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South Africa, unspun. Since its launch in 2013, BizNews has covered the issues and asked the questions others tiptoe around. Every week the team led by Alec Hogg sit down with the people who actually move markets and shape policy: CEOs, investors, economists, constitutional lawyers and the politicians brave enough to take a straight question. We cover the JSE, global markets, corporate governance, the rule of law and the political economy that ties it all together. No spin. No jargon. No hour-long preamble. Just sharp conversations with people who know what they’re talking about and are given the space to communicate it properly - with follow-up questions when they don’t. Is South Africa fixable? Where’s the smart money going? Who’s really making the decisions on key issues that impact our lives? Pull up a chair. Join the more than half a million members of a tribe who rely on BizNews. More at biznews.com.

  1. 6h ago

    Solly Moeng: Mashaba and Zille, MK's rise, FF Plus, Malema

    One day after the Local Government Elections in South Africa, in this interview with Chris Steyn - just after four o'clock and with 43% of the results in - political commentator Solly Moeng says Action SA leader Herman Mashaba and his party leadership need to listen to calls from voters not to go into coalitions with the ANC, but to work with the DA. “They have to find a way to respond to the people of South Africa who are saying we are punishing the ANC…his intentions are good, but I think he needs to take away this personal anger that he has against specifically Zille…they cannot sacrifice the will of the people because of personal feelings…” Moeng also comments on the performance of MKP, the FF, the PA, the EFF and other parties. “At least the people now have spoken. They've said to the ANC, we've trusted you long enough. We're slowly, slowly, slowly pulling the rug from under your feet. And that's the way to do it, slowly, slowly…so that it's not like an overnight thing and then they start blaming, I don't know what else, Jan van Riebeek.” As for US President Donald Trump’s party’s Midterm defeat, Moeng cautions: “...it's not time to celebrate Trump losing. Okay, we can do it. We private people can do it. But I think the people who are running foreign policy must spend more time lobbying…we need to work with America…we need foreign policy that is run by people who are not running around with emotions and old-era, Soviet era ideas about international relations.”

    Solly Moeng: Mashaba and Zille, MK's rise, FF Plus, Malema

  2. 7h ago

    BizNews Ricardo Portfolio update: Palantir, Uber, Lesaka, and Exemplar

    Four companies BizNews owns reported in the same week, so Alec Hogg went back to his own valuations to see whether they still held. Palantir nearly doubled its revenue and its chief executive declared his intent to take "the entire market", yet one number nagged at Alec. Uber delivered a fifth straight quarter of 20%-plus bookings growth while Wall Street priced it as if its best days were behind it. Back home, Lesaka and Exemplar told a different story, and slowing growth forced a harder look at what the Ricardo portfolio was willing to pay. Some numbers went up, some came down, and the pattern said a lot about where growth was coming from.

    BizNews Ricardo Portfolio update: Palantir, Uber, Lesaka, and Exemplar

  3. 10h ago

    Tony Leon on SA's new political map after the local elections

    The ballots were barely a quarter counted when Tony Leon sat down with Alec Hogg, and he had already seen enough. The former DA leader, who helped negotiate the GNU two years ago, explained why a battered ANC still had cards to play, but none it could play for free. He laid out the formula he believed the DA should turn back on the ANC in Joburg, warned what a walkout from the GNU could mean for the rand and bonds, and described a party that had shed votes in its own fortresses. He also reflected on 1994, when his party was stuck "in the cracks", and on how far it had climbed since.

    Tony Leon on SA's new political map after the local elections

  4. 18h ago

    BN Daybreak | Polls closed: WSM, Sean McLaughlin and Cilliers Brink on what comes next

    As the count got under way, three guests disagreed on what should follow it. William Saunderson-Meyer told Alec Hogg the vote was a verdict on the ANC, but the coalitions formed afterwards would be the real pointer to 2029, and he wondered how many of the party's true believers were left. Norsira's Sean McLaughlin pointed Chris Steyn to Emfuleni, where the DA had taken a township ward from the ANC in a May by-election and where he expected the ANC to slip further. He said the two largest parties governing together there could be a very good outcome. Cilliers Brink was not convinced that would work in Tshwane. He told Alec he wasn't sure voters wanted the DA at the table with the networks he blamed for the city's decline, and described the pushback he expected the moment reform came up. Reuters closed the show with Wall Street's reaction to the US midterms.

