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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>
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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>
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		<title>Stafford Masie: Three execs gone overnight: Inside the crisis at Africa Bitcoin Corporation</title>
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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>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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				<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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		<title>BNC#9 | Macpherson Q&amp;A: The layers of the construction mafia, tax money in limbo, KZN vote crunch</title>
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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>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Feroz Khan dismissed; DA targets bad municipal managers; Joburg's future</title>
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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>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<title>Why the DA is criminally charging the managers of SA's worst-run municipalities</title>
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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>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Why the DA is criminally charging the managers of SA's worst-run municipalities</itunes:title>
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		<title>Juanita du Preez: General Khan is toppled, but SA’s biggest crime bosses still have to be named…</title>
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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>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Juanita du Preez: General Khan is toppled, but SA’s biggest crime bosses still have to be named…</itunes:title>
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		<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>
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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>
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		<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: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>
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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>
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		<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>
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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>
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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>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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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>
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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>
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		<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:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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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>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713601</link>
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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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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<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:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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		<itunes:duration>23:39</itunes:duration>
		<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>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: CR impeachment fight, Mashatile “poisoning” rumours, military “assassins” &amp; more cop rot</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>19:40</itunes:duration>
		<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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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<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:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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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>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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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>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Mega metro plan slammed; Roodt's economic fix; Ian Cameron on Philippi; Wall St slides</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>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>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713226</link>
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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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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<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:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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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:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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					<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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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>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1713136</link>
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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>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<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>
		<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>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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		<title>BN Daybreak: Mashele's new political party, Hersov on Jozi's mafia problem, Copelyn on offshore oil</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prince Mashele has a warning for KwaZulu-Natal: when Jacob Zuma dies, he believes MK's hold on the province won't survive him. On this Daybreak, the political analyst spells out the party he's quietly building to replace the ANC, who he says is bankrolling it, and why he'd rather copy Singapore than "African democracy." Then Rob Hersov makes the case that Johannesburg is being run like 1920s Chicago, except the mafia here has captured the police, the courts and the boardroom too, and nobody agrees on who the city's Al Capone actually is. Johnny Copelyn, in one of his last interviews as HCI's boss, explains why South Africa is still sitting on oil and gas its neighbours are racing to exploit. Riël Malan explains why 36 failed startups taught him more than any MBA could. And Wall Street closes out August in the red as a hawkish Fed chair and a spiking oil price rattle markets, with one Californian utility down 20% in a single session. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Mashele's new political party, Hersov on Jozi's mafia problem, Copelyn on offshore oil</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[Prince Mashele has a warning for KwaZulu-Natal: when Jacob Zuma dies, he believes MK's hold on the province won't survive him. On this Daybreak, the political analyst spells out the party he's quietly building to replace the ANC, who he says is bankrolling it, and why he'd rather copy Singapore than "African democracy." Then Rob Hersov makes the case that Johannesburg is being run like 1920s Chicago, except the mafia here has captured the police, the courts and the boardroom too, and nobody agrees on who the city's Al Capone actually is. Johnny Copelyn, in one of his last interviews as HCI's boss, explains why South Africa is still sitting on oil and gas its neighbours are racing to exploit. Riël Malan explains why 36 failed startups taught him more than any MBA could. And Wall Street closes out August in the red as a hawkish Fed chair and a spiking oil price rattle markets, with one Californian utility down 20% in a single session.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Mashele Q&amp;A: MKP after JZ, Zille for Jozi, Singapore's blueprint, and who funds SA politics?</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1712668</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prince Mashele has a warning for KwaZulu-Natal: when Jacob Zuma dies, MK goes with him. In this Q&A from BNC#9, the political analyst behind a new project to unseat the ANC gets blunt about the money he can't yet raise, the small group he says quietly bankrolls South African politics, and why he'd rather copy Singapore than "African democracy." He also names names on who he's backing in Johannesburg's mayoral race, and why some of his own likely allies won't thank him for it. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Mashele Q&amp;A: MKP after JZ, Zille for Jozi, Singapore's blueprint, and who funds SA politics?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>33:20</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Prince Mashele has a warning for KwaZulu-Natal: when Jacob Zuma dies, MK goes with him. In this Q&A from BNC#9, the political analyst behind a new project to unseat the ANC gets blunt about the money he can't yet raise, the small group he says quietly bankrolls South African politics, and why he'd rather copy Singapore than "African democracy." He also names names on who he's backing in Johannesburg's mayoral race, and why some of his own likely allies won't thank him for it.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Hersov Q&amp;A: Joburg's mafia problem and Zille's odds; BEE and EWC; corporate silence; AI bets</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1712656</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Hersov isn't sure Helen Zille can fix Johannesburg. Not because she isn't capable, but because of who she'd be fighting: an "international mafia" he says has spent 20 years perfecting the art of looting the country's richest city and knows exactly how to disappear when the pressure's on. In this unfiltered BNC#9 Q&A, Hersov compares Joburg to 1920s Chicago, weighs up whether South Africa needs an El Salvador-style crackdown, and explains why he's told his own kids to build their careers overseas rather than at home. Then the mood shifts: he makes the case that AI is about to hand young South Africans, with nothing but a smartphone and an idea, the kind of opportunity no generation has ever had. Contradictions and all, it's Hersov at his most candid. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Hersov Q&amp;A: Joburg's mafia problem and Zille's odds; BEE and EWC; corporate silence; AI 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>36:02</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rob Hersov isn't sure Helen Zille can fix Johannesburg. Not because she isn't capable, but because of who she'd be fighting: an "international mafia" he says has spent 20 years perfecting the art of looting the country's richest city and knows exactly how to disappear when the pressure's on. In this unfiltered BNC#9 Q&A, Hersov compares Joburg to 1920s Chicago, weighs up whether South Africa needs an El Salvador-style crackdown, and explains why he's told his own kids to build their careers overseas rather than at home. Then the mood shifts: he makes the case that AI is about to hand young South Africans, with nothing but a smartphone and an idea, the kind of opportunity no generation has ever had. Contradictions and all, it's Hersov at his most candid.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA's early election loophole; Wiese on title deeds; Nurture Brands' R10bn plan</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1712403</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, Ron Weissenburg explains the constitutional path to an early South African national election before 2029. Nurture Brands discusses their ambitious goal to build a R10 billion business through strategic consolidation. Christo Wiese unpacks how property title deeds could unlock dignity and economic wealth for millions, while David White highlights the hidden benefits of B-BBEE procurement for SMEs. Finally, we cover Wall Street's latest inflation jitters. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA's early election loophole; Wiese on title deeds; Nurture Brands' R10bn plan</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>16:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, Ron Weissenburg explains the constitutional path to an early South African national election before 2029. Nurture Brands discusses their ambitious goal to build a R10 billion business through strategic consolidation. Christo Wiese unpacks how property title deeds could unlock dignity and economic wealth for millions, while David White highlights the hidden benefits of B-BBEE procurement for SMEs. Finally, we cover Wall Street's latest inflation jitters.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show - Ron Weissenberg: How to change the regime next year - without a revolution!</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1712358</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Ron Weissenberg of The Accountability Group (TAG), tells Chris Steyn how South Africa could have a new government by next year instead of after the 2029 national elections. He says it can be achieved in accordance with a Constitutional provision for Parliament to be dissolved between national elections once a minimum of three years have passed since it was elected. It would require a motion to be tabled by an MP and voted for by the majority of members (201 minimum out of 400) following which early elections must be held within 90 days. The earliest date such a motion can be tabled is 29 May 2027. Asked why this early regime change has not been mooted, Weissenberg says: “...there's a cynical answer to that - and of course one shouldn't confuse narrow self interests with virtue when it comes to political parties and politicians.” As its advisability, he says: “...one thing that has become apparent is that voters in this country do seem to like coalitions, but coalitions do not like voters...if there isn't support from the parliamentary caucuses themselves, there should certainly be support from the voting public…to ensure that, if the government of the day is not performing, they are given the earliest opportunity to cast a vote for something different and not have to wait a further few years to do that.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show - Ron Weissenberg: How to change the regime next year - without a revolution!</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>11:47</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Ron Weissenberg of The Accountability Group (TAG), tells Chris Steyn how South Africa could have a new government by next year instead of after the 2029 national elections. He says it can be achieved in accordance with a Constitutional provision for Parliament to be dissolved between national elections once a minimum of three years have passed since it was elected. It would require a motion to be tabled by an MP and voted for by the majority of members (201 minimum out of 400) following which early elections must be held within 90 days. The earliest date such a motion can be tabled is 29 May 2027. Asked why this early regime change has not been mooted, Weissenberg says: “...there's a cynical answer to that - and of course one shouldn't confuse narrow self interests with virtue when it comes to political parties and politicians.” As its advisability, he says: “...one thing that has become apparent is that voters in this country do seem to like coalitions, but coalitions do not like voters...if there isn't support from the parliamentary caucuses themselves, there should certainly be support from the voting public…to ensure that, if the government of the day is not performing, they are given the earliest opportunity to cast a vote for something different and not have to wait a further few years to do that.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>“Failure is the best MBA”: Riël Malan on risk, resilience and building big</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riël Malan joins Alec Hogg in Hermanus for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, resilience and building businesses with purpose. From growing up in a farming family and launching Fruits Unlimited to creating 36 startups and leading Nurture Brands, Malan reflects on failure, leadership, partnerships and the lessons learned along the way. He discusses his transformative sabbatical, the power of journaling and coaching, private capital, brand-building and his ambition to grow Nurture Brands into a R10 billion group by 2032. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
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						<itunes:title>“Failure is the best MBA”: Riël Malan on risk, resilience and building big</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Riël Malan joins Alec Hogg in Hermanus for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, resilience and building businesses with purpose. From growing up in a farming family and launching Fruits Unlimited to creating 36 startups and leading Nurture Brands, Malan reflects on failure, leadership, partnerships and the lessons learned along the way. He discusses his transformative sabbatical, the power of journaling and coaching, private capital, brand-building and his ambition to grow Nurture Brands into a R10 billion group by 2032.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Squeezed at home, priced out abroad: SA families can pivot to universities in Mauritius, UAE...</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With South Africa’s premier universities oversubscribed and the cost of popular overseas destinations like the UK, US, Australia, and Canada soaring, families could pivot to highly competitive, cost-effective global alternatives. Sable International’s Brent Morris told BizNews in an interview that Mauritius, the UAE, and Malaysia now offer highly attractive degrees, rivalling the total costs of studying at some local South African institutions, such as Stellenbosch. This option is particularly attractive for students pursuing highly sought-after, niche courses such as medicine, psychology, and engineering. Morris said some of these emerging educational hubs hosted fully accredited branch campuses of world-class British and Australian universities, allowing students to earn identical international degrees closer to home. High school leavers and parents seeking more information can attend Sable’s upcoming Study Abroad Expo. The expo, featuring representatives from 30 international universities, will be held on 7 September in Johannesburg, 8 September in Durban, and 9 September in Stellenbosch. - Linda van Tilburg ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Squeezed at home, priced out abroad: SA families can pivot to universities in Mauritius, UAE...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>18:22</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With South Africa’s premier universities oversubscribed and the cost of popular overseas destinations like the UK, US, Australia, and Canada soaring, families could pivot to highly competitive, cost-effective global alternatives. Sable International’s Brent Morris told BizNews in an interview that Mauritius, the UAE, and Malaysia now offer highly attractive degrees, rivalling the total costs of studying at some local South African institutions, such as Stellenbosch. This option is particularly attractive for students pursuing highly sought-after, niche courses such as medicine, psychology, and engineering. Morris said some of these emerging educational hubs hosted fully accredited branch campuses of world-class British and Australian universities, allowing students to earn identical international degrees closer to home. High school leavers and parents seeking more information can attend Sable’s upcoming Study Abroad Expo. The expo, featuring representatives from 30 international universities, will be held on 7 September in Johannesburg, 8 September in Durban, and 9 September in Stellenbosch. - Linda van Tilburg]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>David White: &quot;Entrepreneurial time poverty,&quot; DRG's dot-com crash and B-BBEE's &quot;success formula&quot;…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1712040</link>
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		<description><![CDATA["Running a business is really complicated," says David White, founder and CEO of DRG, BusinessFit SA and The Africa Marketing Initiative, and the resulting "entrepreneurial time poverty" is what quietly kills small businesses long before bad ideas do. In conversation with Irakli Rekhviashvili, White explains how BusinessFit's open source self-assessment platform works as a "mentor multiplier" for South Africa's estimated 12 million entrepreneurs and SMEs, since "there are not enough mentors around the world, or in particular South Africa," and why structure changes the odds: "if an entrepreneur is able to better understand what is required for them to build a sustainable business, there is almost no reason why those businesses shouldn't be successful." White also revisits DRG's own JSE listing within two years of founding, and the dot-com crash that followed. "I would never do it again, to be honest," he admits. "It took away that magical essence of why we started the business in the first place." What replaced the chase for money, he says, is something else entirely: "spending time with entrepreneurs who believe the world can be a better place... is a reward in itself." On the B-BBEE Act's push for larger companies to direct 3% of after-tax profit and 30% of supply chain spend to SMEs, a combination he's called a "success formula," White is broadly supportive but draws a hard line on how it's funded: "I'm not a great fan of the grants... when we're giving money and there's no expectation for it to be returned, I think the mindset changes of the entrepreneur." ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>David White: &quot;Entrepreneurial time poverty,&quot; DRG's dot-com crash and B-BBEE's &quot;success formula&quot;…</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:summary><![CDATA["Running a business is really complicated," says David White, founder and CEO of DRG, BusinessFit SA and The Africa Marketing Initiative, and the resulting "entrepreneurial time poverty" is what quietly kills small businesses long before bad ideas do. In conversation with Irakli Rekhviashvili, White explains how BusinessFit's open source self-assessment platform works as a "mentor multiplier" for South Africa's estimated 12 million entrepreneurs and SMEs, since "there are not enough mentors around the world, or in particular South Africa," and why structure changes the odds: "if an entrepreneur is able to better understand what is required for them to build a sustainable business, there is almost no reason why those businesses shouldn't be successful." White also revisits DRG's own JSE listing within two years of founding, and the dot-com crash that followed. "I would never do it again, to be honest," he admits. "It took away that magical essence of why we started the business in the first place." What replaced the chase for money, he says, is something else entirely: "spending time with entrepreneurs who believe the world can be a better place... is a reward in itself." On the B-BBEE Act's push for larger companies to direct 3% of after-tax profit and 30% of supply chain spend to SMEs, a combination he's called a "success formula," White is broadly supportive but draws a hard line on how it's funded: "I'm not a great fan of the grants... when we're giving money and there's no expectation for it to be returned, I think the mindset changes of the entrepreneur."]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Johnny Copelyn: From a banned union organiser to SA's most patient dealmaker</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnny Copelyn turned a one million rand trade union investment fund into HCI, a business now worth well over ten billion rand, without ever raiding the pockets of the workers who backed him. In one of his last interviews as CEO, he talks candidly about a bank that nearly went under on his watch, buses set alight in a running battle with the taxi industry, and why HCI is still ploughing money into oil and gas off Mossel Bay and Namibia even after most of the world's biggest players walked away. He also explains, bluntly, why South Africa keeps sitting on resources that its neighbours are racing to develop. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Johnny Copelyn: From a banned union organiser to SA's most patient dealmaker</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>1:02:43</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Johnny Copelyn turned a one million rand trade union investment fund into HCI, a business now worth well over ten billion rand, without ever raiding the pockets of the workers who backed him. In one of his last interviews as CEO, he talks candidly about a bank that nearly went under on his watch, buses set alight in a running battle with the taxi industry, and why HCI is still ploughing money into oil and gas off Mossel Bay and Namibia even after most of the world's biggest players walked away. He also explains, bluntly, why South Africa keeps sitting on resources that its neighbours are racing to develop.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: DA eyes 6 metros; Zuma on MK's land plans; Zambia lessons; Cape Town costs; Nvidia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Geordin Hill-Lewis outlines the DA's ambitious push to govern six metros. MK Deputy President Duduzane Zuma confirms that land expropriation without compensation will happen as party policy. We also explore why South Africa’s anxious youth should look to Zambia's optimistic turnaround. Plus, BOSA’s Roger Solomons warns about Cape Town’s rising unaffordability, and US markets surge on Nvidia's AI revenue forecasts. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: DA eyes 6 metros; Zuma on MK's land plans; Zambia lessons; Cape Town costs; Nvidia</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>14:03</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Geordin Hill-Lewis outlines the DA's ambitious push to govern six metros. MK Deputy President Duduzane Zuma confirms that land expropriation without compensation will happen as party policy. We also explore why South Africa’s anxious youth should look to Zambia's optimistic turnaround. Plus, BOSA’s Roger Solomons warns about Cape Town’s rising unaffordability, and US markets surge on Nvidia's AI revenue forecasts.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Roger Solomons: Fighting to make Cape Town affordable again…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Build One South Africa (BOSA) mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town, Roger Solomons, describes how unaffordable it has become for ordinary citizens to live and do business in the Mother City. “I've crisscrossed the city, not just during this campaign trail, but during my public service, across all of Cape Town, all 118 wards, and the overwhelming majority of Capetonians say that life has become way harder over the last five to ten years… The people who nurse here in the city of Cape Town, police here, teach here, are finding it hard to live here. And that is an injustice…We want to build a New York and a London at the expense of ordinary Capetonians who just can't afford it.. So we have ordinary Capetonians who actually are building this beautiful city of ours; they're physically building, they're on construction sites, but they cannot afford to experience it. And that has got to stop.” Solomons vows to make affordable living and working his priority should he become mayor: “The principle that I would govern and lead the city by is not how much it costs the city, but how much it costs you and I as a resident.” His other priorities are equality in service delivery and more effective crime prevention measures. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Roger Solomons: Fighting to make Cape Town affordable again…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>11:29</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Build One South Africa (BOSA) mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town, Roger Solomons, describes how unaffordable it has become for ordinary citizens to live and do business in the Mother City. “I've crisscrossed the city, not just during this campaign trail, but during my public service, across all of Cape Town, all 118 wards, and the overwhelming majority of Capetonians say that life has become way harder over the last five to ten years… The people who nurse here in the city of Cape Town, police here, teach here, are finding it hard to live here. And that is an injustice…We want to build a New York and a London at the expense of ordinary Capetonians who just can't afford it.. So we have ordinary Capetonians who actually are building this beautiful city of ours; they're physically building, they're on construction sites, but they cannot afford to experience it. And that has got to stop.” Solomons vows to make affordable living and working his priority should he become mayor: “The principle that I would govern and lead the city by is not how much it costs the city, but how much it costs you and I as a resident.” His other priorities are equality in service delivery and more effective crime prevention measures.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Zambia shows SA what happens when government treats the country like a business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zambia just handed Hakainde Hichilema a landslide second term, and its youth have gone from 10% optimistic about the future to 55% in under six years. Paramount Group founder and Africa Youth Survey chair Ivor Ichikowitz explains why, and doesn't hold back on what it says about South Africa, where youth optimism is the lowest of the 16 countries the survey covers. His verdict on what Pretoria could learn from Lusaka: treat the country like a business, back the people who deliver, and stop giving investors reasons to speculate. Watch below. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Zambia shows SA what happens when government treats the country like a business</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>26:55</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Zambia just handed Hakainde Hichilema a landslide second term, and its youth have gone from 10% optimistic about the future to 55% in under six years. Paramount Group founder and Africa Youth Survey chair Ivor Ichikowitz explains why, and doesn't hold back on what it says about South Africa, where youth optimism is the lowest of the 16 countries the survey covers. His verdict on what Pretoria could learn from Lusaka: treat the country like a business, back the people who deliver, and stop giving investors reasons to speculate. Watch below.