Heerden was not in retreat. He told Alec Hogg how the old Lafarge quarries, mocked when Afrimat bought them, had kept the group afloat, why a new iron ore mine could change the maths before the year is out, and why he would say no more about the cement talks for fear of straying into insider information. He also faced the question every shareholder was asking: is this the bottom? His answer was more honest than comforting. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: CEO van Heerden unpacks Afrimat's toughest six months since listing</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>28:17</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Afrimat has been on the JSE for 20 years and has never had a half like this one. A strong rand and Iran-driven shipping costs battered its iron ore exports, the ferrochrome smelters that bought its anthracite went quiet, and the group swung to a headline loss. Yet a day after the trading update, Andries van Heerden was not in retreat. He told Alec Hogg how the old Lafarge quarries, mocked when Afrimat bought them, had kept the group afloat, why a new iron ore mine could change the maths before the year is out, and why he would say no more about the cement talks for fear of straying into insider information. He also faced the question every shareholder was asking: is this the bottom? His answer was more honest than comforting.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>How to hold local government accountable | Paul Smith</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726199</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview Paul Smith, the Head of Local Governance at Kagiso Trust, talks to Chris Steyn about the launch of the #StartWhereYouAre Playbook, the anchor tool of its nationwide #StartWhereYouAre active citizenship and voter education campaign leading up to the 2026 Local Government Elections. He describes how the playbook can be a tool for shifting the relationship between citizens and their government from passive acceptance to active engagement. The practical guide shows South Africans exactly how to move from wanting to participate to exactly what they can do. The playbook uses a comic-strip format with relatable characters and everyday scenarios to demonstrate the citizen action cycle: Notice → Understand → Report → Organise → Follow up.”We have to think carefully about how we sever the incestuous relationship between administration and politics. We have to break the link between those who have got to deliver and those who have to do oversight… Once we have a government in place, it's no longer worth moaning. It's about how we work with that government and start creating the future we desire as a collective.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>How to hold local government accountable | Paul Smith</itunes:title>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>17:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview Paul Smith, the Head of Local Governance at Kagiso Trust, talks to Chris Steyn about the launch of the #StartWhereYouAre Playbook, the anchor tool of its nationwide #StartWhereYouAre active citizenship and voter education campaign leading up to the 2026 Local Government Elections. He describes how the playbook can be a tool for shifting the relationship between citizens and their government from passive acceptance to active engagement. The practical guide shows South Africans exactly how to move from wanting to participate to exactly what they can do. The playbook uses a comic-strip format with relatable characters and everyday scenarios to demonstrate the citizen action cycle: Notice → Understand → Report → Organise → Follow up.”We have to think carefully about how we sever the incestuous relationship between administration and politics. We have to break the link between those who have got to deliver and those who have to do oversight… Once we have a government in place, it's no longer worth moaning. It's about how we work with that government and start creating the future we desire as a collective.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: DiData Campus confession, SA's crime rot, SAPS budget, Viljoen on JSE delisting wave</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1726016</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the Campus Six broke ranks this week, and David Shapiro said it was only ever a matter of time. On BN Daybreak, he unpacked Jason Goodall's admission in the R1.4bn Didata property saga and asked who would carry the can now; the four executives Goodall named deny wrongdoing. Safe Citizen's Jonathan Deal argued that South Africa takes its standards from the very top. Police committee chair Ian Cameron said SAPS had spent its budget while reaching barely half its targets, and should not be handed more money. Kagiso Trust's Paul Smith set out how voters could hold councils to account after 4 November, and Piet Viljoen explained why cheap local shares could pay off even if nothing changed. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: DiData Campus confession, SA's crime rot, SAPS budget, Viljoen on JSE delisting wave</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>19:38</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of the Campus Six broke ranks this week, and David Shapiro said it was only ever a matter of time. On BN Daybreak, he unpacked Jason Goodall's admission in the R1.4bn Didata property saga and asked who would carry the can now; the four executives Goodall named deny wrongdoing. Safe Citizen's Jonathan Deal argued that South Africa takes its standards from the very top. Police committee chair Ian Cameron said SAPS had spent its budget while reaching barely half its targets, and should not be handed more money. Kagiso Trust's Paul Smith set out how voters could hold councils to account after 4 November, and Piet Viljoen explained why cheap local shares could pay off even if nothing changed.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Campus Six become five - David Shapiro unpacks the Didata confession</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1725975</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two years, the Dimension Data executives known as the Campus Six insisted they had done nothing wrong. Now one of them has signed a statement saying otherwise. Former Didata and NTT chief executive Jason Goodall admitted to being secretly on the buying side of the R1.4bn sale of The Campus in Bryanston while advising NTT on the selling side, named four former colleagues, and agreed to pay NTT about R208m. Those he named deny wrongdoing and are awaiting an appeal ruling. David Shapiro, who went to school with the Ord brothers and has watched Didata since its 1980s heyday, told Alec Hogg why he believed someone in the group was always going to crack, where he thought the case goes now, and why the damage may reach well beyond the boardroom. Alec recalled the day Jeremy Ord gave him the hairdryer treatment. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Campus Six become five - David Shapiro unpacks the Didata confession</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>26:41</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For two years, the Dimension Data executives known as the Campus Six insisted they had done nothing wrong. Now one of them has signed a statement saying otherwise. Former Didata and NTT chief executive Jason Goodall admitted to being secretly on the buying side of the R1.4bn sale of The Campus in Bryanston while advising NTT on the selling side, named four former colleagues, and agreed to pay NTT about R208m. Those he named deny wrongdoing and are awaiting an appeal ruling. David Shapiro, who went to school with the Ord brothers and has watched Didata since its 1980s heyday, told Alec Hogg why he believed someone in the group was always going to crack, where he thought the case goes now, and why the damage may reach well beyond the boardroom. Alec recalled the day Jeremy Ord gave him the hairdryer treatment.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Jonathan Deal: Follow the money to the top…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1725823</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal expresses concern that - despite the scale of revelations at the Madlanga Commission - certain people “may be protected by people at the top in terms of what they have done and how much the public will get to know about that.” He charges: “In February this year, President (Cyril) Ramaphosa said that organised crime poses the most immediate threat to our democracy. Yet, it appears to me that it is the people at the top of our country who are setting the bar on organised crime. And so when the world asks what is going on in South Africa, I don't think that the investigation should be starting in a tavern, I think it should be starting at the highest levels of government…” Deal warns: “When the people at the top are implicated in lying, stealing, cheating, murdering, and for covering for each other and protecting each other, the nation takes its lesson from that standard…People in high positions all around the world do the most revolting things. But in South Africa, it just seems to be at a scale that is not equal to anywhere else.” Meanwhile, he urges immediate action on the commission’s interim reports. “Let's follow the money upwards to the top, clean the top first.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Jonathan Deal: Follow the money to the top…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>19:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal expresses concern that - despite the scale of revelations at the Madlanga Commission - certain people “may be protected by people at the top in terms of what they have done and how much the public will get to know about that.” He charges: “In February this year, President (Cyril) Ramaphosa said that organised crime poses the most immediate threat to our democracy. Yet, it appears to me that it is the people at the top of our country who are setting the bar on organised crime. And so when the world asks what is going on in South Africa, I don't think that the investigation should be starting in a tavern, I think it should be starting at the highest levels of government…” Deal warns: “When the people at the top are implicated in lying, stealing, cheating, murdering, and for covering for each other and protecting each other, the nation takes its lesson from that standard…People in high positions all around the world do the most revolting things. But in South Africa, it just seems to be at a scale that is not equal to anywhere else.” Meanwhile, he urges immediate action on the commission’s interim reports. “Let's follow the money upwards to the top, clean the top first.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Sex offenders register still hidden; Joburg's 18-year red tape; Viljoen on SA</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1725602</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the National Sex Offenders Register still not public? Parliament's police committee chair Ian Cameron tells Chris Steyn he sees no urgency from government, and that a random sample of just ten offenders turned up 113 rape convictions, 12 murders and 67 life sentences. MOVE SA's Rali Mampeule says Johannesburg now takes seven years to approve a development, one shopping centre took 18, and wants the private sector to step in. Value investor Piet Viljoen tells Alec Hogg the delisting wave shows South Africa is bumping along the bottom. Plus Wall Street's record close. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Sex offenders register still hidden; Joburg's 18-year red tape; Viljoen on SA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>12:30</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why is the National Sex Offenders Register still not public? Parliament's police committee chair Ian Cameron tells Chris Steyn he sees no urgency from government, and that a random sample of just ten offenders turned up 113 rape convictions, 12 murders and 67 life sentences. MOVE SA's Rali Mampeule says Johannesburg now takes seven years to approve a development, one shopping centre took 18, and wants the private sector to step in. Value investor Piet Viljoen tells Alec Hogg the delisting wave shows South Africa is bumping along the bottom. Plus Wall Street's record close.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Piet Viljoen says smart money is buying South Africa</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1725482</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two big JSE companies had received buyout offers in under a month, one of them listed for 62 years, and value investor Piet Viljoen said both deals undervalued the businesses on a ten-year view. He also expected most shareholders to take the money anyway. A day after Sanlam's R505-a-share offer for the rest of Santam, and weeks after India's Solar Industries moved on Omnia, Viljoen told Alec Hogg why insiders and foreign buyers were seeing value that local investors kept missing, and what the delisting wave said about where the market sat in its cycle. He took on the Reg 28 offshore debate, BEE and the 4 November elections, and held his ground when Alec challenged him on MK, before turning to Wall Street, where he argued that a handful of AI stocks were masking real damage beneath record highs as US bond yields climbed to levels last seen in 2002. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Piet Viljoen says smart money is buying South Africa</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>25:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two big JSE companies had received buyout offers in under a month, one of them listed for 62 years, and value investor Piet Viljoen said both deals undervalued the businesses on a ten-year view. He also expected most shareholders to take the money anyway. A day after Sanlam's R505-a-share offer for the rest of Santam, and weeks after India's Solar Industries moved on Omnia, Viljoen told Alec Hogg why insiders and foreign buyers were seeing value that local investors kept missing, and what the delisting wave said about where the market sat in its cycle. He took on the Reg 28 offshore debate, BEE and the 4 November elections, and held his ground when Alec challenged him on MK, before turning to Wall Street, where he argued that a handful of AI stocks were masking real damage beneath record highs as US bond yields climbed to levels last seen in 2002.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>“Fearless” politics to rid SA of the cadres &amp; the comrades</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1725397</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CEO of the South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund and President of the new political party, MOVE SA, Rali Mampeule, has joined the hotly-contested race for Mayor of the City of Johannesburg. In this interview with Chris Steyn, he expresses confidence that he can duplicate in the public sector what he has achieved in the private sector. “In the last six years, through my fund, The South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund, we have delivered more than 68,000 land housing opportunities. …Let's compare that with what the mayor of Ekurhuleni has done in the last five years. I don't think you can match that…We've delivered eleven thousand six hundred and forty jobs through the SAHIF Fund (and) through my investment in a company called MetroFibre, which I bought from Patrice Motsepe, we have connected more than 500,000 households with fast Internet... We've taken more than 100,000 kids to school through the Mampeule Foundation…So we've done it - and we think we can do it better with a better budget from the public sector.” Mampeule advocates a brand of “fearless politics” to rid South Africa of the cadres and the comrades: “And we can go and dance with them in court. We are not scared of them. We're gonna fire the cadre deployees that don't know what they are doing.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>“Fearless” politics to rid SA of the cadres &amp; the comrades</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>17:59</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The CEO of the South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund and President of the new political party, MOVE SA, Rali Mampeule, has joined the hotly-contested race for Mayor of the City of Johannesburg. In this interview with Chris Steyn, he expresses confidence that he can duplicate in the public sector what he has achieved in the private sector. “In the last six years, through my fund, The South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund, we have delivered more than 68,000 land housing opportunities. …Let's compare that with what the mayor of Ekurhuleni has done in the last five years. I don't think you can match that…We've delivered eleven thousand six hundred and forty jobs through the SAHIF Fund (and) through my investment in a company called MetroFibre, which I bought from Patrice Motsepe, we have connected more than 500,000 households with fast Internet... We've taken more than 100,000 kids to school through the Mampeule Foundation…So we've done it - and we think we can do it better with a better budget from the public sector.” Mampeule advocates a brand of “fearless politics” to rid South Africa of the cadres and the comrades: “And we can go and dance with them in court. We are not scared of them. We're gonna fire the cadre deployees that don't know what they are doing.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ian Cameron: &quot;The deep, dark pit of underworld mess&quot;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, reveals details of his 30-day campaign to expose convicted sexual offenders. “I've decided that if they won't make the National Register for Sex Offenders public, then we'll start releasing the names and the faces of people.” Just one of those, Nkosinathi Phakathi, was convicted of ninety counts of rape. Reacting to news that a close relative of a sacked deputy Crime Intelligence chief General Feroz Khan, was gunned down on the R21 in Boksburg last night, Cameron says: “I think something that needs to be noted from this - and a lot of the previous bloodshed that has been seen - whether allegedly targeted against someone like Khan or anyone else for that matter that has been mentioned or brought to testify at the Madlanga Commission - shows us what a deep dark pit of underworld mess this whole thing is.” As for former Police Minister Bheki Cele possibly facing criminal charges relating to his relationship with tenderpreneur Cat Matlala, he says: “A lot of the mess that we're currently in happened during the tenure of Cele as the Minister of Police. And there's no secret that a lot of senior positions, even mid-management positions in the South African Police Service, were later given to certain individuals that Mr Cele…felt obliged to arrange jobs for because he knew he wasn't going to return as minister.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Ian Cameron: &quot;The deep, dark pit of underworld mess&quot;</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, reveals details of his 30-day campaign to expose convicted sexual offenders. “I've decided that if they won't make the National Register for Sex Offenders public, then we'll start releasing the names and the faces of people.” Just one of those, Nkosinathi Phakathi, was convicted of ninety counts of rape. Reacting to news that a close relative of a sacked deputy Crime Intelligence chief General Feroz Khan, was gunned down on the R21 in Boksburg last night, Cameron says: “I think something that needs to be noted from this - and a lot of the previous bloodshed that has been seen - whether allegedly targeted against someone like Khan or anyone else for that matter that has been mentioned or brought to testify at the Madlanga Commission - shows us what a deep dark pit of underworld mess this whole thing is.” As for former Police Minister Bheki Cele possibly facing criminal charges relating to his relationship with tenderpreneur Cat Matlala, he says: “A lot of the mess that we're currently in happened during the tenure of Cele as the Minister of Police. And there's no secret that a lot of senior positions, even mid-management positions in the South African Police Service, were later given to certain individuals that Mr Cele…felt obliged to arrange jobs for because he knew he wasn't going to return as minister.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>FW de Klerk Foundation says it does not attack governments after Van der Rheede exit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FW de Klerk Foundation says it is not a platform to attack governments, nor is it a platform to "lobby for certain groups internationally." That follows the departure of its executive director, Christo van der Rheede, after he called US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's decision to impose visa restrictions on a select group of South Africans "a profound strategic blunder" those risks handing the ANC an election gift. In an interview with Biznews, the foundation's director, Coetzee Bester, said he had a very good working relationship with Van der Rheede and that the resignation came as a bit of a shock to the board. He described the split as a difference in methodology rather than policy. Bester said the foundation will not address many international positions because they are not its objective, and it does not try to create or break leaders. It focuses on reconciliation and peace globally, with a very strong stance on nuclear weapons, and on constitutional reform and maintenance at home, so that the constitution is known, used and respected. Bester said the board will work on a new strategy for the foundation, and the finished plan will be announced on 2 February, the anniversary of former President De Klerk’s unbanning of the ANC. A new executive director will only be sough after that. – Linda van Tilburg ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>FW de Klerk Foundation says it does not attack governments after Van der Rheede exit</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>21:20</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The FW de Klerk Foundation says it is not a platform to attack governments, nor is it a platform to "lobby for certain groups internationally." That follows the departure of its executive director, Christo van der Rheede, after he called US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's decision to impose visa restrictions on a select group of South Africans "a profound strategic blunder" those risks handing the ANC an election gift. In an interview with Biznews, the foundation's director, Coetzee Bester, said he had a very good working relationship with Van der Rheede and that the resignation came as a bit of a shock to the board. He described the split as a difference in methodology rather than policy. Bester said the foundation will not address many international positions because they are not its objective, and it does not try to create or break leaders. It focuses on reconciliation and peace globally, with a very strong stance on nuclear weapons, and on constitutional reform and maintenance at home, so that the constitution is known, used and respected. Bester said the board will work on a new strategy for the foundation, and the finished plan will be announced on 2 February, the anniversary of former President De Klerk’s unbanning of the ANC. A new executive director will only be sough after that. – Linda van Tilburg]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Dirco's embassy neglect, 'privatisation by stealth', Revolut's big banking ambitions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asbestos is still sitting in South Africa's embassy building in The Hague, and according to the DA's Ryan Smith, nothing has moved on the chancery. Smith told Linda van Tilburg that DIRCO was not being transparent, that UK public representatives such as Lord Peter Hain could help get answers, and that money meant for embassy buildings was being lost to party politics, citing an estimated R1.4 billion in aid to Cuba. Alec Hogg explained why nine gigawatts of rooftop solar, more than three times what the state's renewables programme delivered, amounts to privatisation by stealth. The FW de Klerk Foundation's Coetzee Bester spoke about the early departure of Christo van der Rheede after his criticism of US visa restrictions, calling it a difference in methodology rather than policy. Reuters explained why Revolut, now valued at $115 billion and seeking a South African banking licence, is giving bank bosses sleepless nights, and wrapped up a record close for the Nasdaq. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Dirco's embassy neglect, 'privatisation by stealth', Revolut's big banking ambitions</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>17:01</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Asbestos is still sitting in South Africa's embassy building in The Hague, and according to the DA's Ryan Smith, nothing has moved on the chancery. Smith told Linda van Tilburg that DIRCO was not being transparent, that UK public representatives such as Lord Peter Hain could help get answers, and that money meant for embassy buildings was being lost to party politics, citing an estimated R1.4 billion in aid to Cuba. Alec Hogg explained why nine gigawatts of rooftop solar, more than three times what the state's renewables programme delivered, amounts to privatisation by stealth. The FW de Klerk Foundation's Coetzee Bester spoke about the early departure of Christo van der Rheede after his criticism of US visa restrictions, calling it a difference in methodology rather than policy. Reuters explained why Revolut, now valued at $115 billion and seeking a South African banking licence, is giving bank bosses sleepless nights, and wrapped up a record close for the Nasdaq.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>DA weighs British help in getting answers on South Africa House | Ryan Smith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Alliance is considering seeking help from British political parties as it tries to get answers about the costly renovation of South Africa House in London. Ryan Smith, the DA's spokesperson for international relations and cooperation, told Biznews in an interview that key information remains difficult to obtain despite a series of parliamentary questions to Minister Ronald Lamola. South Africa was closed for renovations earlier this year without any public announcement, after years of neglect of the iconic building on Trafalgar Square. Lord Peter Hain has described the neglect as "frankly disturbing and shameful." Embassy staff have now returned and the work on the exterior appears to be complete, but DIRCO is not forthcoming about what is happening inside the building and when it will be finished. Smith says DIRCO has put the cost at around R170 million, more than double the DA's earlier estimate, but has not indicated what the money is for. He says the party might now ask the UK's Liberal Democrats in London to help find out. – Linda van Tilburg ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>DA weighs British help in getting answers on South Africa House | Ryan Smith</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>14:45</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Democratic Alliance is considering seeking help from British political parties as it tries to get answers about the costly renovation of South Africa House in London. Ryan Smith, the DA's spokesperson for international relations and cooperation, told Biznews in an interview that key information remains difficult to obtain despite a series of parliamentary questions to Minister Ronald Lamola. South Africa was closed for renovations earlier this year without any public announcement, after years of neglect of the iconic building on Trafalgar Square. Lord Peter Hain has described the neglect as "frankly disturbing and shameful." Embassy staff have now returned and the work on the exterior appears to be complete, but DIRCO is not forthcoming about what is happening inside the building and when it will be finished. Smith says DIRCO has put the cost at around R170 million, more than double the DA's earlier estimate, but has not indicated what the money is for. He says the party might now ask the UK's Liberal Democrats in London to help find out. – Linda van Tilburg]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Cutting through the noise: Alec Hogg's five signals on South Africa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BizNews editor Alec Hogg's count, South Africans have bolted nine gigawatts of solar onto their roofs, more than three times what the state's own renewables programme has delivered. There are more than three private security guards for every police officer. And on the road past Richards Bay, he and his wife clocked five kilometres of trucks waiting to get into the harbour. In the opening keynote of the 19th International Business Conference at Arabella, Alec told around 300 business academics that the noise around South Africa hides a clear signal: the collapse of an ideology driven by people who were passionate but, in his words, economically ignorant. He set out five signals, from privatisation by stealth and regulators under strain to coalition politics, the collapsing cost of intelligence and a fragmenting world order, and explained why they leave him more excited about the country, not less. He closed with what Socrates, Warren Buffett and the late Bill Lynch taught him about acting when you will never have the full picture. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Cutting through the noise: Alec Hogg's five signals on South Africa</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>41:33</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[By BizNews editor Alec Hogg's count, South Africans have bolted nine gigawatts of solar onto their roofs, more than three times what the state's own renewables programme has delivered. There are more than three private security guards for every police officer. And on the road past Richards Bay, he and his wife clocked five kilometres of trucks waiting to get into the harbour. In the opening keynote of the 19th International Business Conference at Arabella, Alec told around 300 business academics that the noise around South Africa hides a clear signal: the collapse of an ideology driven by people who were passionate but, in his words, economically ignorant. He set out five signals, from privatisation by stealth and regulators under strain to coalition politics, the collapsing cost of intelligence and a fragmenting world order, and explained why they leave him more excited about the country, not less. He closed with what Socrates, Warren Buffett and the late Bill Lynch taught him about acting when you will never have the full picture.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: MTN's US terror case; Dirco hides R170m bill; Macpherson on KZN; Wall Street rallies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six US anti-terrorism lawsuits against MTN have moved into discovery, and Simone Heradien warns the claims - that MTN paid protection money to tower operators in Iran, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - could reach Cyril Ramaphosa, who chaired the group at the time, and feed Donald Trump's executive order on South Africa. The DA's Ryan Smith tells Linda van Tilburg that Dirco won't say what R170 million of South Africa House renovations will buy. Dean Macpherson gives Alec Hogg his read on KZN's coalition maths. Plus Wall Street's rally, and Nike's slide. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: MTN's US terror case; Dirco hides R170m bill; Macpherson on KZN; Wall Street rallies</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>13:14</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Six US anti-terrorism lawsuits against MTN have moved into discovery, and Simone Heradien warns the claims - that MTN paid protection money to tower operators in Iran, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - could reach Cyril Ramaphosa, who chaired the group at the time, and feed Donald Trump's executive order on South Africa. The DA's Ryan Smith tells Linda van Tilburg that Dirco won't say what R170 million of South Africa House renovations will buy. Dean Macpherson gives Alec Hogg his read on KZN's coalition maths. Plus Wall Street's rally, and Nike's slide.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show: Strip-club HQ of Sandton SAPS, CR’s Meyer move, and MTN “terror funding” case…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest NdB Sunday Show, gender activist and former president of the Pretoria Diplomatic Association, Simone Heradien, talks to Chris Steyn about The Grand - also known as the unofficial HQ of the Sandton Police - where suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya was arrested on rape and sexual grooming charges. The Grand is also at the centre of an investigation into a former Sandton police station commander in relation to a photograph showing a stripper in what appears to be a police uniform. On the international relations front, Heradien explains why she thinks President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of Roelf Meyer’s performance was a great diplomatic move, but also warns of implications for South Africa - and the president personally - from the “terror-funding” case against MTN that has now moved to the discovery phase in the US. Heradien, once a dedicated African National Congress (ANC) activist - who worked for Willie Hofmeyer - says she now finds herself in “political wilderness” and while “the heart is still there”, she cannot be voting for “what they've brought the country to”. This as a warrant of arrest was issued - but stayed - for former Defence Minister Nosisiwe Mapisa-Nqakula - after she failed to make another appearance at her corruption trial. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show: Strip-club HQ of Sandton SAPS, CR’s Meyer move, and MTN “terror funding” case…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>21:38</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the latest NdB Sunday Show, gender activist and former president of the Pretoria Diplomatic Association, Simone Heradien, talks to Chris Steyn about The Grand - also known as the unofficial HQ of the Sandton Police - where suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya was arrested on rape and sexual grooming charges. The Grand is also at the centre of an investigation into a former Sandton police station commander in relation to a photograph showing a stripper in what appears to be a police uniform. On the international relations front, Heradien explains why she thinks President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of Roelf Meyer’s performance was a great diplomatic move, but also warns of implications for South Africa - and the president personally - from the “terror-funding” case against MTN that has now moved to the discovery phase in the US. Heradien, once a dedicated African National Congress (ANC) activist - who worked for Willie Hofmeyer - says she now finds herself in “political wilderness” and while “the heart is still there”, she cannot be voting for “what they've brought the country to”. This as a warrant of arrest was issued - but stayed - for former Defence Minister Nosisiwe Mapisa-Nqakula - after she failed to make another appearance at her corruption trial.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Macpherson on GNU, the battle for Durban and trillion-rand infrastructure logjam</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ipsos had MK on 55% in eThekwini and the DA on 17%. Dean Macpherson told Alec Hogg he did not trust those numbers, and said the DA would end up either the largest party in Durban or the largest party in its governing coalition. The DA's KwaZulu-Natal chairperson walked through a little-known rule that, in his telling, leaves only two realistic contenders for Durban's mayoralty, and explained why a single councillor could decide who runs many KZN councils. Wearing his ministerial hat, he argued that the trillion rand set aside for infrastructure was not short of money but stuck in procurement, with only one in six big tenders awarded. He described how the Independent Development Trust went from an entity he considered shutting down to tripling its cash in a year, why the state was now selling land it did not need, and how he squared administering the Expropriation Act with his own party's court challenge against it. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Macpherson on GNU, the battle for Durban and trillion-rand infrastructure logjam</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ipsos had MK on 55% in eThekwini and the DA on 17%. Dean Macpherson told Alec Hogg he did not trust those numbers, and said the DA would end up either the largest party in Durban or the largest party in its governing coalition. The DA's KwaZulu-Natal chairperson walked through a little-known rule that, in his telling, leaves only two realistic contenders for Durban's mayoralty, and explained why a single councillor could decide who runs many KZN councils. Wearing his ministerial hat, he argued that the trillion rand set aside for infrastructure was not short of money but stuck in procurement, with only one in six big tenders awarded. He described how the Independent Development Trust went from an entity he considered shutting down to tripling its cash in a year, why the state was now selling land it did not need, and how he squared administering the Expropriation Act with his own party's court challenge against it.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Macpherson on the trillion-rand logjam; Malema appeal; AfriForum on GBV cold cases</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson tells BizNews the infrastructure debate is no longer about money but procurement: of 2,800 big tenders published in a year, only one in six was awarded, and 90% of failures trace to weak feasibility work. His department now spends R600 million over three years preparing projects itself. A political commentator reviews the week: commission hearings, Ramaphosa's silence, and Julius Malema's leave to appeal his firearm conviction. AfriForum's Barry Bateman tells Chris Steyn police keep saying GBV suspects were "circulated" while cold cases go nowhere. Plus Wall Street edges up as October Fed hike odds collapse. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Macpherson on the trillion-rand logjam; Malema appeal; AfriForum on GBV cold cases</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>12:24</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson tells BizNews the infrastructure debate is no longer about money but procurement: of 2,800 big tenders published in a year, only one in six was awarded, and 90% of failures trace to weak feasibility work. His department now spends R600 million over three years preparing projects itself. A political commentator reviews the week: commission hearings, Ramaphosa's silence, and Julius Malema's leave to appeal his firearm conviction. AfriForum's Barry Bateman tells Chris Steyn police keep saying GBV suspects were "circulated" while cold cases go nowhere. Plus Wall Street edges up as October Fed hike odds collapse.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Solly Moeng: “It’s the list of devils”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If we're going to look for angels in this stuff, we're not going to find angels. It's the LEAST of the devils, it's WHOM do we choose, what is the thing to focus on, the least worst thing to focus on.” These are the words of political commentator Solly Moeng in his latest chat with Chris Steyn. Moeng slams Cyril Ramaphosa for “forgetting” that he is President. He also comments on the latest testimony before the Madlanga Commission where taxi boss Joe Sibanyoni showed clearly that he is “used to being feared’; Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) CIC Julius Malema’s being granted leave to appeal his firearms discharge conviction and sentence as well as his belated apology to a judge; the bail application of suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya who was arrested for alleged sexual offences; and disgraced MP Fadiel Adams going to the High Court to challenge the withdrawal of charges against National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola. Moeng also gives his take on the latest deterioration in US-SA relations and says those who call for US Ambassador Brent Leo Bozell III to be kicked out are being “childish”. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: “It’s the list of devils”</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>13:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[“If we're going to look for angels in this stuff, we're not going to find angels. It's the LEAST of the devils, it's WHOM do we choose, what is the thing to focus on, the least worst thing to focus on.” These are the words of political commentator Solly Moeng in his latest chat with Chris Steyn. Moeng slams Cyril Ramaphosa for “forgetting” that he is President. He also comments on the latest testimony before the Madlanga Commission where taxi boss Joe Sibanyoni showed clearly that he is “used to being feared’; Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) CIC Julius Malema’s being granted leave to appeal his firearms discharge conviction and sentence as well as his belated apology to a judge; the bail application of suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya who was arrested for alleged sexual offences; and disgraced MP Fadiel Adams going to the High Court to challenge the withdrawal of charges against National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola. Moeng also gives his take on the latest deterioration in US-SA relations and says those who call for US Ambassador Brent Leo Bozell III to be kicked out are being “childish”.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: What a very public fall taught Rael Levitt, and how he's come back from it</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2011, Rael Levitt brought the hammer down on Quoin Rock, Dave King's Stellenbosch wine estate. Within months, Auction Alliance, the business he had spent 20 years building, was gone. In studio with Alec Hogg, Levitt went back over the auction that undid him: the vendor bidder he placed in the crowd, the lie he told billionaire bidder Wendy Appelbaum, and the attempted fix after the event that he admitted made it worse. He described years of investigations, a Consumer Commission ruling that was later overturned, and legal advice to stay silent that he now believes was wrong. Then came the comeback: an MBA in Los Angeles, a run-down warehouse in Epping, and one investor whose backing changed how the banks saw him. Alec put the question his book, It Takes a Tsunami, invites: is it a confession, or a defence? Levitt gave his answer, and told his 40-year-old self what he wished he had known. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: What a very public fall taught Rael Levitt, and how he's come back from it</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>1:03:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In December 2011, Rael Levitt brought the hammer down on Quoin Rock, Dave King's Stellenbosch wine estate. Within months, Auction Alliance, the business he had spent 20 years building, was gone. In studio with Alec Hogg, Levitt went back over the auction that undid him: the vendor bidder he placed in the crowd, the lie he told billionaire bidder Wendy Appelbaum, and the attempted fix after the event that he admitted made it worse. He described years of investigations, a Consumer Commission ruling that was later overturned, and legal advice to stay silent that he now believes was wrong. Then came the comeback: an MBA in Los Angeles, a run-down warehouse in Epping, and one investor whose backing changed how the banks saw him. Alec put the question his book, It Takes a Tsunami, invites: is it a confession, or a defence? Levitt gave his answer, and told his 40-year-old self what he wished he had known.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>GBV suspects on the run | Barry Bateman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Private Prosecution Unit of AfriForum has taken up a number of cold cases in which the police have failed to trace or arrest or re-arrest known suspects. In this interview with Chris Steyn, the unit’s Barry Bateman, reveals details of some of those cases as well as the responses received from the Acting National Police Commissioner to questions from Advocate Gerrie Nel. In one of these cases, AfriForum points out that “for five years now, you've got a man who raped a woman, came back a week later and tried to murder her, and he's been on the run since then. This is somebody who I would say has the potential to continue doing that…” Responding to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s GBV 60-day case audit order, Bateman says with reference to the cases they have taken on: “We've put together the list. We've given it to the police, and their response on each one is, we've circulated and it's gone to the Tracing Team. It doesn't cut it. If that's the response that the SAPS or the authorities are gonna give to the President, well then we're not gonna change anything.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>GBV suspects on the run | Barry Bateman</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>19:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Private Prosecution Unit of AfriForum has taken up a number of cold cases in which the police have failed to trace or arrest or re-arrest known suspects. In this interview with Chris Steyn, the unit’s Barry Bateman, reveals details of some of those cases as well as the responses received from the Acting National Police Commissioner to questions from Advocate Gerrie Nel. In one of these cases, AfriForum points out that “for five years now, you've got a man who raped a woman, came back a week later and tried to murder her, and he's been on the run since then. This is somebody who I would say has the potential to continue doing that…” Responding to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s GBV 60-day case audit order, Bateman says with reference to the cases they have taken on: “We've put together the list. We've given it to the police, and their response on each one is, we've circulated and it's gone to the Tracing Team. It doesn't cut it. If that's the response that the SAPS or the authorities are gonna give to the President, well then we're not gonna change anything.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: McKenzie's LGE forecast, Cameron on Cyril's GBV lies, Land Bank's empty pot, SA Sport</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gayton McKenzie told Alec Hogg he had never been wrong with a prediction, then put the DA at 38% in Cape Town and named the councils he expected the PA to win outright. The real obstacle in Joburg, he said, was not the DA but Helen Zille, though he still left the door open to working with her. The morning after Ramaphosa's address on gender-based violence, Ian Cameron told Chris Steyn the president had lied, and described what he did not find on unannounced visits to Kempton Park and Tembisa police stations. Grain farmer David Lupafya walked through the sums that separate a fundable farm from an unfundable one, and why the Land Bank's phone call weeks before planting left him on the wrong side of that line. McKenzie then put a three-week clock on the government guarantee he said South Africa's Formula One return depended on, and named the circuit he wanted first. Reuters rounded off the show from Wall Street, where a softer-than-expected inflation reading cooled bets on an October Fed rate hike and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed out a second straight quarter of gains. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: McKenzie's LGE forecast, Cameron on Cyril's GBV lies, Land Bank's empty pot, SA Sport</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>17:57</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Gayton McKenzie told Alec Hogg he had never been wrong with a prediction, then put the DA at 38% in Cape Town and named the councils he expected the PA to win outright. The real obstacle in Joburg, he said, was not the DA but Helen Zille, though he still left the door open to working with her. The morning after Ramaphosa's address on gender-based violence, Ian Cameron told Chris Steyn the president had lied, and described what he did not find on unannounced visits to Kempton Park and Tembisa police stations. Grain farmer David Lupafya walked through the sums that separate a fundable farm from an unfundable one, and why the Land Bank's phone call weeks before planting left him on the wrong side of that line. McKenzie then put a three-week clock on the government guarantee he said South Africa's Formula One return depended on, and named the circuit he wanted first. Reuters rounded off the show from Wall Street, where a softer-than-expected inflation reading cooled bets on an October Fed rate hike and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed out a second straight quarter of gains.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>David Lupafya: the Land Bank backed black farmers, then pulled the rug</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Lupafya spent 25 years at AT&T, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin before coming home to grow grain on 1,300 hectares outside Potchefstroom. He did what careful farmers do: planned a season ahead and put more than R5 million of his own money down on tractors, a combine and implements, counting on the Land Bank's blended finance scheme to cover the rest. Then, weeks before planting, the phone rang. The R325 million grant pot for the year had been fully committed. He told Alec Hogg why he could not simply walk away, why conventional finance turned a fundable farm into an unfundable one, and why he could not say whether the Department of Agriculture or the Land Bank had dropped the ball. He also had a message for city dwellers who took food security for granted. With El Niño forecast for the season, the clock was already running. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>David Lupafya: the Land Bank backed black farmers, then pulled the rug</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>29:55</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[David Lupafya spent 25 years at AT&T, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin before coming home to grow grain on 1,300 hectares outside Potchefstroom. He did what careful farmers do: planned a season ahead and put more than R5 million of his own money down on tractors, a combine and implements, counting on the Land Bank's blended finance scheme to cover the rest. Then, weeks before planting, the phone rang. The R325 million grant pot for the year had been fully committed. He told Alec Hogg why he could not simply walk away, why conventional finance turned a fundable farm into an unfundable one, and why he could not say whether the Department of Agriculture or the Land Bank had dropped the ball. He also had a message for city dwellers who took food security for granted. With El Niño forecast for the season, the clock was already running.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ian Cameron - You lied blatantly, Mr President</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, has a very blunt response to President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest address to the nation in which he outlined measures to deal with gender-based violence: “The president lied”. One “blatant lie” was increased police visibility in Kempton Park where there has been a spate of femicide. Cameron describes the horrific level of disfunctionality he found on an unannounced oversight visit yesterday to the Kempton Park Police Station. He also has harsh words for Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi who had announced the lockdown. “Him and the minister are speaking about lockdown operations. They can't even lock down a police station.” Meanwhile, Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's special leave has cost taxpayers R3.2 million. “(and) he still enjoys VIP Protection...per minister they spend more or less R8 million rand annually on their VIP Protection…(which) gets nearly R900 million more per year than Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences units…That they say it is getting the relevant attention, is simply a lie.” Lastly, Cameron reveals the finding of the postmortem of Sky, the arson-detection dog found with horrific injuries in a cage at the SAPS veterinary facility. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Ian Cameron - You lied blatantly, Mr President</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>20:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, has a very blunt response to President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest address to the nation in which he outlined measures to deal with gender-based violence: “The president lied”. One “blatant lie” was increased police visibility in Kempton Park where there has been a spate of femicide. Cameron describes the horrific level of disfunctionality he found on an unannounced oversight visit yesterday to the Kempton Park Police Station. He also has harsh words for Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi who had announced the lockdown. “Him and the minister are speaking about lockdown operations. They can't even lock down a police station.” Meanwhile, Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's special leave has cost taxpayers R3.2 million. “(and) he still enjoys VIP Protection...per minister they spend more or less R8 million rand annually on their VIP Protection…(which) gets nearly R900 million more per year than Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences units…That they say it is getting the relevant attention, is simply a lie.” Lastly, Cameron reveals the finding of the postmortem of Sky, the arson-detection dog found with horrific injuries in a cage at the SAPS veterinary facility.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>McKenzie: LGEs ‘26, Zille and Jozi, GNU strength test, sports governance crisis, SA's coalition era</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gayton McKenzie said he had no time to sue Helen Zille, but plenty to say about her. Five weeks before the local government elections, the Patriotic Alliance leader and Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture gave Alec Hogg his account of the Joburg coalition deal he said the DA had broken, called the DA a younger brother of the ANC, and ran through the councils he expected the PA to win outright. He explained, with a childhood story about jelly setting under a tree, how he thought the GNU would change after 4 November. On sport, he said old legislation had tied his hands as suspensions piled up at Swimming SA and beyond, and he named the venue he wanted for South Africa's Formula One return. Then he turned to crime, and explained why he believed the Constitution itself stood in the way. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>McKenzie: LGEs ‘26, Zille and Jozi, GNU strength test, sports governance crisis, SA's coalition era</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>46:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Gayton McKenzie said he had no time to sue Helen Zille, but plenty to say about her. Five weeks before the local government elections, the Patriotic Alliance leader and Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture gave Alec Hogg his account of the Joburg coalition deal he said the DA had broken, called the DA a younger brother of the ANC, and ran through the councils he expected the PA to win outright. He explained, with a childhood story about jelly setting under a tree, how he thought the GNU would change after 4 November. On sport, he said old legislation had tied his hands as suspensions piled up at Swimming SA and beyond, and he named the venue he wanted for South Africa's Formula One return. Then he turned to crime, and explained why he believed the Constitution itself stood in the way.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Swimming SA crisis; Murder suspect vanishes; Operation Prosper fails; F1 bid; Wall St</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comrades board member Rory Steyn tells Alec Hogg that Swimming South Africa, whose top two officials are suspended by World Aquatics, needs the governance overhaul cricket went through - a majority of independent directors, with Olympian Tatjana Smith the ideal candidate. Fourteen months after their daughter's murder, her parents are still waiting: the suspect was released from a police station without bail and has vanished. The DA's Lisa Schickerling says acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has plans but no implementation, and Operation Prosper isn't prospering. Plus Neal Froneman's Cape Town F1 bid, and Anthropic's IPO prospectus. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Swimming SA crisis; Murder suspect vanishes; Operation Prosper fails; F1 bid; Wall St</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>14:40</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Comrades board member Rory Steyn tells Alec Hogg that Swimming South Africa, whose top two officials are suspended by World Aquatics, needs the governance overhaul cricket went through - a majority of independent directors, with Olympian Tatjana Smith the ideal candidate. Fourteen months after their daughter's murder, her parents are still waiting: the suspect was released from a police station without bail and has vanished. The DA's Lisa Schickerling says acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has plans but no implementation, and Operation Prosper isn't prospering. Plus Neal Froneman's Cape Town F1 bid, and Anthropic's IPO prospectus.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Rory Steyn on who really runs South African sport</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two years, Comrades runners threw out a board accused of vote-buying and steering tenders to friends, and cut ties with the provincial and national athletics bodies to run their own race. <br />
<br />
Swimming South Africa had to wait for an integrity panel in Switzerland to act. Rory Steyn, Nelson Mandela's former bodyguard and now a Comrades Marathon Association board member, told Alec Hogg why one could fix itself and the other could not, and why he believed too many of the country's sports federations were run by politicians dressed up as administrators. He went through the suspensions that have piled up since March, from SASCOC to athletics, swimming, karate and netball, set out what he would do in Gayton McKenzie's shoes, and asked why an Olympic champion had to fight her own federation for her prize money. His challenge to everyone else in South African sport: Comrades has done it, so what is stopping you? ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Rory Steyn on who really runs South African sport</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>39:03</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In two years, Comrades runners threw out a board accused of vote-buying and steering tenders to friends, and cut ties with the provincial and national athletics bodies to run their own race. 

