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Since 1929, the Institute of Race Relations has delivered the facts and provided evidence-based guidance, serving SA as the ultimate ’truth to power” voice. In this interview, CEO John Endres explains why we are at a pivotal moment, and how it happened that the country’s future has been entrusted to a few dozen people - members of the ANC’s ‘collective’ decision making body, its National Executive Committee. Endres explains why the way these worthies jump will directly impact the lives of each South African for many years to come. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

 In typically outspoken style, business activist Rob Hersov airs uncomfortable truths in this interview - warning that the Kremlin-funded MK party poses a massive threat to the rest of South Africa. His forthright advice to the ANC leadership and their still-to-be-confirmed coalition partners is to support KZN’s secession from SA and let the MK-dominated Zulu people determine their own future. Hersov says failure to urgently grasp this reality, or worse, attempting to govern KZN from Pretoria, will raise massive risks for the nation. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

Popular BizNews Premium columnist RW Johnson has been deeply involved in this year’s Election, working behind the scenes at broadcaster eNCA. Now the dust has settled, he outlines the key consequences - explaining why the ANC will partner with the DA; and an MK/IFP coalition work together to run an increasingly independent KZN. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

The South African political era has now moved into a radical and separatist State. That is the warning from Neil de Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement (UIM). In this interview with BizNews, De Beer says: “MK, ANC, EFF, PA are no doubt radical parties. They are a radical entity with a radical philosophy of national, Socialistic, and may I call an overextension of capitalised ideology.” De Beer describes “the blood on the floor” at the Indedependent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) Counting Centre after the "Atom bomb of MK", and gives his take on the coalition and power sharing talks currently being held behind the scenes. He dissects various power configurations, including a Government of National Unity of multiple parties like the ANC, the DA, the IFP, the Freedom Front Plus, and the ACDP. He also speaks about last night’s urgently convened Multi-Party Charter meeting which he chaired.

With results of South Africa’s watershed election now baked in, political scientist Dr Frans Cronje says the country faces a one-off, historic opportunity to catapult ahead. Whether or not it happens depends entirely on which way a badly bruised ANC jumps. The High Road lies in an ANC which opts to embrace a working partnership with the DA, IFP and others. The alternative  is what he calls “the Chernobyl option” when it retains political power in the short-term through a coalition with MK and the EFF - but thereby sows the seeds of its own destruction. The SRF chairman spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

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South Africa is entering a phase of “necessary uncertainty” following the ruling African National Congress’ (ANC) poor performance in the elections and the surge of former President Jacob Zuma’s new MK party. So says Dr Ina Gouws of the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State. “I understand that South Africans are even afraid of what's to come, a bit uncertain of what's to come. But I think it's a necessary phase for the country to go in.” She says it is now up to South Africans to insist on political leaders being mature and pragmatic to make sure that coalitions are stable - and not “a circus like we've seen in many of the local authorities”. Dr Gouws dissects the voting trends - and looks at the implications for the leadership of President Cyril Ramaphosa.