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | GHL Q&amp;A: Would the DA ever work with MKP? Plus ANC collapse, AI, policing, BEE, and more...</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711529</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five metros are up for grabs, the ANC has slipped to third place in its own heartland, and Geordin Hill-Lewis says the party's decline can no longer be reversed. In this Q&A with Alec Hogg and the BNC#9 floor, the DA federal leader and Cape Town mayor lays out exactly how close the race in Johannesburg and Durban really is, why he will not go near an MK coalition, what the Madlanga Commission has confirmed about state capture, and how long it will actually take to fix crime, Home Affairs and the rest of a broken state. He also fields the hard questions from the floor, on cabinet size, meritocracy, failing rural municipalities and whether young South Africans should even bother staying. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | GHL Q&amp;A: Would the DA ever work with MKP? Plus ANC collapse, AI, policing, BEE, and more...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>36:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Five metros are up for grabs, the ANC has slipped to third place in its own heartland, and Geordin Hill-Lewis says the party's decline can no longer be reversed. In this Q&A with Alec Hogg and the BNC#9 floor, the DA federal leader and Cape Town mayor lays out exactly how close the race in Johannesburg and Durban really is, why he will not go near an MK coalition, what the Madlanga Commission has confirmed about state capture, and how long it will actually take to fix crime, Home Affairs and the rest of a broken state. He also fields the hard questions from the floor, on cabinet size, meritocracy, failing rural municipalities and whether young South Africans should even bother staying.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA's new mining bill; Offshore gas rulings; State corruption inquiry; Nvidia Earnings</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711392</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s episode covers South Africa’s new illegal mining bill, which introduces R100 million fines and 30-year sentences to target criminal syndicates. Niall Kramer discusses recent Constitutional Court judgments regarding offshore gas drilling and public consultation processes. We also examine nepotism allegations surrounding Gayton McKenzie and the ANC's deployment tactics. Finally, Paul Hoffman analyzes the commission investigating corruption, and Reuters wraps up US markets and Nvidia's earnings. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA's new mining bill; Offshore gas rulings; State corruption inquiry; Nvidia Earnings</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>13:47</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today’s episode covers South Africa’s new illegal mining bill, which introduces R100 million fines and 30-year sentences to target criminal syndicates. Niall Kramer discusses recent Constitutional Court judgments regarding offshore gas drilling and public consultation processes. We also examine nepotism allegations surrounding Gayton McKenzie and the ANC's deployment tactics. Finally, Paul Hoffman analyzes the commission investigating corruption, and Reuters wraps up US markets and Nvidia's earnings.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Paul Hoffman: Everything you need to know about Madlanga, IDAC, and justice in SA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A commission of inquiry can't jail anyone. It can't force government to do anything at all. So what is the Madlanga Commission actually for, and what happens if its final report just gets filed away like so many before it? Accountability Now's Paul Hoffman walks through 25 years of scrapped anti-corruption units, three trips to the Constitutional Court, and one narrow legal route that could still see South Africa's newest corruption-busting unit, IDAC, ruled unconstitutional if the commission gets it wrong. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Paul Hoffman: Everything you need to know about Madlanga, IDAC, and justice in SA</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>21:34</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A commission of inquiry can't jail anyone. It can't force government to do anything at all. So what is the Madlanga Commission actually for, and what happens if its final report just gets filed away like so many before it? Accountability Now's Paul Hoffman walks through 25 years of scrapped anti-corruption units, three trips to the Constitutional Court, and one narrow legal route that could still see South Africa's newest corruption-busting unit, IDAC, ruled unconstitutional if the commission gets it wrong.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Piet le Roux: Applying 'state-proofing' to foreign policy to rescue ties with Washington</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711330</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux takes the "state-proofing" argument he's built at home and points it at Washington. His case: South Africa isn't the country the 1994 constitution describes any more, and the US still treats it like it is. He walks through what's actually at stake for America, then lays out three ways it could respond, from writing South Africa off to a new, differentiated approach that rewards competent institutions and bypasses failing ones. Along the way, a hard look at what happened to Zimbabwe's Western population, and why he thinks the same could happen here if nothing changes. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Piet le Roux: Applying 'state-proofing' to foreign policy to rescue ties with Washington</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>24:35</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux takes the "state-proofing" argument he's built at home and points it at Washington. His case: South Africa isn't the country the 1994 constitution describes any more, and the US still treats it like it is. He walks through what's actually at stake for America, then lays out three ways it could respond, from writing South Africa off to a new, differentiated approach that rewards competent institutions and bypasses failing ones. Along the way, a hard look at what happened to Zimbabwe's Western population, and why he thinks the same could happen here if nothing changes.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Christo Wiese: Steinhoff, land, 'white monopoly capital', and what keeps him betting on SA</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711277</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christo Wiese built one of South Africa's biggest retail empires on a simple rule: trust people, even when it's risky. Then Markus Jooste broke that trust and took Steinhoff down with him. In this rare fireside chat at BNC#9, Wiese talks for the first time in years about why he's never forgiven Jooste, the strange twist that let him sue to get land back, and a story about a Steinhoff-linked figure whose death turned out to be far stranger than anyone knew. He also gets into why South Africa produces so few entrepreneurs, what he really thinks "white monopoly capital" means, and why, in his 80s, he's still betting everything on this country. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Christo Wiese: Steinhoff, land, 'white monopoly capital', and what keeps him betting on 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>47:29</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Christo Wiese built one of South Africa's biggest retail empires on a simple rule: trust people, even when it's risky. Then Markus Jooste broke that trust and took Steinhoff down with him. In this rare fireside chat at BNC#9, Wiese talks for the first time in years about why he's never forgiven Jooste, the strange twist that let him sue to get land back, and a story about a Steinhoff-linked figure whose death turned out to be far stranger than anyone knew. He also gets into why South Africa produces so few entrepreneurs, what he really thinks "white monopoly capital" means, and why, in his 80s, he's still betting everything on this country.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>South Africa's untapped offshore prize: Namibia is booming next door. Why aren't we?</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711231</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibia struck oil and became the hottest investment story on the continent. Mozambique's tax take is about to jump sharply on the back of gas. Right next door, South Africa is sitting on a geological basin that industry figures compare to the discovery of gold in Johannesburg, and it has just taken another direct hit in the Constitutional Court. OPASA's Niall Kramer joins Alec Hogg to explain what is really being left in the ground, who is standing in the way, and why the window on this opportunity will not stay open forever. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>South Africa's untapped offshore prize: Namibia is booming next door. Why aren't we?</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>24:26</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Namibia struck oil and became the hottest investment story on the continent. Mozambique's tax take is about to jump sharply on the back of gas. Right next door, South Africa is sitting on a geological basin that industry figures compare to the discovery of gold in Johannesburg, and it has just taken another direct hit in the Constitutional Court. OPASA's Niall Kramer joins Alec Hogg to explain what is really being left in the ground, who is standing in the way, and why the window on this opportunity will not stay open forever.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Solly Moeng: Mthethwa suicide mystery, McKenzie’s “nepotism”, Matlala-Maumela link - and R167m bust</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711210</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their latest BizNews chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng cover the deepening mystery surrounding the apparent suicide in Paris of former Police Minister and ambassador Nathi Mthethwa; Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie’s “nepotistic” appointments of Minister of Arts and Culture; the relationship between Tenderpreneurs Cat Matlala and Hungwani Maumela, the nephew by marriage of President Cyril Ramaphosa; the factionalised African National Congress (ANC) naming over forty candidates for mayors in eight metros. “What are we to do with all these people who play such crucial, toxic, dangerous roles for South Africa…Let us ignore these politicians who think that we are not one and show them we are..We should come together and take back this country.” In some good news, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has intercepted a R167-million Cocaine shipment at OR Tambo. “They should also trace the masterminds…Of course they will assassinate, they will kill people, they will offer bribes, they will probably blackmail people. But we should find these people. We should be known as a country that says no - and that does something about it. For now, we are a country where everything goes. Everything goes. And it has got to stop at some point.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: Mthethwa suicide mystery, McKenzie’s “nepotism”, Matlala-Maumela link - and R167m bust</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>16:22</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In their latest BizNews chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng cover the deepening mystery surrounding the apparent suicide in Paris of former Police Minister and ambassador Nathi Mthethwa; Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie’s “nepotistic” appointments of Minister of Arts and Culture; the relationship between Tenderpreneurs Cat Matlala and Hungwani Maumela, the nephew by marriage of President Cyril Ramaphosa; the factionalised African National Congress (ANC) naming over forty candidates for mayors in eight metros. “What are we to do with all these people who play such crucial, toxic, dangerous roles for South Africa…Let us ignore these politicians who think that we are not one and show them we are..We should come together and take back this country.” In some good news, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has intercepted a R167-million Cocaine shipment at OR Tambo. “They should also trace the masterminds…Of course they will assassinate, they will kill people, they will offer bribes, they will probably blackmail people. But we should find these people. We should be known as a country that says no - and that does something about it. For now, we are a country where everything goes. Everything goes. And it has got to stop at some point.”]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>R100-million fines for kingpins as illegal mining booms into national security crisis…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711205</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illegal mining kingpins are in the crosshairs when a new Illegal Mining Bill becomes law with R100 million fines and 30-year prison sentences on the cards. However, Independent Governance Expert Richard Chelin tells Chris Steyn that in the six years it has taken the government to draft the bill, illegal mining has gone from “a regulatory headache to a national security crisis…but beyond the money, we're talking about sinkholes, we're talking about environmental degradation, water contamination. We've seen damaged infrastructure. We've seen what explosions have done recently in West Rand. And also we've seen the rise of violent crime in mining communities. Day in, day out, week in, week out we've seen on the news gangs, Zama Zama gangs, fighting each other and innocent individuals and people getting caught in the crossfire. But the one thing is the cost is enormous and we've been paying it while waiting for the bill to come through.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>R100-million fines for kingpins as illegal mining booms into national security crisis…</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>12:13</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Illegal mining kingpins are in the crosshairs when a new Illegal Mining Bill becomes law with R100 million fines and 30-year prison sentences on the cards. However, Independent Governance Expert Richard Chelin tells Chris Steyn that in the six years it has taken the government to draft the bill, illegal mining has gone from “a regulatory headache to a national security crisis…but beyond the money, we're talking about sinkholes, we're talking about environmental degradation, water contamination. We've seen damaged infrastructure. We've seen what explosions have done recently in West Rand. And also we've seen the rise of violent crime in mining communities. Day in, day out, week in, week out we've seen on the news gangs, Zama Zama gangs, fighting each other and innocent individuals and people getting caught in the crossfire. But the one thing is the cost is enormous and we've been paying it while waiting for the bill to come through.”]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Piet Viljoen cuts through the BS: What actually drives your returns (it's not complicated)</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711127</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[He's run money through three decades of market cycles, from Allan Gray to Investec to his own boutique, RECM. Now Piet Viljoen stands in front of a room of investment professionals and calls a chunk of his own industry's output, by his own word, bullshit. Jargon, product complexity, benchmarks, forecasts, fee layers: Viljoen takes a scalpel to each one and asks a single question of every part of the machine: does removing this make you worse off? His answer, most of the time, is no. This is via negativa applied to your money, and it is not comfortable listening for the industry that profits from complexity. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Piet Viljoen cuts through the BS: What actually drives your returns (it's not complicated)</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>22:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[He's run money through three decades of market cycles, from Allan Gray to Investec to his own boutique, RECM. Now Piet Viljoen stands in front of a room of investment professionals and calls a chunk of his own industry's output, by his own word, bullshit. Jargon, product complexity, benchmarks, forecasts, fee layers: Viljoen takes a scalpel to each one and asks a single question of every part of the machine: does removing this make you worse off? His answer, most of the time, is no. This is via negativa applied to your money, and it is not comfortable listening for the industry that profits from complexity.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: State-proofing SA; Covid’s market scars; Viljoen on investment complexity</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1711005</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s episode, Piet le Roux discusses "state-proofing" South Africa and urges a shift in United States foreign policy. David Shapiro unpacks Covid-19's lasting scars on global markets and the Federal Reserve's recent inflation struggles. We also explore how the investment industry uses Rube Goldberg-like complexity to generate revenue rather than solve uncertainty. Finally, catch up on Wall Street’s rally, Nvidia's earnings, and plunging retail stocks. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: State-proofing SA; Covid’s market scars; Viljoen on investment complexity</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>11:16</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today’s episode, Piet le Roux discusses "state-proofing" South Africa and urges a shift in United States foreign policy. David Shapiro unpacks Covid-19's lasting scars on global markets and the Federal Reserve's recent inflation struggles. We also explore how the investment industry uses Rube Goldberg-like complexity to generate revenue rather than solve uncertainty. Finally, catch up on Wall Street’s rally, Nvidia's earnings, and plunging retail stocks.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BNC#9 | David Shapiro: How AI quietly saved the global economy in 2022, and what markets do next</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1710875</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Shapiro has watched the market from a JSE trading floor since 1972, through every crisis from the Asian meltdown to the pandemic. At BNC#9 he makes the case that a single 2022 invention quietly kept the global economy afloat despite punishingly high interest rates, and explains why the new Fed chair's own words about inflation are more revealing than they sound. He also names the industries already fading out of relevance, and where he's looking for the next decade of returns. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | David Shapiro: How AI quietly saved the global economy in 2022, and what markets do next</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>22:16</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[David Shapiro has watched the market from a JSE trading floor since 1972, through every crisis from the Asian meltdown to the pandemic. At BNC#9 he makes the case that a single 2022 invention quietly kept the global economy afloat despite punishingly high interest rates, and explains why the new Fed chair's own words about inflation are more revealing than they sound. He also names the industries already fading out of relevance, and where he's looking for the next decade of returns.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Zuma Q&amp;A: EWC, BEE, election'24's 'missing' numbers, coalition talks, grants, and more...</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1710671</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven days into the job as MK's first deputy president, Duduzane Zuma sat down with Alec Hogg at BNC#9 and didn't play it safe. He says land expropriation without compensation isn't a threat, it's already policy. He says the grants system his own party is often accused of wanting to expand can't run forever. And he says the 2024 election result the country has moved on from shouldn't have been accepted in the first place. Along the way: why he calls himself a capitalist, what he actually thinks of General Mkhwanazi and the Madlanga Commission, and what MK got wrong on Tongaat Hulett. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Zuma Q&amp;A: EWC, BEE, election'24's 'missing' numbers, coalition talks, grants, and more...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>43:46</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Seven days into the job as MK's first deputy president, Duduzane Zuma sat down with Alec Hogg at BNC#9 and didn't play it safe. He says land expropriation without compensation isn't a threat, it's already policy. He says the grants system his own party is often accused of wanting to expand can't run forever. And he says the 2024 election result the country has moved on from shouldn't have been accepted in the first place. Along the way: why he calls himself a capitalist, what he actually thinks of General Mkhwanazi and the Madlanga Commission, and what MK got wrong on Tongaat Hulett.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Helen Zille on Joburg and Mark Burke; Gold's return; Bitcoin's rise; US tariffs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Helen Zille discusses the tough reality of politics and addresses the Mark Burke controversy. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick explains why central banks are hoarding gold to anchor credibility. Africa Bitcoin Corporation CEO Warren Wheatly highlights Bitcoin's decreasing volatility and absolute scarcity. Finally, get the latest US market wrap, including Trump's Canadian auto tariffs and upcoming Fed news. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Helen Zille on Joburg and Mark Burke; Gold's return; Bitcoin's rise; US tariffs</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>11:11</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Helen Zille discusses the tough reality of politics and addresses the Mark Burke controversy. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick explains why central banks are hoarding gold to anchor credibility. Africa Bitcoin Corporation CEO Warren Wheatly highlights Bitcoin's decreasing volatility and absolute scarcity. Finally, get the latest US market wrap, including Trump's Canadian auto tariffs and upcoming Fed news.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Warren Wheatley: The case for Bitcoin, AI and the new plumbing of global finance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bitcoin has gone quiet, and Warren Wheatley says that's the point. While the price sits well off its highs, the CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation says the real story is happening underneath: banks, insurers and even governments building the plumbing that turns Bitcoin into collateral. Wheatley explains how his own company used exactly that mechanism to borrow at 3% offshore and lend to African SMEs at a fraction of what other non-bank lenders charge, and why he thinks any business ignoring this shift is about to fall behind. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Warren Wheatley: The case for Bitcoin, AI and the new plumbing of global finance</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>21:14</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Bitcoin has gone quiet, and Warren Wheatley says that's the point. While the price sits well off its highs, the CEO of Africa Bitcoin Corporation says the real story is happening underneath: banks, insurers and even governments building the plumbing that turns Bitcoin into collateral. Wheatley explains how his own company used exactly that mechanism to borrow at 3% offshore and lend to African SMEs at a fraction of what other non-bank lenders charge, and why he thinks any business ignoring this shift is about to fall behind.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | The case for gold: Meryl Pick on what comes next for the world you built wealth in</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1710411</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Central banks aren't buying gold to make money. They're buying it because they no longer fully trust the system the rest of us take for granted. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick takes BNC#9 back to a hotel in New Hampshire in 1944, to the deal that made the dollar the centre of the financial universe, and asks what happens if that deal is quietly coming apart. Along the way: why one in four ounces of newly mined gold now ends up in a central bank vault, why India has brought most of its gold home, and why she believes your portfolio needs more gold than it did for most of the last 40 years, whether or not you've already missed the rally. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | The case for gold: Meryl Pick on what comes next for the world you built wealth in</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>20:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Central banks aren't buying gold to make money. They're buying it because they no longer fully trust the system the rest of us take for granted. Old Mutual's Meryl Pick takes BNC#9 back to a hotel in New Hampshire in 1944, to the deal that made the dollar the centre of the financial universe, and asks what happens if that deal is quietly coming apart. Along the way: why one in four ounces of newly mined gold now ends up in a central bank vault, why India has brought most of its gold home, and why she believes your portfolio needs more gold than it did for most of the last 40 years, whether or not you've already missed the rally.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Helen Zille: The Burke saga, a response to Corné Mulder, and the battle for Joburg and beyond</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Zille left her husband, sons and grandchildren in Cape Town to chase what she calls one of the toughest jobs of her career: mayor of Johannesburg. In this wide-ranging conversation with Alec Hogg, she explains why she'd rather walk straight into opposition than repeat the "extortion" coalition deals that helped bring Joburg to its knees, takes on the DA's Mark Burke controversy head-on, and reveals what Henry Kissinger once told her about the DA's chances on the African continent. Blunt, unscripted, and not without a fight. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Helen Zille: The Burke saga, a response to Corné Mulder, and the battle for Joburg and beyond</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>33:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Helen Zille left her husband, sons and grandchildren in Cape Town to chase what she calls one of the toughest jobs of her career: mayor of Johannesburg. In this wide-ranging conversation with Alec Hogg, she explains why she'd rather walk straight into opposition than repeat the "extortion" coalition deals that helped bring Joburg to its knees, takes on the DA's Mark Burke controversy head-on, and reveals what Henry Kissinger once told her about the DA's chances on the African continent. Blunt, unscripted, and not without a fight.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: NPA drops police charges; Burke defends crypto fintech; US markets bounce back</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1710080</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, the NPA formally drops corruption charges against high-ranking police officers following unravelling testimony at the Madlanga Commission. Meanwhile, an MP breaks his silence on his fintech, Kastelo, explaining its cryptocurrency arbitrage model and denying accusations of siphoning money out of South Africa. Finally, we cover Wall Street's latest moves, where strong US services data and a surging Robinhood offset manufacturing slowdowns. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: NPA drops police charges; Burke defends crypto fintech; US markets bounce back</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>10:16</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, the NPA formally drops corruption charges against high-ranking police officers following unravelling testimony at the Madlanga Commission. Meanwhile, an MP breaks his silence on his fintech, Kastelo, explaining its cryptocurrency arbitrage model and denying accusations of siphoning money out of South Africa. Finally, we cover Wall Street's latest moves, where strong US services data and a surging Robinhood offset manufacturing slowdowns.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show: Jonathan Deal - “Snake oil” Fadiel &amp; the villainous plotters unmasked…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Oily, sneaky. I think if he was in the Wild West in America, he would make a very good snake oil salesman.” That is the verdict by Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal on suspended MP Fadiel Adams testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. In Deal’s latest appearance on the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Deal details the dramatic unraveling of nefarious plots and the vindication of those falsely accused “...these very watchdogs that were supposed to protect the public from corruption… they themselves have been exposed as being so corrupt…And the very people who were vilified publicly at the beginning of all of this appear to be the ones that are walking away from it with almost an apology from the State if that's going to happen.” Deal says South Africans have ended up with this rotten police force because “there is a dearth of integrity, a dearth of standards, a dearth of values in our government…our government has been permitted to do more or less what it wants.” He slams all political parties for not doing more to fight it. “The executive leadership of the country, I think in all the political parties, ought to be, if not ashamed, then very embarrassed about their lack of ability, their lack of resolve, their lack of resilience to actually manage this stuff and hold people to account.