Swimming South Africa had to wait for an integrity panel in Switzerland to act. Rory Steyn, Nelson Mandela's former bodyguard and now a Comrades Marathon Association board member, told Alec Hogg why one could fix itself and the other could not, and why he believed too many of the country's sports federations were run by politicians dressed up as administrators. He went through the suspensions that have piled up since March, from SASCOC to athletics, swimming, karate and netball, set out what he would do in Gayton McKenzie's shoes, and asked why an Olympic champion had to fight her own federation for her prize money. His challenge to everyone else in South African sport: Comrades has done it, so what is stopping you?]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Our daughter was stabbed with enough force to kill a wild bear… | Paul and Sue Sullivan</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1722766</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, two grieving parents describe their 14-month fight to bring to justice the alleged killer of their daughter Kerry Vorster. The suspect's whereabouts are a mystery after he was released, allegedly without paying bail, having no physical address and without providing a contact number. The police allegedly took four months to try to obtain the post mortem report that was delayed further by two months, apparently because of electricity supply issues and the pathologist being on maternity leave”. Although the police promised to rearrest him on receipt of the report and the prosecutor promised to subpoena him on evidence of a cell phone number placing him at the crime scene, her family have seen no such progress. Now, 14 months after the murder, they have been told the fingerprints are still to be verified, meaning - with the huge forensics backlog - this simple matching exercise could take four years. Her father charges: “The violence was such that he severed her jugular vein, her carotid artery, and penetrated her lung…he could have killed a wild boar with the power that he used with that knife….He intended to kill her. He stabbed her with force enough to kill a wild animal.” In voice recordings left on the phone of his estranged wife, the suspect claims that the victim had attacked him and had stabbed herself in the back. Listen to those recordings here. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Our daughter was stabbed with enough force to kill a wild bear… | Paul and Sue Sullivan</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>23:34</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, two grieving parents describe their 14-month fight to bring to justice the alleged killer of their daughter Kerry Vorster. The suspect's whereabouts are a mystery after he was released, allegedly without paying bail, having no physical address and without providing a contact number. The police allegedly took four months to try to obtain the post mortem report that was delayed further by two months, apparently because of electricity supply issues and the pathologist being on maternity leave”. Although the police promised to rearrest him on receipt of the report and the prosecutor promised to subpoena him on evidence of a cell phone number placing him at the crime scene, her family have seen no such progress. Now, 14 months after the murder, they have been told the fingerprints are still to be verified, meaning - with the huge forensics backlog - this simple matching exercise could take four years. Her father charges: “The violence was such that he severed her jugular vein, her carotid artery, and penetrated her lung…he could have killed a wild boar with the power that he used with that knife….He intended to kill her. He stabbed her with force enough to kill a wild animal.” In voice recordings left on the phone of his estranged wife, the suspect claims that the victim had attacked him and had stabbed herself in the back. Listen to those recordings here.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The retirement system’s unfair bet and how you can improve the outcome – Fred Van der Vyver</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1720168</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two equally responsible South Africans can do everything right, save diligently, keep their costs down, earn a decent long-term return, and still retire with very different outcomes. Fred Van der Vyver, executive head of product solutions at Old Mutual Corporate, tells BizNews the reason often comes down to nothing more than timing, whether someone retires, is retrenched, or simply starts drawing an income at the wrong point in the market cycle. Van der Vyver makes the case for a better outcome than the industry's usual fix of dialling down risk as retirement nears, arguing instead for rethinking how the investment journey itself is designed. That thinking includes a newer model called Collective Defined Contribution, which Old Mutual is set to roll out its own version of in the coming weeks. It is based on sharing risk across a group of members rather than each person carrying it alone, Van der Vyver also explains what this means if you're already retired and living with the risk of simply outliving your money. – Linda van Tilburg ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The retirement system’s unfair bet and how you can improve the outcome – Fred Van der Vyver</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>21:03</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two equally responsible South Africans can do everything right, save diligently, keep their costs down, earn a decent long-term return, and still retire with very different outcomes. Fred Van der Vyver, executive head of product solutions at Old Mutual Corporate, tells BizNews the reason often comes down to nothing more than timing, whether someone retires, is retrenched, or simply starts drawing an income at the wrong point in the market cycle. Van der Vyver makes the case for a better outcome than the industry's usual fix of dialling down risk as retirement nears, arguing instead for rethinking how the investment journey itself is designed. That thinking includes a newer model called Collective Defined Contribution, which Old Mutual is set to roll out its own version of in the coming weeks. It is based on sharing risk across a group of members rather than each person carrying it alone, Van der Vyver also explains what this means if you're already retired and living with the risk of simply outliving your money. – Linda van Tilburg]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA's mass killings crisis, intelligence in disarray, Calitz on Hormuz, fixing Joburg</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1722443</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-seven people were killed in two mass shootings in a single weekend, and the DA's Lisa Schickerling wanted to know where the police were. She told Chris Steyn why growing criminal networks had to be dismantled, and why the leadership of the private security regulator, raided by the SIU and the Hawks in a R130m training-contract probe, should have been placed on precautionary suspension to protect the process. Speaking the day after Donald Trump's 22 September address to the UN General Assembly, former Eskom grid chief Andy Calitz traced how energy infrastructure became a military target, from Ukraine's power grid to the Strait of Hormuz, and explained why the threats against Iran sent shudders down his back. Jasmine Opperman asked who was watching South Africa's spies with the Inspector-General of Intelligence suspended, and Helen Zille explained why a DA-run Joburg would look like an empty plot for months before anything rose out of the ground. Reuters rounded off with the latest from Wall Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA's mass killings crisis, intelligence in disarray, Calitz on Hormuz, fixing Joburg</itunes:title>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>17:28</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Twenty-seven people were killed in two mass shootings in a single weekend, and the DA's Lisa Schickerling wanted to know where the police were. She told Chris Steyn why growing criminal networks had to be dismantled, and why the leadership of the private security regulator, raided by the SIU and the Hawks in a R130m training-contract probe, should have been placed on precautionary suspension to protect the process. Speaking the day after Donald Trump's 22 September address to the UN General Assembly, former Eskom grid chief Andy Calitz traced how energy infrastructure became a military target, from Ukraine's power grid to the Strait of Hormuz, and explained why the threats against Iran sent shudders down his back. Jasmine Opperman asked who was watching South Africa's spies with the Inspector-General of Intelligence suspended, and Helen Zille explained why a DA-run Joburg would look like an empty plot for months before anything rose out of the ground. Reuters rounded off with the latest from Wall Street.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Criminals - NOT cops - patrol SA’s streets of fear… | Lisa Schickerling</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1722227</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview Chris Steyn and Lisa Schickerling, the Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson on Police, talk about a country in the grip of fear in the wake of mass killings, multiple murders, crime increasing in areas where the SANDF have been deployed, and suspended Deputy National Commissioner of Police General Shadrack Sibiya on rape and sexual grooming charges. “The very people that are meant to protect women are the ones that are committing these crimes…So there's no trust in the SAPS. And if you as a female can't trust to actually phone the police and know that they're gonna come and assist you, then you really are on your own…” Shickerling describes how poor service delivery has further fuelled crime with roads so bad that not even taxis can use them, forcing women to walk long lonely roads without streetlights and hemmed by tall grass. “They live in areas where there's nobody patrolling, so there's nobody in the street except for obviously the criminal elements.” Asked about remedial actions being taken by Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia, she says: “...the problem that we have is that everybody comes with these grand plans and it's wonderful, but there's no implementation.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Criminals - NOT cops - patrol SA’s streets of fear… | Lisa Schickerling</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>21:25</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview Chris Steyn and Lisa Schickerling, the Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson on Police, talk about a country in the grip of fear in the wake of mass killings, multiple murders, crime increasing in areas where the SANDF have been deployed, and suspended Deputy National Commissioner of Police General Shadrack Sibiya on rape and sexual grooming charges. “The very people that are meant to protect women are the ones that are committing these crimes…So there's no trust in the SAPS. And if you as a female can't trust to actually phone the police and know that they're gonna come and assist you, then you really are on your own…” Shickerling describes how poor service delivery has further fuelled crime with roads so bad that not even taxis can use them, forcing women to walk long lonely roads without streetlights and hemmed by tall grass. “They live in areas where there's nobody patrolling, so there's nobody in the street except for obviously the criminal elements.” Asked about remedial actions being taken by Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia, she says: “...the problem that we have is that everybody comes with these grand plans and it's wonderful, but there's no implementation.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: IS raid in Niassa; Froneman's F1 bid; Cilliers on democracy; Zille rules out ANC</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721978</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jasmine Opperman tells Chris Steyn the Islamic State's raid on a Niassa hunting camp was opportunistic resupply, not ransom: a splinter group pushed back west by security pressure, burning a communications tower, clinic and police station and taking up to 14 vehicles. Neal Froneman explains to Alec Hogg why landlocked Kyalami cannot host a modern Grand Prix and why his Swartland site can. ISS founder Jakkie Cilliers argues stability, not democracy, drives growth in the short run. Helen Zille denies any ANC talks and spells out how the DA could still lose Joburg at 40%. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: IS raid in Niassa; Froneman's F1 bid; Cilliers on democracy; Zille rules out ANC</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>16:41</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jasmine Opperman tells Chris Steyn the Islamic State's raid on a Niassa hunting camp was opportunistic resupply, not ransom: a splinter group pushed back west by security pressure, burning a communications tower, clinic and police station and taking up to 14 vehicles. Neal Froneman explains to Alec Hogg why landlocked Kyalami cannot host a modern Grand Prix and why his Swartland site can. ISS founder Jakkie Cilliers argues stability, not democracy, drives growth in the short run. Helen Zille denies any ANC talks and spells out how the DA could still lose Joburg at 40%.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Neal Froneman on his bid to bring Formula One back to South Africa</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721946</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[He turned around mines others had written off and built Sibanye-Stillwater into a global giant. Now Neal Froneman wants to bring Formula One back to South Africa, on 600 hectares of Swartland farmland rather than at Kyalami. In conversation with Alec Hogg, the Blue Mountain Racing chairman explained why he treats the R6.7bn project like a mine still in exploration, what the fallback is if Formula One says no, and why he believes a modern Grand Prix is a week-long spectacle that old circuits simply cannot host. He also tackled the question hanging over every South African bid: after the Lady R affair, what stops government's foreign policy from sinking this one too? And he made his case for why Cape Town, not the team behind it, is the winning card. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Neal Froneman on his bid to bring Formula One back to South Africa</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>43:14</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[He turned around mines others had written off and built Sibanye-Stillwater into a global giant. Now Neal Froneman wants to bring Formula One back to South Africa, on 600 hectares of Swartland farmland rather than at Kyalami. In conversation with Alec Hogg, the Blue Mountain Racing chairman explained why he treats the R6.7bn project like a mine still in exploration, what the fallback is if Formula One says no, and why he believes a modern Grand Prix is a week-long spectacle that old circuits simply cannot host. He also tackled the question hanging over every South African bid: after the Lady R affair, what stops government's foreign policy from sinking this one too? And he made his case for why Cape Town, not the team behind it, is the winning card.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Jasmine Opperman - The NdB Sunday Show: SA spy scandal: raw intelligence leaked, buried, ignored…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721925</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the latest NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn asks veteran intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman why South Africa’s intelligence agencies do not seem to intervene when they become aware of corruption and other criminal activity in official ranks. She says “the whole national analysis capacity has been diluted to the extent that it's non-existent” - and even if that should be available, such intelligence would likely just be pushed in a direction or ignored…The ANC has a laager mentality…They close ranks like it happens with ZanuPF, like it happens with Frelimo. And what happens in that laager, stays within that laager.” As for corrupt and sexually deviant officials being vulnerable to recruitment from foreign intelligence agencies, Opperman says: “Already recruited...if you start talking about the leaking of intelligence, I would love to know how many of them…that raw intelligence reports are leaking at the speed of light, that it's being given to Iran to BRICS countries…this is a probability”. Another “red light” is the Presidency’s grip on intelligence. “If you…see how many of those issues are being run directly from the Presidency. That's a serious issue. It's not right. Something is wrong here: a president cannot run the country out of this office on all these issues.” Opperman also gives an update on the ransom demand for the South African and others kidnapped by ISIS in Mozambique, as well as the 11 Iran-SA-Hamas crypto wallets. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Jasmine Opperman - The NdB Sunday Show: SA spy scandal: raw intelligence leaked, buried, ignored…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>27:47</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[On the latest NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn asks veteran intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman why South Africa’s intelligence agencies do not seem to intervene when they become aware of corruption and other criminal activity in official ranks. She says “the whole national analysis capacity has been diluted to the extent that it's non-existent” - and even if that should be available, such intelligence would likely just be pushed in a direction or ignored…The ANC has a laager mentality…They close ranks like it happens with ZanuPF, like it happens with Frelimo. And what happens in that laager, stays within that laager.” As for corrupt and sexually deviant officials being vulnerable to recruitment from foreign intelligence agencies, Opperman says: “Already recruited...if you start talking about the leaking of intelligence, I would love to know how many of them…that raw intelligence reports are leaking at the speed of light, that it's being given to Iran to BRICS countries…this is a probability”. Another “red light” is the Presidency’s grip on intelligence. “If you…see how many of those issues are being run directly from the Presidency. That's a serious issue. It's not right. Something is wrong here: a president cannot run the country out of this office on all these issues.” Opperman also gives an update on the ransom demand for the South African and others kidnapped by ISIS in Mozambique, as well as the 11 Iran-SA-Hamas crypto wallets.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Helen Zille on Joburg, coalitions and the price of power</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[She said she hadn't exchanged a single word with the ANC about a post-election deal. Helen Zille then told Alec Hogg who she thought was talking to them. The DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate took on Corné Mulder's claim of a backdoor ANC pact and compared Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance to the early 20th-century American Mafia. She also set out the coalition arithmetic she believes could shut the DA out of Joburg even at 40%. She described Joburg's budget as a fiscal fiction and gave a detailed account of how, in her telling, Julius Malema steered Herman Mashaba's mayoralty one decision at a time. She named the one condition any coalition partner would have to accept, and explained how the DA might still govern eThekwini if MK falls short of a majority. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Helen Zille on Joburg, coalitions and the price of power</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>34:21</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[She said she hadn't exchanged a single word with the ANC about a post-election deal. Helen Zille then told Alec Hogg who she thought was talking to them. The DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate took on Corné Mulder's claim of a backdoor ANC pact and compared Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance to the early 20th-century American Mafia. She also set out the coalition arithmetic she believes could shut the DA out of Joburg even at 40%. She described Joburg's budget as a fiscal fiction and gave a detailed account of how, in her telling, Julius Malema steered Herman Mashaba's mayoralty one decision at a time. She named the one condition any coalition partner would have to accept, and explained how the DA might still govern eThekwini if MK falls short of a majority.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Why Jakkie Cilliers (ISS) guarantees Africa in 2050 will be far more stable than today</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721615</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when news headlines across Africa highlight political friction, economic distress and security concerns, a guarantee of better times ahead may sound almost provocatively optimistic. Yet Dr Jakkie Cilliers, founder of the Institute for Security Studies and head of its African Futures and Innovation Programme, bases that guarantee not on hope, but on rigorous demographic data and structural modelling. In his latest book, Africa's Road to Prosperity: 10 Things to Know, Cilliers doesn't pin Africa's future on its youthful population, technological leapfrogging or natural resource wealth. In fact, he argues that a median age of 20 imposes a heavy dependency burden that constrains economic growth and can make democratic systems more volatile, not less. Technology, meanwhile, is an enabler rather than a shortcut. His confidence instead rests on demographic ratios gradually maturing and a larger, more integrated and productive African market emerging. The conversation also explores several of the practical policy ideas he sets out in the book, including scaling "industries without smokestacks", modernising land tenure systems and how converting communal land, such as KwaZulu-Natal's Ingonyama Trust, into a bankable asset could unlock capital for farmers. Cilliers also shares his views on Africa's geopolitical options, arguing for closer alignment with Europe and India, and discusses the risks facing South Africa as growing numbers of voters lose faith in the ability of democracy to deliver. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Why Jakkie Cilliers (ISS) guarantees Africa in 2050 will be far more stable than today</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>35:57</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At a time when news headlines across Africa highlight political friction, economic distress and security concerns, a guarantee of better times ahead may sound almost provocatively optimistic. Yet Dr Jakkie Cilliers, founder of the Institute for Security Studies and head of its African Futures and Innovation Programme, bases that guarantee not on hope, but on rigorous demographic data and structural modelling. In his latest book, Africa's Road to Prosperity: 10 Things to Know, Cilliers doesn't pin Africa's future on its youthful population, technological leapfrogging or natural resource wealth. In fact, he argues that a median age of 20 imposes a heavy dependency burden that constrains economic growth and can make democratic systems more volatile, not less. Technology, meanwhile, is an enabler rather than a shortcut. His confidence instead rests on demographic ratios gradually maturing and a larger, more integrated and productive African market emerging. The conversation also explores several of the practical policy ideas he sets out in the book, including scaling "industries without smokestacks", modernising land tenure systems and how converting communal land, such as KwaZulu-Natal's Ingonyama Trust, into a bankable asset could unlock capital for farmers. Cilliers also shares his views on Africa's geopolitical options, arguing for closer alignment with Europe and India, and discusses the risks facing South Africa as growing numbers of voters lose faith in the ability of democracy to deliver.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Andy Calitz on Eskom, the job he didn't get, and what came next</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was on the shortlist to run Eskom and lost out to André de Ruyter. Years later, Andy Calitz, who ran South Africa's transmission grid before a career that took him from Shell to Gazprom's control room and the helm of LNG Canada, still thinks about it most weeks. In conversation with Alec Hogg, he called load shedding a South African own goal with no equal among significant countries, and said Germany scored one of its own. He explained why the world's largest machine has nobody in charge of it, why no energy source is truly clean, how Sasol's Secunda plant out-emits an entire European country, and why South Africa keeps losing offshore gas investment to its neighbours. And he had one blunt message for voters about what they are entitled to demand. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Andy Calitz on Eskom, the job he didn't get, and what came next</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>55:40</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[He was on the shortlist to run Eskom and lost out to André de Ruyter. Years later, Andy Calitz, who ran South Africa's transmission grid before a career that took him from Shell to Gazprom's control room and the helm of LNG Canada, still thinks about it most weeks. In conversation with Alec Hogg, he called load shedding a South African own goal with no equal among significant countries, and said Germany scored one of its own. He explained why the world's largest machine has nobody in charge of it, why no energy source is truly clean, how Sasol's Secunda plant out-emits an entire European country, and why South Africa keeps losing offshore gas investment to its neighbours. And he had one blunt message for voters about what they are entitled to demand.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Bozell on the failed five asks; Mchunu raid; Wheatley's debarment; Calitz on Eskom</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721465</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Ambassador Brent Bozell tells Alec Hogg he now looks back fondly on "strained" relations: given a 15-day deadline, Pretoria sent an eloquent six-page letter that answered none of Washington's five asks. BizNews unpacks the second seizure of suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's phones - targeted, not a fishing expedition, 14 months on. Warren Wheatley breaks his silence on the FSCA's 20-year debarment over three test trades worth R301, and Andy Calitz, long tipped for Eskom, calls load shedding a South African own goal. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Bozell on the failed five asks; Mchunu raid; Wheatley's debarment; Calitz on Eskom</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>16:33</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[US Ambassador Brent Bozell tells Alec Hogg he now looks back fondly on "strained" relations: given a 15-day deadline, Pretoria sent an eloquent six-page letter that answered none of Washington's five asks. BizNews unpacks the second seizure of suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's phones - targeted, not a fishing expedition, 14 months on. Warren Wheatley breaks his silence on the FSCA's 20-year debarment over three test trades worth R301, and Andy Calitz, long tipped for Eskom, calls load shedding a South African own goal.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Warren Wheatley breaks his silence on his FSCA debarment</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721209</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three trades, R301 in total, and a 20-year ban from the financial sector. Warren Wheatley, the chartered accountant who helped put together the Capitec empowerment deal and went on to found Altvest, now Africa Bitcoin Corporation, broke his silence to Alec Hogg days after resigning as CEO. The FSCA says he, his wife Tatum and his chief investment officer coordinated trades to inflate the share price. Wheatley said the trades were a clumsy test of a broken brokerage platform, conceded they were "silly" and "ill-conceived", and denied any intent to profit. He explained why his own board stepped away from him, what the ruling has done to his family, why he will not blame his Bitcoin advocacy, and how quickly his appeal could be decided. Alec asked the question many in business are now asking: if this can happen to him, who is next? ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Warren Wheatley breaks his silence on his FSCA debarment</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>54:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Three trades, R301 in total, and a 20-year ban from the financial sector. Warren Wheatley, the chartered accountant who helped put together the Capitec empowerment deal and went on to found Altvest, now Africa Bitcoin Corporation, broke his silence to Alec Hogg days after resigning as CEO. The FSCA says he, his wife Tatum and his chief investment officer coordinated trades to inflate the share price. Wheatley said the trades were a clumsy test of a broken brokerage platform, conceded they were "silly" and "ill-conceived", and denied any intent to profit. He explained why his own board stepped away from him, what the ruling has done to his family, why he will not blame his Bitcoin advocacy, and how quickly his appeal could be decided. Alec asked the question many in business are now asking: if this can happen to him, who is next?]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Brent Bozell on the US-South Africa breakdown</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721158</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six months after warning a Hermanus room full of business leaders that Washington's patience was wearing thin, US Ambassador Brent Bozell returned to BizNews to explain what happened next. Five asks, a 15-day deadline and a six-page reply that, in his words, answered none of them. The result: visa bans on unnamed officials, every item on the negotiating table withdrawn, and a warning that there is more to come. Bozell told Alec Hogg how close the two countries came to a deal, what he offered to fund, why he says he never called for Thabo Mbeki to mediate, and why he believes Pretoria is wrong if it thinks it can simply wait out Donald Trump. He also had a message for South African business: the next move is theirs to push for. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Brent Bozell on the US-South Africa breakdown</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>40:49</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Six months after warning a Hermanus room full of business leaders that Washington's patience was wearing thin, US Ambassador Brent Bozell returned to BizNews to explain what happened next. Five asks, a 15-day deadline and a six-page reply that, in his words, answered none of them. The result: visa bans on unnamed officials, every item on the negotiating table withdrawn, and a warning that there is more to come. Bozell told Alec Hogg how close the two countries came to a deal, what he offered to fund, why he says he never called for Thabo Mbeki to mediate, and why he believes Pretoria is wrong if it thinks it can simply wait out Donald Trump. He also had a message for South African business: the next move is theirs to push for.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Mchunu, Mrs Matlala, Maumela, Mudzinganyama - and Meyer…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1721059</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the second seizure of of electronic devices belonging to Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu; the arrest of tenderpreneur Cat Matlala’s wife, Tskanane; the rape case against suspended Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya; the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquriy; the BEE abuse by foreign tenderpreneur Lawrence Mudzinganyama, who threatened to kill women who turned down his advances in a Sandton restaurant; the R1,9-billion tax billl for the still-free Tembisa Hospital tender don, Hangwani Maulema, the nephew by marriage of President Cyril Ramaphosa; Ambassador Roelf Meyer’s performance in the US, as well as the Freedom Front’s mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Bill Harrington, who served a lengthy prison sentence for the murder of an activist during the Apartheid years. Moeng describes Mchunu as “one of the most privileged suspects in contemporary South Africa”. He also reveals that a senior government official told him that “the art of surviving a senior position in government is to make sure they also eat” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Mchunu, Mrs Matlala, Maumela, Mudzinganyama - and Meyer…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:58</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the second seizure of of electronic devices belonging to Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu; the arrest of tenderpreneur Cat Matlala’s wife, Tskanane; the rape case against suspended Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya; the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquriy; the BEE abuse by foreign tenderpreneur Lawrence Mudzinganyama, who threatened to kill women who turned down his advances in a Sandton restaurant; the R1,9-billion tax billl for the still-free Tembisa Hospital tender don, Hangwani Maulema, the nephew by marriage of President Cyril Ramaphosa; Ambassador Roelf Meyer’s performance in the US, as well as the Freedom Front’s mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Bill Harrington, who served a lengthy prison sentence for the murder of an activist during the Apartheid years. Moeng describes Mchunu as “one of the most privileged suspects in contemporary South Africa”. He also reveals that a senior government official told him that “the art of surviving a senior position in government is to make sure they also eat”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Sibiya rape charges; EMPD chief fired; NPA to charge Malema; Trump's Iran ultimatum</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1720863</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is in custody on rape, sexual grooming and human trafficking charges; police committee chair Ian Cameron tells BizNews it is chilling that he was once in line to lead the SAPS. Action Society's Juanita du Preez says EMPD chief Julius Mkhwanazi's firing took five arrests, and doubts Tembisa tender kingpin Hangwani Maumela's R1.9 billion tax bill will ever be paid. AfriForum's Barry Bateman explains why the NPA will now prosecute Julius Malema for calling a former principal a rapist. Plus Trump's UN threat to annihilate Iran, and a record Nasdaq close. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Sibiya rape charges; EMPD chief fired; NPA to charge Malema; Trump's Iran ultimatum</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is in custody on rape, sexual grooming and human trafficking charges; police committee chair Ian Cameron tells BizNews it is chilling that he was once in line to lead the SAPS. Action Society's Juanita du Preez says EMPD chief Julius Mkhwanazi's firing took five arrests, and doubts Tembisa tender kingpin Hangwani Maumela's R1.9 billion tax bill will ever be paid. AfriForum's Barry Bateman explains why the NPA will now prosecute Julius Malema for calling a former principal a rapist. Plus Trump's UN threat to annihilate Iran, and a record Nasdaq close.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ian Cameron: General Sibiya on charges of rape, sexual grooming, human trafficking…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their latest interview, Chris Steyn and Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, unpack a day of high drama with the court appearance this afternoon of suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya who is now facing charges of rape, sexual grooming, and human trafficking. The cases involve the alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl and the alleged sexual grooming of a 16-year-old girl. Until his suspension over alleged criminal underworld links, the general was part of a cabal whose agenda was to have him as the next National Commissioner of Police. He was arrested at a strip club yesterday and is set to move from the police station to prison until his bail hearing because of an alleged escape plot. Also in court today was National Commissioner Fannie Masemola, who had charges against him withdrawn. Those related to alleged knowledge of a tender. He says he is ready to return to work. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Ian Cameron: General Sibiya on charges of rape, sexual grooming, human trafficking…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>10:20</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In their latest interview, Chris Steyn and Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, unpack a day of high drama with the court appearance this afternoon of suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya who is now facing charges of rape, sexual grooming, and human trafficking. The cases involve the alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl and the alleged sexual grooming of a 16-year-old girl. Until his suspension over alleged criminal underworld links, the general was part of a cabal whose agenda was to have him as the next National Commissioner of Police. He was arrested at a strip club yesterday and is set to move from the police station to prison until his bail hearing because of an alleged escape plot. Also in court today was National Commissioner Fannie Masemola, who had charges against him withdrawn. Those related to alleged knowledge of a tender. He says he is ready to return to work.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BOTH Mbalula AND Malema now face criminal prosecution | Barry Bateman</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1720619</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Barry Bateman of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit talk about the criminal prosecution now being faced by both ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula and EFF leader Julius Malema “This is the second case where AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit has succeeded in convincing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that a politician (Mbalula) should be prosecuted for crimen injuria after branding Jaco Pieterse, the former Bergview College principal, a child rapist.” “We are primarily established for the case of selective prosecution where the NPA or the police declined to pursue certain matters because of the status of certain individuals. Often it's politicians, but often it's also wealthy people.” In another victory for the unit, it has secured another costs order compelling the NPA to cover the costs of successfully privately prosecuting a rapist. Meanwhile, AfriForum CEO has also offered private prosecution assistance to the families of the women murdered in Ekurhuleni. “The system has collapsed and women are certainly being abandoned by the criminal justice system…our doors are in fact open to any person who requires any kind of assistance within the criminal justice sphere.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BOTH Mbalula AND Malema now face criminal prosecution | Barry Bateman</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>12:13</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Barry Bateman of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit talk about the criminal prosecution now being faced by both ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula and EFF leader Julius Malema “This is the second case where AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit has succeeded in convincing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that a politician (Mbalula) should be prosecuted for crimen injuria after branding Jaco Pieterse, the former Bergview College principal, a child rapist.” “We are primarily established for the case of selective prosecution where the NPA or the police declined to pursue certain matters because of the status of certain individuals. Often it's politicians, but often it's also wealthy people.” In another victory for the unit, it has secured another costs order compelling the NPA to cover the costs of successfully privately prosecuting a rapist. Meanwhile, AfriForum CEO has also offered private prosecution assistance to the families of the women murdered in Ekurhuleni. “The system has collapsed and women are certainly being abandoned by the criminal justice system…our doors are in fact open to any person who requires any kind of assistance within the criminal justice sphere.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Threats to kill unravel tender empire, DA's odds in LGEs 2026, US-SA diplomatic fallout</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1720359</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tenderpreneur bragged on video that he could kill women and walk free. By the end of the weekend he'd lost his company, his lease and his freedom of movement, with three government ministers now circling his contracts, his ratings and his immigration status. Action Society's Juanita du Preez joined Chris Steyn to unpack it, alongside the belated sacking of a suspended metro police chief and a tender kingpin's R1.9 billion tax bill. Elections analyst Wayne Sussman then walked through where all eight of South Africa's major parties stand two months out from the local government elections, predicting a "car crash" for the ANC and a strong run for the DA in the metros. And Christo van der Rheede of the FW de Klerk Foundation made the case that Washington's new visa restrictions on South African officials are a strategic blunder that hands the ANC a political gift. Plus a Reuters update on the Bessent-He Lifeng trade talks and a record night on Wall Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Threats to kill unravel tender empire, DA's odds in LGEs 2026, US-SA diplomatic fallout</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>14:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A tenderpreneur bragged on video that he could kill women and walk free. By the end of the weekend he'd lost his company, his lease and his freedom of movement, with three government ministers now circling his contracts, his ratings and his immigration status. Action Society's Juanita du Preez joined Chris Steyn to unpack it, alongside the belated sacking of a suspended metro police chief and a tender kingpin's R1.9 billion tax bill. Elections analyst Wayne Sussman then walked through where all eight of South Africa's major parties stand two months out from the local government elections, predicting a "car crash" for the ANC and a strong run for the DA in the metros. And Christo van der Rheede of the FW de Klerk Foundation made the case that Washington's new visa restrictions on South African officials are a strategic blunder that hands the ANC a political gift. Plus a Reuters update on the Bessent-He Lifeng trade talks and a record night on Wall Street.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Tender empire exposed after threat to kill women who said “No, thanks” | Juanita du Preez</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1720155</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their latest chat, Chris Steyn and Juanita du Preez of Action Society talk about the video of the tenderpreneur threatening to kill women in the powder room of a Sandton restaurant after they turned down his advances. Transport Minister Barbara Creasy has now ordered an investigation into his tenders. Infrastructure Minister Dean McPherson has ordered an investigation into his ratings. And Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia is asking Home Affairs to have a look at his status in South Africa as he is from an SADC country. And he will appear in court on October 1. They also give viewers an update on the murders of 9 women in Ekurhuleni where Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi told fearful residents not to get emotional; the belated sacking of suspended EMPD Chief Julius Mkhwanazi following five arrests since April; and Tembisa Hospital tender don Hangwani Maumela being hit with a R1,9 billion tax bill while still roaming free. Meanwhile, the latest crime statistics show that 72 women were reported raped every day the past two months. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Tender empire exposed after threat to kill women who said “No, thanks” | Juanita du Preez</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>20:16</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In their latest chat, Chris Steyn and Juanita du Preez of Action Society talk about the video of the tenderpreneur threatening to kill women in the powder room of a Sandton restaurant after they turned down his advances. Transport Minister Barbara Creasy has now ordered an investigation into his tenders. Infrastructure Minister Dean McPherson has ordered an investigation into his ratings. And Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia is asking Home Affairs to have a look at his status in South Africa as he is from an SADC country. And he will appear in court on October 1. They also give viewers an update on the murders of 9 women in Ekurhuleni where Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi told fearful residents not to get emotional; the belated sacking of suspended EMPD Chief Julius Mkhwanazi following five arrests since April; and Tembisa Hospital tender don Hangwani Maumela being hit with a R1,9 billion tax bill while still roaming free. Meanwhile, the latest crime statistics show that 72 women were reported raped every day the past two months.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: ANC ballot 'car crash'; Swimming SA sponsors; Rubio visa blunder; Buffett exits</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1719879</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elections analyst Wayne Sussman tells Chris Steyn the local government poll is shaping up as a car crash for the ANC, which failed to submit any candidates in its Eastern Cape strongholds of Port St Johns and Ngquza Hill and lost proportional lists in Walter Sisulu and Sundays River Valley. Bank of America's Brad Ross says sponsors facing Swimming SA's missing R50 million should freeze, audit and pivot to athletes. Christo van der Rheede calls Rubio's visa restrictions a strategic blunder that hands the ANC a smokescreen. Plus Alec Hogg on sifting fake news, and a mixed Wall Street close. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: ANC ballot 'car crash'; Swimming SA sponsors; Rubio visa blunder; Buffett exits</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>13:33</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Elections analyst Wayne Sussman tells Chris Steyn the local government poll is shaping up as a car crash for the ANC, which failed to submit any candidates in its Eastern Cape strongholds of Port St Johns and Ngquza Hill and lost proportional lists in Walter Sisulu and Sundays River Valley. Bank of America's Brad Ross says sponsors facing Swimming SA's missing R50 million should freeze, audit and pivot to athletes. Christo van der Rheede calls Rubio's visa restrictions a strategic blunder that hands the ANC a smokescreen. Plus Alec Hogg on sifting fake news, and a mixed Wall Street close.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>LGEs 2026: The ANC, DA, MKP, EFF, IFP, Freedom Front, Patriotic Alliance, ActionSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Elections Analyst Wayne Sussman dissects the preparedness and likely outcome for South Africa’s top eight political parties ahead of the Local Government Elections in November. He predicts a “car crash” for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC “going into the election knowing that there are a number of …municipalities and ANC heartlands which are either going to be lost or have to be sorted out by coalition”. He has good news for the DA: “I think they're well on track to being the most popular party when we tally the votes in the eight metropolitan areas after election day.” The party tipped for provincial power in KZN is former President Jacob Zuma’s MKP. “I think uMkhonto weSizwe are well on track to be the largest party.” Also listen to Sussman explain why the PA’s Gayton McKenzie “is very well positioned to be a winner in this election”; why ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba “is going to be the kingmaker” in Johannesburg; why it is likely to be a “difficult election” for Julius Malema’s EFF; why the Freedom Front Plus of Corne Mulder is “likely to grow somewhat in this election”; and why the IFP is not going into this election with the "confidence" with which it entered the previous one. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>LGEs 2026: The ANC, DA, MKP, EFF, IFP, Freedom Front, Patriotic Alliance, ActionSA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:56</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Elections Analyst Wayne Sussman dissects the preparedness and likely outcome for South Africa’s top eight political parties ahead of the Local Government Elections in November. He predicts a “car crash” for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC “going into the election knowing that there are a number of …municipalities and ANC heartlands which are either going to be lost or have to be sorted out by coalition”. He has good news for the DA: “I think they're well on track to being the most popular party when we tally the votes in the eight metropolitan areas after election day.” The party tipped for provincial power in KZN is former President Jacob Zuma’s MKP. “I think uMkhonto weSizwe are well on track to be the largest party.” Also listen to Sussman explain why the PA’s Gayton McKenzie “is very well positioned to be a winner in this election”; why ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba “is going to be the kingmaker” in Johannesburg; why it is likely to be a “difficult election” for Julius Malema’s EFF; why the Freedom Front Plus of Corne Mulder is “likely to grow somewhat in this election”; and why the IFP is not going into this election with the "confidence" with which it entered the previous one.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Swimming SA saga: Officials suspended, champions unpaid, and sponsors watching closely</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swimming South Africa has two officials suspended, a high performance centre with more than R50 million unaccounted for, and an Olympic champion who says she waited over a year for prize money the federation then charged her interest on. So what does a sponsor actually do with that? Bank of America's Brad Ross, speaking to Alec Hogg in a personal capacity, laid out the playbook: freeze the funds, audit what really happened, then find a way to keep supporting the athletes without the money running through a federation under a corruption cloud. Drawing on his years running sponsorship for Coca-Cola, and on cautionary tales from West Ham United to the International Olympic Committee, Ross made the case for morality clauses South African sport still doesn't use, and for putting athletes like Tatjana Smith and Roland Schoeman on the boards that are supposed to serve them. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Swimming SA saga: Officials suspended, champions unpaid, and sponsors watching closely</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>32:37</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Swimming South Africa has two officials suspended, a high performance centre with more than R50 million unaccounted for, and an Olympic champion who says she waited over a year for prize money the federation then charged her interest on. So what does a sponsor actually do with that? Bank of America's Brad Ross, speaking to Alec Hogg in a personal capacity, laid out the playbook: freeze the funds, audit what really happened, then find a way to keep supporting the athletes without the money running through a federation under a corruption cloud. Drawing on his years running sponsorship for Coca-Cola, and on cautionary tales from West Ham United to the International Olympic Committee, Ross made the case for morality clauses South African sport still doesn't use, and for putting athletes like Tatjana Smith and Roland Schoeman on the boards that are supposed to serve them.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Rubio’s visa move a blunder: FW de Klerk Foundation appeals to Washington to reconsider</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1719605</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has escalated its pressure on South Africa, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing new visa restrictions over land expropriation laws and racial discrimination against the Afrikaner minority. Christo van der Rheede, executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, calls it a profound strategic blunder, one that risks handing the ANC a political gift ahead of local government elections. Van der Rheede also takes issue with the framing of Afrikaners by the Trump administration, arguing that associating Afrikaners only with white people is problematic. In an interview with BizNews, Van der Rheede argues that the real culprits have already been identified in the findings of the Zondo and Madlanga commissions and that Washington had a far more effective and far less divisive path available to it. He appeals to the US to reconsider its approach to South Africa if it is interested in saving the country and a society in which all enjoy the fruits of a hard-earned constitutional democracy. – Linda van Tilburg ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Rubio’s visa move a blunder: FW de Klerk Foundation appeals to Washington to reconsider</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Trump administration has escalated its pressure on South Africa, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing new visa restrictions over land expropriation laws and racial discrimination against the Afrikaner minority. Christo van der Rheede, executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, calls it a profound strategic blunder, one that risks handing the ANC a political gift ahead of local government elections. Van der Rheede also takes issue with the framing of Afrikaners by the Trump administration, arguing that associating Afrikaners only with white people is problematic. In an interview with BizNews, Van der Rheede argues that the real culprits have already been identified in the findings of the Zondo and Madlanga commissions and that Washington had a far more effective and far less divisive path available to it. He appeals to the US to reconsider its approach to South Africa if it is interested in saving the country and a society in which all enjoy the fruits of a hard-earned constitutional democracy. – Linda van Tilburg]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>How Alec Hogg's 45 years in journalism culminated in BizNews and its loyal &quot;tribe&quot;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This interview was livestreamed on Conscious Caracal on 11 September 2026. Find Ernst van Zyl's Conscious Caracal Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCeNFLCUJ2lM1S_H32ICVs4w <br />
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Before BizNews, there was a bank job Alec Hogg quit within three years, a company called Moneyweb he built from a room above his garage and then lost control of, and a High Court letter that convinced him to start all over again rather than retire. In this conversation with Ernst van Zyl, Hogg walked through the full history: the SABC newsroom he ran the year Nelson Mandela was released, the corporate takeover that pushed his stake in his own company down to 18 percent, the year of gardening leave that turned into a second startup, and the decision to own almost all of BizNews himself this time. He also covered what BizNews has become since 2013: a newsroom that moved from Bryanston to Hermanus, a YouTube and podcast audience of around a million people a month, and two annual conferences that now sell out within weeks of opening. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>How Alec Hogg's 45 years in journalism culminated in BizNews and its loyal &quot;tribe&quot;</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>49:03</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This interview was livestreamed on Conscious Caracal on 11 September 2026. Find Ernst van Zyl's Conscious Caracal Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCeNFLCUJ2lM1S_H32ICVs4w 

Before BizNews, there was a bank job Alec Hogg quit within three years, a company called Moneyweb he built from a room above his garage and then lost control of, and a High Court letter that convinced him to start all over again rather than retire. In this conversation with Ernst van Zyl, Hogg walked through the full history: the SABC newsroom he ran the year Nelson Mandela was released, the corporate takeover that pushed his stake in his own company down to 18 percent, the year of gardening leave that turned into a second startup, and the decision to own almost all of BizNews himself this time. He also covered what BizNews has become since 2013: a newsroom that moved from Bryanston to Hermanus, a YouTube and podcast audience of around a million people a month, and two annual conferences that now sell out within weeks of opening.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: ANC 'could collapse'; US visa ban; trillion-rand spaza economy; Fed hikes, Wall St up</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1719349</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[FF+ leader Corné Mulder tells Alec Hogg that Pretoria's foreign policy has exhausted Washington's patience and that the ANC could collapse well before 2029. New US visa restrictions name no names, making official travel to America a gamble. Kasinomics author GG Alcock says the deportation drive barely dented a trillion-rand township economy, with spaza volumes back to normal within weeks of the July deadline. Plus Wall Street rallies while the Fed hikes for the first time since 2023. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: ANC 'could collapse'; US visa ban; trillion-rand spaza economy; Fed hikes, Wall St up</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>13:34</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[FF+ leader Corné Mulder tells Alec Hogg that Pretoria's foreign policy has exhausted Washington's patience and that the ANC could collapse well before 2029. New US visa restrictions name no names, making official travel to America a gamble. Kasinomics author GG Alcock says the deportation drive barely dented a trillion-rand township economy, with spaza volumes back to normal within weeks of the July deadline. Plus Wall Street rallies while the Fed hikes for the first time since 2023.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>Corné Mulder says SA could have a new government before 2029</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1719241</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa just joined a short and unflattering list of countries facing individual US visa restrictions, and Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder says he saw it coming from a manifesto launch stage days before it happened. He tells Alec Hogg why he thinks Cyril Ramaphosa's habit of avoiding decisions has left the country exposed to an American administration that has run out of patience, why the ANC seems willing to simply wait out the Trump presidency, and why he believes ordinary South Africans, not the "comrades" benefiting from ANC patronage, are the ones now pushing back. He also lays out his read on the coalition scramble coming after 4 November, throws down a direct challenge to the DA over Tshwane and Johannesburg, and explains why he thinks South Africa's next real change of government could arrive well before 2029. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Corné Mulder says SA could have a new government before 2029</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>28:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa just joined a short and unflattering list of countries facing individual US visa restrictions, and Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder says he saw it coming from a manifesto launch stage days before it happened. He tells Alec Hogg why he thinks Cyril Ramaphosa's habit of avoiding decisions has left the country exposed to an American administration that has run out of patience, why the ANC seems willing to simply wait out the Trump presidency, and why he believes ordinary South Africans, not the "comrades" benefiting from ANC patronage, are the ones now pushing back. He also lays out his read on the coalition scramble coming after 4 November, throws down a direct challenge to the DA over Tshwane and Johannesburg, and explains why he thinks South Africa's next real change of government could arrive well before 2029.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>GG Alcock says SA's R1-trillion &quot;informal&quot; economy is anything but</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1719145</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa's townships are not a side economy. According to GG Alcock, author of the Kasinomics book series, they're a trillion-rand-plus market that the country's biggest listed companies are already quietly fighting over, from Shoprite's cash-and-carry pivot to Capitec's entrepreneur accounts to Pepkor's handset financing. Alcock, who grew up in a mud hut in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, and never went to university, sat down with Alec Hogg to explain why the xenophobic crackdown on foreign traders barely dented the spaza sector, why Pick n Pay's QualiSave format misread who actually shops in a township, how a social grant became one woman's ten-year start-up fund, and why an entire generation of township entrepreneurs is quietly building wealth in bread, eggs, hardbody chickens and handset finance while the formal economy stalls. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>GG Alcock says SA's R1-trillion &quot;informal&quot; economy is anything but</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>49:08</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa's townships are not a side economy. According to GG Alcock, author of the Kasinomics book series, they're a trillion-rand-plus market that the country's biggest listed companies are already quietly fighting over, from Shoprite's cash-and-carry pivot to Capitec's entrepreneur accounts to Pepkor's handset financing. Alcock, who grew up in a mud hut in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, and never went to university, sat down with Alec Hogg to explain why the xenophobic crackdown on foreign traders barely dented the spaza sector, why Pick n Pay's QualiSave format misread who actually shops in a township, how a social grant became one woman's ten-year start-up fund, and why an entire generation of township entrepreneurs is quietly building wealth in bread, eggs, hardbody chickens and handset finance while the formal economy stalls.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>Solly Moeng: BOTH Cyril AND Mashatile are too ill to run the country</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1718793</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng talk about both President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile having been declared unfit - because they are too ill - to perform official duties; the US the visa restrictions for certain - still unamed -government officials; the performance (or lack) of US Ambassador Roelf Meyer; the 181 lost candidate crisis for the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the Local Government Elections (LGEs) in November this year; the body tally of raped and murdered women in Ekurhuleni rising to 9 as Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi gives criminals a heads-up of a lockdown; the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dropping charges against National Commissioner Fannie Masemola; and a year of sittings of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into Police and Political Capture. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: BOTH Cyril AND Mashatile are too ill to run the country</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>16:37</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng talk about both President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile having been declared unfit - because they are too ill - to perform official duties; the US the visa restrictions for certain - still unamed -government officials; the performance (or lack) of US Ambassador Roelf Meyer; the 181 lost candidate crisis for the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the Local Government Elections (LGEs) in November this year; the body tally of raped and murdered women in Ekurhuleni rising to 9 as Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi gives criminals a heads-up of a lockdown; the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dropping charges against National Commissioner Fannie Masemola; and a year of sittings of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into Police and Political Capture.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: US visa ban on SA officials, AfriForum's farm attack report, SA banks resilient</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1718623</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract this week. Marco Rubio named individual officials for visa restrictions over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement, and the US ambassador in Pretoria called it only the first move. Hudson Institute's Joshua Meservey explained why Washington chose a scalpel over a sledgehammer, and why South Africa's own dealings with Tehran, Moscow and Hamas made this outcome close to inevitable. Denker Capital's Kokkie Kooyman weighed in on how South African banks are quietly benefiting from the same Iran war that's rattling oil markets, even as FirstRand heads for the exit in the UK and the country drifts closer to Beijing and Moscow. AfriForum's Jacques Broodryk laid out a disturbing new report on the patterns of torture behind 47 farm attacks. And on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to fight an oil-driven inflation spike, sending stocks lower. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: US visa ban on SA officials, AfriForum's farm attack report, SA banks resilient</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Washington stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract this week. Marco Rubio named individual officials for visa restrictions over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement, and the US ambassador in Pretoria called it only the first move. Hudson Institute's Joshua Meservey explained why Washington chose a scalpel over a sledgehammer, and why South Africa's own dealings with Tehran, Moscow and Hamas made this outcome close to inevitable. Denker Capital's Kokkie Kooyman weighed in on how South African banks are quietly benefiting from the same Iran war that's rattling oil markets, even as FirstRand heads for the exit in the UK and the country drifts closer to Beijing and Moscow. AfriForum's Jacques Broodryk laid out a disturbing new report on the patterns of torture behind 47 farm attacks. And on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to fight an oil-driven inflation spike, sending stocks lower.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>SA joins Colombia, South Sudan on short list hit by this US visa tool. Meservey unpacks why</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1718577</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The night before this interview, Marco Rubio picked up a weapon Washington has never used against South Africa before: visa restrictions aimed at individual officials, not the country as a whole. Hours later, the US ambassador in Pretoria said it was only the start. Joshua Meservey of the Hudson Institute had spent months arguing publicly for exactly this approach, and told Alec Hogg why the scalpel beats the sledgehammer, why AGOA is not off the table whatever the ambassador implies, and why South Africa's own record with Tehran, Moscow and Hamas made this outcome close to inevitable. He also had a hard question for South Africans weighing in on BEE and land expropriation from here: does it matter that Washington agrees with you, if agreeing with Washington is now politically radioactive. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>SA joins Colombia, South Sudan on short list hit by this US visa tool. Meservey unpacks why</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>34:49</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The night before this interview, Marco Rubio picked up a weapon Washington has never used against South Africa before: visa restrictions aimed at individual officials, not the country as a whole. Hours later, the US ambassador in Pretoria said it was only the start. Joshua Meservey of the Hudson Institute had spent months arguing publicly for exactly this approach, and told Alec Hogg why the scalpel beats the sledgehammer, why AGOA is not off the table whatever the ambassador implies, and why South Africa's own record with Tehran, Moscow and Hamas made this outcome close to inevitable. He also had a hard question for South Africans weighing in on BEE and land expropriation from here: does it matter that Washington agrees with you, if agreeing with Washington is now politically radioactive.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>Kooyman: Making SA investable again, pressure from Washington, and November’s election stakes</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1718475</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[FirstRand just put its UK business up for sale after a motor finance mis-selling scandal turned an eight-year-old acquisition into a multi-billion-rand headache, and analyst Kokkie Kooyman of Denker Capital walked Alec Hogg through what it's actually worth. He explained why Capitec is quietly trying to build six versions of itself across Eastern Europe and Latin America, why South Africa's big three banks keep poaching each other's executives, and why a punishing war between Iran and the United States is, oddly, good news for bank profits and bad news for everyone else. He also weighed in on Washington's new visa restrictions on South African officials, what a strong DA showing in the upcoming local elections would mean for the rand, and why he thinks South Africa's own BEE rules are capping the entrepreneurial growth the country badly needs. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Kooyman: Making SA investable again, pressure from Washington, and November’s election stakes</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>38:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[FirstRand just put its UK business up for sale after a motor finance mis-selling scandal turned an eight-year-old acquisition into a multi-billion-rand headache, and analyst Kokkie Kooyman of Denker Capital walked Alec Hogg through what it's actually worth. He explained why Capitec is quietly trying to build six versions of itself across Eastern Europe and Latin America, why South Africa's big three banks keep poaching each other's executives, and why a punishing war between Iran and the United States is, oddly, good news for bank profits and bad news for everyone else. He also weighed in on Washington's new visa restrictions on South African officials, what a strong DA showing in the upcoming local elections would mean for the rand, and why he thinks South Africa's own BEE rules are capping the entrepreneurial growth the country badly needs.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>Jacques Broodryk: Trump hits SA officials with “bombshell” visa restrictions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Jacques Broodryk, the Chief Spokesperson for Community Safety at AfriForum, hails the announcement by the Trump administration of visa restrictions for those “responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa.” In his reaction, Broodryk says: “We've been asking for direct sanctions against these political leaders for quite some time now, publicly and as well as in discussions with the US…we hope that the work that we've been doing has had some kind of an impact on the steps that the US has now taken. Because this is what we've been asking for, for international pressure so that the South African government can stop dismissing minorities' complaints and concerns the way that they have been doing for the last 30 years.” Broodryk also unpacks a new AfriForum report – focused on 47 separate violent farm attacks - that reveals a recurring pattern of torture.<br />
He says AfriForum will now continue to expand and strengthen its 178 neighbourhood and farm watches and invest in volunteer training as well as the expansion of its specialised response capabilities, technology, and communication networks. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Jacques Broodryk: Trump hits SA officials with “bombshell” visa restrictions</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Jacques Broodryk, the Chief Spokesperson for Community Safety at AfriForum, hails the announcement by the Trump administration of visa restrictions for those “responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa.” In his reaction, Broodryk says: “We've been asking for direct sanctions against these political leaders for quite some time now, publicly and as well as in discussions with the US…we hope that the work that we've been doing has had some kind of an impact on the steps that the US has now taken. Because this is what we've been asking for, for international pressure so that the South African government can stop dismissing minorities' complaints and concerns the way that they have been doing for the last 30 years.” Broodryk also unpacks a new AfriForum report – focused on 47 separate violent farm attacks - that reveals a recurring pattern of torture.