    BN Daybreak | Polls closed: WSM, Sean McLaughlin and Cilliers Brink on what comes next

  5. 1d ago

    Sean McLaughlan: SA’s Blue Wave?

    With millions of South Africans having already voted in today’s Local Government Elections 2026 in the wake of a “Blue Wave” striking the United States after its Midterm Elections, Chris Steyn asks Norsira’s Sean McLaughlin what colour wave he thinks might hit the country once the votes have been counted. “Today looks like it could be a very good day for South Africa's Democratic Alliance.” He shares an interactive link https://norsira-website.vercel.app/feature-analysis with viewers to access probable outcomes in 213 municipalities. Meanwhile, he expresses surprise that there has not been more political violence. “I would have expected a lot more trouble, especially as a liberation movement loses power in a country like South Africa. It's a tense time. We may still see more trouble unfold as the ANC loses power - and it is losing power almost by the day in many places in the country. What may happen if the ANC loses control of many, many councils across KwaZulu-Natal? There's competition for resources, there's the possibility of exposure of corruption cases within these municipalities. That may lead to greater political violence and just general unrest within certain nodes of the country. “

    Sean McLaughlan: SA’s Blue Wave?

  6. 1d ago

    WSM on election day: ANC verdict, DA’s GNU lessons, Tshwane, and Trump’s hiding | Jaundiced Eye

    On the morning South Africans voted, William Saunderson-Meyer argued that the count would deliver the verdict, but the coalition talks would decide whether anything changes. The Jaundiced Eye columnist told Alec Hogg why so many ANC voters see their party's failings clearly and back it anyway, why a lower turnout may favour the DA, and why the ANC had plastered Cyril Ramaphosa's face across every metro instead of naming its mayoral candidates. He said the DA had been outmanoeuvred in the GNU, that only the election calendar had spared John Steenhuisen a disciplinary inquiry, and that Cilliers Brink may be within reach of Tshwane. He also warned against reading too much into Donald Trump's midterm drubbing, and asked whether South African voters, like a long-beaten donkey, still had the spirit to kick back.

    WSM on election day: ANC verdict, DA’s GNU lessons, Tshwane, and Trump’s hiding | Jaundiced Eye

  7. 1d ago

    BN Daybreak: Election day; Brink says polls are wrong; Van Staden on elites; Apple drags the Dow

    South Africans vote today. Norsira co-founder Sean McLaughlin has run every metro and 213 local councils through a scenario model and tells Chris Steyn only about 45 look safe, with MK's first nationwide local test the great unknown - he expects it down in rural KwaZulu-Natal and in the metros. Legal scholar Dr Martin van Staden says the real problem is how much power sits in Pretoria, and that elites with skin in the status quo fear change. The DA's Cilliers Brink tells Alec Hogg the Tshwane polls understate him. Plus Nelson Mandela Bay's R28bn hole, and Apple dragging the Dow.

    BN Daybreak: Election day; Brink says polls are wrong; Van Staden on elites; Apple drags the Dow

  8. 2d ago

    Martin van Staden on federalism and South Africa's failing centre

    On the eve of the local elections, Dr Martin van Staden argued that South Africa's real problem was not who ran its towns, but how much power sat in Pretoria. Freshly appointed to build AfriForum's new Institute for Federalism, the legal scholar told Alec Hogg that communities were already doing the state's job, from policing to diplomacy, and that Citrusdal's farmers could not afford to wait five years for a better vote after Washington's Agoa decision. He accused the DA, IFP and Freedom Front Plus of believing in federalism only "on a sunny day", made the uncomfortable case that failing municipalities should feel the consequences of how they vote, and answered the charge that community federalism is ethnic separatism by another name.

    Martin van Staden on federalism and South Africa's failing centre
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South Africa, unspun. Since its launch in 2013, BizNews has covered the issues and asked the questions others tiptoe around. Every week the team led by Alec Hogg sit down with the people who actually move markets and shape policy: CEOs, investors, economists, constitutional lawyers and the politicians brave enough to take a straight question. We cover the JSE, global markets, corporate governance, the rule of law and the political economy that ties it all together. No spin. No jargon. No hour-long preamble. Just sharp conversations with people who know what they’re talking about and are given the space to communicate it properly - with follow-up questions when they don’t. Is South Africa fixable? Where’s the smart money going? Who’s really making the decisions on key issues that impact our lives? Pull up a chair. Join the more than half a million members of a tribe who rely on BizNews. More at biznews.com.

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