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show: Jonathan Deal - “Snake oil” Fadiel &amp; the villainous plotters unmasked…</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>20:31</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[“Oily, sneaky. I think if he was in the Wild West in America, he would make a very good snake oil salesman.” That is the verdict by Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal on suspended MP Fadiel Adams testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. In Deal’s latest appearance on the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Deal details the dramatic unraveling of nefarious plots and the vindication of those falsely accused “...these very watchdogs that were supposed to protect the public from corruption… they themselves have been exposed as being so corrupt…And the very people who were vilified publicly at the beginning of all of this appear to be the ones that are walking away from it with almost an apology from the State if that's going to happen.” Deal says South Africans have ended up with this rotten police force because “there is a dearth of integrity, a dearth of standards, a dearth of values in our government…our government has been permitted to do more or less what it wants.” He slams all political parties for not doing more to fight it. “The executive leadership of the country, I think in all the political parties, ought to be, if not ashamed, then very embarrassed about their lack of ability, their lack of resolve, their lack of resilience to actually manage this stuff and hold people to account.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Mark Burke breaks his silence on the Kastelo storm: “The ANC will not succeed”</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1709669</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Burke discusses Kastelo’s regulatory dispute with the South African Reserve Bank, explaining the company’s compliance processes, client mandates, offshore investment transactions and decision to halt operations amid the blocking order. He also addresses the political fallout, media coverage and his decision to step back from the DA’s finance cluster. Burke maintains that Kastelo acted within the regulatory framework, while insisting the controversy should be allowed to run its course and that investigations must establish the facts. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Mark Burke breaks his silence on the Kastelo storm: “The ANC will not succeed”</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>45:37</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mark Burke discusses Kastelo’s regulatory dispute with the South African Reserve Bank, explaining the company’s compliance processes, client mandates, offshore investment transactions and decision to halt operations amid the blocking order. He also addresses the political fallout, media coverage and his decision to step back from the DA’s finance cluster. Burke maintains that Kastelo acted within the regulatory framework, while insisting the controversy should be allowed to run its course and that investigations must establish the facts.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Fire and Glory: Chad le Clos and dad Bert on 21 medals, Sea Point blaze and the road to LA 2028</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[South African swimming legend Chad le Clos has made history, becoming the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history with 21 medals., In this interview with Biznews, Chad and his father, Bert, reflect on a nine-year quest to reach this milestone, which is a journey Chad says ranks alongside his iconic 2012 Olympic gold. However, this athletic peak was met with a personal disaster: a blaze at his Sea Point apartment in Cape Town. While Chad was overseas, the fire gutted his home, destroying irreplaceable trophies like his Sportsman of the Year and provincial awards. Even his car keys melted inside the flat, leaving his vehicles stranded outside. Despite the loss, the le Clos family remains focused on the future. Chad talks about his "Last Dance" targeting the LA 2028 Olympics and the expansion of the Chad le Clos Academy with Virgin Active, We also hear the of how Chad's career inspired Bert to lose 40kg and become "a better person". – Linda van Tilburg ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Fire and Glory: Chad le Clos and dad Bert on 21 medals, Sea Point blaze and the road to LA 2028</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>17:20</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South African swimming legend Chad le Clos has made history, becoming the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history with 21 medals., In this interview with Biznews, Chad and his father, Bert, reflect on a nine-year quest to reach this milestone, which is a journey Chad says ranks alongside his iconic 2012 Olympic gold. However, this athletic peak was met with a personal disaster: a blaze at his Sea Point apartment in Cape Town. While Chad was overseas, the fire gutted his home, destroying irreplaceable trophies like his Sportsman of the Year and provincial awards. Even his car keys melted inside the flat, leaving his vehicles stranded outside. Despite the loss, the le Clos family remains focused on the future. Chad talks about his "Last Dance" targeting the LA 2028 Olympics and the expansion of the Chad le Clos Academy with Virgin Active, We also hear the of how Chad's career inspired Bert to lose 40kg and become "a better person". – Linda van Tilburg]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Marc Dhalluin - A Saffer’s crusade against global ad fraud…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1709548</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more online ads sold and paid for every single day than there are human beings on earth to consume those ads. That is the revelation from Marc Dhalluin of TruthsetsOnline, a South African based in Los Angeles, whose passionate mission is fighting global ad fraud. He talks to Chris Steyn about his mentor Dr Augustine Fou; the methods they use to uncover ad fraud, the types of ad fraud out there; fhow AI has “on the criminal side of it, improved in unbelievable leaps and bounds the rate at which these schemes can be deployed”; the millions of fake websites and fake apps loading ads: and the billions lost by brands who are not getting what they think they are paying for. “Everybody in the supply chain benefits from it…The only party that does not benefit is the one who signs the cheque, the brand, the brand team, the advertiser…It doesn't mean everybody's complicit. It doesn't mean everybody's creating it, but they're sure as chips benefiting from the volumes generated by the fraud.” Dhalluin shares usefule advice for brands to better protect themselves. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Marc Dhalluin - A Saffer’s crusade against global ad fraud…</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>13:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There are more online ads sold and paid for every single day than there are human beings on earth to consume those ads. That is the revelation from Marc Dhalluin of TruthsetsOnline, a South African based in Los Angeles, whose passionate mission is fighting global ad fraud. He talks to Chris Steyn about his mentor Dr Augustine Fou; the methods they use to uncover ad fraud, the types of ad fraud out there; fhow AI has “on the criminal side of it, improved in unbelievable leaps and bounds the rate at which these schemes can be deployed”; the millions of fake websites and fake apps loading ads: and the billions lost by brands who are not getting what they think they are paying for. “Everybody in the supply chain benefits from it…The only party that does not benefit is the one who signs the cheque, the brand, the brand team, the advertiser…It doesn't mean everybody's complicit. It doesn't mean everybody's creating it, but they're sure as chips benefiting from the volumes generated by the fraud.” Dhalluin shares usefule advice for brands to better protect themselves.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Steinhoff texts; Naspers' Tencent deal; Chad le Clos' LA push</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's episode explores the aftermath of the Steinhoff crash with previously unseen texts from Markus Jooste. We also unpack how Naspers secured its legendary $33 million Tencent deal despite tough negotiations. In sports, Chad prepares for his "last dance" at the LA 2028 Olympics. Finally, we cover Wall Street's slump driven by rising Treasury yields and a notable dip in retail stocks. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Steinhoff texts; Naspers' Tencent deal; Chad le Clos' LA push</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>13:26</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today's episode explores the aftermath of the Steinhoff crash with previously unseen texts from Markus Jooste. We also unpack how Naspers secured its legendary $33 million Tencent deal despite tough negotiations. In sports, Chad prepares for his "last dance" at the LA 2028 Olympics. Finally, we cover Wall Street's slump driven by rising Treasury yields and a notable dip in retail stocks.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Rhys Summerton: The &quot;100% success rate&quot; trade every investor is ignoring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buy anything worth $600 billion and you can't lose money, says Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton. That's the easy trade. The hard one is spotting a great serial acquirer before the market notices, and Summerton has the scars and the returns to prove it. He walks through the five things he looks for before backing management with a chequebook, tells the inside story of turning a forgotten R4 industrial stock into a South African ten-bagger, and explains exactly what went wrong when EOH's acquisition machine chased earnings straight into a near R100 billion wipeout. Along the way: why passive investing is starving thousands of small companies of capital, and why a tax loss might be the most underrated asset on any balance sheet. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Rhys Summerton: The &quot;100% success rate&quot; trade every investor is ignoring</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>21:36</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Buy anything worth $600 billion and you can't lose money, says Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton. That's the easy trade. The hard one is spotting a great serial acquirer before the market notices, and Summerton has the scars and the returns to prove it. He walks through the five things he looks for before backing management with a chequebook, tells the inside story of turning a forgotten R4 industrial stock into a South African ten-bagger, and explains exactly what went wrong when EOH's acquisition machine chased earnings straight into a near R100 billion wipeout. Along the way: why passive investing is starving thousands of small companies of capital, and why a tax loss might be the most underrated asset on any balance sheet.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Hans Hawinkels: He made the &quot;best deal in history,&quot; and Naspers still got rid of him</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1709448</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[He spent three months convincing two reluctant shareholders to sell. He drove across the Hong Kong border in a train packed "like sardines" to negotiate with four young founders through an interpreter. He talked Naspers into betting $32 million it barely had on a loss-making Chinese chat app called QQ. It became Tencent, one of the most valuable companies on earth, and the single biggest driver of wealth in almost every South African pension fund. A year later, his contract wasn't renewed. In this fireside chat at BNC#9, Hans Hawinkels breaks a two-decade silence to tell Alec Hogg exactly how the deal got done, why he still doesn't know why he was pushed out, and what he thinks Africa would need to produce its own Tencent. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Hans Hawinkels: He made the &quot;best deal in history,&quot; and Naspers still got rid of him</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>45:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[He spent three months convincing two reluctant shareholders to sell. He drove across the Hong Kong border in a train packed "like sardines" to negotiate with four young founders through an interpreter. He talked Naspers into betting $32 million it barely had on a loss-making Chinese chat app called QQ. It became Tencent, one of the most valuable companies on earth, and the single biggest driver of wealth in almost every South African pension fund. A year later, his contract wasn't renewed. In this fireside chat at BNC#9, Hans Hawinkels breaks a two-decade silence to tell Alec Hogg exactly how the deal got done, why he still doesn't know why he was pushed out, and what he thinks Africa would need to produce its own Tencent.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | The AI reckoning: Stafford Masie says jobs, healthcare &amp; banking are all about to transform</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1709207</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your phone tells you which menu items will wreck your afternoon before you've ordered. Your investment portfolio is run by an agent that never sleeps. And the loyalty programme you've belonged to for years? It might not survive contact with your own smartwatch. At BNC#9, former Google South Africa boss and Discovery board member Stafford Masie skips the slides and goes straight for the uncomfortable stuff: an agent that hacked a gym booking system to get its owner into a full class, a compute shortage that's driving prices up even as supply grows, and a warning that South African businesses of any size could run with half the staff within three years. He also names the healthcare boss he sent an unanswered memo to, live, on record. This one is worth watching in full. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | The AI reckoning: Stafford Masie says jobs, healthcare &amp; banking are all about to transform</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>21:42</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Your phone tells you which menu items will wreck your afternoon before you've ordered. Your investment portfolio is run by an agent that never sleeps. And the loyalty programme you've belonged to for years? It might not survive contact with your own smartwatch. At BNC#9, former Google South Africa boss and Discovery board member Stafford Masie skips the slides and goes straight for the uncomfortable stuff: an agent that hacked a gym booking system to get its owner into a full class, a compute shortage that's driving prices up even as supply grows, and a warning that South African businesses of any size could run with half the staff within three years. He also names the healthcare boss he sent an unanswered memo to, live, on record. This one is worth watching in full.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Bernard Mostert: Steinhoff turned his R3.2bn payout to nought. He still waits for answers.</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1709201</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago this month, Bernard Mostert and Braam van Huyssteen signed away their shoe empire for R3.2 billion in Steinhoff shares. Within eighteen months those shares were worth almost nothing, and the men who bought Tekkie Town had walked South Africa into its biggest corporate fraud. In this fireside chat, Mostert breaks a five-year public silence to talk through the due diligence that missed everything, the 2am WhatsApp meltdowns that should have been a warning, and why he and his partner chose to forgive the man who broke them. He also produces WhatsApp exchanges with Markus Jooste that have never been shown before, and asks the question South Africa still hasn't answered: with six convictions worldwide and one in this country, who else was on the 17th floor? ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Bernard Mostert: Steinhoff turned his R3.2bn payout to nought. He still waits for answers.</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>58:34</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ten years ago this month, Bernard Mostert and Braam van Huyssteen signed away their shoe empire for R3.2 billion in Steinhoff shares. Within eighteen months those shares were worth almost nothing, and the men who bought Tekkie Town had walked South Africa into its biggest corporate fraud. In this fireside chat, Mostert breaks a five-year public silence to talk through the due diligence that missed everything, the 2am WhatsApp meltdowns that should have been a warning, and why he and his partner chose to forgive the man who broke them. He also produces WhatsApp exchanges with Markus Jooste that have never been shown before, and asks the question South Africa still hasn't answered: with six convictions worldwide and one in this country, who else was on the 17th floor?]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: DA's R4bn probe; Masie on AI healthcare; Summerton on serial acquirers; US Markets</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1709026</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, political commentator Solly Moeng unpacks the R4 billion Reserve Bank investigation involving DA finance spokesperson Mark Burke's former company. Additionally, Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton reveals the essential traits of successful serial acquirers, and former Google SA boss Stafford Masie warns that AI will disrupt traditional health models like Discovery Vitality. Finally, Reuters provides a Wall Street wrap, highlighting market responses to easing bond yields. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: DA's R4bn probe; Masie on AI healthcare; Summerton on serial acquirers; US Markets</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>11:00</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, political commentator Solly Moeng unpacks the R4 billion Reserve Bank investigation involving DA finance spokesperson Mark Burke's former company. Additionally, Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton reveals the essential traits of successful serial acquirers, and former Google SA boss Stafford Masie warns that AI will disrupt traditional health models like Discovery Vitality. Finally, Reuters provides a Wall Street wrap, highlighting market responses to easing bond yields.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | John Endres: IRR polling data shows South Africans all want the same thing. Growth.</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1708905</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ANC's national support has slipped to a new low. Almost a million South Africans have left the country in a generation. And yet the IRR's John Endres reckons South Africa has a better shot at real reform than Britain does. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Endres lays out new IRR polling on the diaspora, fresh data on where SA's politics is heading, and the case for why the country's youth, not its minerals, might be its biggest advantage. It is an argument built on numbers, not slogans, and it ends with an invitation. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | John Endres: IRR polling data shows South Africans all want the same thing. Growth.</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>19:46</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The ANC's national support has slipped to a new low. Almost a million South Africans have left the country in a generation. And yet the IRR's John Endres reckons South Africa has a better shot at real reform than Britain does. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Endres lays out new IRR polling on the diaspora, fresh data on where SA's politics is heading, and the case for why the country's youth, not its minerals, might be its biggest advantage. It is an argument built on numbers, not slogans, and it ends with an invitation.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Solly Moeng: Burke bombshell, Kallie and Jacinta cosy up, Fadiel’s fate, Matlala’s murky world…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1708822</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The once carefully curated moral image of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is showing more cracks. In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng discuss the R4-billion South African Reserve Bank (SARB) investigation into the company founded by DA Finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke, and the pro bono security provided to former DA Mayor Tania Campbell by tenderpreneur and attempted murder accused Cat Matlala. Moeng also comments on the allegation that Matlala’s passionate legal representative, Advocate Annelene van den Heever, was regarded as a “close friend” of the notorious late taxi boss Mswazi Mbisi; as well as the gruelling grilling suspended MP Fadiel Adams is facing from Madlanga Commissioners. “…a very murky world … has been operating at the expense of the rest of South Africa. And we really hope that it all comes out so that we never have to be here again.” As for the collaboration that has been announced between AfriForum and March and March, Moeng says: “..they all in their own way think they're fighting their corner because the centre has not been fighting their corner on their behalf…” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng: Burke bombshell, Kallie and Jacinta cosy up, Fadiel’s fate, Matlala’s murky world…</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>20:36</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The once carefully curated moral image of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is showing more cracks. In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng discuss the R4-billion South African Reserve Bank (SARB) investigation into the company founded by DA Finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke, and the pro bono security provided to former DA Mayor Tania Campbell by tenderpreneur and attempted murder accused Cat Matlala. Moeng also comments on the allegation that Matlala’s passionate legal representative, Advocate Annelene van den Heever, was regarded as a “close friend” of the notorious late taxi boss Mswazi Mbisi; as well as the gruelling grilling suspended MP Fadiel Adams is facing from Madlanga Commissioners. “…a very murky world … has been operating at the expense of the rest of South Africa. And we really hope that it all comes out so that we never have to be here again.” As for the collaboration that has been announced between AfriForum and March and March, Moeng says: “..they all in their own way think they're fighting their corner because the centre has not been fighting their corner on their behalf…”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Wayne Duvenage: Over R200bn in bad govt deals, undone: Inside OUTA's war on waste</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1708751</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve years ago Wayne Duvenage quit as CEO of Avis to fight a toll fee he believed was unjust. Government has since written off R43 billion in e-toll debt. A separate R200 billion power ship deal is dead too. Now, at BNC#9, the OUTA chief executive explains how a small civil society organisation keeps winning fights against the state, why one insurance sector board recently refused a minister's direct order, and why he believes Johannesburg, corruption and all, can be turned around in a couple of years rather than a decade. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Wayne Duvenage: Over R200bn in bad govt deals, undone: Inside OUTA's war on waste</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>27:10</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Twelve years ago Wayne Duvenage quit as CEO of Avis to fight a toll fee he believed was unjust. Government has since written off R43 billion in e-toll debt. A separate R200 billion power ship deal is dead too. Now, at BNC#9, the OUTA chief executive explains how a small civil society organisation keeps winning fights against the state, why one insurance sector board recently refused a minister's direct order, and why he believes Johannesburg, corruption and all, can be turned around in a couple of years rather than a decade.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Duvenage calls for citizen oversight; Endres on ANC voter decline; Wall Street slump</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1708537</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, we cover OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage’s call at BNC#9 for civilian-led accountability and AI to combat corruption, alongside IRR CEO John Endres's polling data showing ANC support dropping below 50% across key demographics. Reuters details Wall Street's slip driven by soaring bond yields and tech losses, and ad investigator Marc Dhalluin breaks down how fake traffic and hidden placements waste ad spend. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Duvenage calls for citizen oversight; Endres on ANC voter decline; Wall Street slump</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>9:41</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, we cover OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage’s call at BNC#9 for civilian-led accountability and AI to combat corruption, alongside IRR CEO John Endres's polling data showing ANC support dropping below 50% across key demographics. Reuters details Wall Street's slip driven by soaring bond yields and tech losses, and ad investigator Marc Dhalluin breaks down how fake traffic and hidden placements waste ad spend.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Fired for pitching an 'unlistable' idea, Afrimat CEO v Heerden built a R10bn company anyway</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fired from a small quarrying company in 2005 for pitching an idea a lawyer called "unlistable," Andries van Heerden went and built it anyway. Twenty years on, that idea is Afrimat: a R10 billion JSE-listed miner spanning iron ore, manganese, anthracite, rare earths and now cement, after last year's Lafarge acquisition. At BNC#9, the man rated by his peers as South Africa's best miner lays out the deals, the near-misses, and the culture overhaul it took to get there, then turns to what's actually hurting Afrimat right now. It isn't the cement plant everyone warned him about. It's the slow unravelling of South African industry itself. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Fired for pitching an 'unlistable' idea, Afrimat CEO v Heerden built a R10bn company anyway</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>25:25</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fired from a small quarrying company in 2005 for pitching an idea a lawyer called "unlistable," Andries van Heerden went and built it anyway. Twenty years on, that idea is Afrimat: a R10 billion JSE-listed miner spanning iron ore, manganese, anthracite, rare earths and now cement, after last year's Lafarge acquisition. At BNC#9, the man rated by his peers as South Africa's best miner lays out the deals, the near-misses, and the culture overhaul it took to get there, then turns to what's actually hurting Afrimat right now. It isn't the cement plant everyone warned him about. It's the slow unravelling of South African industry itself.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi: Turning around an SA giant through Trump, tariffs and turmoil</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1708118</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[He started out as a bursary student from a village with no electricity or running water. Now Simon Baloyi runs one of South Africa's biggest industrial employers. In his first full year as CEO (2024) he turned a loss of nearly R70 a share into double-digit profit. Baloyi's BNC#9 keynote takes us inside that turnaround: the internal battle to hold the strategy together through Trump's tariffs, the balance sheet target that will decide when dividends return, and why Sasol isn't walking away from coal just yet. This is the story of a company built on getting oil out of coal, told by the man now betting his career on getting it right. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi: Turning around an SA giant through Trump, tariffs and turmoil</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>21:10</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[He started out as a bursary student from a village with no electricity or running water. Now Simon Baloyi runs one of South Africa's biggest industrial employers. In his first full year as CEO (2024) he turned a loss of nearly R70 a share into double-digit profit. Baloyi's BNC#9 keynote takes us inside that turnaround: the internal battle to hold the strategy together through Trump's tariffs, the balance sheet target that will decide when dividends return, and why Sasol isn't walking away from coal just yet. This is the story of a company built on getting oil out of coal, told by the man now betting his career on getting it right.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: US-SA trade ultimatum; Baloyi on Sasol's profit pivot; Knysna's crisis; Lafarge cleanup</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1708046</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street dipped as investors braced for retail earnings from Home Depot, TJX and Walmart. In Knysna, Ron Weissenberg says a R70-80 million provincial intervention has barely dented entrenched corruption despite Hawks investigations. From BNC#9, Theo de Jager detail 14 Washington meetings pushing the US to link trade to farm-murder action, BEE exemptions and Expropriation Act changes. Sasol's Simon Baloyi and Afrimat's Andries van Heerden share their turnaround stories, from R60bn capex plans to cleaning out corruption at Lafarge. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: US-SA trade ultimatum; Baloyi on Sasol's profit pivot; Knysna's crisis; Lafarge cleanup</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>12:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wall Street dipped as investors braced for retail earnings from Home Depot, TJX and Walmart. In Knysna, Ron Weissenberg says a R70-80 million provincial intervention has barely dented entrenched corruption despite Hawks investigations. From BNC#9, Theo de Jager detail 14 Washington meetings pushing the US to link trade to farm-murder action, BEE exemptions and Expropriation Act changes. Sasol's Simon Baloyi and Afrimat's Andries van Heerden share their turnaround stories, from R60bn capex plans to cleaning out corruption at Lafarge.