He says AfriForum will now continue to expand and strengthen its 178 neighbourhood and farm watches and invest in volunteer training as well as the expansion of its specialised response capabilities, technology, and communication networks.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Boardroom Talk: US announces visa restrictions on SA citizens relating to racism concerns</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington has stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a new visa restriction policy aimed not at the country, but at named officials inside the Pretoria government, over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement. No names were published, but the bar for inclusion is deliberately low, and family members with a US visa, a green card, or a child studying in America could be caught up in it too. Within hours, US Ambassador Brent Bozell was on X calling it "only the first step in a series of escalatory measures." Alec Hogg traced the arc from Trump's February 2025 executive order through the Oval Office ambush, where a 2020 roadside memorial became "over a thousand" burial sites on camera, to this week's announcement, and laid out what it actually changes for anyone with capital, a career, or a conscience invested in South Africa. ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Boardroom Talk: US announces visa restrictions on SA citizens relating to racism concerns</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Washington has stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a new visa restriction policy aimed not at the country, but at named officials inside the Pretoria government, over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement. No names were published, but the bar for inclusion is deliberately low, and family members with a US visa, a green card, or a child studying in America could be caught up in it too. Within hours, US Ambassador Brent Bozell was on X calling it "only the first step in a series of escalatory measures." Alec Hogg traced the arc from Trump's February 2025 executive order through the Oval Office ambush, where a 2020 roadside memorial became "over a thousand" burial sites on camera, to this week's announcement, and laid out what it actually changes for anyone with capital, a career, or a conscience invested in South Africa.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Kempton Park bodies; ANC 'finished' in eThekwini; Chelsea flowers; AI slowdown</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1718194</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Action Society's Juanita du Preez tells BizNews six bodies in Kempton Park finally forced a multidisciplinary task team, years after the Gaby Ndaba case stalled on DNA backlogs, while the station tops the country for kidnappings with 76 in three months. DA eThekwini mayoral candidate Haniff Hoosen says the ANC is finished in the city and rates his chances against MK at 50/50. Leon Kluge recounts how Cape storms nearly sank South Africa's Chelsea Flower Show display. Plus Amodei, Altman and Musk's AI slowdown call, and a Wall Street selloff as the Senate blocks Trump's crypto bill. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Kempton Park bodies; ANC 'finished' in eThekwini; Chelsea flowers; AI slowdown</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>16:25</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Action Society's Juanita du Preez tells BizNews six bodies in Kempton Park finally forced a multidisciplinary task team, years after the Gaby Ndaba case stalled on DNA backlogs, while the station tops the country for kidnappings with 76 in three months. DA eThekwini mayoral candidate Haniff Hoosen says the ANC is finished in the city and rates his chances against MK at 50/50. Leon Kluge recounts how Cape storms nearly sank South Africa's Chelsea Flower Show display. Plus Amodei, Altman and Musk's AI slowdown call, and a Wall Street selloff as the Senate blocks Trump's crypto bill.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Leon Kluge: The botanist turning South Africa's flowers into gold</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leon Kluge pulled off a hat-trick no South African had managed before: three straight gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, the world's most prestigious garden show. But this year's win very nearly didn't happen. Storms and flooding tore through the Western Cape days before the harvest, cutting farmers off from the airport and leaving Kluge with no backup plan and no government funding to fall back on if the flowers didn't land in time. He sat down with Alec Hogg at the Chelsea Flowers exhibition in Stanford to explain why fynbos, the smallest and strangest of the world's floral kingdoms, cannot survive without fire, why a single protea sells for twenty-five pounds in the London flower market, and what a plant that farms its own assassin bugs reveals about survival in the wild. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Leon Kluge: The botanist turning South Africa's flowers into gold</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>42:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Leon Kluge pulled off a hat-trick no South African had managed before: three straight gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, the world's most prestigious garden show. But this year's win very nearly didn't happen. Storms and flooding tore through the Western Cape days before the harvest, cutting farmers off from the airport and leaving Kluge with no backup plan and no government funding to fall back on if the flowers didn't land in time. He sat down with Alec Hogg at the Chelsea Flowers exhibition in Stanford to explain why fynbos, the smallest and strangest of the world's floral kingdoms, cannot survive without fire, why a single protea sells for twenty-five pounds in the London flower market, and what a plant that farms its own assassin bugs reveals about survival in the wild.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>With the ANC finished, eThekwini's mayoral contest comes down to the DA and MK</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1718050</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haniff Hoosen made the trip from Durban to BizNews's Hermanus studio with a blunt message: the ANC is finished in eThekwini, and what replaces it could be worse. The DA's mayoral candidate walked through how a metro that once out-drew Cape Town for tourists now loses 65% of its water to 13,000 active leaks, why he believes MK is running a placeholder candidate to make way for a scandal-tainted former mayor, and why he isn't arguing with The Economist's description of South Africa drifting into a "mafia state." He also put a number on his own chances in November: five out of ten, a coin flip between the DA and a party he says is already broke. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>With the ANC finished, eThekwini's mayoral contest comes down to the DA and MK</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>38:09</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Haniff Hoosen made the trip from Durban to BizNews's Hermanus studio with a blunt message: the ANC is finished in eThekwini, and what replaces it could be worse. The DA's mayoral candidate walked through how a metro that once out-drew Cape Town for tourists now loses 65% of its water to 13,000 active leaks, why he believes MK is running a placeholder candidate to make way for a scandal-tainted former mayor, and why he isn't arguing with The Economist's description of South Africa drifting into a "mafia state." He also put a number on his own chances in November: five out of ten, a coin flip between the DA and a party he says is already broke.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>6 bodies found: Killing spree of “serial” rapist…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1717962</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this BizNews interview, Chris Steyn and Juanita du Preez, the national spokesperson for Action Society, talk about the killing spree of a suspected serial rapist (or group of rapists) in Ekurhuleni. By yesterday (Monday), five bodies had been found, four in Kempton Park, one in Olifantsfontein, and this morning (Tuesday), another one in Kwa-Thema. Four of the bodies were found in Kempton Park where the police station has a 0.4% success rate in solving crimes. Kempton Park is also the kidnapping capital of South Africa with 67 reported kidnappings between April and June this year (2026). Among the victims identified so far is Elizabeth Tsontso Moselakgomo, who disappeared while out running. Many women reported missing are still unaccounted for as Ekurhuleni sits on thousands of cold cases. SAPS has now dispatched specialist investigators, but Du Preez fumes: “Now that the bodies are piling up, now all of a sudden we get a multi-disciplinary task team investigating. Why now? Why must we have six bodies for things to start moving around? We are in a national disaster for GBV if I'm not mistaken.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>6 bodies found: Killing spree of “serial” rapist…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>15:52</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this BizNews interview, Chris Steyn and Juanita du Preez, the national spokesperson for Action Society, talk about the killing spree of a suspected serial rapist (or group of rapists) in Ekurhuleni. By yesterday (Monday), five bodies had been found, four in Kempton Park, one in Olifantsfontein, and this morning (Tuesday), another one in Kwa-Thema. Four of the bodies were found in Kempton Park where the police station has a 0.4% success rate in solving crimes. Kempton Park is also the kidnapping capital of South Africa with 67 reported kidnappings between April and June this year (2026). Among the victims identified so far is Elizabeth Tsontso Moselakgomo, who disappeared while out running. Many women reported missing are still unaccounted for as Ekurhuleni sits on thousands of cold cases. SAPS has now dispatched specialist investigators, but Du Preez fumes: “Now that the bodies are piling up, now all of a sudden we get a multi-disciplinary task team investigating. Why now? Why must we have six bodies for things to start moving around? We are in a national disaster for GBV if I'm not mistaken.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Cape Town's conviction crisis, terrorists on SA soil, AI stock wobble, BNC#9 wrap</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1717730</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen times out of twenty, the man Cape Town's police catch red-handed with an illegal gun walks free. JP Smith explains why, and why he's taking national government to court over it. Intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman lays out something most South Africans haven't clocked: 14 active Bitcoin wallets linked to Hamas, offices operating in the open, and Islamic State using our own organised crime networks as a door into the country. Then, at the close of BNC#9, David Shapiro and Piet Viljoen make the case for staying, both with their money and their outlook: undervalued JSE stocks paying investors handsomely just to hold on, and a reminder that South Africans, whatever else is going wrong, are still hopeful, resilient and friendly to strangers. And on Wall Street, an AI-fuelled selloff runs straight into a Federal Reserve decision this week. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Cape Town's conviction crisis, terrorists on SA soil, AI stock wobble, BNC#9 wrap</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nineteen times out of twenty, the man Cape Town's police catch red-handed with an illegal gun walks free. JP Smith explains why, and why he's taking national government to court over it. Intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman lays out something most South Africans haven't clocked: 14 active Bitcoin wallets linked to Hamas, offices operating in the open, and Islamic State using our own organised crime networks as a door into the country. Then, at the close of BNC#9, David Shapiro and Piet Viljoen make the case for staying, both with their money and their outlook: undervalued JSE stocks paying investors handsomely just to hold on, and a reminder that South Africans, whatever else is going wrong, are still hopeful, resilient and friendly to strangers. And on Wall Street, an AI-fuelled selloff runs straight into a Federal Reserve decision this week.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Cape Town's crimefighter, JP Smith, on the court battle that could reshape SA policing</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1717606</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[JP Smith has spent years being told his city is one of the world's most violent. He didn't dispute it. He explained why. Nearly every gun his officers pulled off the street came back to bite them: nineteen times out of twenty, the man caught red-handed walked free, because Cape Town cannot investigate its own arrests. That fight over investigative powers, now heading to court against national government, ran alongside almost everything else that landed on his desk this fortnight: a pet bylaw row that briefly convinced half the city it was about to be taxed for owning a cat, a cabinet minister repeating a gangster's phone call on camera, a R3 billion construction site with a 28s gang boss's family on the books, and a straight answer to the question everyone keeps asking him: would he help Helen Zille fix Johannesburg. Alec Hogg sat down with the MMC for safety and security to get all of it on the record. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Cape Town's crimefighter, JP Smith, on the court battle that could reshape SA policing</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>56:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[JP Smith has spent years being told his city is one of the world's most violent. He didn't dispute it. He explained why. Nearly every gun his officers pulled off the street came back to bite them: nineteen times out of twenty, the man caught red-handed walked free, because Cape Town cannot investigate its own arrests. That fight over investigative powers, now heading to court against national government, ran alongside almost everything else that landed on his desk this fortnight: a pet bylaw row that briefly convinced half the city it was about to be taxed for owning a cat, a cabinet minister repeating a gangster's phone call on camera, a R3 billion construction site with a 28s gang boss's family on the books, and a straight answer to the question everyone keeps asking him: would he help Helen Zille fix Johannesburg. Alec Hogg sat down with the MMC for safety and security to get all of it on the record.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Pistorius 'big lie'; Hamas crypto wallets; Comp Com overreach; EE quotas; Wall St up</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1717291</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retired senior advocate Chris Marnewick spent six years on the Pistorius trial record and tells Alec Hogg the conviction should have been culpable homicide, not murder, blaming social media groupthink for a "big lie" of gender-based violence. Analyst Jasmine Opperman reveals 14 active bitcoin wallets in South Africa channelling funds to Hamas. Financial Mail's Rob Rose unpacks how the Competition Commission wrongly named salesman Bryan Brownrigg in its rand-rigging case, wrecking a decade of his life. TymeBank's Coenraad Jonker says AI will enable bankers, not replace them, and Sakeliga's Piet le Roux takes employment equity quotas towards international courts. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Pistorius 'big lie'; Hamas crypto wallets; Comp Com overreach; EE quotas; Wall St up</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Retired senior advocate Chris Marnewick spent six years on the Pistorius trial record and tells Alec Hogg the conviction should have been culpable homicide, not murder, blaming social media groupthink for a "big lie" of gender-based violence. Analyst Jasmine Opperman reveals 14 active bitcoin wallets in South Africa channelling funds to Hamas. Financial Mail's Rob Rose unpacks how the Competition Commission wrongly named salesman Bryan Brownrigg in its rand-rigging case, wrecking a decade of his life. TymeBank's Coenraad Jonker says AI will enable bankers, not replace them, and Sakeliga's Piet le Roux takes employment equity quotas towards international courts.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Jasmine Opperman: Hamas-SA: 14 Bitcoin wallets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s NdB Sunday Show, intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman of Fulcrum Analytics, reveals to Chris Steyn that there are 14 active cryptocurrency wallets linked to Hamas in South Africa. “We know that Hamas has offices in South Africa. We know that they allowed freedom to move…And that there are definite financial streams going to Hamas, going to Hezbollah.” Opperman also shares the latest information on the South African recently kidnapped by ISIS in Mozambique, and further describes how ISIS-trained operatives take part in criminal operations in South Africa. “...the door for ISIS in South Africa is organised crime.” As for why the South African government would allow terrorist organisations to operate here, Opperman says: “...our government is ideologically blinded by the history of support they gained…it is as if the South African government is confusing their past with foreign policy.” Meanwhile, Opperman warns that US President Donald Trump has made a “fatal mistake” and that “we have entered fast and furious radicalisation…my concern is that the next generation of violent extremists, violent terrorists has already been generated.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Jasmine Opperman: Hamas-SA: 14 Bitcoin wallets</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>18:38</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this week’s NdB Sunday Show, intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman of Fulcrum Analytics, reveals to Chris Steyn that there are 14 active cryptocurrency wallets linked to Hamas in South Africa. “We know that Hamas has offices in South Africa. We know that they allowed freedom to move…And that there are definite financial streams going to Hamas, going to Hezbollah.” Opperman also shares the latest information on the South African recently kidnapped by ISIS in Mozambique, and further describes how ISIS-trained operatives take part in criminal operations in South Africa. “...the door for ISIS in South Africa is organised crime.” As for why the South African government would allow terrorist organisations to operate here, Opperman says: “...our government is ideologically blinded by the history of support they gained…it is as if the South African government is confusing their past with foreign policy.” Meanwhile, Opperman warns that US President Donald Trump has made a “fatal mistake” and that “we have entered fast and furious radicalisation…my concern is that the next generation of violent extremists, violent terrorists has already been generated.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Wrap-up panel: Joburg, Zuma, AI, JSE v S&amp;P, gold, small caps, and conference highlights</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1717007</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the close of BNC#9, Alec Hogg sat down with David Shapiro and Piet Viljoen to unpack the conference. Viljoen made the numbers case for South Africa: bar the two big banks, every stock in his portfolio trades at a discount of thirty percent or more to what he thinks it is worth, and the market is effectively paying investors fifteen percent a year just to stay put. Shapiro made the human case, and the uncomfortable one, running through what three days without power does to a family in Johannesburg, and why he still believes America out-competes an ageing Europe on sheer will to win. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Wrap-up panel: Joburg, Zuma, AI, JSE v S&amp;P, gold, small caps, and conference highlights</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>32:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At the close of BNC#9, Alec Hogg sat down with David Shapiro and Piet Viljoen to unpack the conference. Viljoen made the numbers case for South Africa: bar the two big banks, every stock in his portfolio trades at a discount of thirty percent or more to what he thinks it is worth, and the market is effectively paying investors fifteen percent a year just to stay put. Shapiro made the human case, and the uncomfortable one, running through what three days without power does to a family in Johannesburg, and why he still believes America out-competes an ageing Europe on sheer will to win.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Le Roux Q&amp;A: Sakeliga's 2026 scorecard, BEE and FMD wins, SARB next in line</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716954</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piet le Roux runs the organisation that has taken on the South African state more than any other business group this year, and he came to BNC#9 to explain why. Sakeliga beat the government on foot and mouth disease vaccines, international airline licensing and estate agents' BEE certificates in 2026 alone, and it wasn't finished. In this Q&A with Piet Viljoen, le Roux traced Sakeliga's strategy back four hundred years to a merchant alliance most people have never heard of, explained why the organisation deliberately avoids chasing individual officials into court, and previewed an AI system built to read every government gazette so his team doesn't have to. He also took audience questions on a minister's response to Sakeliga's court wins, on personal accountability, and on what a self-funded, twenty-person team can realistically take on next: the Reserve Bank. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Le Roux Q&amp;A: Sakeliga's 2026 scorecard, BEE and FMD wins, SARB next in line</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>32:59</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Piet le Roux runs the organisation that has taken on the South African state more than any other business group this year, and he came to BNC#9 to explain why. Sakeliga beat the government on foot and mouth disease vaccines, international airline licensing and estate agents' BEE certificates in 2026 alone, and it wasn't finished. In this Q&A with Piet Viljoen, le Roux traced Sakeliga's strategy back four hundred years to a merchant alliance most people have never heard of, explained why the organisation deliberately avoids chasing individual officials into court, and previewed an AI system built to read every government gazette so his team doesn't have to. He also took audience questions on a minister's response to Sakeliga's court wins, on personal accountability, and on what a self-funded, twenty-person team can realistically take on next: the Reserve Bank.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>SA's Competition Commission has become a handbrake on the economy: Rob Rose</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1717005</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Brownrigg was never a currency trader. He sold foreign exchange to Standard Bank's institutional clients for 23 years. But when the Competition Commission decided that 28 banks had run a single conspiracy to rig the rand, his name went into the complaint anyway, and it took a decade and a Constitutional Court ruling to get it out again. Financial Mail editor Rob Rose told Alec Hogg how one wrong assumption metastasised into a case that dragged banks, courts and taxpayers through ten years of litigation, and why Brownrigg is only one entry on a longer list. A tribunal sat on a merger decision for six years and then gave a reason for the delay that turned out not to be true. A R14 billion Vodacom fibre deal collapsed. A black-owned retailer was blocked from selling its own business. Rose's argument is blunt: South Africa's competition watchdogs have stopped policing competition, and started doing something else. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>SA's Competition Commission has become a handbrake on the economy: Rob Rose</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>20:08</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Bryan Brownrigg was never a currency trader. He sold foreign exchange to Standard Bank's institutional clients for 23 years. But when the Competition Commission decided that 28 banks had run a single conspiracy to rig the rand, his name went into the complaint anyway, and it took a decade and a Constitutional Court ruling to get it out again. Financial Mail editor Rob Rose told Alec Hogg how one wrong assumption metastasised into a case that dragged banks, courts and taxpayers through ten years of litigation, and why Brownrigg is only one entry on a longer list. A tribunal sat on a merger decision for six years and then gave a reason for the delay that turned out not to be true. A R14 billion Vodacom fibre deal collapsed. A black-owned retailer was blocked from selling its own business. Rose's argument is blunt: South Africa's competition watchdogs have stopped policing competition, and started doing something else.