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BizNews Radio

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150

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Aug 2026

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Welcome to BizNews Radio where we interview top thought leaders and business people from South Africa and across the globe.

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August 14, 202624 min

BNC#9 | Dr Iraj Abedian: SA's 80-year bond with Iran, and why America's Middle East era is ending

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.

August 14, 202616 min

BN Daybreak: Dawie Roodt slams ANC; Ian Cameron on SAPS; Wall Street highs; OpenAI and Anthropic

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.

August 13, 202623 min

BNC#9 | Dawie Roodt: "Incompetent" ANC is the "most destructive force South Africa has ever seen"

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.

August 13, 202624 min

BNC#9 | Ian Cameron: "Fire, fire, fire more": Five-point plan to fix SAPS, and how long it will take

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.

August 13, 202626 min

BNC#9 | Rob Hersov: Why mafia, gangsters and tenderpreneurs make SA so difficult to turn around

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.

August 13, 202614 min

BN Daybreak: Mashele on the ANC’s terminal decline; Hersov on SA’s investability; Nvidia $500B plan

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.

August 12, 202622 min

BNC#9 | Prince Mashele: ANC is finished; Zille for Jozi; where his new movement will show its hand

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.

August 12, 202628 min

BNC#9 | GHL: Four months into the job, the new DA leader's plan to get 50 + 1%

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.

August 12, 202614 min

BN Daybreak: Hill-Lewis on DA's future; Duduzane Zuma on MKP; Wiese on Jooste betrayal

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.

August 11, 202617 min

BNC#9 | Duduzane Zuma: Why the country should be grateful for JZ, and a stark choice for SA business

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.

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