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | '3 Amigos': Mulder, Papenfus, de Jager on a strained GNU, US-SA relations, FMD crisis + more</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1707956</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[They've been dubbed 'the Three Amigos', and a year on from their first appearance as a trio at BNIC#2 in Hermanus, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus are back with an inside account of the Washington meeting that could reshape South Africa's relationship with the United States. They reveal the exact conditions US officials say must be met before trade relations are restored, explain how a foot and mouth disease crisis quietly cost a government minister his party leadership, and don't hold back on why they think transformation policy is strangling the businesses that could otherwise be creating jobs right now. Blunt, funny and occasionally uncomfortable, this is three men who've chosen to stay outside government making the case for why that's exactly where they can do the most good. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | '3 Amigos': Mulder, Papenfus, de Jager on a strained GNU, US-SA relations, FMD crisis + more</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>39:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[They've been dubbed 'the Three Amigos', and a year on from their first appearance as a trio at BNIC#2 in Hermanus, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus are back with an inside account of the Washington meeting that could reshape South Africa's relationship with the United States. They reveal the exact conditions US officials say must be met before trade relations are restored, explain how a foot and mouth disease crisis quietly cost a government minister his party leadership, and don't hold back on why they think transformation policy is strangling the businesses that could otherwise be creating jobs right now. Blunt, funny and occasionally uncomfortable, this is three men who've chosen to stay outside government making the case for why that's exactly where they can do the most good.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Why king maker coalitions and municipal interventions fail…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1707770</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[With The Hawks investigating corruption at Knysna Municipality amid a failing intervention, Ron Weissenberg of The Accountability Group (TAG) tells Chris Steyn why interventions and money are not the solution. “They tend to paper over the problems and they address… emergencies on a short-term basis. However, when the money ends and the resources are withdrawn, we are left with exactly the same staff complement, the same management, the same issues around leadership and it's effectively taking almost an infant to just before walking stage and as a toddler and then leaving them alone thereafter.” As for the failure of “King Maker” Coalitions, Weissenberg says: “Voters appear...to like the concept of coalitions. But toxic coalitions don't like voters. And what happens is that great intentions, great speeches and a great playbook often results in quite the opposite. And you have the unfortunate situation where human nature, self-interest comes into play and...very quickly these coalitions move into managing the coalition rather than managing the municipality or the local authority. And that exacerbates service delivery…” While voters across the country hope for better municipal governance after the LGEs in November, Weissenberg advises residents how to use current legislation to pressurise political parties or individual independents into more appropriate action. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Why king maker coalitions and municipal interventions fail…</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>14:19</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With The Hawks investigating corruption at Knysna Municipality amid a failing intervention, Ron Weissenberg of The Accountability Group (TAG) tells Chris Steyn why interventions and money are not the solution. “They tend to paper over the problems and they address… emergencies on a short-term basis. However, when the money ends and the resources are withdrawn, we are left with exactly the same staff complement, the same management, the same issues around leadership and it's effectively taking almost an infant to just before walking stage and as a toddler and then leaving them alone thereafter.” As for the failure of “King Maker” Coalitions, Weissenberg says: “Voters appear...to like the concept of coalitions. But toxic coalitions don't like voters. And what happens is that great intentions, great speeches and a great playbook often results in quite the opposite. And you have the unfortunate situation where human nature, self-interest comes into play and...very quickly these coalitions move into managing the coalition rather than managing the municipality or the local authority. And that exacerbates service delivery…” While voters across the country hope for better municipal governance after the LGEs in November, Weissenberg advises residents how to use current legislation to pressurise political parties or individual independents into more appropriate action.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Dean Macpherson: SA has a trillion rand for infrastructure, but it can't spend it (yet)</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1707755</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa has budgeted a trillion rand for infrastructure over the next three years. It's spending less than it did twelve months ago. Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson lays out why: a tender system that awards roughly one in six bids, a construction mafia that until recently shut down sites almost daily, and a state entity that was bankrupt and whose boss allegedly tried to bribe a journalist. He also explains what's actually working, from Cape Town's record infrastructure spend to a national crackdown that's already produced 241 arrests. Not a comfortable watch for anyone hoping this is just how things are. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Dean Macpherson: SA has a trillion rand for infrastructure, but it can't spend it (yet)</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>24:57</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa has budgeted a trillion rand for infrastructure over the next three years. It's spending less than it did twelve months ago. Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson lays out why: a tender system that awards roughly one in six bids, a construction mafia that until recently shut down sites almost daily, and a state entity that was bankrupt and whose boss allegedly tried to bribe a journalist. He also explains what's actually working, from Cape Town's record infrastructure spend to a national crackdown that's already produced 241 arrests. Not a comfortable watch for anyone hoping this is just how things are.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Malema WhatsApp claims; Mulder on GNU capture; Construction mafia arrests surge</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1707550</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back from BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Daybreak opens with Safe Citizen's Jonathan Deal on the Madlanga Commission, where WhatsApp chats allegedly link Julius Malema to Major-General Feroz Khan and tobacco businessman Mohammadh Sayed. Malema calls it ordinary parliamentary oversight. At the conference, FF+ leader Corné Mulder warns GNU parties risk being co-opted, while Gerhard Papenfus says BEE and employment equity are still strangling business. Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson counters with good news: 241 arrests, 176 convictions and KZN construction mafia disruptions down from 60 a month to under 10. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Malema WhatsApp claims; Mulder on GNU capture; Construction mafia arrests surge</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>13:38</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Back from BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Daybreak opens with Safe Citizen's Jonathan Deal on the Madlanga Commission, where WhatsApp chats allegedly link Julius Malema to Major-General Feroz Khan and tobacco businessman Mohammadh Sayed. Malema calls it ordinary parliamentary oversight. At the conference, FF+ leader Corné Mulder warns GNU parties risk being co-opted, while Gerhard Papenfus says BEE and employment equity are still strangling business. Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson counters with good news: 241 arrests, 176 convictions and KZN construction mafia disruptions down from 60 a month to under 10.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show: Malema’s WhatsApps, Mchunu’s R700 000 forklifts, Matlala’s paper trail...</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1707491</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal take a deep dive into the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry after 159 days of testimony. “I think that we could say that this week the Madlanga Commission stopped being about one scandal and started looking like a stress test of the entire institution of the South African Police Services… because we have five threats all moving at once: Credibility collapse for the woman who ran IDAC, a classified report that moved through the system with nobody able to say under what authority, an EFF leader the commission still has not called, a shooting victim the public doesn't fully believe was shot, and two witnesses - one sealed and one postponed still to come.” Deal also outlines why Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu can now be safely referred to as former Police Minister: “...this stuff sounds like it's out of a spy novel, quite frankly…. the Inspector General of Intelligence is refusing to hand over a report on an open investigation. All of a sudden, the report is in the hands of the Minister of Police and that gets flown - literally like we see on the movies with spies moving documents around - to the Eastern Cape…and forwarded on WhatsApp…Absolutely mind boggling.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show: Malema’s WhatsApps, Mchunu’s R700 000 forklifts, Matlala’s paper trail...</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>25:15</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the latest edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal take a deep dive into the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry after 159 days of testimony. “I think that we could say that this week the Madlanga Commission stopped being about one scandal and started looking like a stress test of the entire institution of the South African Police Services… because we have five threats all moving at once: Credibility collapse for the woman who ran IDAC, a classified report that moved through the system with nobody able to say under what authority, an EFF leader the commission still has not called, a shooting victim the public doesn't fully believe was shot, and two witnesses - one sealed and one postponed still to come.” Deal also outlines why Special Leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu can now be safely referred to as former Police Minister: “...this stuff sounds like it's out of a spy novel, quite frankly…. the Inspector General of Intelligence is refusing to hand over a report on an open investigation. All of a sudden, the report is in the hands of the Minister of Police and that gets flown - literally like we see on the movies with spies moving documents around - to the Eastern Cape…and forwarded on WhatsApp…Absolutely mind boggling.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Dr Iraj Abedian: SA's 80-year bond with Iran, and why America's Middle East era is ending</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1707102</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reza Shah of Iran died in exile in a house in Johannesburg in 1944. Eighty-two years later, an Iranian-born South African economist stood up at BNC#9 to explain why that strange, half-forgotten history still shapes how Pretoria thinks about Tehran, and why the war now raging between Iran, Israel and the United States might be the moment historians look back on as the start of America's retreat from the Middle East. Dr Iraj Abedian takes you from a British-orchestrated abdication and a CIA-backed coup, through Sasol's Iranian shareholder and Mandela's visits to Tehran, to a chessboard being redrawn "literally hourly." His verdict on Washington's war plan: a swamp, not a surrender. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Dr Iraj Abedian: SA's 80-year bond with Iran, and why America's Middle East era is ending</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:22</itunes:duration>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Dawie Roodt slams ANC; Ian Cameron on SAPS; Wall Street highs; OpenAI and Anthropic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today on BizNews Daybreak, Wall Street celebrates record highs while OpenAI and Anthropic eyes a massive IPO. Locally, Dawie Roodt blames ANC ideology for South Africa's economic woes, and Ian Cameron exposes severe dysfunction and backlogs within SAPS. On the global front, Dr. Iraj Abedian analyses America’s retreat from the Middle East, and Javier Blas details the high-risk, "dark" oil tanker trade navigating the Strait of Hormuz. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Dawie Roodt slams ANC; Ian Cameron on SAPS; Wall Street highs; OpenAI and Anthropic</itunes:title>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Dawie Roodt: &quot;Incompetent&quot; ANC is the &quot;most destructive force South Africa has ever seen&quot;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dawie Roodt says South Africa's taxpayers are being squeezed harder than ever, and he has the fresh numbers to prove it. In this BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist walks from 300,000 years of human history to the latest Reserve Bank bulletin to make one argument: the state is spending and taxing more than it ever has, while a shrinking pool of taxpayers carries the load. He explains why he backs a controversial BEE fund idea that a fellow speaker slammed at breakfast that same morning, why he's telling people to legally pay as little tax as possible, and what a Middle East ceasefire could mean for the rand, interest rates and South Africa's growth outlook. He also delivers his sharpest line yet on the ANC. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Dawie Roodt: &quot;Incompetent&quot; ANC is the &quot;most destructive force South Africa has ever seen&quot;</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>23:53</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dawie Roodt says South Africa's taxpayers are being squeezed harder than ever, and he has the fresh numbers to prove it. In this BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist walks from 300,000 years of human history to the latest Reserve Bank bulletin to make one argument: the state is spending and taxing more than it ever has, while a shrinking pool of taxpayers carries the load. He explains why he backs a controversial BEE fund idea that a fellow speaker slammed at breakfast that same morning, why he's telling people to legally pay as little tax as possible, and what a Middle East ceasefire could mean for the rand, interest rates and South Africa's growth outlook. He also delivers his sharpest line yet on the ANC.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Ian Cameron: &quot;Fire, fire, fire more&quot;: Five-point plan to fix SAPS, and how long it will take</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half of South Africa's police stations don't answer their own phones. There's a DNA backlog running past 300,000 cases, sitting behind rapists who are still walking free. And SAPS spends R102-billion a year on salaries for a leadership structure of 722 generals and brigadiers. Ian Cameron, chair of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, lays out exactly where SAPS is broken, names the generals he says accountability keeps missing, and sets out five foundations he believes could turn it around, if anyone on the inside actually wants to. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Ian Cameron: &quot;Fire, fire, fire more&quot;: Five-point plan to fix SAPS, and how long it will take</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:10</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Half of South Africa's police stations don't answer their own phones. There's a DNA backlog running past 300,000 cases, sitting behind rapists who are still walking free. And SAPS spends R102-billion a year on salaries for a leadership structure of 722 generals and brigadiers. Ian Cameron, chair of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, lays out exactly where SAPS is broken, names the generals he says accountability keeps missing, and sets out five foundations he believes could turn it around, if anyone on the inside actually wants to.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Rob Hersov: Why mafia, gangsters and tenderpreneurs make SA so difficult to turn around</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Hersov became a household name in South African business circles for one speech and two words. Four years on, he's back on the BizNews stage with a harder, more complicated message: the country is not fixed, the ANC is not gone, and the crisis is deeper than most people admit. But he's also putting his own money down, on the West Coast, on a Cape Town-area development, and on a young entrepreneur building South Africa's first prediction market. Between the warnings about gangsters, hijacked buildings and a R1.8 trillion corporate cash pile sitting idle, Hersov makes the case that South Africa's real danger isn't collapse. It's getting used to it. Watch to hear why he thinks the municipal elections could be the turning point, and where he's actually putting his own capital. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Rob Hersov: Why mafia, gangsters and tenderpreneurs make SA so difficult to turn around</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>26:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rob Hersov became a household name in South African business circles for one speech and two words. Four years on, he's back on the BizNews stage with a harder, more complicated message: the country is not fixed, the ANC is not gone, and the crisis is deeper than most people admit. But he's also putting his own money down, on the West Coast, on a Cape Town-area development, and on a young entrepreneur building South Africa's first prediction market. Between the warnings about gangsters, hijacked buildings and a R1.8 trillion corporate cash pile sitting idle, Hersov makes the case that South Africa's real danger isn't collapse. It's getting used to it. Watch to hear why he thinks the municipal elections could be the turning point, and where he's actually putting his own capital.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Mashele on the ANC’s terminal decline; Hersov on SA’s investability; Nvidia $500B plan</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1706524</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Prince Mashele predicts the ANC's terminal decline by 2034, while Rob Hersov warns South Africa is uninvestable due to a massive illicit economy. Globally, subdued US inflation eases Fed pressure, and Nvidia unveils a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan. Plus, we hear Bernard Mostert's inside story on Steinhoff's red flags, Cisco's AI-driven earnings, and further updates on geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Mashele on the ANC’s terminal decline; Hersov on SA’s investability; Nvidia $500B plan</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>14:49</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Prince Mashele predicts the ANC's terminal decline by 2034, while Rob Hersov warns South Africa is uninvestable due to a massive illicit economy. Globally, subdued US inflation eases Fed pressure, and Nvidia unveils a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan. Plus, we hear Bernard Mostert's inside story on Steinhoff's red flags, Cisco's AI-driven earnings, and further updates on geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Prince Mashele: ANC is finished; Zille for Jozi; where his new movement will show its hand</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prince Mashele doesn't do polite predictions. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, the political analyst and author of The Fall of the ANC lays out exactly how he believes South Africa's governing party ends: not with a bang, but a slow bleed to zero seats within two elections. He explains why Johannesburg matters more than any other contest on the ballot, why he expects Cyril Ramaphosa's own comrades to turn on him the moment the results land, and why he believes KwaZulu-Natal's unity has one heartbeat left in it. Then he does something rarer: he sets out the plan he and a growing group of South Africans are building to replace the ANC altogether, and tells the country's wealthy exactly what he thinks of their commitment to it. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Prince Mashele: ANC is finished; Zille for Jozi; where his new movement will show its hand</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>22:30</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Prince Mashele doesn't do polite predictions. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, the political analyst and author of The Fall of the ANC lays out exactly how he believes South Africa's governing party ends: not with a bang, but a slow bleed to zero seats within two elections. He explains why Johannesburg matters more than any other contest on the ballot, why he expects Cyril Ramaphosa's own comrades to turn on him the moment the results land, and why he believes KwaZulu-Natal's unity has one heartbeat left in it. Then he does something rarer: he sets out the plan he and a growing group of South Africans are building to replace the ANC altogether, and tells the country's wealthy exactly what he thinks of their commitment to it.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | GHL: Four months into the job, the new DA leader's plan to get 50 + 1%</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four months after taking over as DA federal leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis used his first BNC address to lay out exactly how he plans to close the gap on the ANC, why Cape Town's gun conviction numbers should worry everyone, and what one ANC mayor told him in private that he says has stayed with him. With the DA and ANC now separated by just seven points nationally, and Johannesburg's local election turning into a real contest, Hill-Lewis makes the case for why he thinks South African politics is about to change shape, whether the ANC likes it or not. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | GHL: Four months into the job, the new DA leader's plan to get 50 + 1%</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>28:37</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Four months after taking over as DA federal leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis used his first BNC address to lay out exactly how he plans to close the gap on the ANC, why Cape Town's gun conviction numbers should worry everyone, and what one ANC mayor told him in private that he says has stayed with him. With the DA and ANC now separated by just seven points nationally, and Johannesburg's local election turning into a real contest, Hill-Lewis makes the case for why he thinks South African politics is about to change shape, whether the ANC likes it or not.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Hill-Lewis on DA's future; Duduzane Zuma on MKP; Wiese on Jooste betrayal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, Christo Wiese discusses Markus Jooste's betrayal and his fight for restitution. We also cover the DA's optimistic vision to reverse South Africa's decline and Duduzane Zuma's call for big business cooperation. Globally, signs emerge of a potential US-Iran arrangement over the Strait of Hormuz, while the US faces munitions shortages. Finally, AI stocks soar as CoreWeave and Supermicro beat estimates. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Hill-Lewis on DA's future; Duduzane Zuma on MKP; Wiese on Jooste betrayal</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>14:39</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, Christo Wiese discusses Markus Jooste's betrayal and his fight for restitution. We also cover the DA's optimistic vision to reverse South Africa's decline and Duduzane Zuma's call for big business cooperation. Globally, signs emerge of a potential US-Iran arrangement over the Strait of Hormuz, while the US faces munitions shortages. Finally, AI stocks soar as CoreWeave and Supermicro beat estimates.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BNC#9 | Duduzane Zuma: Why the country should be grateful for JZ, and a stark choice for SA business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He once said he wouldn't join his father's party. Now he's its second-in-command. Barely a week into the job, Duduzane Zuma used the BNC#9 stage to tell South Africa's business leaders exactly what he thinks they've got wrong, about land, about the Reserve Bank, and about the "masses" he says the boardroom keeps ignoring. He splits the economy into three, calls out white monopoly capital by name, and makes one direct ask of business: meet MK halfway. Whether that's a real olive branch or a warning shot is for the viewer to decide. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BNC#9 | Duduzane Zuma: Why the country should be grateful for JZ, and a stark choice for SA business</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>17:08</itunes:duration>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Oil rallies; Anthropic deal; Intel $20B sale; Berkshire buybacks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's BizNews Daybreak covers Donald Trump’s stance on Iran and rising oil prices driving Brent crude past $87. Tech highlights include Anthropic’s $9.1 billion data center deal with Riot Platforms, Intel raising $20 billion through share sales, and security risks of rogue AI models. Plus, Berkshire Hathaway accelerates share buybacks to $4.5 billion. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Oil rallies; Anthropic deal; Intel $20B sale; Berkshire buybacks</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<title>NdB Sunday Show: A year without Neil de Beer - remembering the man who never backed down</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a year after Neil de Beer's death, the NdB Sunday Show looks back at the moments that made him impossible to ignore. From tearing into the NHI Bill to naming his own "ten most wanted" list of state capture figures, de Beer never softened a line for anybody. What most of his audience didn't know while he was saying it: he was fighting cancer, quietly, the whole time. Chris Steyn revisits the utterances that built the show, and the man behind them. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>NdB Sunday Show: A year without Neil de Beer - remembering the man who never backed down</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>20:21</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nearly a year after Neil de Beer's death, the NdB Sunday Show looks back at the moments that made him impossible to ignore. From tearing into the NHI Bill to naming his own "ten most wanted" list of state capture figures, de Beer never softened a line for anybody. What most of his audience didn't know while he was saying it: he was fighting cancer, quietly, the whole time. Chris Steyn revisits the utterances that built the show, and the man behind them.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA migration debates; Hormuz shipping deal; Fed rates; Elon Musk on SpaceX</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1704879</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s episode covers South Africa’s immigration debate as Solly Moeng addresses local employment realities. We examine global tensions, including Iran’s Strait of Hormuz deal and oil market impacts. Plus, updates on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s inflation strategy, OpenAI’s upcoming 2027 smart device, Elon Musk’s massive SpaceX and Starlink V3 expansion plans, and Alphabet’s struggles with delayed Gemini models and AI talent loss. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA migration debates; Hormuz shipping deal; Fed rates; Elon Musk on SpaceX</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>16:23</itunes:duration>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Google DeepMind shakeup; Joburg election poll; Expropriation; Uber update</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1704461</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s episode covers Google's AI leadership shakeup, vishing cyberattacks targeting major Wall Street hedge funds and Meta’s AI testing breach. Locally, Jacob Zuma appoints his son Duduzane as MKP deputy president while Ramaphosa holds back an interim commission report. Plus, SRF polling reveals the ANC collapsing in Johannesburg, Kallie Kriel dives into property rights warnings over expropriation, SanDisk’s revenue forecast, and Uber’s latest consumer update. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Google DeepMind shakeup; Joburg election poll; Expropriation; Uber update</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>14:16</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today’s episode covers Google's AI leadership shakeup, vishing cyberattacks targeting major Wall Street hedge funds and Meta’s AI testing breach. Locally, Jacob Zuma appoints his son Duduzane as MKP deputy president while Ramaphosa holds back an interim commission report. Plus, SRF polling reveals the ANC collapsing in Johannesburg, Kallie Kriel dives into property rights warnings over expropriation, SanDisk’s revenue forecast, and Uber’s latest consumer update.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: A 29% overnight jump, and CEO Alex Karp says Palantir is only getting started</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1704334</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Karp just proved that conviction moves markets. Palantir's overnight 29% jump has Wall Street rethinking what it thought it knew about the company, and Karp isn't shy about telling you why. Elon Musk lays out exactly how far ahead SpaceX and Starlink already are, and how much further they're going, while South Africa keeps arguing with itself about letting Starlink in at all. Add a fresh Johannesburg poll that's bad news for the ANC, a Sasol result the market punished despite strong numbers, and Glencore handing billions back to shareholders, and you've got a day where markets and voters were settling the same argument. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: A 29% overnight jump, and CEO Alex Karp says Palantir is only getting started</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>22:03</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Alex Karp just proved that conviction moves markets. Palantir's overnight 29% jump has Wall Street rethinking what it thought it knew about the company, and Karp isn't shy about telling you why. Elon Musk lays out exactly how far ahead SpaceX and Starlink already are, and how much further they're going, while South Africa keeps arguing with itself about letting Starlink in at all. Add a fresh Johannesburg poll that's bad news for the ANC, a Sasol result the market punished despite strong numbers, and Glencore handing billions back to shareholders, and you've got a day where markets and voters were settling the same argument.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Solly Moeng - Zuma &amp; Duduzane, Cyril &amp; Madlanga, Bozell &amp; Lamola…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1704202</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the headline-grabbing actions of former President Jacob Zuma and the headline grabbing non-action of current President Cyril Ramaphosa: Zuma appointing his son, Duduzane, as MKP’s Deputy President while Ramaphosa has been sitting on the second interim report of the Madlanga Commission for over two months. They also discuss News24’s turn-around on former IDAC chief Andrea Johnson, as well as DIRCO’s release of a photograph of US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell and International Relations Minister Roland Lamola posing with big smiles after meeting. “I think it's a good thing that the outside world is watching South Africa because we can be fooled into a false sense of patriotism that works against us. Because these politicians in South Africa are smart. You know, we're all going…yeah, let's protect South Africa, but we're actually protecting the stuff that is working against us here at home. …We need politicians here to know that they cannot just do anything and tell us yeah, let's protect the country when we're actually protecting them.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Solly Moeng - Zuma &amp; Duduzane, Cyril &amp; Madlanga, Bozell &amp; Lamola…</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>17:34</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng talk about the headline-grabbing actions of former President Jacob Zuma and the headline grabbing non-action of current President Cyril Ramaphosa: Zuma appointing his son, Duduzane, as MKP’s Deputy President while Ramaphosa has been sitting on the second interim report of the Madlanga Commission for over two months. They also discuss News24’s turn-around on former IDAC chief Andrea Johnson, as well as DIRCO’s release of a photograph of US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell and International Relations Minister Roland Lamola posing with big smiles after meeting. “I think it's a good thing that the outside world is watching South Africa because we can be fooled into a false sense of patriotism that works against us. Because these politicians in South Africa are smart. You know, we're all going…yeah, let's protect South Africa, but we're actually protecting the stuff that is working against us here at home. …We need politicians here to know that they cannot just do anything and tell us yeah, let's protect the country when we're actually protecting them.”]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: AfriForum targets Malema; Nedbank surges; SA pitches power to China; SpaceX</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1704033</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In todays Daybreak, AfriForum's CEO reveals an upcoming contempt of court case against Julius Malema for land grab calls. Paramount Group's founder warns of a potential uprising in South Africa. Locally, Nedbank report strong interim results, while a scam victim shares his R450,000 loss. Globally, SpaceX and AMD release earnings, and South Africa pitches a $180 billion energy plan to China. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: AfriForum targets Malema; Nedbank surges; SA pitches power to China; SpaceX</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>16:09</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In todays Daybreak, AfriForum's CEO reveals an upcoming contempt of court case against Julius Malema for land grab calls. Paramount Group's founder warns of a potential uprising in South Africa. Locally, Nedbank report strong interim results, while a scam victim shares his R450,000 loss. Globally, SpaceX and AMD release earnings, and South Africa pitches a $180 billion energy plan to China.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>Stroke victim loses R450,000 disability money on online trading platform</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1703924</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another BizNews tribe member has suffered a huge online trading platform loss. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Tommy Salem describes how he ended up on the FXSI platform after clicking on a clip showing AfriForum’s Kallie Kriel before losing R450 000 in two months. It was money Tommy could ill afford to lose: “I had a stroke. So I was at home for a year and I was busy with the therapy and that didn't work out and the company then decided to put me on permanent incapacity leave. ..That was money I received from my insurance and my incapacity benefit…it's painful to lose so much money…” In its response to BizNews, FXSI stated: “The complaint was received on 28 July 2026, acknowledged, and remains under formal investigation…As the matter is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment publicly on the allegations or speculate on the outcome.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Stroke victim loses R450,000 disability money on online trading platform</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>23:31</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Another BizNews tribe member has suffered a huge online trading platform loss. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Tommy Salem describes how he ended up on the FXSI platform after clicking on a clip showing AfriForum’s Kallie Kriel before losing R450 000 in two months. It was money Tommy could ill afford to lose: “I had a stroke. So I was at home for a year and I was busy with the therapy and that didn't work out and the company then decided to put me on permanent incapacity leave. ..That was money I received from my insurance and my incapacity benefit…it's painful to lose so much money…” In its response to BizNews, FXSI stated: “The complaint was received on 28 July 2026, acknowledged, and remains under formal investigation…As the matter is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment publicly on the allegations or speculate on the outcome.”]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>Why Africa's youth now trust China more than America</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1703916</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivor Ichikowitz turns sixty this year, and by his own account he's never felt more energised. As founder of Paramount, the defence and aerospace group he built into a business operating in twenty countries, he's used to controversy. But in this conversation with Alec Hogg, he's not talking weapons. He's talking about what his foundation's African Youth Survey reveals about a generation that trusts China more than America, doesn't believe in the ballot box, and might just take to the streets instead. He also has a stark warning for South Africa: Denel, the state defence company he helped build his own career alongside, may only have months, not years, left to save. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Why Africa's youth now trust China more than America</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>44:38</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ivor Ichikowitz turns sixty this year, and by his own account he's never felt more energised. As founder of Paramount, the defence and aerospace group he built into a business operating in twenty countries, he's used to controversy. But in this conversation with Alec Hogg, he's not talking weapons. He's talking about what his foundation's African Youth Survey reveals about a generation that trusts China more than America, doesn't believe in the ballot box, and might just take to the streets instead. He also has a stark warning for South Africa: Denel, the state defence company he helped build his own career alongside, may only have months, not years, left to save.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: SA is sitting on a defence asset it doesn't know it has; Malema; Tshwane and more</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1703831</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen votes vanish, a city manager gets his job back, and Tshwane's bondholders are left wondering what happens to every tender signed while he was out. Kallie Kriel tells Chris Steyn that AfriForum is coming for Julius Malema again, and this time the government's in the crosshairs too. Then Ivor Ichikowitz, the famously private founder of Paramount, breaks his silence on the defence empire he built out of South Africa, and on a fresh survey showing Africa's youth quietly picking sides between Washington and Beijing. Plus: Nedbank's numbers hide a bigger story, the JSE reports on itself, Old Mutual's frozen Zimbabwe shares get a lifeline, and Palantir hands Wall Street another reason to pay attention. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: SA is sitting on a defence asset it doesn't know it has; Malema; Tshwane and more</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>21:55</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thirteen votes vanish, a city manager gets his job back, and Tshwane's bondholders are left wondering what happens to every tender signed while he was out. Kallie Kriel tells Chris Steyn that AfriForum is coming for Julius Malema again, and this time the government's in the crosshairs too. Then Ivor Ichikowitz, the famously private founder of Paramount, breaks his silence on the defence empire he built out of South Africa, and on a fresh survey showing Africa's youth quietly picking sides between Washington and Beijing. Plus: Nedbank's numbers hide a bigger story, the JSE reports on itself, Old Mutual's frozen Zimbabwe shares get a lifeline, and Palantir hands Wall Street another reason to pay attention.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Kallie Kriel: AfriForum’s legal eagles to swoop on “Land Grab” Malema</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Kallie Kriel, the CEO of AfriForum, describes the legal battle being fought against the Expropriation Act in the Cape High Court this week. Detailing the implications of the act in current form, Kriel warns that after the Local Government Elections in November, municipalities under MK control could use a section of the act to expropriate without compensation. “They can use a reason that is not valid and they can go ahead…And that is why we will use the resources we have to fight this till the bitter end.” As for unlawful occupation, Kriel reveals that Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) CIC Julius Malema is facing legal action over his latest land grab call. “A few years back we got a court order successfully against him that he is not allowed to do that. He had to pay our costs. But you will see that during the last week he did it again. We have not announced that publicly; so you hear it the first time. But our legal team is drawing up a case at the moment because his behaviour is contempt of court. So we believe we have a strong case there.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Kallie Kriel: AfriForum’s legal eagles to swoop on “Land Grab” Malema</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>16:56</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Kallie Kriel, the CEO of AfriForum, describes the legal battle being fought against the Expropriation Act in the Cape High Court this week. Detailing the implications of the act in current form, Kriel warns that after the Local Government Elections in November, municipalities under MK control could use a section of the act to expropriate without compensation. “They can use a reason that is not valid and they can go ahead…And that is why we will use the resources we have to fight this till the bitter end.” As for unlawful occupation, Kriel reveals that Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) CIC Julius Malema is facing legal action over his latest land grab call. “A few years back we got a court order successfully against him that he is not allowed to do that. He had to pay our costs. But you will see that during the last week he did it again. We have not announced that publicly; so you hear it the first time. But our legal team is drawing up a case at the moment because his behaviour is contempt of court. So we believe we have a strong case there.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Record FSCA fines; New police bosses; US-China AI rivalries; Trump warns Iran</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1703572</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, we cover South Africa's crowning as Africa's ransomware capital and the FSCA's record R2.8 billion in fines, including action against the Banxso deepfake scam. We also discuss the appointment of seasoned provincial police commissioners and new anti-corruption progress. Globally, we unpack President Trump's tariff lawsuits, OpenAI's security briefing following the Hugging Face breach, Palantir's soaring sales, and Alibaba's massive new AI model. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Record FSCA fines; New police bosses; US-China AI rivalries; Trump warns Iran</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>14:51</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, we cover South Africa's crowning as Africa's ransomware capital and the FSCA's record R2.8 billion in fines, including action against the Banxso deepfake scam. We also discuss the appointment of seasoned provincial police commissioners and new anti-corruption progress. Globally, we unpack President Trump's tariff lawsuits, OpenAI's security briefing following the Hugging Face breach, Palantir's soaring sales, and Alibaba's massive new AI model.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Dr Lennit Max: Non-racial, merit-based appointments of four new police commissioners</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, former Western Cape Provincial Police Commissioner, Dr. Lennit Max hails the appointments of four new provincial commissioners. “This time around I am very pleased that the Acting National Commissioner in her wisdom decided that there's merit among people of colour.” He points out that all four appear seasoned as well. “Lieutenant General Sizakhele Dyanti in the Western Cape, got 34 years of service. Lieutenant General Arthur Adams, Northwest, 34 years of service as well. Lieutenant General Jan Scheepers, Limpopo, 38 years of service. And Lieutenant General Apapia Modise of Mpumalanga, 37 years of service. They are not people who are parachuted into those ranks.” As for the latest "heartbreaking "testimony at the Madlanga Commission, Dr Max says it is “damaging not only for Andrea Johnson, but to IDAC as a whole, the NPA, but most importantly, to government because government put these systems in place to ensure that they address the corruption in this country and we as citizens got hope that government is doing the right thing to put these systems in place and also to appoint people they believe got the necessary skill and commitment to serve our country without fear or favour. And it is totally unacceptable, and I think there must be consequences to that effect.” Lastly, Dr Max shares highlights from his autobiography which is being launched this month: “A Life That Refused to Bow”. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Dr Lennit Max: Non-racial, merit-based appointments of four new police commissioners</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>33:35</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, former Western Cape Provincial Police Commissioner, Dr. Lennit Max hails the appointments of four new provincial commissioners. “This time around I am very pleased that the Acting National Commissioner in her wisdom decided that there's merit among people of colour.” He points out that all four appear seasoned as well. “Lieutenant General Sizakhele Dyanti in the Western Cape, got 34 years of service. Lieutenant General Arthur Adams, Northwest, 34 years of service as well. Lieutenant General Jan Scheepers, Limpopo, 38 years of service. And Lieutenant General Apapia Modise of Mpumalanga, 37 years of service. They are not people who are parachuted into those ranks.” As for the latest "heartbreaking "testimony at the Madlanga Commission, Dr Max says it is “damaging not only for Andrea Johnson, but to IDAC as a whole, the NPA, but most importantly, to government because government put these systems in place to ensure that they address the corruption in this country and we as citizens got hope that government is doing the right thing to put these systems in place and also to appoint people they believe got the necessary skill and commitment to serve our country without fear or favour. And it is totally unacceptable, and I think there must be consequences to that effect.” Lastly, Dr Max shares highlights from his autobiography which is being launched this month: “A Life That Refused to Bow”.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Second prosecution boss falls at Madlanga Commission; ANC heads into a tough November</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1703342</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two prosecution bosses down, and counting. The Madlanga Commission has just claimed its second casualty, and a leaked recording shows exactly how bad it got. Meanwhile fresh polling suggests the ANC is about to lose over 500 council seats, Interpol has crowned South Africa the ransomware capital of the continent, and the FSCA has landed a record R2.8 billion in fines, the bulk of which trace back to Banxso — the company behind those Elon Musk deepfake ads, the same scam BizNews first exposed. On the markets side, Nedbank, Telkom and Stor-Age all moved today, Lewis Group looks like a Buffett-style bargain hiding in plain sight, and Amazon just delivered one of the biggest single day gains in its history. Andy Jassy explains, in his own words, exactly why. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Second prosecution boss falls at Madlanga Commission; ANC heads into a tough November</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>23:27</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two prosecution bosses down, and counting. The Madlanga Commission has just claimed its second casualty, and a leaked recording shows exactly how bad it got. Meanwhile fresh polling suggests the ANC is about to lose over 500 council seats, Interpol has crowned South Africa the ransomware capital of the continent, and the FSCA has landed a record R2.8 billion in fines, the bulk of which trace back to Banxso — the company behind those Elon Musk deepfake ads, the same scam BizNews first exposed. On the markets side, Nedbank, Telkom and Stor-Age all moved today, Lewis Group looks like a Buffett-style bargain hiding in plain sight, and Amazon just delivered one of the biggest single day gains in its history. Andy Jassy explains, in his own words, exactly why.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA corruption probes; Trump’s Iran pause; SpaceX upcoming earnings, FIFA backlash</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1703180</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's BizNews Daybreak examines Japan’s US-coordinated currency intervention, OPEC+ production increases, and energy lobby opposition to US biofuels legislation. South Africa’s corruption commission delivers unprecedented accountability, while Donald Trump pauses planned Iran strikes pending rapid talks. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 opens at 7,489 and SpaceX prepares for a high-stakes earnings call this Wednesday. Finally, FIFA President Gianni Infantino faces severe UEFA backlash following a collapsed World Cup investment deal. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA corruption probes; Trump’s Iran pause; SpaceX upcoming earnings, FIFA backlash</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>13:56</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today's BizNews Daybreak examines Japan’s US-coordinated currency intervention, OPEC+ production increases, and energy lobby opposition to US biofuels legislation. South Africa’s corruption commission delivers unprecedented accountability, while Donald Trump pauses planned Iran strikes pending rapid talks. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 opens at 7,489 and SpaceX prepares for a high-stakes earnings call this Wednesday. Finally, FIFA President Gianni Infantino faces severe UEFA backlash following a collapsed World Cup investment deal.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show - Jonathan Deal: The fall of Malema’s “Winnie” Johnson - and an Arab Spring brewing…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1703130</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Jonathan Deal, the founder of Safe Citizen, talk about the fall of Investigations Directorate Against Organised Crime (IDAC) Chief Andrea Johnson - whom Economic Freedom (EFF) Fighter CIC Julius Malema likened to the late Winnie Mandela - and who was tipped to be a future National Director of Public Prosecutions; as well as the fall of three other tipped for the highest law enforcement and political control positions in South Africa: former Police Minister Senzo Mchunu as a possible future African National Congress (ANC) President; suspended General Shadrack Sibiya as possibly the next National Police Commissioner, and suspended General Feroz Khan with his eye on the top job at Crime Intelligence (CI). Deal hails the Madlanga Commissioners who ask questions “in a way that actually leads deceitful people into their own traps”. Meanwhile, Deal warns that township economies have been hard hit by the flight of foreigners at a time when the hungriest section of the population is awash with illegal guns. “...we are sitting with an enormous number of unemployed young men with no money, no job, and literally no hope for the future. And it could still take just one spark to see the equivalent of an Arab Spring in this country.” He describes just how vulnerable South Africans have become while the “police itself, on a national and often a provincial level, is powerless and directionless”. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show - Jonathan Deal: The fall of Malema’s “Winnie” Johnson - and an Arab Spring brewing…</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>22:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Jonathan Deal, the founder of Safe Citizen, talk about the fall of Investigations Directorate Against Organised Crime (IDAC) Chief Andrea Johnson - whom Economic Freedom (EFF) Fighter CIC Julius Malema likened to the late Winnie Mandela - and who was tipped to be a future National Director of Public Prosecutions; as well as the fall of three other tipped for the highest law enforcement and political control positions in South Africa: former Police Minister Senzo Mchunu as a possible future African National Congress (ANC) President; suspended General Shadrack Sibiya as possibly the next National Police Commissioner, and suspended General Feroz Khan with his eye on the top job at Crime Intelligence (CI). Deal hails the Madlanga Commissioners who ask questions “in a way that actually leads deceitful people into their own traps”. Meanwhile, Deal warns that township economies have been hard hit by the flight of foreigners at a time when the hungriest section of the population is awash with illegal guns. “...we are sitting with an enormous number of unemployed young men with no money, no job, and literally no hope for the future. And it could still take just one spark to see the equivalent of an Arab Spring in this country.” He describes just how vulnerable South Africans have become while the “police itself, on a national and often a provincial level, is powerless and directionless”.]]></itunes:summary>
				<source url="https://rss.iono.fm/rss/chan/8218">BizNews Radio</source>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Apple earnings; Amazon AWS; RMB housing; Anglo’s SA exit; Tesla China sale</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1702419</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's BizNews Daybreak covers Apple's quarterly results, Rivian's SUV success, and Anthropic's AI breach, alongside a semiconductor rally driven by Microsoft and Oracle. Football federations oppose FIFA selling World Cup stakes, while Donald Trump claims a Gaza disarmament agreement. Meanwhile, Alec Hogg discusses Anglo American’s South Africa exit, RMB launches a R1bn housing program, Geraint Anderson tackles psychopathic corporate culture, and Amazon’s AWS delivers strong AI-driven growth. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Apple earnings; Amazon AWS; RMB housing; Anglo’s SA exit; Tesla China sale</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>14:58</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today's BizNews Daybreak covers Apple's quarterly results, Rivian's SUV success, and Anthropic's AI breach, alongside a semiconductor rally driven by Microsoft and Oracle. Football federations oppose FIFA selling World Cup stakes, while Donald Trump claims a Gaza disarmament agreement. Meanwhile, Alec Hogg discusses Anglo American’s South Africa exit, RMB launches a R1bn housing program, Geraint Anderson tackles psychopathic corporate culture, and Amazon’s AWS delivers strong AI-driven growth.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Cityboy: How psychopaths win big in business, politics - but lose in life</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1702277</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former top-ranked City of London stockbroker has written a manual for winning at business, politics and life. There's just one catch: to follow it, you'd have to think like a psychopath. Geraint Anderson, the man behind the legendary "Cityboy" column, tells BizNews editor Alec Hogg why he built his new book around Trump, Musk and the 'manosphere', how a near-fatal motorbike crash changed his mind about the game he was winning, and why the book is now selling harder in South Africa than almost anywhere else. He also explains, only half-joking, why he's booked in to be clinically assessed for psychopathy himself. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Cityboy: How psychopaths win big in business, politics - but lose in life</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>32:04</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A former top-ranked City of London stockbroker has written a manual for winning at business, politics and life. There's just one catch: to follow it, you'd have to think like a psychopath. Geraint Anderson, the man behind the legendary "Cityboy" column, tells BizNews editor Alec Hogg why he built his new book around Trump, Musk and the 'manosphere', how a near-fatal motorbike crash changed his mind about the game he was winning, and why the book is now selling harder in South Africa than almost anywhere else. He also explains, only half-joking, why he's booked in to be clinically assessed for psychopathy himself.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>R1-billion blended finance programme to transform real estate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Alessandro Scalco of RMB Sustainable Finance shares the details of a R1 billion Blended Finance Programme to formalise and scale South Africa’s burgeoning affordable rental market. Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has partnered with INDLU, a property financial technology company that empowers landowners to build, manage, and earn from high-quality rental housing. The programme aims to bridge the national housing gap—currently estimated at 2.3 million units—by providing sustainable, affordable credit to micro-developers who have historically been excluded from traditional banking sectors due to a perceived lack of formal collateral. Scalco says the programme represents a blueprint for how South African capital markets can drive large-scale, powerful social impact without compromising financial performance. Already delivered are over 2 200 high-quality rental units in areas such as Tembisa, Mamelodi, and Cosmo City. “From a pure sort of job creation perspective, there's quite a few local contractors that have built up teams and businesses. One of the success stories is one of the local contractors actually now does work across Sandton, Four Ways. So they've actually kind of branched out of just focusing on working with the INDLU team to build those units to building across South Africa, or building across Gauteng - and that's actually such a great story. It just shows you the power of getting an opportunity.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>R1-billion blended finance programme to transform real estate</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>15:50</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Alessandro Scalco of RMB Sustainable Finance shares the details of a R1 billion Blended Finance Programme to formalise and scale South Africa’s burgeoning affordable rental market. Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has partnered with INDLU, a property financial technology company that empowers landowners to build, manage, and earn from high-quality rental housing. The programme aims to bridge the national housing gap—currently estimated at 2.3 million units—by providing sustainable, affordable credit to micro-developers who have historically been excluded from traditional banking sectors due to a perceived lack of formal collateral. Scalco says the programme represents a blueprint for how South African capital markets can drive large-scale, powerful social impact without compromising financial performance. Already delivered are over 2 200 high-quality rental units in areas such as Tembisa, Mamelodi, and Cosmo City. “From a pure sort of job creation perspective, there's quite a few local contractors that have built up teams and businesses. One of the success stories is one of the local contractors actually now does work across Sandton, Four Ways. So they've actually kind of branched out of just focusing on working with the INDLU team to build those units to building across South Africa, or building across Gauteng - and that's actually such a great story. It just shows you the power of getting an opportunity.