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>He built a $1.5bn bank. Now Revolut, Discovery Bank and PEP are circling</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716934</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Irakli Rekhviashvili, Tyme Group co-founder Coenraad Jonker gives his take on what actually protects a digital bank once the competition catches up, and why he thinks the old rules of banking no longer apply. On competitive advantage, he says: "I'm saying to my guys increasingly, I don't think there is a moat. I liken it to the time when people lived in walled cities with trenches dug around them. And then airplanes arrived, and people could fly over cities, and those walls became totally irrelevant." On why so many banks still fail to serve the poor profitably, he states: "It's not the customer that's the problem, it's the banks that's the problem." Jonker, whose group counts Brazil's Nubank among its backers, also puts a number on the group's New York listing ambitions, revealing: "I think it's more likely we'll be ready in 2030 than in 2028." He traces it all back to Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital, which he read during his MBA at GIBS in 2001. "I read the book in 2001 when I was busy with my MBA at GIBS... it lit a fire. It sort of started me thinking completely differently about the challenges of financial inclusion and financial exclusion." ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>He built a $1.5bn bank. Now Revolut, Discovery Bank and PEP are circling</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>50:48</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Irakli Rekhviashvili, Tyme Group co-founder Coenraad Jonker gives his take on what actually protects a digital bank once the competition catches up, and why he thinks the old rules of banking no longer apply. On competitive advantage, he says: "I'm saying to my guys increasingly, I don't think there is a moat. I liken it to the time when people lived in walled cities with trenches dug around them. And then airplanes arrived, and people could fly over cities, and those walls became totally irrelevant." On why so many banks still fail to serve the poor profitably, he states: "It's not the customer that's the problem, it's the banks that's the problem." Jonker, whose group counts Brazil's Nubank among its backers, also puts a number on the group's New York listing ambitions, revealing: "I think it's more likely we'll be ready in 2030 than in 2028." He traces it all back to Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital, which he read during his MBA at GIBS in 2001. "I read the book in 2001 when I was busy with my MBA at GIBS... it lit a fire. It sort of started me thinking completely differently about the challenges of financial inclusion and financial exclusion."]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Was Oscar Pistorius convicted of the wrong crime? A 36 year advocate says groupthink sentenced him</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716933</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[For six years, retired senior advocate Chris Marnewick worked through the 3,000 page record of the Oscar Pistorius trial, line by line, against the judgments that decided his fate. His conclusion, set out in a new book, is that the Supreme Court of Appeal got it wrong: Pistorius should have been convicted of culpable homicide, not murder. Marnewick argued that the cross-examination crossed lines an American or Canadian court would not have allowed, and that the picture the public built from social media, of an hour-long argument ending in a killing, was never supported by what was actually heard in court. He spoke to Alec Hogg about the witness who pointed in the wrong direction, the three words that changed Pistorius's sentence on a second appeal, and why he says the public became a victim of what he calls the big lie. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Was Oscar Pistorius convicted of the wrong crime? A 36 year advocate says groupthink sentenced him</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>30:56</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For six years, retired senior advocate Chris Marnewick worked through the 3,000 page record of the Oscar Pistorius trial, line by line, against the judgments that decided his fate. His conclusion, set out in a new book, is that the Supreme Court of Appeal got it wrong: Pistorius should have been convicted of culpable homicide, not murder. Marnewick argued that the cross-examination crossed lines an American or Canadian court would not have allowed, and that the picture the public built from social media, of an hour-long argument ending in a killing, was never supported by what was actually heard in court. He spoke to Alec Hogg about the witness who pointed in the wrong direction, the three words that changed Pistorius's sentence on a second appeal, and why he says the public became a victim of what he calls the big lie.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: DA's fake doctor, Sky the police dog, SA Sports mafia, Eskom's AI opportunity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cape Town councillor who admitted to faking his medical degree is reportedly still in line for a promotion, and political commentator Solly Moeng says the DA cannot say no to this one without starting to look like the ANC it built itself against. Meanwhile, a police dog named Sky died after being left injured and unattended overnight at a facility Parliament's police portfolio committee chair Ian Cameron says has been covering up animal neglect for years. And South African sport had its worst week yet: the bosses of Swimming SA and SASCOC both suspended, Olympic swimmer Roland Schoeman naming names, and journalist Graeme Joffe, run out of the country over a decade ago for reporting on exactly this, explaining why he still isn't celebrating. Plus Stafford Masie on the spare power Eskom is sitting on and what it could mean for African AI, and the latest from Wall Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: DA's fake doctor, Sky the police dog, SA Sports mafia, Eskom's AI opportunity</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>19:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Cape Town councillor who admitted to faking his medical degree is reportedly still in line for a promotion, and political commentator Solly Moeng says the DA cannot say no to this one without starting to look like the ANC it built itself against. Meanwhile, a police dog named Sky died after being left injured and unattended overnight at a facility Parliament's police portfolio committee chair Ian Cameron says has been covering up animal neglect for years. And South African sport had its worst week yet: the bosses of Swimming SA and SASCOC both suspended, Olympic swimmer Roland Schoeman naming names, and journalist Graeme Joffe, run out of the country over a decade ago for reporting on exactly this, explaining why he still isn't celebrating. Plus Stafford Masie on the spare power Eskom is sitting on and what it could mean for African AI, and the latest from Wall Street.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Masie Q&amp;A: Eskom's extra gigawatts are AI's gateway into SA economy</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716614</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stafford Masie says the AI industry is not actually running out of electricity, it is running out of places to plug in. The real bottleneck for OpenAI and Anthropic in the United States is grid connection points that can absorb the violent power swings inference computing demands, without blowing transformers or blacking out whole regions, as happened in Portugal last year. His argument at BNC#9: South Africa, sitting on a stable grid with gigawatts of curtailed surplus power, is unusually well positioned to host that compute for the rest of Africa, the way it once became a base for telcos and banks. He also spoke about why he thinks autonomous AI agents will out-transact humans within months, the regulatory framework he is helping build with the Reserve Bank to govern them, and the security risks of prompt injection and data poisoning that come with it. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Masie Q&amp;A: Eskom's extra gigawatts are AI's gateway into SA economy</itunes:title>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>39:06</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stafford Masie says the AI industry is not actually running out of electricity, it is running out of places to plug in. The real bottleneck for OpenAI and Anthropic in the United States is grid connection points that can absorb the violent power swings inference computing demands, without blowing transformers or blacking out whole regions, as happened in Portugal last year. His argument at BNC#9: South Africa, sitting on a stable grid with gigawatts of curtailed surplus power, is unusually well positioned to host that compute for the rest of Africa, the way it once became a base for telcos and banks. He also spoke about why he thinks autonomous AI agents will out-transact humans within months, the regulatory framework he is helping build with the Reserve Bank to govern them, and the security risks of prompt injection and data poisoning that come with it.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Four federations, four suspensions. Graeme Joffe says it's a &quot;deeply rooted cancer&quot;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graeme Joffe started digging into South African sports administration back in 2012, and it cost him his career, his safety, and, he says, his ability to ever go home again. Talking to Alec Hogg, Joffe walked through everything that has unravelled since: the presidents of SASCOC, Athletics South Africa and Swimming South Africa all suspended within weeks of each other, the entire executive of Karate South Africa suspended by its world body, and Olympic swimmer Tatjana Smith's prize money held back for over a year. Joffe named the people he has spent more than a decade chasing, from Danny Jordaan to Mark Alexander to Jurie Roux, and explained why, in his telling, so little ever actually changes at the top of South African sport. He also revisited what it cost him personally: a R21 million defamation suit, death threats, and a criminal charge that means he still cannot safely set foot in the country he reported on for most of his career. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Four federations, four suspensions. Graeme Joffe says it's a &quot;deeply rooted cancer&quot;</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>26:47</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Graeme Joffe started digging into South African sports administration back in 2012, and it cost him his career, his safety, and, he says, his ability to ever go home again. Talking to Alec Hogg, Joffe walked through everything that has unravelled since: the presidents of SASCOC, Athletics South Africa and Swimming South Africa all suspended within weeks of each other, the entire executive of Karate South Africa suspended by its world body, and Olympic swimmer Tatjana Smith's prize money held back for over a year. Joffe named the people he has spent more than a decade chasing, from Danny Jordaan to Mark Alexander to Jurie Roux, and explained why, in his telling, so little ever actually changes at the top of South African sport. He also revisited what it cost him personally: a R21 million defamation suit, death threats, and a criminal charge that means he still cannot safely set foot in the country he reported on for most of his career.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ian Cameron: Another SAPS cover-up exposed!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, exposes a huge cover-up over many years of animal maltreatment at the SAPS Roodeplaat Veterinary facility. Speaking following the death of the arson-detection dog Sky, he said: “That hospital, if this is the way that they look after animals, is as good as a morgue for animals. It's almost a case of if you, as a dog handler, have to send your dog to Roodeplaat, in many cases, you can say your goodbyes because you're not guaranteed that you would get your dog back. And I don't say this lightly. I say this because of the amount of cops that have called me over the last two days, pleading their cases about their dogs previously sent there, came back worse, or didn't come back at all. So, in the coming days I am going to expose even more since as far back as 2019 about criminal investigations that were made to go quiet, disciplinary processes that were not followed and just ignored at Roodeplaat, and how a lot of the animals that have died over the last few years could have still not only lived but lived prosperously.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Ian Cameron: Another SAPS cover-up exposed!</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>18:07</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, exposes a huge cover-up over many years of animal maltreatment at the SAPS Roodeplaat Veterinary facility. Speaking following the death of the arson-detection dog Sky, he said: “That hospital, if this is the way that they look after animals, is as good as a morgue for animals. It's almost a case of if you, as a dog handler, have to send your dog to Roodeplaat, in many cases, you can say your goodbyes because you're not guaranteed that you would get your dog back. And I don't say this lightly. I say this because of the amount of cops that have called me over the last two days, pleading their cases about their dogs previously sent there, came back worse, or didn't come back at all. So, in the coming days I am going to expose even more since as far back as 2019 about criminal investigations that were made to go quiet, disciplinary processes that were not followed and just ignored at Roodeplaat, and how a lot of the animals that have died over the last few years could have still not only lived but lived prosperously.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Shapiro Q&amp;A: SA's ideology problem, reading market signals, and how AI tripled his output</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716488</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[At BNC#9, veteran stockbroker David Shapiro told delegates that AI had roughly tripled his own output, and he is not slowing down at 78. He argued that South Africa's real obstacle is not regulation but ideology, and that it is costing the country a venture capital industry, a functioning collateral-free lending market, and a mining sector he believes is sitting on far more gold than it is using. He also explained why he cannot make a living from the JSE alone, why he sends most of his clients' money offshore, and the one signal he trusts more than any headline: what the share price is actually doing while the story is still being told. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Shapiro Q&amp;A: SA's ideology problem, reading market signals, and how AI tripled his output</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>39:06</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At BNC#9, veteran stockbroker David Shapiro told delegates that AI had roughly tripled his own output, and he is not slowing down at 78. He argued that South Africa's real obstacle is not regulation but ideology, and that it is costing the country a venture capital industry, a functioning collateral-free lending market, and a mining sector he believes is sitting on far more gold than it is using. He also explained why he cannot make a living from the JSE alone, why he sends most of his clients' money offshore, and the one signal he trusts more than any headline: what the share price is actually doing while the story is still being told.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Solly Moeng: DA in danger of becoming the ANC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest weekly chat with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator, Solly Moeng urges action from the Democratic Alliance (DA) over reports that the party is considering promoting Cape Town councillor - and fake doctor - Abdulkader “AK” Elyas to either Parliament or the Western Cape legislature despite guilty findings relating to the falsification of his qualifications. “If it doesn't act against him, it's going to be in trouble. Then… it's slowly, slowly becoming the ANC…. it's an accumulation of things that are happening in the DA space that are making it harder and harder to distinguish from the ANC.” Moeng also comments on the biggest ever pre- by-election crisis facing the African National Congress; President Cyril Ramaphosa’s impeachment inquiry stalling - yet again; the president’s failure to act against Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu; the dirt on Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) CIC Julius Malema emerging at the Madlanga Commission; and the court room altercation between tenderpreneur “Cat” Matlala and his fiery Advocate. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: DA in danger of becoming the ANC</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>17:34</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest weekly chat with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator, Solly Moeng urges action from the Democratic Alliance (DA) over reports that the party is considering promoting Cape Town councillor - and fake doctor - Abdulkader “AK” Elyas to either Parliament or the Western Cape legislature despite guilty findings relating to the falsification of his qualifications. “If it doesn't act against him, it's going to be in trouble. Then… it's slowly, slowly becoming the ANC…. it's an accumulation of things that are happening in the DA space that are making it harder and harder to distinguish from the ANC.” Moeng also comments on the biggest ever pre- by-election crisis facing the African National Congress; President Cyril Ramaphosa’s impeachment inquiry stalling - yet again; the president’s failure to act against Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu; the dirt on Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) CIC Julius Malema emerging at the Madlanga Commission; and the court room altercation between tenderpreneur “Cat” Matlala and his fiery Advocate.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>&quot;Two suspensions don't fix 20 years&quot;: Roland Schoeman joins the fight against Swimming SA</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716406</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland Schoeman won three Olympic medals for South Africa. In this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, Schoeman says that didn't buy him any protection from Swimming South Africa: he describes being flown home from the US at the federation's own expense just to hear a second doctor confirm what the first had already told them, and being blocked from a World Cup he'd already paid his own way to attend. Days after the federation's president and CEO were provisionally suspended by World Aquatics over alleged abuse of power and fake documents, Schoeman tells Hogg that two suspensions don't fix twenty years of it, and names the swimmers he wants to see speak up next. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>&quot;Two suspensions don't fix 20 years&quot;: Roland Schoeman joins the fight against Swimming SA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>26:17</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Roland Schoeman won three Olympic medals for South Africa. In this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, Schoeman says that didn't buy him any protection from Swimming South Africa: he describes being flown home from the US at the federation's own expense just to hear a second doctor confirm what the first had already told them, and being blocked from a World Cup he'd already paid his own way to attend. Days after the federation's president and CEO were provisionally suspended by World Aquatics over alleged abuse of power and fake documents, Schoeman tells Hogg that two suspensions don't fix twenty years of it, and names the swimmers he wants to see speak up next.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: 54 days to elections, 48,000 tons of gold untouched, SOE failures, Piet Viljoen</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716253</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty four days out from South Africa's local government elections, Geordin Hill-Lewis told BizNews nobody else is even campaigning yet, and made his case for why the DA could end up governing seven of the country's eight big metros. Sam Montsi, whose memoir Defying Barriers charts a career from exile in Lesotho to running businesses on two continents, told Chris Steyn where the politicisation of state-owned company boards went wrong. Dr Duarte da Silva made the case that South Africa isn't running out of gold, it's sitting on 48,000 tons of it, and explained why almost nobody in Pretoria seems to be listening. And at BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, value investor Piet Viljoen answered a delegate's question about executive pay, incentives, and what he calls his investing North Star. Plus the latest from Wall Street, via Reuters. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: 54 days to elections, 48,000 tons of gold untouched, SOE failures, Piet Viljoen</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>13:28</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fifty four days out from South Africa's local government elections, Geordin Hill-Lewis told BizNews nobody else is even campaigning yet, and made his case for why the DA could end up governing seven of the country's eight big metros. Sam Montsi, whose memoir Defying Barriers charts a career from exile in Lesotho to running businesses on two continents, told Chris Steyn where the politicisation of state-owned company boards went wrong. Dr Duarte da Silva made the case that South Africa isn't running out of gold, it's sitting on 48,000 tons of it, and explained why almost nobody in Pretoria seems to be listening. And at BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, value investor Piet Viljoen answered a delegate's question about executive pay, incentives, and what he calls his investing North Star. Plus the latest from Wall Street, via Reuters.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Wheatley Q&amp;A: Will the SARB take your crypto? And Eskom's missed Bitcoin windfall</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716148</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial note: This session was recorded at BNC#9 on Thursday 13 August 2026. In the days after this Q&A, the FSCA announced 20-year debarment orders against Warren Wheatley and two colleagues over share trading in Altvest Capital (Africa Bitcoin Corporation's predecessor) in September 2022, along with a combined R10 million in administrative penalties. Wheatley has resigned from the board; Stafford Masie, referenced throughout this session, is now interim CEO. All three dispute the findings and are seeking reconsideration from the Financial Services Tribunal. Nothing in this Q&A relates to that matter, which concerns trades from roughly four years before this conversation, but readers should have that context. See the flags section of the publish package for detail and sourcing.<br />
<br />
At BNC#9, Warren Wheatley told David Shapiro that Bitcoin has become boring, and he meant it as a compliment. The Africa Bitcoin Corporation founder walked through the mechanics: borrowing dollars from a European bank at 3%, using the money to buy Bitcoin, then lending to South African SMEs at 18%, less than half what most of them pay elsewhere. He explained the loan-to-value discipline that keeps it safe, why he'd rather fund a farmer hiring 80 people than a two-person AI unicorn, and what he thinks the Reserve Bank's draft crypto rules would do to the industry if they pass as written. He also covered how Bitcoin miners quietly became a buffer for AI data centres, what Eskom missed out on, and his own advice on keeping Bitcoin safe. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Wheatley Q&amp;A: Will the SARB take your crypto? And Eskom's missed Bitcoin windfall</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>37:29</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Editorial note: This session was recorded at BNC#9 on Thursday 13 August 2026. In the days after this Q&A, the FSCA announced 20-year debarment orders against Warren Wheatley and two colleagues over share trading in Altvest Capital (Africa Bitcoin Corporation's predecessor) in September 2022, along with a combined R10 million in administrative penalties. Wheatley has resigned from the board; Stafford Masie, referenced throughout this session, is now interim CEO. All three dispute the findings and are seeking reconsideration from the Financial Services Tribunal. Nothing in this Q&A relates to that matter, which concerns trades from roughly four years before this conversation, but readers should have that context. See the flags section of the publish package for detail and sourcing.

At BNC#9, Warren Wheatley told David Shapiro that Bitcoin has become boring, and he meant it as a compliment. The Africa Bitcoin Corporation founder walked through the mechanics: borrowing dollars from a European bank at 3%, using the money to buy Bitcoin, then lending to South African SMEs at 18%, less than half what most of them pay elsewhere. He explained the loan-to-value discipline that keeps it safe, why he'd rather fund a farmer hiring 80 people than a two-person AI unicorn, and what he thinks the Reserve Bank's draft crypto rules would do to the industry if they pass as written. He also covered how Bitcoin miners quietly became a buffer for AI data centres, what Eskom missed out on, and his own advice on keeping Bitcoin safe.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Viljoen Q&amp;A: The investment advice most fund managers won't give you</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716121</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piet Viljoen doesn't read the news, doesn't watch the Fed, and thinks most of what the investment industry sells you is jargon designed to make simple things sound complicated. In his Q&A at BNC#9, he went after executive pay, looked at private equity's real return profile, explained why he avoids AI stocks entirely, and unpacked the regulations that let his fund own crash-prone stocks but cap it at 10% gold. Then the floor opened up to questions: offshore allowances, Bitcoin, HCI, and whether the asset management industry is about to consolidate. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Viljoen Q&amp;A: The investment advice most fund managers won't give you</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>32:40</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Piet Viljoen doesn't read the news, doesn't watch the Fed, and thinks most of what the investment industry sells you is jargon designed to make simple things sound complicated. In his Q&A at BNC#9, he went after executive pay, looked at private equity's real return profile, explained why he avoids AI stocks entirely, and unpacked the regulations that let his fund own crash-prone stocks but cap it at 10% gold. Then the floor opened up to questions: offshore allowances, Bitcoin, HCI, and whether the asset management industry is about to consolidate.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>GHL: Seven metros could flip from ANC control, what voters want most, and the DA's jobs record</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1716008</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Town created 418,000 jobs in five years while the rest of the country's economy shrank last quarter. Its new DA leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, thinks that number is the party's best argument for why voters should hand it six or seven of South Africa's major metros on 4 November, from Johannesburg to Durban. He talks to Alec Hogg about the jobs data, the ANC's Gwede Mantashe getting caught on camera implying a voter's grandchild's grant comes from the ANC, a pet permit bylaw row he calls misinformation, and a Bloemfontein court fight that could keep the ANC off the ballot in Mangaung altogether. Fifty four days out, he says nobody else is even campaigning yet. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>GHL: Seven metros could flip from ANC control, what voters want most, and the DA's jobs record</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:06</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cape Town created 418,000 jobs in five years while the rest of the country's economy shrank last quarter. Its new DA leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, thinks that number is the party's best argument for why voters should hand it six or seven of South Africa's major metros on 4 November, from Johannesburg to Durban. He talks to Alec Hogg about the jobs data, the ANC's Gwede Mantashe getting caught on camera implying a voter's grandchild's grant comes from the ANC, a pet permit bylaw row he calls misinformation, and a Bloemfontein court fight that could keep the ANC off the ballot in Mangaung altogether. Fifty four days out, he says nobody else is even campaigning yet.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Sam Montsi: Keep “crazy” people out of power!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, business icon and author Sam Montsi, gives his take on revelations at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, as well as the worldwide impact of US President Donald Trump’s actions. On political and police capture by crime cartels, he says: “It's frightening what has happened in the leadership of some of the organs of State where people have infiltrated and tried to make money very unscrupulously - and they were facilitated and helped by some of the very senior people in the leadership of these institutions.” On Trump, he states: “I can't believe that the United States of America could allow such a person not only to emerge as their leader, but to allow him to do what he's doing throughout the world…it means we really need to be very careful and cautious who, in our little country here, we allow to…lead the country. And we also have to put measures in place to make sure that there are checks and balances so that you don't have crazy people that come into power who will tear the country apart or create problems with our relationships with other countries.” Montsi, whose memoir is titled “Defying Barriers” - also dissects the problems surrounding BEE and SOEs, and shares words of advice for both entrepreneurs, as well as politicians. He declares himself optimistic about the future of South Africa. “I think we are beginning to see the ship of State being pointed or being moved to point in a different direction, which is constructive and positive for the economy and the country.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Sam Montsi: Keep “crazy” people out of power!</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>17:49</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, business icon and author Sam Montsi, gives his take on revelations at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, as well as the worldwide impact of US President Donald Trump’s actions. On political and police capture by crime cartels, he says: “It's frightening what has happened in the leadership of some of the organs of State where people have infiltrated and tried to make money very unscrupulously - and they were facilitated and helped by some of the very senior people in the leadership of these institutions.” On Trump, he states: “I can't believe that the United States of America could allow such a person not only to emerge as their leader, but to allow him to do what he's doing throughout the world…it means we really need to be very careful and cautious who, in our little country here, we allow to…lead the country. And we also have to put measures in place to make sure that there are checks and balances so that you don't have crazy people that come into power who will tear the country apart or create problems with our relationships with other countries.” Montsi, whose memoir is titled “Defying Barriers” - also dissects the problems surrounding BEE and SOEs, and shares words of advice for both entrepreneurs, as well as politicians. He declares himself optimistic about the future of South Africa. “I think we are beginning to see the ship of State being pointed or being moved to point in a different direction, which is constructive and positive for the economy and the country.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Central banks are dumping the dollar for gold, and SA has left its 48,000 tons untouched</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715950</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa has already mined a quarter of all the gold ever pulled out of the ground, and it still has 48,000 tons sitting under the Witwatersrand. So why has annual output collapsed from 1,000 tons to 88? Dr Duarte da Silva, once South Africa's go-to tech guru and now a gold analyst, tells Alec Hogg why central banks are dumping dollars for gold, why he thinks the Witwatersrand's "death" has been declared four times and been wrong every time, and why he calls the way mining majors offload worked-out shafts onto smaller players "nothing short of criminal." He also doesn't hold back on Stilfontein, on JP Morgan's call for 20% gold portfolios, and on why, despite everything, he's not touching crypto. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Central banks are dumping the dollar for gold, and SA has left its 48,000 tons untouched</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>28:36</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa has already mined a quarter of all the gold ever pulled out of the ground, and it still has 48,000 tons sitting under the Witwatersrand. So why has annual output collapsed from 1,000 tons to 88? Dr Duarte da Silva, once South Africa's go-to tech guru and now a gold analyst, tells Alec Hogg why central banks are dumping dollars for gold, why he thinks the Witwatersrand's "death" has been declared four times and been wrong every time, and why he calls the way mining majors offload worked-out shafts onto smaller players "nothing short of criminal." He also doesn't hold back on Stilfontein, on JP Morgan's call for 20% gold portfolios, and on why, despite everything, he's not touching crypto.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Cameron on SAPS cover-ups, rescuing a failing business, Gold v Bitcoin, AI market spook</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715814</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A parliamentary watchdog says someone inside SAPS management is lying about missing vehicles, and the good cops are paying for it. A CEO who once got locked out of his own email explains how he turned around a company that had defaulted on its debt for sixteen straight months. A veteran gold fund manager weighs up whether Bitcoin can ever do what gold has done for centuries. An investor who bought into a business after it lost 99.5% of its value tells you exactly how he made the board earn its keep. And overnight, OpenAI's newest model wiped billions off software stocks while oil climbed on Middle East tensions. All of it on today's BizNews Daybreak. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Cameron on SAPS cover-ups, rescuing a failing business, Gold v Bitcoin, AI market spook</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>16:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A parliamentary watchdog says someone inside SAPS management is lying about missing vehicles, and the good cops are paying for it. A CEO who once got locked out of his own email explains how he turned around a company that had defaulted on its debt for sixteen straight months. A veteran gold fund manager weighs up whether Bitcoin can ever do what gold has done for centuries. An investor who bought into a business after it lost 99.5% of its value tells you exactly how he made the board earn its keep. And overnight, OpenAI's newest model wiped billions off software stocks while oil climbed on Middle East tensions. All of it on today's BizNews Daybreak.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Summerton Q&amp;A: Winner-takes-all investing, stubborn boards, hostile bids, and the AI future</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715690</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhys Summerton bought into a company that had lost 99.5% of its market value and told the independent directors their pay was being halved on day one. At BNC#9, the Milkwood Capital founder and iOCO joint CEO laid out how a fund manager turned operator actually runs the acquisition game: why control of the cash flow matters more than a board seat, why he thinks South Africa's King Code has been "not net positive" for corporate governance, why US executives paying themselves 4% of market cap is a warning sign, and why he wants nothing to do with companies burning billions on AI capex. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Summerton Q&amp;A: Winner-takes-all investing, stubborn boards, hostile bids, and the AI future</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>36:56</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rhys Summerton bought into a company that had lost 99.5% of its market value and told the independent directors their pay was being halved on day one. At BNC#9, the Milkwood Capital founder and iOCO joint CEO laid out how a fund manager turned operator actually runs the acquisition game: why control of the cash flow matters more than a board seat, why he thinks South Africa's King Code has been "not net positive" for corporate governance, why US executives paying themselves 4% of market cap is a warning sign, and why he wants nothing to do with companies burning billions on AI capex.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>He worked for R1 a month to save a failing business. Now Carl Neethling will never list again</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715687</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Neethling didn't set out to run Ascendis Health. A small, almost accidental shareholding tripped a JSE disclosure threshold, and not long after that he was locked out of his own email on the day he took the company over. What he found inside: nineteen accountants who, in his words, spent their days counting money that no longer existed, a head office costing more each year than the whole business was worth, and a regulator that ruled his takeover consortium had broken the law, only for a high court to tear the ruling up. He calls it the most painful experience of his life, and he's adamant Ascendis will never go anywhere near the JSE again. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>He worked for R1 a month to save a failing business. Now Carl Neethling will never list again</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>1:03:21</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Carl Neethling didn't set out to run Ascendis Health. A small, almost accidental shareholding tripped a JSE disclosure threshold, and not long after that he was locked out of his own email on the day he took the company over. What he found inside: nineteen accountants who, in his words, spent their days counting money that no longer existed, a head office costing more each year than the whole business was worth, and a regulator that ruled his takeover consortium had broken the law, only for a high court to tear the ruling up. He calls it the most painful experience of his life, and he's adamant Ascendis will never go anywhere near the JSE again.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Meryl Pick Q&amp;A: Gold, Bitcoin, the Dollar - and where central banks are hedging their bets</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715585?v=1</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Mutual almost closed its gold fund in 2019. A ballot most clients ignore drew a 13% response, and that was enough to keep it alive. Six years later it has gone from R400 million to R4 billion, and the fund's manager, Meryl Pick, was at BNC#9 taking questions on everything that got her there. Speaking to delegates, she explained why Warren Buffett's scepticism on gold is a product of the era he grew up in, why she thinks the past 80 years of globalisation were the anomaly rather than the norm, and what she's actually watching in central bank buying to know if this time really is different. She takes on gold versus Bitcoin, why Canada might be fine without reserves while New Zealand should worry, and how a country inflates its way out of a debt trap. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Meryl Pick Q&amp;A: Gold, Bitcoin, the Dollar - and where central banks are hedging their bets</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>33:43</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Old Mutual almost closed its gold fund in 2019. A ballot most clients ignore drew a 13% response, and that was enough to keep it alive. Six years later it has gone from R400 million to R4 billion, and the fund's manager, Meryl Pick, was at BNC#9 taking questions on everything that got her there. Speaking to delegates, she explained why Warren Buffett's scepticism on gold is a product of the era he grew up in, why she thinks the past 80 years of globalisation were the anomaly rather than the norm, and what she's actually watching in central bank buying to know if this time really is different. She takes on gold versus Bitcoin, why Canada might be fine without reserves while New Zealand should worry, and how a country inflates its way out of a debt trap.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Cameron’s message for Cachalia: I will not stop asking questions</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715523</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, has a very direct message for Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia who - at the SAPS National Commemoration Day for fallen heroes - introduced him to the Free State MEC as “Chairperson Cameron, the one that always lambasts the police in the media” . Cameron says: “I thought to myself, you know what? I bleed with the police, I cry with the police, I absolutely live for the police. And every single question and every single matter that I take on is a matter based on information that the good cops shared with me, the cops that actually had the guts to come forward and speak…So I take it very personally when a comment is made that disregards the hard work that we put in. So the message is very, very simple: whether the Minister likes it or not, and whether we get pushback or not on the questions that we ask, we will keep asking. We will keep highlighting and we will keep exposing.” Furthermore, Cameron speaks about his long battle to hold accountable Major-General Feroz Khan who has finally been sacked. He shares details of epic battles to deal with shortages of vehicles (and even R5s) at various police units and stations. He also shares photos of horrific injuries suffered by an arson-detection dog at the SAPS Veterinary facility at Roodeplaat, prompting him to lay criminal charges. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Cameron’s message for Cachalia: I will not stop asking questions</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>21:20</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, has a very direct message for Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia who - at the SAPS National Commemoration Day for fallen heroes - introduced him to the Free State MEC as “Chairperson Cameron, the one that always lambasts the police in the media” . Cameron says: “I thought to myself, you know what? I bleed with the police, I cry with the police, I absolutely live for the police. And every single question and every single matter that I take on is a matter based on information that the good cops shared with me, the cops that actually had the guts to come forward and speak…So I take it very personally when a comment is made that disregards the hard work that we put in. So the message is very, very simple: whether the Minister likes it or not, and whether we get pushback or not on the questions that we ask, we will keep asking. We will keep highlighting and we will keep exposing.” Furthermore, Cameron speaks about his long battle to hold accountable Major-General Feroz Khan who has finally been sacked. He shares details of epic battles to deal with shortages of vehicles (and even R5s) at various police units and stations. He also shares photos of horrific injuries suffered by an arson-detection dog at the SAPS Veterinary facility at Roodeplaat, prompting him to lay criminal charges.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Swimming SA scandal, women voters keep ANC ticking, how long to fix SAPS</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715316</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after Brett Redelinghuys was banned for trying to expose problems from the inside, World Aquatics has provisionally suspended Swimming SA's president and CEO over abuse of power allegations, vindicating his years-long fight. Elsewhere, IRR pollster Hermann Pretorius tells Chris Steyn why South African women, not men, are the ANC's real firewall against the DA. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, constitutional expert Paul Hoffman makes the case for the DA's devolution plan and a police overhaul, while Afrimat's Andries van Heerden argues Transnet's turnaround is the proof South Africa's negative narrative needs correcting. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Swimming SA scandal, women voters keep ANC ticking, how long to fix SAPS</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>15:31</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ten years after Brett Redelinghuys was banned for trying to expose problems from the inside, World Aquatics has provisionally suspended Swimming SA's president and CEO over abuse of power allegations, vindicating his years-long fight. Elsewhere, IRR pollster Hermann Pretorius tells Chris Steyn why South African women, not men, are the ANC's real firewall against the DA. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, constitutional expert Paul Hoffman makes the case for the DA's devolution plan and a police overhaul, while Afrimat's Andries van Heerden argues Transnet's turnaround is the proof South Africa's negative narrative needs correcting.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Hoffman Q&amp;A: Asking the ANC to fight corruption is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715196</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Hoffman has sued Jacob Zuma so many times that he calls him his "number one sponsor," because every case Zuma lost came with a costs order. At BNC#9, the Accountability Now advocate took questions on the private member's bill that could finally give South Africa an independent, Chapter 9 anti-corruption commission, why he thinks IDAC is structurally doomed and headed for a constitutional challenge, and who he expects to be first up for investigation once a proper body exists. He also made the case for the DA's fight to take policing powers away from national government in the Western Cape, explained why greed rather than ideology drives most corruption, and said why he doesn't buy the idea that Patrice Motsepe wants the presidency. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Hoffman Q&amp;A: Asking the ANC to fight corruption is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>38:30</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Paul Hoffman has sued Jacob Zuma so many times that he calls him his "number one sponsor," because every case Zuma lost came with a costs order. At BNC#9, the Accountability Now advocate took questions on the private member's bill that could finally give South Africa an independent, Chapter 9 anti-corruption commission, why he thinks IDAC is structurally doomed and headed for a constitutional challenge, and who he expects to be first up for investigation once a proper body exists. He also made the case for the DA's fight to take policing powers away from national government in the Western Cape, explained why greed rather than ideology drives most corruption, and said why he doesn't buy the idea that Patrice Motsepe wants the presidency.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Van Heerden Q&amp;A: Afrimat's Lafarge bet, fixing SA towns, untapped gold, Transnet turnaround</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afrimat's Andries van Heerden bought a struggling cement business for its quarries, not its cement, and is now watching a Chinese buyer take on the part he didn't want. In this Q&A from BNC#9, he tells Alec Hogg what actually scares him in a takeover, why Transnet's turnaround is the best he's seen in years, and why he still won't chase lithium at today's price. Along the way: fixing a Free State town without handing over a cent, the gold South Africa has left in the ground since 1886, and why doing business with Chinese contractors is a lesson his own team is still learning. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Van Heerden Q&amp;A: Afrimat's Lafarge bet, fixing SA towns, untapped gold, Transnet turnaround</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>35:06</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Afrimat's Andries van Heerden bought a struggling cement business for its quarries, not its cement, and is now watching a Chinese buyer take on the part he didn't want. In this Q&A from BNC#9, he tells Alec Hogg what actually scares him in a takeover, why Transnet's turnaround is the best he's seen in years, and why he still won't chase lithium at today's price. Along the way: fixing a Free State town without handing over a cent, the gold South Africa has left in the ground since 1886, and why doing business with Chinese contractors is a lesson his own team is still learning.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Hermann Pretorius: Women voters favour the ANC, but the DA is tipped for big Metro victories…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715077</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Hermann Pretorius of the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) unpacks his polling results on South Africa’s women voters from 2021 to 2026, including the key finding that women voters are keeping the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the Democratic Alliance (DA). “..all the years from 2021 till now, the ANC has an advantage among women voters.. if only men voted in an election in South Africa in 2026, the ANC and the DA would be essentially tied at 26-27%. If only women voted, the DA would be on 26% and the ANC would be on 37%.” Asked for his predictions of the outcome of the November Local Government Elections, Pretorius estimates that the ANC could get as much as 50% in Mangaung, while DA in Johannesburg could get between 42 to 44% and the ANC between 20 to 23%; the DA in Tshwane between 44 to 47% and the ANC between 24 to 27%; the DA holding Cape Town with between 58 and 61% of the vote; the DA in Ekurhuleni garnering as much 43% of the vote with the ANC down in the mid-low 20s and the Freedom Front Plus at between 9 and 11%; and in EThekwini the DA and MKP possibly tying at 30%, with the IFP at about 14%, and the ANC at around 10%. “But I think the number to watch is MK versus DA. Those I think in an urban-suburban setting are the two parties that are likely to be at each other's throats for that first spot.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
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						<itunes:title>Hermann Pretorius: Women voters favour the ANC, but the DA is tipped for big Metro victories…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>23:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Hermann Pretorius of the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) unpacks his polling results on South Africa’s women voters from 2021 to 2026, including the key finding that women voters are keeping the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the Democratic Alliance (DA). “..all the years from 2021 till now, the ANC has an advantage among women voters.. if only men voted in an election in South Africa in 2026, the ANC and the DA would be essentially tied at 26-27%. If only women voted, the DA would be on 26% and the ANC would be on 37%.” Asked for his predictions of the outcome of the November Local Government Elections, Pretorius estimates that the ANC could get as much as 50% in Mangaung, while DA in Johannesburg could get between 42 to 44% and the ANC between 20 to 23%; the DA in Tshwane between 44 to 47% and the ANC between 24 to 27%; the DA holding Cape Town with between 58 and 61% of the vote; the DA in Ekurhuleni garnering as much 43% of the vote with the ANC down in the mid-low 20s and the Freedom Front Plus at between 9 and 11%; and in EThekwini the DA and MKP possibly tying at 30%, with the IFP at about 14%, and the ANC at around 10%. “But I think the number to watch is MK versus DA. Those I think in an urban-suburban setting are the two parties that are likely to be at each other's throats for that first spot.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>He fought Swimming SA for years. Finally the world body caught up</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1715050</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brett Redelinghuys was banned for ten years by Swimming South Africa for trying to fix it from the inside. This week, the two men who banned him, president Alan Fritz and CEO Shaun Adriaanse, were provisionally suspended by World Aquatics itself, over allegations of abuse of power and fake documents. In between: a R111 million high-performance swimming centre in Franschhoek that has never held a swimmer, its pools filled with stagnant water instead, a school stripped of the facilities it signed away, and a breakaway water polo body formed because, in Redelinghuys's words, there was no way to fix this from within. He lays out what he says actually happened to the money, why South Africa's water polo team walked away from the 2024 Olympics without most of the country knowing, and what he thinks needs to happen next. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>He fought Swimming SA for years. Finally the world body caught up</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>28:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Brett Redelinghuys was banned for ten years by Swimming South Africa for trying to fix it from the inside. This week, the two men who banned him, president Alan Fritz and CEO Shaun Adriaanse, were provisionally suspended by World Aquatics itself, over allegations of abuse of power and fake documents. In between: a R111 million high-performance swimming centre in Franschhoek that has never held a swimmer, its pools filled with stagnant water instead, a school stripped of the facilities it signed away, and a breakaway water polo body formed because, in Redelinghuys's words, there was no way to fix this from within. He lays out what he says actually happened to the money, why South Africa's water polo team walked away from the 2024 Olympics without most of the country knowing, and what he thinks needs to happen next.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Masie on ABC c-suite shuffle, who really runs crime in SA, a lesson from Yuppiechef</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714846</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three senior executives are gone from one of South Africa's flashiest bitcoin bets this week, and the company's new interim boss won't say how big the alleged share manipulation was. An intelligence analyst says the crime bosses everyone is fixated on are just middle management, answering to people we never hear about. Andrew Smith explains what it actually costs to hand your company over to outside money, years after he thought he already knew. A DA mayoral hopeful with a Hawks case behind him makes his pitch on infrastructure over show ponies. And the minister sitting on thousands of empty government buildings explains why the state still pays R6 billion a year to rent from someone else. Plus the latest from Wall Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Masie on ABC c-suite shuffle, who really runs crime in SA, a lesson from Yuppiechef</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>15:53</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Three senior executives are gone from one of South Africa's flashiest bitcoin bets this week, and the company's new interim boss won't say how big the alleged share manipulation was. An intelligence analyst says the crime bosses everyone is fixated on are just middle management, answering to people we never hear about. Andrew Smith explains what it actually costs to hand your company over to outside money, years after he thought he already knew. A DA mayoral hopeful with a Hawks case behind him makes his pitch on infrastructure over show ponies. And the minister sitting on thousands of empty government buildings explains why the state still pays R6 billion a year to rent from someone else. Plus the latest from Wall Street.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The Hidden cost of selling your business: Andrew Smith’s Yuppiechef story</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714805</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[What really happens after the entrepreneurial dream comes true? Andrew Smith, co-founder of Yuppiechef, opens up about building a business from a side hustle into a retail powerhouse, taking venture capital, navigating rapid growth, surviving Covid, and ultimately selling the company. Drawing on years of handwritten journals, he shares candid lessons about ambition, control, investors, partnerships and the emotional cost of letting go. It’s an honest, thought-provoking look at entrepreneurship - and a powerful reminder that success doesn’t always mean getting everything you wanted. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The Hidden cost of selling your business: Andrew Smith’s Yuppiechef story</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>1:04:14</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What really happens after the entrepreneurial dream comes true? Andrew Smith, co-founder of Yuppiechef, opens up about building a business from a side hustle into a retail powerhouse, taking venture capital, navigating rapid growth, surviving Covid, and ultimately selling the company. Drawing on years of handwritten journals, he shares candid lessons about ambition, control, investors, partnerships and the emotional cost of letting go. It’s an honest, thought-provoking look at entrepreneurship - and a powerful reminder that success doesn’t always mean getting everything you wanted.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show - Alwyn Swart: The Big 5 are only “middle managers”, spies in power plays, Trump &amp; Israel…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714782</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and intelligence Analyst Alwyn Swart of Fulcrum Analytics talk about the instrumentalisation of the intelligence apparatus by administrations across the ideological spectrum; as well as the links between high-ranking officials and external parties using South Africa as a proxy, not only for political influence but also to do business in the international crime space. As for the fixation on the so-called Big 5, Swart says: “I would say the Big Five are merely line middle managers. They are connected to their influencers outside the borders of South Africa and it is difficult to arrest one and think the problem is gone.” Asked whether there are links between the international crime cartels and the international influencers of South African politics, he says: “Definitely. Although something like that has been viewed as very politically sensitive - and I do not think that will be exposed in the media. I do not also think that will be stated in high-end inquiry reports due to the threat that it has for stability in South Africa.” Swart also gives his take on the relationship between the United States and Israel amid the Iran War, and South Africa’s post-Cold War significance in the event of World War III. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show - Alwyn Swart: The Big 5 are only “middle managers”, spies in power plays, Trump &amp; Israel…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>15:07</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and intelligence Analyst Alwyn Swart of Fulcrum Analytics talk about the instrumentalisation of the intelligence apparatus by administrations across the ideological spectrum; as well as the links between high-ranking officials and external parties using South Africa as a proxy, not only for political influence but also to do business in the international crime space. As for the fixation on the so-called Big 5, Swart says: “I would say the Big Five are merely line middle managers. They are connected to their influencers outside the borders of South Africa and it is difficult to arrest one and think the problem is gone.” Asked whether there are links between the international crime cartels and the international influencers of South African politics, he says: “Definitely. Although something like that has been viewed as very politically sensitive - and I do not think that will be exposed in the media. I do not also think that will be stated in high-end inquiry reports due to the threat that it has for stability in South Africa.” Swart also gives his take on the relationship between the United States and Israel amid the Iran War, and South Africa’s post-Cold War significance in the event of World War III.