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Anglo says goodbye to SA; Old Mutual's gambling warning; Microsoft-Meta AI tension</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1702151</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anglo American's interims dazzled - earnings up 35%, free cash flow up nearly 150%, the dividend all but tripled. But BizNews editor Alec Hogg looks past the headline to what Anglo's walking away from: steelmaking coal sold, De Beers going for a tenth of what it paid, and a Teck merger that moves the head office to Vancouver. A 109-year-old Johannesburg company is quietly leaving. He pairs that with Old Mutual's finding that half of working South Africans now gamble - the sharp end of a two-speed nation. Plus ArcelorMittal, Reinet, Woolworths, a post-Fed bond rout, and the great Microsoft-Meta AI tension. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Anglo says goodbye to SA; Old Mutual's gambling warning; Microsoft-Meta AI tension</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>20:31</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Anglo American's interims dazzled - earnings up 35%, free cash flow up nearly 150%, the dividend all but tripled. But BizNews editor Alec Hogg looks past the headline to what Anglo's walking away from: steelmaking coal sold, De Beers going for a tenth of what it paid, and a Teck merger that moves the head office to Vancouver. A 109-year-old Johannesburg company is quietly leaving. He pairs that with Old Mutual's finding that half of working South Africans now gamble - the sharp end of a two-speed nation. Plus ArcelorMittal, Reinet, Woolworths, a post-Fed bond rout, and the great Microsoft-Meta AI tension.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Ramaphosa interdict bid; Fed holds rates; Fauci's Fifth Amendment; Zambian kwacha</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1701901</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, the Fed leaves interest rates unchanged amid a fractured vote and market sell-offs. Locally, four parties are challenging President Ramaphosa's impeachment interdict, while Treasury controversially releases funds to 69 failing municipalities. We also cover Dr. Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment regarding the Covid-19 response, Zambia's kwacha surging against the rand, and the mixed reality behind Zelensky's meeting with Trump. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Ramaphosa interdict bid; Fed holds rates; Fauci's Fifth Amendment; Zambian kwacha</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>16:25</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, the Fed leaves interest rates unchanged amid a fractured vote and market sell-offs. Locally, four parties are challenging President Ramaphosa's impeachment interdict, while Treasury controversially releases funds to 69 failing municipalities. We also cover Dr. Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment regarding the Covid-19 response, Zambia's kwacha surging against the rand, and the mixed reality behind Zelensky's meeting with Trump.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Treasury pays 69 errant municipalities anyway, SARB rate hold is punishing the Rand</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1701724</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury switched off the taps to 69 municipalities for doing nothing about corruption and mismanagement. Today it switched them back on anyway, days before its own deadline. Alec Hogg asks the obvious question nobody in government wants to answer. Plus: why last week's Reserve Bank rate hold is already punishing the rand, a foundation funded by an arms dealer just published a survey putting China ahead of America in young Africans' eyes, and on the JSE it's a tale of two extremes: Valterra Platinum showering shareholders in cash while ArcelorMittal's losses widen by the day. And the machine that prints the world's most advanced chips just found out China isn't waiting around. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Treasury pays 69 errant municipalities anyway, SARB rate hold is punishing the Rand</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>18:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Treasury switched off the taps to 69 municipalities for doing nothing about corruption and mismanagement. Today it switched them back on anyway, days before its own deadline. Alec Hogg asks the obvious question nobody in government wants to answer. Plus: why last week's Reserve Bank rate hold is already punishing the rand, a foundation funded by an arms dealer just published a survey putting China ahead of America in young Africans' eyes, and on the JSE it's a tale of two extremes: Valterra Platinum showering shareholders in cash while ArcelorMittal's losses widen by the day. And the machine that prints the world's most advanced chips just found out China isn't waiting around.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Murder, mayhem, treachery, and court battles = SA politics: Solly Moeng</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1701661</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator Solly Moeng, talks about four political parties joining in a Constitutional Court bid to try and overturn President Cyril Ramaposa's impeachment committee interdict; a murder investigation into the death of General Sindile Mfazi, who was investigating an unauthorised undercover operation to cover up wrongdoings at high level; and the assassination of another corruption whistleblower, Emfuleni accountant Martha Rantsofu. “...everything that we see is really just the tip of a huge, massive iceberg. I'm sure there are other bodies, dead bodies all over the place, of people who said: ‘I cannot support this, or I'm going to report this, or this is not the right way to do things’… There's a whole industry that has been set up where you get given two thousand, ten thousand depending on where you're at, to go and pop somebody.” Moeng also comments on the corruption trial of former Defence Minister Nosisive Mapisa-Nqakula; the expose of former IDAC Chief Andrea Johnson’s agenda; the management mayhem at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC); and former President Jacob Zuma’s latest antics. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Murder, mayhem, treachery, and court battles = SA politics: Solly Moeng</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>15:39</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator Solly Moeng, talks about four political parties joining in a Constitutional Court bid to try and overturn President Cyril Ramaposa's impeachment committee interdict; a murder investigation into the death of General Sindile Mfazi, who was investigating an unauthorised undercover operation to cover up wrongdoings at high level; and the assassination of another corruption whistleblower, Emfuleni accountant Martha Rantsofu. “...everything that we see is really just the tip of a huge, massive iceberg. I'm sure there are other bodies, dead bodies all over the place, of people who said: ‘I cannot support this, or I'm going to report this, or this is not the right way to do things’… There's a whole industry that has been set up where you get given two thousand, ten thousand depending on where you're at, to go and pop somebody.” Moeng also comments on the corruption trial of former Defence Minister Nosisive Mapisa-Nqakula; the expose of former IDAC Chief Andrea Johnson’s agenda; the management mayhem at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC); and former President Jacob Zuma’s latest antics.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA gun stats; Phala Phala; Fed rate debate; Oil scenarios; Nvidia on AI</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1701474</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, SK Hynix posts profit gains while Nvidia’s CEO defends open-weight AI amid safety warnings and new hacking reports. Ford raises its outlook and Visa cuts 2,600 jobs. In South Africa, SAPS data reveals over 99% of gun murders involve unlicensed firearms, while the Phala Phala impeachment battle reaches the Constitutional Court. Plus, analysts preview the US Fed interest rate decision and weigh oil market scenarios from $75 to $150 per barrel. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA gun stats; Phala Phala; Fed rate debate; Oil scenarios; Nvidia on AI</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, SK Hynix posts profit gains while Nvidia’s CEO defends open-weight AI amid safety warnings and new hacking reports. Ford raises its outlook and Visa cuts 2,600 jobs. In South Africa, SAPS data reveals over 99% of gun murders involve unlicensed firearms, while the Phala Phala impeachment battle reaches the Constitutional Court. Plus, analysts preview the US Fed interest rate decision and weigh oil market scenarios from $75 to $150 per barrel.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ian Cameron: 41,000 killed with illegal guns and the factional battle for control of SAPS</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1701214</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, talks about the revelation that - in the last four financial years - over 41,000 murders were committed with unlicensed firearms, but fewer than 400 murders with licensed firearms whilst the government is pushing for stricter self defence laws. “There's no doubt that there’s some kind of a political ideological push to disarm and to centralise power…if they should ever succeed with this draconian and absolutely ridiculous piece of legislation, it would result in tyranny.” Commenting on the resignation of IDAC Chief Andrea Johnson, Cameron notes that a “specific faction of people…seemed to be dead set on securing control of certain leadership positions…if you had gained control of especially Crime Intelligence and obviously the office of the National Commissioner, you would have relatively easy access to the Secret Service funds, which obviously is massive amount of money that very often ends up in a political tug-of-war because if you control that and you know how to seemingly use it in the wrong way you would be able to get a lot of money for your campaigning and political work.” He warns: “...we mustn't underestimate how in-depth and detailed a lot of the planning goes to perform some of these bigger, broader strategies. I think it was, is, possibly, might still be, a massive risk to the stability of the criminal justice system.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Ian Cameron: 41,000 killed with illegal guns and the factional battle for control of SAPS</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>22:56</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, talks about the revelation that - in the last four financial years - over 41,000 murders were committed with unlicensed firearms, but fewer than 400 murders with licensed firearms whilst the government is pushing for stricter self defence laws. “There's no doubt that there’s some kind of a political ideological push to disarm and to centralise power…if they should ever succeed with this draconian and absolutely ridiculous piece of legislation, it would result in tyranny.” Commenting on the resignation of IDAC Chief Andrea Johnson, Cameron notes that a “specific faction of people…seemed to be dead set on securing control of certain leadership positions…if you had gained control of especially Crime Intelligence and obviously the office of the National Commissioner, you would have relatively easy access to the Secret Service funds, which obviously is massive amount of money that very often ends up in a political tug-of-war because if you control that and you know how to seemingly use it in the wrong way you would be able to get a lot of money for your campaigning and political work.” He warns: “...we mustn't underestimate how in-depth and detailed a lot of the planning goes to perform some of these bigger, broader strategies. I think it was, is, possibly, might still be, a massive risk to the stability of the criminal justice system.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Cyril's impeachment battle heads to ConCourt, billions wiped off AI chip stocks</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1701176</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two judges signed the same court order and can't agree on what it actually stops. Now Ramaphosa's impeachment fight is headed to the Constitutional Court, with the ANC's own GNU partner pushing Parliament to keep working in the background regardless. Meanwhile South Africa's bookmakers want prediction markets like Polymarket treated as illegal, three JSE-listed companies posted results pulling in three different directions this morning, and overnight a sell-off in AI and chip stocks wiped billions off names like Nvidia and SK Hynix. Alec Hogg unpacks what's actually driving each story, and what it means for your money. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Cyril's impeachment battle heads to ConCourt, billions wiped off AI chip stocks</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>16:34</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two judges signed the same court order and can't agree on what it actually stops. Now Ramaphosa's impeachment fight is headed to the Constitutional Court, with the ANC's own GNU partner pushing Parliament to keep working in the background regardless. Meanwhile South Africa's bookmakers want prediction markets like Polymarket treated as illegal, three JSE-listed companies posted results pulling in three different directions this morning, and overnight a sell-off in AI and chip stocks wiped billions off names like Nvidia and SK Hynix. Alec Hogg unpacks what's actually driving each story, and what it means for your money.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SARB rate shock; US-Iran tensions; Zuma MK finance battle; SAPS Estate raid</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1700913</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's episode, we cover the US-Iran diplomatic talks and escalating tech wars with China's new DUV lithography machines. Locally, Jabulani Khumalo warns of Jacob Zuma's alleged plot to seize MK Party finances. We also examine a warrantless SAPS and Home Affairs raid on a Western Cape estate. Finally, Alec Hogg unpacks the Reserve Bank's shock rate hold that battered the rand, while analysts debate mega-cap tech's market leadership. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SARB rate shock; US-Iran tensions; Zuma MK finance battle; SAPS Estate raid</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>15:35</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's episode, we cover the US-Iran diplomatic talks and escalating tech wars with China's new DUV lithography machines. Locally, Jabulani Khumalo warns of Jacob Zuma's alleged plot to seize MK Party finances. We also examine a warrantless SAPS and Home Affairs raid on a Western Cape estate. Finally, Alec Hogg unpacks the Reserve Bank's shock rate hold that battered the rand, while analysts debate mega-cap tech's market leadership.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Zuma in crisis: Disgruntled MKP members to vote ARU - Jabulani Khumalo</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1700787</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, the real founder of MKP, Jabulani Khumalo, comes out in support of The African Renaissance Unity Party (ARU) founded to lobby for the interests of traditional chiefs and their communities. With Khumalo's battle to reclaim control of the party - “hijacked” by former President Jacob Zuma - still winding through the courts, he calls on MKP members to vote for ARU in the upcoming Local Government Elections. He fumes at Zuma’s latest shock move to take over personal control of MKP’s finances and warns: “people must know that Zuma doesn't like MK. Zuma is the ANC - and he will die as the ANC. So he's in the MK just to loot money”. Khumalo describes how the “craziness of Zuma” and the games he plays have created mayhem in MKP. As for the enduring relationship of the former president with the fugitive Guptas of State Capture, Khumalo charges that Zuma’s aim was to use them to move money out of the country for him. He also reveals what is behind Zuma’s shock move to kick his daughter, Duduzile, out of MK. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Zuma in crisis: Disgruntled MKP members to vote ARU - Jabulani Khumalo</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>17:55</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, the real founder of MKP, Jabulani Khumalo, comes out in support of The African Renaissance Unity Party (ARU) founded to lobby for the interests of traditional chiefs and their communities. With Khumalo's battle to reclaim control of the party - “hijacked” by former President Jacob Zuma - still winding through the courts, he calls on MKP members to vote for ARU in the upcoming Local Government Elections. He fumes at Zuma’s latest shock move to take over personal control of MKP’s finances and warns: “people must know that Zuma doesn't like MK. Zuma is the ANC - and he will die as the ANC. So he's in the MK just to loot money”. Khumalo describes how the “craziness of Zuma” and the games he plays have created mayhem in MKP. As for the enduring relationship of the former president with the fugitive Guptas of State Capture, Khumalo charges that Zuma’s aim was to use them to move money out of the country for him. He also reveals what is behind Zuma’s shock move to kick his daughter, Duduzile, out of MK.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Eva Crouwel - When the State comes to your Gate….</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1700640</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anti-immigration raid on a private housing estate in the Western Cape is causing a furore. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Eva Crouwel, a property owner on High Riding Estate, describes how police in a fleet of about six vans - accompanied by Home Affairs officials - descended on the estate last week, gained entry without a warrant, “stopped their vehicles at multiple properties, were knocking on doors, were hooting their cars, effectively in an effort seemingly to gain access to the properties” until they were escorted off the estate by several residents and security. Crouwel, a trained lawyer, says: “I have done some investigation into the various applicable legislations and have not been able to ascertain that there is in fact a permission for access to private residential properties without producing a warrant…And if we allow the Police Force of South Africa to enter those premises without due cause or warrant, then that becomes a very slippery road that we are going to find ourselves on.” While the matter is now under further legal advisement, Crouwel has this advice for other estates: “Unless somebody has a warrant against you or something on your property in a very well described matter, on duly documented legal documents, you are not under any responsibility to let them onto your property.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Eva Crouwel - When the State comes to your Gate….</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>10:46</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[An anti-immigration raid on a private housing estate in the Western Cape is causing a furore. In this interview with Chris Steyn, Eva Crouwel, a property owner on High Riding Estate, describes how police in a fleet of about six vans - accompanied by Home Affairs officials - descended on the estate last week, gained entry without a warrant, “stopped their vehicles at multiple properties, were knocking on doors, were hooting their cars, effectively in an effort seemingly to gain access to the properties” until they were escorted off the estate by several residents and security. Crouwel, a trained lawyer, says: “I have done some investigation into the various applicable legislations and have not been able to ascertain that there is in fact a permission for access to private residential properties without producing a warrant…And if we allow the Police Force of South Africa to enter those premises without due cause or warrant, then that becomes a very slippery road that we are going to find ourselves on.” While the matter is now under further legal advisement, Crouwel has this advice for other estates: “Unless somebody has a warrant against you or something on your property in a very well described matter, on duly documented legal documents, you are not under any responsibility to let them onto your property.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Rand slides on steady rates, Musk's AI warning, shake-up at IDAC, and more...</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1700602</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk tells The Economist that AI will out-think the whole of humanity within five years, and he sounds strangely at peace with that. Back home, the Reserve Bank blindsided everyone with a shock rate hold, the Rand took its worst knock in months, and Citigroup walked away from a bet it had believed in for weeks. Add a dramatic exit at the top of South Africa's anti-corruption unit, big numbers from Vodacom and Impala Platinum, and a fond farewell to RW Johnson, and that's a full day of news in about twenty minutes. Have a listen. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Rand slides on steady rates, Musk's AI warning, shake-up at IDAC, and more...</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>20:43</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Elon Musk tells The Economist that AI will out-think the whole of humanity within five years, and he sounds strangely at peace with that. Back home, the Reserve Bank blindsided everyone with a shock rate hold, the Rand took its worst knock in months, and Citigroup walked away from a bet it had believed in for weeks. Add a dramatic exit at the top of South Africa's anti-corruption unit, big numbers from Vodacom and Impala Platinum, and a fond farewell to RW Johnson, and that's a full day of news in about twenty minutes. Have a listen.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA-Israel tension; Nvidia-OpenAI deal; US tariffs; Fed rate outlook; Energy Risks</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1700391</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, we explore global market pressures, starting with new US Section 301 tariffs affecting South Africa and 60 other economies. Former Israeli adviser Mark Regev discusses strained Pretoria-Israel relations and ICJ genocide charges. Furthermore, we preview upcoming central bank rate decisions, Nvidia’s potential $250B OpenAI data center deal, tech mega-cap earnings scrutiny on AI CapEx, and US economic growth. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA-Israel tension; Nvidia-OpenAI deal; US tariffs; Fed rate outlook; Energy Risks</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>14:52</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, we explore global market pressures, starting with new US Section 301 tariffs affecting South Africa and 60 other economies. Former Israeli adviser Mark Regev discusses strained Pretoria-Israel relations and ICJ genocide charges. Furthermore, we preview upcoming central bank rate decisions, Nvidia’s potential $250B OpenAI data center deal, tech mega-cap earnings scrutiny on AI CapEx, and US economic growth.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show - Mark Regev: Israel and SA, Israel and the US, and the end game of the Iran War</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn spoke to Mark Regev, the former senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the bilateral relationship between South Africa and Israel, he says: “... it's clear we're going through a difficult period. South Africa says it wants to promote peace and justice in the Middle East. But you can't do that by only speaking to one side. You can't do that by ignoring one side.” He contrasts that to a visit to Israel by the late President Nelson Mandela during which he stated that Israel had a right to live behind secure borders. Asked what Israel would do if US President Donald Trump exited the Iran war under pressure, Regev was adamant that Israel would protect itself.. “Now, if that can be done diplomatically through an agreement, of course we would support that. If unfortunately the regime isn't willing on its own devices…to stop its quest for a nuclear weapon, then Israel…reserves the right to act.” He deems Israel to be in a better place now than before the October 7 Hamas massacre: “we have bounced back and we have shown that we can defend ourselves, and those who will try to murder our people, those who will try to butcher our children, will pay a price.” As for the elimination of Hamas operatives involved in the attack, he stresses that “longstanding Israeli policy is that you will be brought to justice one way or another”. Regev explains why “no one in Israel is going to be talking about a Palestinian state for the foreseeable future”. And describes how Israel has also “decimated” Hezbollah, whose “ferocious military machine” was “much stronger” than that of Hamas and the Lebanese State. Regev is also a former Ambassador to the UK, the co-host of the "Israel Undiplomatic" podcast, and lecturer in International Relations at Reichman University. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show - Mark Regev: Israel and SA, Israel and the US, and the end game of the Iran War</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>23:19</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the latest NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn spoke to Mark Regev, the former senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the bilateral relationship between South Africa and Israel, he says: “... it's clear we're going through a difficult period. South Africa says it wants to promote peace and justice in the Middle East. But you can't do that by only speaking to one side. You can't do that by ignoring one side.” He contrasts that to a visit to Israel by the late President Nelson Mandela during which he stated that Israel had a right to live behind secure borders. Asked what Israel would do if US President Donald Trump exited the Iran war under pressure, Regev was adamant that Israel would protect itself.. “Now, if that can be done diplomatically through an agreement, of course we would support that. If unfortunately the regime isn't willing on its own devices…to stop its quest for a nuclear weapon, then Israel…reserves the right to act.” He deems Israel to be in a better place now than before the October 7 Hamas massacre: “we have bounced back and we have shown that we can defend ourselves, and those who will try to murder our people, those who will try to butcher our children, will pay a price.” As for the elimination of Hamas operatives involved in the attack, he stresses that “longstanding Israeli policy is that you will be brought to justice one way or another”. Regev explains why “no one in Israel is going to be talking about a Palestinian state for the foreseeable future”. And describes how Israel has also “decimated” Hezbollah, whose “ferocious military machine” was “much stronger” than that of Hamas and the Lebanese State. Regev is also a former Ambassador to the UK, the co-host of the "Israel Undiplomatic" podcast, and lecturer in International Relations at Reichman University.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Unlocking High-Yield Private Debt: The Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1699886</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join the leadership team at Jaltech for an exclusive overview of the new Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund - a spin-off from their highly successful Section 12J investment strategy. Designed to target structured debt funding for established, mid-sized South African businesses, this fund addresses an unserved niche left open by traditional banks while delivering robust, risk-adjusted returns. In this session, Jonty Sachs and Gaurav Nair break down the fund's initial core portfolio, examine key risk mitigation strategies, and walk through flexible investment options designed for both annual dividend income and long-term capital growth. For more information: https://bit.ly/4x3RhQr. <a href="https://bit.ly/4x3RhQr">Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund</a> &middot; <a href="https://youtu.be/5gQgCY9T0v8">Unlocking high-yield private debt: The Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund</a>]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Unlocking High-Yield Private Debt: The Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>29:03</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Join the leadership team at Jaltech for an exclusive overview of the new Jaltech Income Opportunities Fund - a spin-off from their highly successful Section 12J investment strategy. Designed to target structured debt funding for established, mid-sized South African businesses, this fund addresses an unserved niche left open by traditional banks while delivering robust, risk-adjusted returns. In this session, Jonty Sachs and Gaurav Nair break down the fund's initial core portfolio, examine key risk mitigation strategies, and walk through flexible investment options designed for both annual dividend income and long-term capital growth. For more information: https://bit.ly/4x3RhQr.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Lance Dickson: Turning outrage into consequence: the AI cluster built for South Africa's next boycott</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1699858</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance Dickson kept having the same conversation. A failing council. A price hike nobody could explain. Everyone complained. Nothing changed. So he built Ryze instead, a self-funded civic action platform designed to convert that outrage into organised economic consequence. In his latest interview with Irakli, the founder unpacks the six-agent AI cluster running underneath it, from a news-scanning watchdog named Argus to a legal gatekeeper named Shield, built so nothing goes live without clearing a legal check first. The mechanism isn't new. Pamphlets and word of mouth forced PUTCO to reverse a bus fare hike in 1957. Dickson just wants to run it at national scale. The urgency comes from the street, not the boardroom. "I literally got told yesterday from a petrol attendant that he doesn't know who to vote for," he says. He traces the instinct back to the country itself. South Africa, he says, is "known as one of the countries that have put boycotting on the map." ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Lance Dickson: Turning outrage into consequence: the AI cluster built for South Africa's next boycott</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>14:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Lance Dickson kept having the same conversation. A failing council. A price hike nobody could explain. Everyone complained. Nothing changed. So he built Ryze instead, a self-funded civic action platform designed to convert that outrage into organised economic consequence. In his latest interview with Irakli, the founder unpacks the six-agent AI cluster running underneath it, from a news-scanning watchdog named Argus to a legal gatekeeper named Shield, built so nothing goes live without clearing a legal check first. The mechanism isn't new. Pamphlets and word of mouth forced PUTCO to reverse a bus fare hike in 1957. Dickson just wants to run it at national scale. The urgency comes from the street, not the boardroom. "I literally got told yesterday from a petrol attendant that he doesn't know who to vote for," he says. He traces the instinct back to the country itself. South Africa, he says, is "known as one of the countries that have put boycotting on the map."]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Zille on Joburg's last chance; AI stock warnings; Cape gangs; Civic tech</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1699750</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Helen Zille warns Johannesburg faces its final chance to reverse municipal collapse. Heindrich Wyngaard explains why military presence alone cannot dismantle the Cape Flats' deep-rooted gang economy. Lance Dickson introduces "Ryze," a platform channeling public rage into organized civic action. Finally, Sean Peche cautions investors against rampant speculation within the current AI boom. Plus, overnight global updates on US tariffs, Intel, and SpaceX. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Zille on Joburg's last chance; AI stock warnings; Cape gangs; Civic tech</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>15:52</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, Helen Zille warns Johannesburg faces its final chance to reverse municipal collapse. Heindrich Wyngaard explains why military presence alone cannot dismantle the Cape Flats' deep-rooted gang economy. Lance Dickson introduces "Ryze," a platform channeling public rage into organized civic action. Finally, Sean Peche cautions investors against rampant speculation within the current AI boom. Plus, overnight global updates on US tariffs, Intel, and SpaceX.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Sean Peche: SpaceX, Tesla, Alphabet — where smart money goes while everyone chases AI</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1699678</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean Peche has spent 2026 doing the opposite of the crowd. While the market piles into AI, memory chips and Elon Musk's every pivot, the Ranmore founder has been selling Tesla, walking away from SpaceX and quietly buying into Adobe and Tencent instead. In this conversation with Alec Hogg, the South African-born, UK-based fund manager breaks down why Alphabet's capex bill worries him, why Britain's new Prime Minister just handed him a trade, and why getting rich slowly beats chasing the next shiny thing. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Sean Peche: SpaceX, Tesla, Alphabet — where smart money goes while everyone chases AI</itunes:title>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Helen Zille - &quot;Joburg's expenditure on infrastructure is actually criminal&quot;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joburg is bankrupt, and Helen Zille says the city did it to itself. In her director's cut interview, the DA's mayoral candidate explains why half of Johannesburg's infrastructure budget went unspent last year, how "wasted" ward votes are quietly handing the ANC an advantage, and what she really thinks about the Steenhuisen-Tony Leon lobbying row threatening to embarrass her own party. Plus, why the market just punished Alphabet, Tesla and Patrice Motsepe's ARM for spending big, while rewarding the cash hoarders at Mr Price. Ranmore's Sean Peche explains why he wouldn't touch Tesla at these numbers. ]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Helen Zille - &quot;Joburg's expenditure on infrastructure is actually criminal&quot;</itunes:title>