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Stafford Masie: Three execs gone overnight: Inside the crisis at Africa Bitcoin Corporation</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714582</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks after BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Stafford Masie is back in the interview chair, this time as interim CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation. His predecessor Warren Wheatley, founder of Africa's first listed Bitcoin treasury company, along with his wife Tatum Keshwar-Wheatley and chief investment officer Akshay Karan, have just been handed 20-year debarments by the FSCA, longer than the ban handed to Gupta-linked Transnet figures Eric Wood and Niven Pillay. Masie insists the ruling has nothing to do with the business itself, and that operations, funders and the loan book are unaffected. But he won't say how big the alleged share manipulation was, and he can't say whether Warren Wheatley is coming back. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Stafford Masie: Three execs gone overnight: Inside the crisis at Africa Bitcoin Corporation</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>39:37</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Three weeks after BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Stafford Masie is back in the interview chair, this time as interim CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation. His predecessor Warren Wheatley, founder of Africa's first listed Bitcoin treasury company, along with his wife Tatum Keshwar-Wheatley and chief investment officer Akshay Karan, have just been handed 20-year debarments by the FSCA, longer than the ban handed to Gupta-linked Transnet figures Eric Wood and Niven Pillay. Masie insists the ruling has nothing to do with the business itself, and that operations, funders and the loan book are unaffected. But he won't say how big the alleged share manipulation was, and he can't say whether Warren Wheatley is coming back.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Baloyi Q&amp;A: Trump tariffs, Hormuz fallout, SA's offshore gas, what Sasol's worth to SA's GDP</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714507</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sasol's oil hedges are built for a $50-a-barrel world, its Qatar plant has been switched on and off every three weeks by fighting near the Strait of Hormuz, and its biggest customer market just hit it with a 30% tariff. CEO Simon Baloyi sits down to unpack how a company this exposed to global chaos stays standing, what a $12 billion bet on Louisiana is actually returning, and why he thinks South Africa is about to miss out on its own offshore gas boom. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Baloyi Q&amp;A: Trump tariffs, Hormuz fallout, SA's offshore gas, what Sasol's worth to SA's GDP</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>40:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sasol's oil hedges are built for a $50-a-barrel world, its Qatar plant has been switched on and off every three weeks by fighting near the Strait of Hormuz, and its biggest customer market just hit it with a 30% tariff. CEO Simon Baloyi sits down to unpack how a company this exposed to global chaos stays standing, what a $12 billion bet on Louisiana is actually returning, and why he thinks South Africa is about to miss out on its own offshore gas boom.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>After GHL, Pappas and Brink, is Clinton Lerm the DA's next household name?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He's a businessman with eight companies and 400 staff who says politics was the last thing on his mind, until the DA picked him to take Overstrand's top job from its first black executive mayor. Clinton Lerm has already survived a Hawks investigation, a standing court interdict with a rival party leader, and a question about political stability he still calls "strange." In this conversation with Alec Hogg, Lerm opens up on why he says he'll "never sell his soul," what he actually asks his municipal manager for, R100 million houses going up next to families who can't afford a daily meal, and whether Helen Zille can pull off the rescue of Johannesburg. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>After GHL, Pappas and Brink, is Clinton Lerm the DA's next household name?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Macpherson Q&amp;A: The layers of the construction mafia, tax money in limbo, KZN vote crunch</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714405</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson sat down for a wide-ranging Q&A on why R100 billion in municipal infrastructure grants gets sent back to Treasury every year, unspent, and what he's doing to stop it. He unpacks the layered structure of the construction mafia, explains why his department is about to auction off nearly a thousand state properties, and lifts the lid on a R6 billion-a-year office leasing bill that once let a fraudulent tender through the back door. Along the way, he makes a case for why the 4 November local elections could reshape South African politics from the ward up, not the top down. Watch for his read on Cape Town's infrastructure model, the uMngeni turnaround, and why he thinks a Durban by-election result is a preview of what's coming. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Macpherson Q&amp;A: The layers of the construction mafia, tax money in limbo, KZN vote crunch</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>36:06</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson sat down for a wide-ranging Q&A on why R100 billion in municipal infrastructure grants gets sent back to Treasury every year, unspent, and what he's doing to stop it. He unpacks the layered structure of the construction mafia, explains why his department is about to auction off nearly a thousand state properties, and lifts the lid on a R6 billion-a-year office leasing bill that once let a fraudulent tender through the back door. Along the way, he makes a case for why the 4 November local elections could reshape South African politics from the ward up, not the top down. Watch for his read on Cape Town's infrastructure model, the uMngeni turnaround, and why he thinks a Durban by-election result is a preview of what's coming.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Feroz Khan dismissed; DA targets bad municipal managers; Joburg's future</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714234</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, Action Society discusses the dismissal of Major General Feroz Khan and ongoing police accountability issues. The IRR explores how a stable coalition could trigger a major turnaround for Johannesburg. We also hear about swift commission successes, while the DA lays criminal charges against South Africa's worst municipal managers. Finally, we cover Wall Street's tech-led rally amid cooling interest rate expectations. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Feroz Khan dismissed; DA targets bad municipal managers; Joburg's future</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>15:13</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, Action Society discusses the dismissal of Major General Feroz Khan and ongoing police accountability issues. The IRR explores how a stable coalition could trigger a major turnaround for Johannesburg. We also hear about swift commission successes, while the DA lays criminal charges against South Africa's worst municipal managers. Finally, we cover Wall Street's tech-led rally amid cooling interest rate expectations.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>Why the DA is criminally charging the managers of SA's worst-run municipalities</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714148</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal managers who bankrupt one town get quietly moved to run the next one. A council was shown proof that R100 million couldn't be accounted for, and chose to protect the man responsible rather than fire him. A docket has sat untouched for a year. And the official now suing DA parliamentary leader George Michalakis for speaking out is, by law, supposed to be politically neutral. Michalakis talks to Alec Hogg about the DA's "terrible ten", why he personally walked into police stations across four provinces to lay the charges, and what it will actually take to see a corrupt official behind bars before South Africans vote on 4 November. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Why the DA is criminally charging the managers of SA's worst-run municipalities</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>39:36</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Municipal managers who bankrupt one town get quietly moved to run the next one. A council was shown proof that R100 million couldn't be accounted for, and chose to protect the man responsible rather than fire him. A docket has sat untouched for a year. And the official now suing DA parliamentary leader George Michalakis for speaking out is, by law, supposed to be politically neutral. Michalakis talks to Alec Hogg about the DA's "terrible ten", why he personally walked into police stations across four provinces to lay the charges, and what it will actually take to see a corrupt official behind bars before South Africans vote on 4 November.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Juanita du Preez: General Khan is toppled, but SA’s biggest crime bosses still have to be named…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714077</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sacking of Major General Feroz Khan - who was tipped to be the next chief of Crime Intelligence (CI) in South Africa - has come amid speculation about who the really big villains behind the Big Five might be. In her latest interview with Chris Steyn, Juanita du Preez, the national spokesperson of Action Society, says: “...there were other people pulling strings and giving funding and so on because a lot of people had a lot to win in doing what they did…I think a lot of people who follow it very closely and have very intimate knowledge, they know and they are waiting to bring it in… people… want to see the people who were the big players in all of the corruption and the reason that we have so many problems, they want to see them suffer for what they've done.” Du Preez also comments on the latest Stats SA Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey that estimates that only 48,2% of the 1.549 million housebreaking incidents last year were reported to SAPS; calculations showing that nationally during 2024/25 eight million calls were received by 10111, but more than two million abandoned; as well as the long delays in getting cases through the courts. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Juanita du Preez: General Khan is toppled, but SA’s biggest crime bosses still have to be named…</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>20:20</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The sacking of Major General Feroz Khan - who was tipped to be the next chief of Crime Intelligence (CI) in South Africa - has come amid speculation about who the really big villains behind the Big Five might be. In her latest interview with Chris Steyn, Juanita du Preez, the national spokesperson of Action Society, says: “...there were other people pulling strings and giving funding and so on because a lot of people had a lot to win in doing what they did…I think a lot of people who follow it very closely and have very intimate knowledge, they know and they are waiting to bring it in… people… want to see the people who were the big players in all of the corruption and the reason that we have so many problems, they want to see them suffer for what they've done.” Du Preez also comments on the latest Stats SA Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey that estimates that only 48,2% of the 1.549 million housebreaking incidents last year were reported to SAPS; calculations showing that nationally during 2024/25 eight million calls were received by 10111, but more than two million abandoned; as well as the long delays in getting cases through the courts.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Endres Q&amp;A: Joburg tipping point, MKP succession headache, dwindling ANC vote, and more...</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1714048</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg could get its first outright DA majority in living memory, and John Endres thinks that single number, 50 percent, might matter more to South Africa's next twenty years than anything happening in parliament. In this wide-ranging Q&A from BNC#9, the IRR chief executive explains why talent and investment only come back to a broken city once they believe the coalition running it will last, why Jacob Zuma's MK Party is still one succession fight away from falling apart, why South Africa's small business obsession with 18-year-old entrepreneurs is the wrong bet, and why he'd still rather live here than in a Britain he says has traded its freedom for the illusion of safety. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Endres Q&amp;A: Joburg tipping point, MKP succession headache, dwindling ANC vote, and more...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>38:28</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Johannesburg could get its first outright DA majority in living memory, and John Endres thinks that single number, 50 percent, might matter more to South Africa's next twenty years than anything happening in parliament. In this wide-ranging Q&A from BNC#9, the IRR chief executive explains why talent and investment only come back to a broken city once they believe the coalition running it will last, why Jacob Zuma's MK Party is still one succession fight away from falling apart, why South Africa's small business obsession with 18-year-old entrepreneurs is the wrong bet, and why he'd still rather live here than in a Britain he says has traded its freedom for the illusion of safety.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Duvenage Q&amp;A: PIC's plunder problem, ANC's cadre curse, Joburg's odds, and a GNU report card</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713999</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa's public servants have R3.6 trillion sitting in a pension fund that Wayne Duvenage calls a plunder pot, and he's not being polite about who's been dipping into it. In this Q&A from BNC#9 , the OUTA CEO takes on the PIC's revolving door of chairmen, explains why cadre deployment is really just a mechanism to loot state entities, and gives his most direct answer yet on whether Johannesburg can actually be saved. He also breaks down what the government of national unity is quietly getting right, why the ANC is heading for the exit, and what it would take to turn eighty percent of a captured city around within two years. Straight talk, hard numbers, and a few uncomfortable truths about where the money's really going. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Duvenage Q&amp;A: PIC's plunder problem, ANC's cadre curse, Joburg's odds, and a GNU report card</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>36:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa's public servants have R3.6 trillion sitting in a pension fund that Wayne Duvenage calls a plunder pot, and he's not being polite about who's been dipping into it. In this Q&A from BNC#9 , the OUTA CEO takes on the PIC's revolving door of chairmen, explains why cadre deployment is really just a mechanism to loot state entities, and gives his most direct answer yet on whether Johannesburg can actually be saved. He also breaks down what the government of national unity is quietly getting right, why the ANC is heading for the exit, and what it would take to turn eighty percent of a captured city around within two years. Straight talk, hard numbers, and a few uncomfortable truths about where the money's really going.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: CR and Mashatile in crisis, saving AGOA, US has lost Iran war, Tatjana v Swimming SA</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713797</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramaphosa's impeachment inquiry loses its evidence leader just as his court challenge opens, Mashatile is still nowhere to be seen, and Dr Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg at BNC#9 that the world's only superpower has lost a war it won't admit to losing. Then Tatjana Smith, SA's most-decorated olympian, finally says out loud what she's been fighting behind closed doors after Swimming SA's president and CEO were suspended. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: CR and Mashatile in crisis, saving AGOA, US has lost Iran war, Tatjana v Swimming SA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>15:42</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ramaphosa's impeachment inquiry loses its evidence leader just as his court challenge opens, Mashatile is still nowhere to be seen, and Dr Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg at BNC#9 that the world's only superpower has lost a war it won't admit to losing. Then Tatjana Smith, SA's most-decorated olympian, finally says out loud what she's been fighting behind closed doors after Swimming SA's president and CEO were suspended.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Tatjana Smith takes on shambolic Swimming SA</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713670</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The night before she raced for a World Championship title, Tatjana Smith wasn't thinking about her stroke. She was thinking about a fine. South Africa's most decorated Olympian tells Alec Hogg how Swimming SA threatened to fine her tens of thousands of euros for wearing the wrong swimwear, how her prize money sat in the federation's account for over a year, and why she's only speaking now that the sport's global governing body has suspended Swimming SA's president and CEO over allegations of fake documents and abuse of power. She also opens up on a R100 million-plus training centre that's now overrun with weeds, and the new athlete watchdog she's launching to stop the next generation going through what she did. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Tatjana Smith takes on shambolic Swimming SA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>31:18</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The night before she raced for a World Championship title, Tatjana Smith wasn't thinking about her stroke. She was thinking about a fine. South Africa's most decorated Olympian tells Alec Hogg how Swimming SA threatened to fine her tens of thousands of euros for wearing the wrong swimwear, how her prize money sat in the federation's account for over a year, and why she's only speaking now that the sport's global governing body has suspended Swimming SA's president and CEO over allegations of fake documents and abuse of power. She also opens up on a R100 million-plus training centre that's now overrun with weeds, and the new athlete watchdog she's launching to stop the next generation going through what she did.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | 3 Amigos Q&amp;A: AGOA on a knife's edge, fighting BEE in court, FF+ eyes Joburg coalition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three of South Africa's toughest voices, one no-holds-barred Q&A. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus fielded questions from delegates on AGOA's future, a BEE court battle they say is being decided by judges swapped out overnight, and what business is prepared to do if government pushes further. Along the way: the maths behind Helen Zille's Joburg bid, why "wasting your vote" is mostly a myth, and a blunt message the panel says they delivered straight to the White House. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | 3 Amigos Q&amp;A: AGOA on a knife's edge, fighting BEE in court, FF+ eyes Joburg coalition</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Three of South Africa's toughest voices, one no-holds-barred Q&A. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus fielded questions from delegates on AGOA's future, a BEE court battle they say is being decided by judges swapped out overnight, and what business is prepared to do if government pushes further. Along the way: the maths behind Helen Zille's Joburg bid, why "wasting your vote" is mostly a myth, and a blunt message the panel says they delivered straight to the White House.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Solly Moeng: CR impeachment fight, Mashatile “poisoning” rumours, military “assassins” &amp; more cop rot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about President Cyril Ramaphosa winning another round in his impeachment fight while the man waiting in the wings, Deputy President Paul Mashatile, has not been seen officially since July amid rumours that he might have been poisoned. “We don't have a president who's able to focus on governing, on leading, on uniting South Africa. We have a president who's running, who's constantly gazing over his shoulders...” Moeng also comments on the latest dramatic testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as well as the apparent cover-up to protect 12 serving South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers who had allegedly kidnapped an Islamic-linked financier and then assassinated the South African police officer who investigated them. Arguing against future majority rule by any one party, Moeng says: “Once the power gets launched in their heads, they become monsters we can't do anything about. Because what stands between what is good for South Africa and hell is the power that we tend to put in the heads of politicians, the trust, us treating them as heroes and heroines without ensuring that there are sufficient checks and balances in our institutions, in our system to make sure that as soon as somebody goes rogue on us, the system automatically stops them.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: CR impeachment fight, Mashatile “poisoning” rumours, military “assassins” &amp; more cop rot</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about President Cyril Ramaphosa winning another round in his impeachment fight while the man waiting in the wings, Deputy President Paul Mashatile, has not been seen officially since July amid rumours that he might have been poisoned. “We don't have a president who's able to focus on governing, on leading, on uniting South Africa. We have a president who's running, who's constantly gazing over his shoulders...” Moeng also comments on the latest dramatic testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as well as the apparent cover-up to protect 12 serving South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers who had allegedly kidnapped an Islamic-linked financier and then assassinated the South African police officer who investigated them. Arguing against future majority rule by any one party, Moeng says: “Once the power gets launched in their heads, they become monsters we can't do anything about. Because what stands between what is good for South Africa and hell is the power that we tend to put in the heads of politicians, the trust, us treating them as heroes and heroines without ensuring that there are sufficient checks and balances in our institutions, in our system to make sure that as soon as somebody goes rogue on us, the system automatically stops them.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Dr Abedian Q&amp;A: America's lost war, SA's &quot;non-alignment&quot;, Israel-Palestine, oil's big moment</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713553</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[America hasn't just lost ground in Iran, says economist Iraj Abedian, it's lost the myth of being unbeatable. Speaking at BNC#9, Abedian lays out the binary choice facing Washington and Tehran, the alliances quietly reshuffling around Israel, and the human cost hidden behind the headlines. Then comes the question every South African investor needs answered: which side should we be on? His answer will not please everyone in Pretoria. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Dr Abedian Q&amp;A: America's lost war, SA's &quot;non-alignment&quot;, Israel-Palestine, oil's big moment</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>35:52</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[America hasn't just lost ground in Iran, says economist Iraj Abedian, it's lost the myth of being unbeatable. Speaking at BNC#9, Abedian lays out the binary choice facing Washington and Tehran, the alliances quietly reshuffling around Israel, and the human cost hidden behind the headlines. Then comes the question every South African investor needs answered: which side should we be on? His answer will not please everyone in Pretoria.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Mega metro plan slammed; Roodt's economic fix; Ian Cameron on Philippi; Wall St slides</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AfriForum's Morné Mostert tells BizNews the ANC's plan to merge Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into one mega metro fails the science test - bigger municipalities don't perform better - and mainly boosts councillors' pay, which scales with size. From BNC#9, Dawie Roodt tells Alec Hogg he'd rebuild confidence by literally cleaning up the country, then hand himself the finance ministry to build the world's simplest tax regime. Ian Cameron revisits the Philippi ambush that nearly killed him a year ago, and Reuters wraps a Wall Street slide as bonds sell off and oil spikes on Iran. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Mega metro plan slammed; Roodt's economic fix; Ian Cameron on Philippi; Wall St slides</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>11:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[AfriForum's Morné Mostert tells BizNews the ANC's plan to merge Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into one mega metro fails the science test - bigger municipalities don't perform better - and mainly boosts councillors' pay, which scales with size. From BNC#9, Dawie Roodt tells Alec Hogg he'd rebuild confidence by literally cleaning up the country, then hand himself the finance ministry to build the world's simplest tax regime. Ian Cameron revisits the Philippi ambush that nearly killed him a year ago, and Reuters wraps a Wall Street slide as bonds sell off and oil spikes on Iran.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Morné Mostert: ANC’s “fantasy megatropolis” faces full-scale fight from AfriForum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Nomvula Mokonyane, First Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC), the party is considering a fundamental review of the country’s municipal structures, including the possible amalgamation of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into a single “megatropolis”. In his reaction, Morné Mostert, Local Government Affairs Manager for AfriForum, tells Chris Steyn that his civil rights organisation would “tackle it legally - full scale” as “this won't benefit any citizens on ground level”. He also points out that municipal councillors remuneration is based upon how big the municipality is. “So it's very obvious for political structures to say, yes, let's create a larger municipality as it will benefit them personally.” Mostert further details the large-scale municipal litigation AfriForum is currently involved in. “Our latest primary focus with regards to litigation are shadow fees and taxes that our municipalities put into the tariff bylaws and put into the budgets… most of these municipalities are just running to get funds together and they're not doing that in a legal or lawful manner.” Describing the mood on the ground, he says: “...most people are frustrated. No economy can function properly if there aren't regular, efficient and readily available services… people are in dire straits.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Morné Mostert: ANC’s “fantasy megatropolis” faces full-scale fight from AfriForum</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>20:14</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[According to Nomvula Mokonyane, First Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC), the party is considering a fundamental review of the country’s municipal structures, including the possible amalgamation of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into a single “megatropolis”. In his reaction, Morné Mostert, Local Government Affairs Manager for AfriForum, tells Chris Steyn that his civil rights organisation would “tackle it legally - full scale” as “this won't benefit any citizens on ground level”. He also points out that municipal councillors remuneration is based upon how big the municipality is. “So it's very obvious for political structures to say, yes, let's create a larger municipality as it will benefit them personally.” Mostert further details the large-scale municipal litigation AfriForum is currently involved in. “Our latest primary focus with regards to litigation are shadow fees and taxes that our municipalities put into the tariff bylaws and put into the budgets… most of these municipalities are just running to get funds together and they're not doing that in a legal or lawful manner.” Describing the mood on the ground, he says: “...most people are frustrated. No economy can function properly if there aren't regular, efficient and readily available services… people are in dire straits.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Hesitant about the stronger rand? Here's how to structure your hedging strategy — Sebastian Steyn (Sable International)</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713190</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[While many individual investors and emigrants are postponing major financial decisions amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and upcoming elections, Sebastian Steyn, Head of Dealing at Sable International, says businesses do not have the same luxury. Steyn told BizNews that South Africa’s growing Business Process Outsourcing sector and multinational SMEs continue to receive revenue in foreign currencies while managing local operating costs, leaving them directly exposed to currency fluctuations. He cites the case of a client who saved millions of rands through proactive currency risk management using forward contracts and structured hedging solutions. Although several geopolitical and political risks remain on the horizon, including conflict in the Middle East and upcoming elections, Steyn believes preparation and planning remain far more important than trying to time the market. As he puts it, “It is not about being right all the time. It is about being prepared for all eventualities.” – Linda van Tilburg. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Hesitant about the stronger rand? Here's how to structure your hedging strategy — Sebastian Steyn (Sable International)</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>25:31</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While many individual investors and emigrants are postponing major financial decisions amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and upcoming elections, Sebastian Steyn, Head of Dealing at Sable International, says businesses do not have the same luxury. Steyn told BizNews that South Africa’s growing Business Process Outsourcing sector and multinational SMEs continue to receive revenue in foreign currencies while managing local operating costs, leaving them directly exposed to currency fluctuations. He cites the case of a client who saved millions of rands through proactive currency risk management using forward contracts and structured hedging solutions. Although several geopolitical and political risks remain on the horizon, including conflict in the Middle East and upcoming elections, Steyn believes preparation and planning remain far more important than trying to time the market. As he puts it, “It is not about being right all the time. It is about being prepared for all eventualities.” – Linda van Tilburg.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Roodt Q&amp;A: What he'd do as FinMin; SARB's crypto plan; SA's shrinking tax base and more...</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713163</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The taxman, the Reserve Bank and your crypto wallet: Dawie Roodt doesn't hold back. In this Q&A straight after his BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist explains why officials want your phone and your passwords if you try to take money offshore, why roughly 200 000 taxpayers are propping up the entire country, and why he thinks the new Transformation Fund could spell the end of BEE as we know it. Along the way: a blunt take on land versus cattle, why South African schools spend big and still underperform, and why he'd rather fix the tax code than lower the tax burden. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Roodt Q&amp;A: What he'd do as FinMin; SARB's crypto plan; SA's shrinking tax base and more...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>33:42</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The taxman, the Reserve Bank and your crypto wallet: Dawie Roodt doesn't hold back. In this Q&A straight after his BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist explains why officials want your phone and your passwords if you try to take money offshore, why roughly 200 000 taxpayers are propping up the entire country, and why he thinks the new Transformation Fund could spell the end of BEE as we know it. Along the way: a blunt take on land versus cattle, why South African schools spend big and still underperform, and why he'd rather fix the tax code than lower the tax burden.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Cameron Q&amp;A: SAPS patronage networks, Madlanga fallout, SA's new cartel problem, and more...</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brigadier's pips on a secretary with zero police experience. A rape kit that costs the state eight times what it should. A cocaine pipeline running through a West Coast holiday town. One year after he was shot at during an oversight visit in Philippi, Police Portfolio Committee chairperson Ian Cameron sits down at BNC#9 to talk about what he's actually found inside South Africa's police service, and it isn't just bad apples. He names the patronage machine, explains why whistleblowers can't afford to go public, and says exactly how long he thinks it will take to turn the SAPS around. Then the floor opens, and the questions get sharper. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Cameron Q&amp;A: SAPS patronage networks, Madlanga fallout, SA's new cartel problem, and more...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>34:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A brigadier's pips on a secretary with zero police experience. A rape kit that costs the state eight times what it should. A cocaine pipeline running through a West Coast holiday town. One year after he was shot at during an oversight visit in Philippi, Police Portfolio Committee chairperson Ian Cameron sits down at BNC#9 to talk about what he's actually found inside South Africa's police service, and it isn't just bad apples. He names the patronage machine, explains why whistleblowers can't afford to go public, and says exactly how long he thinks it will take to turn the SAPS around. Then the floor opens, and the questions get sharper.]]></itunes:summary>
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