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		<title>Parliament faces protest over lagging legislation for a provincial referendum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Heindrich Wyngaard, the executive chairperson of Cape Forum, details plans for a protest outside the National Assembly next month over the long wait for appropriate legislation to enable a provincial referendum . “And we are also planning to be present at that Home Affairs Portfolio Committee meeting on the 11th of August to ensure that enough pressure is put on the committee to speed up the process.” Meanwhile, Wyngaard hails plans by the City of Cape Town to establish its own detective force as a significant step towards the devolution of policing powers. “The evidence is clear to whoever is watching the Madlanga Commission's hearings, whoever has been following the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee sittings that……the state of policing is rotten. The crime stats…has not convinced us or anyone in the country that the police are winning the war against criminals.” As for the SANDF being deployed to Cape Flats, Wyngaard says they are no match for the gangs. "It's deep rooted and has become what I'd like to call an established underworld economy…So it brings us back to the plan of Geordin Hill-Lewis and the Democratic Alliance …to claim detective powers for the Metro Police in order to ensure that we get to where we should get to, which is successful prosecutions of those being caught by the police.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Parliament faces protest over lagging legislation for a provincial referendum</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>18:11</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Heindrich Wyngaard, the executive chairperson of Cape Forum, details plans for a protest outside the National Assembly next month over the long wait for appropriate legislation to enable a provincial referendum . “And we are also planning to be present at that Home Affairs Portfolio Committee meeting on the 11th of August to ensure that enough pressure is put on the committee to speed up the process.” Meanwhile, Wyngaard hails plans by the City of Cape Town to establish its own detective force as a significant step towards the devolution of policing powers. “The evidence is clear to whoever is watching the Madlanga Commission's hearings, whoever has been following the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee sittings that……the state of policing is rotten. The crime stats…has not convinced us or anyone in the country that the police are winning the war against criminals.” As for the SANDF being deployed to Cape Flats, Wyngaard says they are no match for the gangs. "It's deep rooted and has become what I'd like to call an established underworld economy…So it brings us back to the plan of Geordin Hill-Lewis and the Democratic Alliance …to claim detective powers for the Metro Police in order to ensure that we get to where we should get to, which is successful prosecutions of those being caught by the police.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Director’s Cut - Helen Zille: Time is running out for bankrupt Joburg to be saved</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Zille has swapped the Iron Lady tag for "DJ Gogo", but the numbers she puts on the table are dead serious. In this conversation with Alec Hogg, she says Johannesburg only spent half of an eight billion rand infrastructure budget last year, warns that DA supporters staying home on election day could hand the city to the ANC, and lays out exactly how vote-buying has turned South African coalition politics into what one commentator called "auctions". She also responds directly to the lobbying row involving John Steenhuisen and Tony Leon, explains the real mechanics behind uMngeni's 42-vote nail-biter, and says plainly why she believes this election is Joburg's last chance to turn itself around. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Director’s Cut - Helen Zille: Time is running out for bankrupt Joburg to be saved</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>35:55</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Helen Zille has swapped the Iron Lady tag for "DJ Gogo", but the numbers she puts on the table are dead serious. In this conversation with Alec Hogg, she says Johannesburg only spent half of an eight billion rand infrastructure budget last year, warns that DA supporters staying home on election day could hand the city to the ANC, and lays out exactly how vote-buying has turned South African coalition politics into what one commentator called "auctions". She also responds directly to the lobbying row involving John Steenhuisen and Tony Leon, explains the real mechanics behind uMngeni's 42-vote nail-biter, and says plainly why she believes this election is Joburg's last chance to turn itself around.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Helen Zille on Mashaba; Tech earnings; AI hacking; Iraj Abedian on the Iran conflict</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1699288</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, we cover overnight tech earnings with mixed results from Alphabet, Tesla, IBM, and Texas Instruments. Economist Dr. Iraj Abedian weighs in on the global fallout of the Middle East conflict, while SA engineer Peli Collins discusses his new space startup, Beyond Reach Labs. Meanwhile, OpenAI admits its AI model inadvertently hacked Hugging Face, raising serious cyber concerns, and Helen Zille addresses the Joburg mayoral race, giving her take on Herman Mashaba. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Helen Zille on Mashaba; Tech earnings; AI hacking; Iraj Abedian on the Iran conflict</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>17:28</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, we cover overnight tech earnings with mixed results from Alphabet, Tesla, IBM, and Texas Instruments. Economist Dr. Iraj Abedian weighs in on the global fallout of the Middle East conflict, while SA engineer Peli Collins discusses his new space startup, Beyond Reach Labs. Meanwhile, OpenAI admits its AI model inadvertently hacked Hugging Face, raising serious cyber concerns, and Helen Zille addresses the Joburg mayoral race, giving her take on Herman Mashaba.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Director's Cut - Dr Iraj Abedian: Hormuz stand-off could cost SA more than pain at the petrol pump</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1699209</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven months into the Iran war, economist Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg that Donald Trump has lost more than the battle for the Strait of Hormuz: he's lost America's standing as the world's dominant power. Abedian explains why the narrow waterway carries a third of global oil, why the mullahs are more afraid of each other than of Washington, and why South Africa's tilt toward Iran through BRICS looks like a costly misjudgement. He also has a warning for the Gulf states banking on American protection, and for the rest of us watching from the sidelines. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Director's Cut - Dr Iraj Abedian: Hormuz stand-off could cost SA more than pain at the petrol pump</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>49:13</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Seven months into the Iran war, economist Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg that Donald Trump has lost more than the battle for the Strait of Hormuz: he's lost America's standing as the world's dominant power. Abedian explains why the narrow waterway carries a third of global oil, why the mullahs are more afraid of each other than of Washington, and why South Africa's tilt toward Iran through BRICS looks like a costly misjudgement. He also has a warning for the Gulf states banking on American protection, and for the rest of us watching from the sidelines.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Pele Collins: From SpaceX to Y-Combinator: Unlocking the giant origami structures of orbit</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1699178</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pele Collins went from leading the SpaceX parachute engineering team that brought American astronauts safely home to co-founding a Y Combinator-backed deep tech startup, Beyond Reach Labs. In his latest interview with Irakli, the proudly South African engineer reveals how his team is tackling the ultimate pick-and-shovel play for the next era of the space race: deployable structures that unfold from the size of a dining table to a full-sized football field in orbit. Building in space historically meant assembling structures piece-by-piece over dozens of rocket launches. Collins wants to bypass those massive costs using dynamic, folding mechanisms. While the company initially entered Y Combinator focused on simulation software, raw customer feedback forced a fast pivot to pure hardware. “...customers said this, I mean this tool's amazing, we'd love to use it, but honestly, can you just go design and build the thing for us?” Collins recalls. Collins credits his resilient problem-solving mindset to his South African roots, highlighting a culture of mutual support that even landed him his first break at SpaceX under a fellow South African manager. “South Africans also always help each other out and... open doors for each other,” he says. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Pele Collins: From SpaceX to Y-Combinator: Unlocking the giant origami structures of orbit</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>12:23</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Pele Collins went from leading the SpaceX parachute engineering team that brought American astronauts safely home to co-founding a Y Combinator-backed deep tech startup, Beyond Reach Labs. In his latest interview with Irakli, the proudly South African engineer reveals how his team is tackling the ultimate pick-and-shovel play for the next era of the space race: deployable structures that unfold from the size of a dining table to a full-sized football field in orbit. Building in space historically meant assembling structures piece-by-piece over dozens of rocket launches. Collins wants to bypass those massive costs using dynamic, folding mechanisms. While the company initially entered Y Combinator focused on simulation software, raw customer feedback forced a fast pivot to pure hardware. “...customers said this, I mean this tool's amazing, we'd love to use it, but honestly, can you just go design and build the thing for us?” Collins recalls. Collins credits his resilient problem-solving mindset to his South African roots, highlighting a culture of mutual support that even landed him his first break at SpaceX under a fellow South African manager. “South Africans also always help each other out and... open doors for each other,” he says.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Dr Iraj Abedian - Where SA fits in the Strait of Hormuz standoff</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa's BRICS bet on Iran is about to cost you at the pump. As the Strait of Hormuz standoff drags on, economist Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg why a third of the world's oil is stuck behind a 33km bottleneck, why Dubai is now more exposed than Israel, and why South Africa backed the wrong side. Plus: a boardroom bloodbath at the PIC, an ugly inflation surprise, a R21 billion Pepkor fintech deal, and a tribute to the late RW Johnson. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Dr Iraj Abedian - Where SA fits in the Strait of Hormuz standoff</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>22:31</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa's BRICS bet on Iran is about to cost you at the pump. As the Strait of Hormuz standoff drags on, economist Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg why a third of the world's oil is stuck behind a 33km bottleneck, why Dubai is now more exposed than Israel, and why South Africa backed the wrong side. Plus: a boardroom bloodbath at the PIC, an ugly inflation surprise, a R21 billion Pepkor fintech deal, and a tribute to the late RW Johnson.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Boardroom Talk: RIP RW Johnson - leaving a huge hole in your nation's heart</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1698981?v=1</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's Boardroom Talk, Alec Hogg confirms the death of RW Johnson, one of South African political writing's sharpest and most combustible voices, and reflects on a decade of working with him: the audiobook that started it, the necrotising fasciitis he refused to let slow him down, the Steenhuisen column that ended their working relationship, and the warmth he never stopped showing even after he stopped writing for BizNews. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Boardroom Talk: RIP RW Johnson - leaving a huge hole in your nation's heart</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>19:40</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's Boardroom Talk, Alec Hogg confirms the death of RW Johnson, one of South African political writing's sharpest and most combustible voices, and reflects on a decade of working with him: the audiobook that started it, the necrotising fasciitis he refused to let slow him down, the Steenhuisen column that ended their working relationship, and the warmth he never stopped showing even after he stopped writing for BizNews.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Ramaphosa impeachment risk; Sasol's boom; China's Kimi K3 AI model; Trump tariffs</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1698848</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's Daybreak, we unpack the growing impeachment momentum against President Ramaphosa and its potential threat to the government of national unity. We also dive into Sasol's operational rebound, highlighted by Secunda's best production run in five years. Globally, we explore Trump's proposed generic drug tariffs, a chipmaker-led market rally, the rise of China's Kimi K3 AI model, and how Middle East tensions are impacting local fuel prices. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Ramaphosa impeachment risk; Sasol's boom; China's Kimi K3 AI model; Trump tariffs</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>15:38</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's Daybreak, we unpack the growing impeachment momentum against President Ramaphosa and its potential threat to the government of national unity. We also dive into Sasol's operational rebound, highlighted by Secunda's best production run in five years. Globally, we explore Trump's proposed generic drug tariffs, a chipmaker-led market rally, the rise of China's Kimi K3 AI model, and how Middle East tensions are impacting local fuel prices.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Director's Cut: James Gubb - history of manias guides how to profit from AI revolution</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former hedge fund manager and CFA James Gubb argues the AI boom is real, but many investors are backing the wrong winners. In this interview with Alec Hogg, he explains why Oracle's credit downgrade could signal deeper cracks, why OpenAI and hyperscalers face mounting pressure, how China's AI advances are reshaping competition, and why energy - not AI models - could deliver the biggest long-term investment opportunity. Is this another dot-com bubble, or something even bigger? ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Director's Cut: James Gubb - history of manias guides how to profit from AI revolution</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Former hedge fund manager and CFA James Gubb argues the AI boom is real, but many investors are backing the wrong winners. In this interview with Alec Hogg, he explains why Oracle's credit downgrade could signal deeper cracks, why OpenAI and hyperscalers face mounting pressure, how China's AI advances are reshaping competition, and why energy - not AI models - could deliver the biggest long-term investment opportunity. Is this another dot-com bubble, or something even bigger?]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Rate hike coming; Gubb on winning from AI mania, Sasol, Nedbank, Kumba</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1698724</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran investor James Gubb joins BizNews Edge to cut through the AI hype, weighing today's data centre spending against history's biggest capital booms and explaining why he's backing energy and nuclear stocks over AI names themselves. Also on today's show: Sasol's operational turnaround continues even as its share price cools after a strong run, Nedbank locks in its East Africa expansion via Kenya's NCBA Group, and Kumba Iron Ore's ugly trading update lays bare the toll of a strong rand and Transnet's rail failures. Plus, why Thursday's Reserve Bank rate decision just got more hawkish. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Rate hike coming; Gubb on winning from AI mania, Sasol, Nedbank, Kumba</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>26:24</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Veteran investor James Gubb joins BizNews Edge to cut through the AI hype, weighing today's data centre spending against history's biggest capital booms and explaining why he's backing energy and nuclear stocks over AI names themselves. Also on today's show: Sasol's operational turnaround continues even as its share price cools after a strong run, Nedbank locks in its East Africa expansion via Kenya's NCBA Group, and Kumba Iron Ore's ugly trading update lays bare the toll of a strong rand and Transnet's rail failures. Plus, why Thursday's Reserve Bank rate decision just got more hawkish.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ramaphosa impeachment would cause big fractures in the GNU</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1698659</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Independent Governance Expert Richard Chelin predicts that an impeachment of President Cyril Ramaphosa would have grave consequences for the Government of National Unity (GNU) - particularly in the light of Vice President Paul Mashatile’s keenness to work with parties other than the Democratic Alliance. “I think we will see some great fractures coming to the fore. Because we have to remember that there are very difficult political factions, some within the ANC themselves are willing to work with other parties besides the DA. And I would say it's going to be quite a tough time.” Chelin hails the latest development in the Tembisa Hospital looting scandal with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s nephew by marriage permanently forfeiting R326-million of assets. Chelin rates the overall performance of the GNU; examines the differences in effectiveness between the Zondo and the Madlanga commissions of inquiry; laments the “lack of teeth” of parliamentary committees; applauds the strong role played by civil society in enforcing proper governance through the courts; and slams political parties for clogging up the overburdened justice system. “There's quite a sad irony here because civil society goes to court to hold those in power to account. But then…political actors…weaponise the courts with their delaying tactics…” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Ramaphosa impeachment would cause big fractures in the GNU</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>21:57</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this interview with Chris Steyn, Independent Governance Expert Richard Chelin predicts that an impeachment of President Cyril Ramaphosa would have grave consequences for the Government of National Unity (GNU) - particularly in the light of Vice President Paul Mashatile’s keenness to work with parties other than the Democratic Alliance. “I think we will see some great fractures coming to the fore. Because we have to remember that there are very difficult political factions, some within the ANC themselves are willing to work with other parties besides the DA. And I would say it's going to be quite a tough time.” Chelin hails the latest development in the Tembisa Hospital looting scandal with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s nephew by marriage permanently forfeiting R326-million of assets. Chelin rates the overall performance of the GNU; examines the differences in effectiveness between the Zondo and the Madlanga commissions of inquiry; laments the “lack of teeth” of parliamentary committees; applauds the strong role played by civil society in enforcing proper governance through the courts; and slams political parties for clogging up the overburdened justice system. “There's quite a sad irony here because civil society goes to court to hold those in power to account. But then…political actors…weaponise the courts with their delaying tactics…”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Police generals' R3.6 bn salary bill; AGOA reforms; Andy Burnham; DA governance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, we cover global strikes in the US-Iran conflict, Red Sea shipping risks, Paramount's blocked merger, and new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Locally, Parliament's Ian Cameron questions SAPS's R3.6bn senior leadership salary bill, Mayor Chris Pappas highlights uMngeni's governance model, Russell Lamberti proposes subnational AGOA trade reforms to protect businesses, and a new drive aims to register South Africa's informal waste pickers. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Police generals' R3.6 bn salary bill; AGOA reforms; Andy Burnham; DA governance</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>13:09</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, we cover global strikes in the US-Iran conflict, Red Sea shipping risks, Paramount's blocked merger, and new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Locally, Parliament's Ian Cameron questions SAPS's R3.6bn senior leadership salary bill, Mayor Chris Pappas highlights uMngeni's governance model, Russell Lamberti proposes subnational AGOA trade reforms to protect businesses, and a new drive aims to register South Africa's informal waste pickers.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Chris Pappas — Why the DA's only KZN municipality won't lose its mayor after all</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April he told the country he was done, headed for the private sector. By July he'd changed his mind. Chris Pappas, the DA's rising star and mayor of the party's only municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, explains to Alec Hogg why nobody in his own caucus would take the job, what that says about the DA's succession problem, and why he thinks a 25 to 30% national showing is realistic for the party come November. Plus: Gayton McKenzie's R31 million World Cup bill, South32's big bet on copper, and the helium squeeze putting an obscure Free State gas field on the world's radar. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Chris Pappas — Why the DA's only KZN municipality won't lose its mayor after all</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>24:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In April he told the country he was done, headed for the private sector. By July he'd changed his mind. Chris Pappas, the DA's rising star and mayor of the party's only municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, explains to Alec Hogg why nobody in his own caucus would take the job, what that says about the DA's succession problem, and why he thinks a 25 to 30% national showing is realistic for the party come November. Plus: Gayton McKenzie's R31 million World Cup bill, South32's big bet on copper, and the helium squeeze putting an obscure Free State gas field on the world's radar.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Director's Cut — Chris Pappas reverses course: the real reason he's running for uMngeni mayor again</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1698209</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Pappas was set to leave politics for the private sector. Instead, he's back, seeking a second term as uMngeni mayor after talks from colleagues, community leaders and supporters. In this candid interview with Alec Hogg, Pappas explains why he changed course, reflects on the DA's prospects ahead of the 2026 local elections, defends the party amid recent controversies, and outlines his long-term ambitions. He also argues that uMngeni's governance record offers a blueprint for the rest of KwaZulu-Natal. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Director's Cut — Chris Pappas reverses course: the real reason he's running for uMngeni mayor again</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>28:22</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Chris Pappas was set to leave politics for the private sector. Instead, he's back, seeking a second term as uMngeni mayor after talks from colleagues, community leaders and supporters. In this candid interview with Alec Hogg, Pappas explains why he changed course, reflects on the DA's prospects ahead of the 2026 local elections, defends the party amid recent controversies, and outlines his long-term ambitions. He also argues that uMngeni's governance record offers a blueprint for the rest of KwaZulu-Natal.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ian Cameron - 722 Generals &amp; Brigadiers @ R3,6-billion, more pressure on CR &amp; another cloud over Mchunu…</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1698133</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, reveals that the South African Police Service (SAPS) has 722 brigadiers and generals that cost nearly R3.6 billion in pay and maintenance. In addition, only five of 823 senior SAPS officers underwent lifestyle audits in the 2024-25 financial year - and all five were cleared. Describing how certain officers jump ranks, Cameron says: “It seems that you either need to be well connected, not only politically, but strategically connected in parts of the police, or you need to be up to something that you shouldn't necessarily be busy with.” Meanwhile, Cameron denies reports that Special Leave Minister Senzo Mchunu and all the others were cleared in the Ad Hoc Committee draft report. “That's totally false.” As for breaking news of an explosive affidavit by suspended Inspector General of Intelligence Imtiaz Fazel, Cameron says it “draws a bit more of a dark cloud over” Minister Mchunu. “I think it puts a lot more pressure on the President… I think there are many many missing pieces of the puzzle that could be filled in if he (Fazel) is allowed to testify (at the Madlanga Commission).” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>Ian Cameron - 722 Generals &amp; Brigadiers @ R3,6-billion, more pressure on CR &amp; another cloud over Mchunu…</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>23:29</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, reveals that the South African Police Service (SAPS) has 722 brigadiers and generals that cost nearly R3.6 billion in pay and maintenance. In addition, only five of 823 senior SAPS officers underwent lifestyle audits in the 2024-25 financial year - and all five were cleared. Describing how certain officers jump ranks, Cameron says: “It seems that you either need to be well connected, not only politically, but strategically connected in parts of the police, or you need to be up to something that you shouldn't necessarily be busy with.” Meanwhile, Cameron denies reports that Special Leave Minister Senzo Mchunu and all the others were cleared in the Ad Hoc Committee draft report. “That's totally false.” As for breaking news of an explosive affidavit by suspended Inspector General of Intelligence Imtiaz Fazel, Cameron says it “draws a bit more of a dark cloud over” Minister Mchunu. “I think it puts a lot more pressure on the President… I think there are many many missing pieces of the puzzle that could be filled in if he (Fazel) is allowed to testify (at the Madlanga Commission).”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: SA's criminal justice under scrutiny; Chip stock jitters; Netflix's next growth story</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1697926</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, political commentator Solly Moeng examines South Africa’s deepening criminal justice crisis. On the global stage, President Trump demands harsher Iran sanctions as Middle Eastern oil routes shift. Meanwhile, Chinese tech startups Moonshot AI and DeepSeek prepare for massive IPOs, investors confront AI energy bottlenecks, Netflix pivots to live content to win screen time, and Andy Burnham prepares for Downing Street. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: SA's criminal justice under scrutiny; Chip stock jitters; Netflix's next growth story</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>14:38</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, political commentator Solly Moeng examines South Africa’s deepening criminal justice crisis. On the global stage, President Trump demands harsher Iran sanctions as Middle Eastern oil routes shift. Meanwhile, Chinese tech startups Moonshot AI and DeepSeek prepare for massive IPOs, investors confront AI energy bottlenecks, Netflix pivots to live content to win screen time, and Andy Burnham prepares for Downing Street.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The NdB Sunday Show: Bring down SA’s “Political Ponzi Scheme”! | with Solly Moeng</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1697881</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator Solly Moeng lays into President Cyril Ramaphosa - in particular over his desperate court battle to stave off an impeachment hearing. He also reviews a week of extraordinary dramatic scenes at the Madlanga Commission of Enquiry with more pressure building on Crime Intelligence boss General Feroz Khan and IDAC chief Andrea Johnson. “So these are the people who are heading institutions that were designed to stand between South Africa and Hell. But instead they are the ones who are being scrutinised for wrongdoing.” As for tenderpreneur Cat Matlala’s fierce legal representative Advocate Annelene van den Heever buying him more time, and businessman Suliman Carrim shopping at Woollies when he was supposed to be in a medical facility, Moeng charges “these guys - including the president - seem to be lawyering up against South Africa’s democracy…it's almost like we've been living in some kind of Political Ponzi Scheme. We need to bring down the Ponzi Scheme…” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
				<podcast:season>0</podcast:season>
		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The NdB Sunday Show: Bring down SA’s “Political Ponzi Scheme”! | with Solly Moeng</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>21:14</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Political Commentator Solly Moeng lays into President Cyril Ramaphosa - in particular over his desperate court battle to stave off an impeachment hearing. He also reviews a week of extraordinary dramatic scenes at the Madlanga Commission of Enquiry with more pressure building on Crime Intelligence boss General Feroz Khan and IDAC chief Andrea Johnson. “So these are the people who are heading institutions that were designed to stand between South Africa and Hell. But instead they are the ones who are being scrutinised for wrongdoing.” As for tenderpreneur Cat Matlala’s fierce legal representative Advocate Annelene van den Heever buying him more time, and businessman Suliman Carrim shopping at Woollies when he was supposed to be in a medical facility, Moeng charges “these guys - including the president - seem to be lawyering up against South Africa’s democracy…it's almost like we've been living in some kind of Political Ponzi Scheme. We need to bring down the Ponzi Scheme…”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Amazon beats Starlink; PIC's Lanseria crisis; Netflix's slowdown; AI's big margins</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak we dive into Amazon's quiet maneuver past Starlink into South Africa's satellite internet market via Herotel. We also examine the Public Investment Corporation's escalating governance crisis over the Lanseria Airport transaction, alongside policing gaps fueling local pharmaceutical drug crimes. Internationally, we cover SpaceX’s scrubbed Starship launch, Netflix’s disappointing sales guidance, a White House teleprompter insider-trading scandal, and the sustainability of skyrocketing margins in the AI semiconductor trade. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Amazon beats Starlink; PIC's Lanseria crisis; Netflix's slowdown; AI's big margins</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>15:13</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Cops fight crime in private vehicles as their “role models” are arrested: Richard Chelin, Willem Els</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their latest interview with Chris Steyn, Willem Els of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Richard Chelin, an independent governance expert, share details of the war on drugs and crime in South Africa. Describing the struggle of dedicated detectives, Els reveals “for the past three months at one of the units they use a private vehicle and they rotate…and they are filling it up…just to do the job. You know, that's dedication - and that's the thin blue line that we are talking about; and those are the guys that actually make a difference in South Africa and stand between us and anarchy if you look at what's going on in the police.” On top of their lack of resources across the board, they are battling huge management challenges: “...they're running out of commissioners or generals to appoint as acting because of the arrests and so on….it is very demoralising if the one that you're looking up, if the one that is supposed to give you guidance, is actually exposed as a possible criminal. And who is guiding them then? You know, so those guys have got a real challenge. Their role models are being arrested. What now?” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Cops fight crime in private vehicles as their “role models” are arrested: Richard Chelin, Willem Els</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>16:45</itunes:duration>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: R3.5tn pension fund manager PIC in crisis as FSCA launches Section 135 probe</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1697132</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PIC's governance crisis has reached the regulator. Hours after suspending CEO Patrick Dlamini and acting CIO August Uys, the board now faces a formal FSCA Section 135 investigation into governance, leadership and transparency at the R3.5 trillion asset manager. DA federal finance chairperson Dr Mark Burke tells Alec Hogg why this is the fifth executive suspension in two years, how a murky Lanseria Airport shareholding sits behind Dlamini's fall, and why two ANC factions inside the GNU are pulling in opposite directions on the PIC's unlisted investments. Also on today's Edge: Amazon's quiet regulatory win over Starlink, a rescue deal taking shape for ArcelorMittal's Newcastle Works, and a tidy payday for Prosus in Uber's swoop on Delivery Hero. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: R3.5tn pension fund manager PIC in crisis as FSCA launches Section 135 probe</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:11</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The PIC's governance crisis has reached the regulator. Hours after suspending CEO Patrick Dlamini and acting CIO August Uys, the board now faces a formal FSCA Section 135 investigation into governance, leadership and transparency at the R3.5 trillion asset manager. DA federal finance chairperson Dr Mark Burke tells Alec Hogg why this is the fifth executive suspension in two years, how a murky Lanseria Airport shareholding sits behind Dlamini's fall, and why two ANC factions inside the GNU are pulling in opposite directions on the PIC's unlisted investments. Also on today's Edge: Amazon's quiet regulatory win over Starlink, a rescue deal taking shape for ArcelorMittal's Newcastle Works, and a tidy payday for Prosus in Uber's swoop on Delivery Hero.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>The R3.5 trillion crisis: Why the PIC is under fire</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1697125</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa's Public Investment Corporation is facing its biggest governance crisis in years. With CEO Patrick Dlamini suspended, senior executives resigning, and the Financial Sector Conduct Authority launching a formal investigation, questions over transparency, accountability, and the safety of government workers' pension funds are mounting. DA finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke unpacks the unfolding turmoil, the political battles behind the scenes, and why restoring trust at Africa's largest asset manager has become an urgent national priority. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>The R3.5 trillion crisis: Why the PIC is under fire</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>34:55</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa's Public Investment Corporation is facing its biggest governance crisis in years. With CEO Patrick Dlamini suspended, senior executives resigning, and the Financial Sector Conduct Authority launching a formal investigation, questions over transparency, accountability, and the safety of government workers' pension funds are mounting. DA finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke unpacks the unfolding turmoil, the political battles behind the scenes, and why restoring trust at Africa's largest asset manager has become an urgent national priority.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: PIC executive exodus; South Africa House shut in London; US interest rate hikes</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1696860</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, US-Iran tensions steady oil and Korean tech stocks slide. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh defends his personal trading, while South Africa's PIC faces a deepening executive exodus. We also unpack more on the DA’s Tony Leon lobbying scandal, the temporary closure of London's SA House, and a blunt warning from KPMG's Diane Swonk that persistent US inflation demands two interest rate hikes. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: PIC executive exodus; South Africa House shut in London; US interest rate hikes</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>15:04</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak, US-Iran tensions steady oil and Korean tech stocks slide. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh defends his personal trading, while South Africa's PIC faces a deepening executive exodus. We also unpack more on the DA’s Tony Leon lobbying scandal, the temporary closure of London's SA House, and a blunt warning from KPMG's Diane Swonk that persistent US inflation demands two interest rate hikes.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Tony Leon lobbying scandal and the DA civil war with Solly Moeng</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest chat with Chris Steyn, political commentator Solly Moeng dissects the widening scandal around Tony Leon's lobbying amid former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen’s mission of vengeance and the damaging fall-out for the party. “...what is very clear is that the DA is no longer just walking on still waters…Geordin Hill-Lewis can't be sleeping with both eyes closed right now...” Moeng also comments on the skeletons toppling out of closets thanks to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, including the relationship between Crime Intelligence (CI) Chief General Feroz Khan and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) CIC Julius Malema. As for IDAC Chief Andrea Johnson’s sudden hospitalisation ahead of her appearance, Moeng says: “...we see the growth of this so-called Madlanga Ward at some hospital out there…We've been a country of no consequences for too long. They might try…by getting hospitalised, delay processes, lie, protect one another. South Africans must not sleep until there are consequences. We're not just looking for entertainment, we're looking for people to fall because they cannot do this to South Africa and get away with it.” Meanwhile, Moeng hails the arrest of former Ekurhuleni City Manager Imogen Mashazi, one among a spate of top officials and policemen facing the law after being implicated at the inquiry into police and political capture. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Tony Leon lobbying scandal and the DA civil war with Solly Moeng</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>17:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his latest chat with Chris Steyn, political commentator Solly Moeng dissects the widening scandal around Tony Leon's lobbying amid former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen’s mission of vengeance and the damaging fall-out for the party. “...what is very clear is that the DA is no longer just walking on still waters…Geordin Hill-Lewis can't be sleeping with both eyes closed right now...” Moeng also comments on the skeletons toppling out of closets thanks to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, including the relationship between Crime Intelligence (CI) Chief General Feroz Khan and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) CIC Julius Malema. As for IDAC Chief Andrea Johnson’s sudden hospitalisation ahead of her appearance, Moeng says: “...we see the growth of this so-called Madlanga Ward at some hospital out there…We've been a country of no consequences for too long. They might try…by getting hospitalised, delay processes, lie, protect one another. South Africans must not sleep until there are consequences. We're not just looking for entertainment, we're looking for people to fall because they cannot do this to South Africa and get away with it.” Meanwhile, Moeng hails the arrest of former Ekurhuleni City Manager Imogen Mashazi, one among a spate of top officials and policemen facing the law after being implicated at the inquiry into police and political capture.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: How South Africa House fell into disrepair on Dirco's watch</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1696739</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, a fixture of SA's diplomatic presence in London since 1933, has closed its doors, with the DA's Ryan Smith blaming decades of Dirco neglect and Dirco insisting it's a planned upgrade. Alec Hogg unpacks the row, plus three stories reshaping money and power: the PIC's suspension of chief executive Patrick Dlamini has drawn a formal FSCA probe, chipmaking giant ASML posted a decisive earnings beat, and IBM suffered its worst single-day share drop in history after admitting AI spending is gutting its legacy software business. Four institutions, one lesson: neglect gets found out. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: How South Africa House fell into disrepair on Dirco's watch</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:11</itunes:duration>
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		<title>South Africa House has closed: DA's Ryan Smith unpacks the Dircos neglect</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1696732</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa House, the country's historic diplomatic landmark in London's Trafalgar Square, has closed for major renovations, sparking fierce political debate. The DA accuses DIRCO of years of neglect, poor maintenance and a lack of transparency, while government insists the closure is temporary and planned. Ryan Smith argues the controversy exposes wider failures across South Africa's foreign missions, from crumbling embassy buildings to questionable diplomatic appointments, raising serious concerns about accountability, taxpayer value and the country's global image. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>South Africa House has closed: DA's Ryan Smith unpacks the Dircos neglect</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>32:05</itunes:duration>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Trevor Manuel on SOE corruption; Trump's fresh strikes on Iran; SA's police DNA backlog</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1696379</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak: Trevor Manuel delivers a scathing account of how South Africa lost SAA and Eskom, while the IRR's John Endres warns that trying to wait out the Trump administration could cost the country billions in investment. We also unpacks the first monthly drop in US consumer prices since 2020 under Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, plus OpenAI's deepening legal battle with Apple. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		<podcast:episode>0</podcast:episode>
						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Trevor Manuel on SOE corruption; Trump's fresh strikes on Iran; SA's police DNA backlog</itunes:title>
		<itunes:season>0</itunes:season>
		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
		<itunes:author>BizNews</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>18:04</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak: Trevor Manuel delivers a scathing account of how South Africa lost SAA and Eskom, while the IRR's John Endres warns that trying to wait out the Trump administration could cost the country billions in investment. We also unpacks the first monthly drop in US consumer prices since 2020 under Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, plus OpenAI's deepening legal battle with Apple.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: How an &quot;unlawful&quot; Pretoria factory churned out fake weight-loss jabs for years</title>
		<link>https://iono.fm/e/1696248</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa's weight loss jab boom has a dark underside. A Pretoria pharmacy, iDexis, was producing roughly 84,500 units of semaglutide a month — more than Novo Nordisk's entire local sales of Ozempic and Wegovy — under the guise of a one-off "compounding" exemption meant for individual patients. Regulators only inspected the premises this year, more than two years after Novo Nordisk first complained, and found no sterile ventilation, no batch records, and no adverse-event tracking. Elsewhere, the Public Investment Corporation has suspended CEO Patrick Dlamini over an alleged Lanseria Airport conflict of interest, its fifth executive suspension in two years. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: How an &quot;unlawful&quot; Pretoria factory churned out fake weight-loss jabs for years</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[South Africa's weight loss jab boom has a dark underside. A Pretoria pharmacy, iDexis, was producing roughly 84,500 units of semaglutide a month — more than Novo Nordisk's entire local sales of Ozempic and Wegovy — under the guise of a one-off "compounding" exemption meant for individual patients. Regulators only inspected the premises this year, more than two years after Novo Nordisk first complained, and found no sterile ventilation, no batch records, and no adverse-event tracking. Elsewhere, the Public Investment Corporation has suspended CEO Patrick Dlamini over an alleged Lanseria Airport conflict of interest, its fifth executive suspension in two years.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ian Cameron: “Strategic&quot; top cop corruption &amp; shock DNA backlog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this wide-ranging interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, details the shocking DNA testing backlog. “...this is literally how a child rapist, a child murderer, any murderer or rapist for that matter walks free. This is literally the way that the State, the inability of the State to process this evidence, becomes the reason for a rapist to continue raping.” Cameron discusses the widening scandal surrounding Crime Intelligence (CI) boss General Feroz Khan, the case of suspended Lieutenant General Molefe Fani, and others. “What the Madlanga Commission is showing us is that Khan was actually one of the key pieces of the puzzle for Fani to ensure that this procurement process for PPE during the COVID-19 period was smoothly operated with the South African Police Service……a lot of key players in SAPS knew that Fani had been involved in this irregular PPE procurement during his time as a Chief Procurement officer at National Treasury. And he was still appointed in SAPS as the Head of Supply Chain Management. That tells you that it was strategically done. That would be a key way of ensuring that a 360 million Rand Medicare 24 contract can come in. It's a key way of structuring your entire process before the contract could come in, in order for it not to be red flagged… lot of the things that are happening, make no mistake, it was done deliberately - and it was done deliberately to hollow out and to control the system in order to ensure that further criminality would be able to flourish.” ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Ian Cameron: “Strategic&quot; top cop corruption &amp; shock DNA backlog</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this wide-ranging interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, details the shocking DNA testing backlog. “...this is literally how a child rapist, a child murderer, any murderer or rapist for that matter walks free. This is literally the way that the State, the inability of the State to process this evidence, becomes the reason for a rapist to continue raping.” Cameron discusses the widening scandal surrounding Crime Intelligence (CI) boss General Feroz Khan, the case of suspended Lieutenant General Molefe Fani, and others. “What the Madlanga Commission is showing us is that Khan was actually one of the key pieces of the puzzle for Fani to ensure that this procurement process for PPE during the COVID-19 period was smoothly operated with the South African Police Service……a lot of key players in SAPS knew that Fani had been involved in this irregular PPE procurement during his time as a Chief Procurement officer at National Treasury. And he was still appointed in SAPS as the Head of Supply Chain Management. That tells you that it was strategically done. That would be a key way of ensuring that a 360 million Rand Medicare 24 contract can come in. It's a key way of structuring your entire process before the contract could come in, in order for it not to be red flagged… lot of the things that are happening, make no mistake, it was done deliberately - and it was done deliberately to hollow out and to control the system in order to ensure that further criminality would be able to flourish.”]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: Iran war oil surge; Apple sues OpenAI; Endres on SA's fixed investment woes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak we cover the escalating US-Iran conflict and its impact on soaring crude oil prices. In South Africa, Dr. John Endres critiques low fixed investment rates, SARU faces backlash over overpriced Springbok tickets, and over 53,000 undocumented foreign nationals are successfully repatriated. Finally, Apple hits OpenAI with a massive trade-secrets lawsuit. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: Iran war oil surge; Apple sues OpenAI; Endres on SA's fixed investment woes</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:episode>0</itunes:episode>
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		<itunes:duration>18:10</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In today's BizNews Daybreak we cover the escalating US-Iran conflict and its impact on soaring crude oil prices. In South Africa, Dr. John Endres critiques low fixed investment rates, SARU faces backlash over overpriced Springbok tickets, and over 53,000 undocumented foreign nationals are successfully repatriated. Finally, Apple hits OpenAI with a massive trade-secrets lawsuit.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BizNews Edge: Why the IRR's John Endres is more bullish on SA than Britain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Endres, CEO of the Institute for Race Relations, tells BizNews that the elite consensus defending BEE is cracking, even as its beneficiaries defend it loudest. He points to the Starlink saga - blocked partly over empowerment shareholding while a pricier, slower rival wins state favour - as proof the policy is running out of road. Endres also unpacks why so many of South Africa's estimated one million skilled emigrants stay away, and delivers an unexpected verdict: he's more optimistic about South Africa's prospects than Britain's, arguing the UK has traded freedom for safety and lost its economic nerve in the process. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BizNews Edge: Why the IRR's John Endres is more bullish on SA than Britain</itunes:title>
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		<itunes:duration>24:32</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[John Endres, CEO of the Institute for Race Relations, tells BizNews that the elite consensus defending BEE is cracking, even as its beneficiaries defend it loudest. He points to the Starlink saga - blocked partly over empowerment shareholding while a pricier, slower rival wins state favour - as proof the policy is running out of road. Endres also unpacks why so many of South Africa's estimated one million skilled emigrants stay away, and delivers an unexpected verdict: he's more optimistic about South Africa's prospects than Britain's, arguing the UK has traded freedom for safety and lost its economic nerve in the process.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>Director's Cut - John Endres: Why SA's growth story still isn't landing — and what would change that</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Director's Cut of BizNews editor Alec Hogg's conversation with IRR CEO John Endres, the full, unedited exchange goes well beyond BEE and the diaspora. Endres unpacks why R1.8 trillion in corporate reserves and R1.5 trillion parked offshore still isn't flowing home, why Washington's frustration with Pretoria is bipartisan and deepening, and why Treasury's decision to freeze equitable-share payments to Johannesburg and 68 other municipalities is a warning shot that could escalate. He also weighs in on the DA's internal turmoil following Steenhuisen's public break with new leader Geordin Hill-Lewis, and why he still won't drop his "conditional optimism" on South Africa. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>Director's Cut - John Endres: Why SA's growth story still isn't landing — and what would change that</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>34:39</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this Director's Cut of BizNews editor Alec Hogg's conversation with IRR CEO John Endres, the full, unedited exchange goes well beyond BEE and the diaspora. Endres unpacks why R1.8 trillion in corporate reserves and R1.5 trillion parked offshore still isn't flowing home, why Washington's frustration with Pretoria is bipartisan and deepening, and why Treasury's decision to freeze equitable-share payments to Johannesburg and 68 other municipalities is a warning shot that could escalate. He also weighs in on the DA's internal turmoil following Steenhuisen's public break with new leader Geordin Hill-Lewis, and why he still won't drop his "conditional optimism" on South Africa.]]></itunes:summary>
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		<title>BN Daybreak: US Strikes on Iran; Teen mall bomb plot; Springbok ticket anger hit SA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As fresh American strikes on Iran trigger sirens in Bahrain, global traders are left asking whether the world's most vital oil chokepoint is still open for business. Congressman Greg Stanton warns of surging fuel prices and a war with no clear endgame, new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh heads to Capitol Hill to face the economic fallout, and the political landscape shifts following the death of foreign-policy hawk Lindsey Graham.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, back home, we dive into two critical local investigations. Explosives expert Willem Els breaks down the chilling reality of what a teenager's online manifesto laid out for a packed shopping mall. Plus, Rory Steyn uncovers how new Springbok ticket deals may be quietly gutting the grassroots rugby clubs that built the game. ]]></description>
					<category>Investing</category>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
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						<itunes:title>BN Daybreak: US Strikes on Iran; Teen mall bomb plot; Springbok ticket anger hit SA</itunes:title>
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Meanwhile, back home, we dive into two critical local investigations. Explosives expert Willem Els breaks down the chilling reality of what a teenager's online manifesto laid out for a packed shopping mall. Plus, Rory Steyn uncovers how new Springbok ticket deals may be quietly gutting the grassroots rugby clubs that built the game.]]></itunes:summary>
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