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  BOTH Mbalula AND Malema now face criminal prosecution | Barry Bateman 22.09.2026 12นาที

  In this interview with Chris Steyn, Barry Bateman of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit talk about the criminal prosecution now being faced by both ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula and EFF leader Julius Malema “This is the second case where AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit has succeeded in convincing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that a politician (Mbalula) should be prosecuted for crimen injuria after branding Jaco Pieterse, the former Bergview College principal, a child rapist.” “We are primarily established for the case of selective prosecution where the NPA or the police declined to pursue certain matters because of the status of certain individuals. Often it's politicians, but often it's also wealthy people.” In another victory for the unit, it has secured another costs order compelling the NPA to cover the costs of successfully privately prosecuting a rapist. Meanwhile, AfriForum CEO has also offered private prosecution assistance to the families of the women murdered in Ekurhuleni. “The system has collapsed and women are certainly being abandoned by the criminal justice system…our doors are in fact open to any person who requires any kind of assistance within the criminal justice sphere.”
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  BN Daybreak: Threats to kill unravel tender empire, DA's odds in LGEs 2026, US-SA diplomatic fallout 22.09.2026 14นาที

  A tenderpreneur bragged on video that he could kill women and walk free. By the end of the weekend he'd lost his company, his lease and his freedom of movement, with three government ministers now circling his contracts, his ratings and his immigration status. Action Society's Juanita du Preez joined Chris Steyn to unpack it, alongside the belated sacking of a suspended metro police chief and a tender kingpin's R1.9 billion tax bill. Elections analyst Wayne Sussman then walked through where all eight of South Africa's major parties stand two months out from the local government elections, predicting a "car crash" for the ANC and a strong run for the DA in the metros. And Christo van der Rheede of the FW de Klerk Foundation made the case that Washington's new visa restrictions on South African officials are a strategic blunder that hands the ANC a political gift. Plus a Reuters update on the Bessent-He Lifeng trade talks and a record night on Wall Street.
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  Tender empire exposed after threat to kill women who said “No, thanks” | Juanita du Preez 21.09.2026 20นาที

  In their latest chat, Chris Steyn and Juanita du Preez of Action Society talk about the video of the tenderpreneur threatening to kill women in the powder room of a Sandton restaurant after they turned down his advances. Transport Minister Barbara Creasy has now ordered an investigation into his tenders. Infrastructure Minister Dean McPherson has ordered an investigation into his ratings. And Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia is asking Home Affairs to have a look at his status in South Africa as he is from an SADC country. And he will appear in court on October 1. They also give viewers an update on the murders of 9 women in Ekurhuleni where Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi told fearful residents not to get emotional; the belated sacking of suspended EMPD Chief Julius Mkhwanazi following five arrests since April; and Tembisa Hospital tender don Hangwani Maumela being hit with a R1,9 billion tax bill while still roaming free. Meanwhile, the latest crime statistics show that 72 women were reported raped every day the past two months.
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  BN Daybreak: ANC ballot 'car crash'; Swimming SA sponsors; Rubio visa blunder; Buffett exits 21.09.2026 13นาที

  Elections analyst Wayne Sussman tells Chris Steyn the local government poll is shaping up as a car crash for the ANC, which failed to submit any candidates in its Eastern Cape strongholds of Port St Johns and Ngquza Hill and lost proportional lists in Walter Sisulu and Sundays River Valley. Bank of America's Brad Ross says sponsors facing Swimming SA's missing R50 million should freeze, audit and pivot to athletes. Christo van der Rheede calls Rubio's visa restrictions a strategic blunder that hands the ANC a smokescreen. Plus Alec Hogg on sifting fake news, and a mixed Wall Street close.
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  LGEs 2026: The ANC, DA, MKP, EFF, IFP, Freedom Front, Patriotic Alliance, ActionSA 20.09.2026 24นาที

  In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show with Chris Steyn, Elections Analyst Wayne Sussman dissects the preparedness and likely outcome for South Africa’s top eight political parties ahead of the Local Government Elections in November. He predicts a “car crash” for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC “going into the election knowing that there are a number of …municipalities and ANC heartlands which are either going to be lost or have to be sorted out by coalition”. He has good news for the DA: “I think they're well on track to being the most popular party when we tally the votes in the eight metropolitan areas after election day.” The party tipped for provincial power in KZN is former President Jacob Zuma’s MKP. “I think uMkhonto weSizwe are well on track to be the largest party.” Also listen to Sussman explain why the PA’s Gayton McKenzie “is very well positioned to be a winner in this election”; why ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba “is going to be the kingmaker” in Johannesburg; why it is likely to be a “difficult election” for Julius Malema’s EFF; why the Freedom Front Plus of Corne Mulder is “likely to grow somewhat in this election”; and why the IFP is not going into this election with the "confidence" with which it entered the previous one.
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  Swimming SA saga: Officials suspended, champions unpaid, and sponsors watching closely 18.09.2026 32นาที

  Swimming South Africa has two officials suspended, a high performance centre with more than R50 million unaccounted for, and an Olympic champion who says she waited over a year for prize money the federation then charged her interest on. So what does a sponsor actually do with that? Bank of America's Brad Ross, speaking to Alec Hogg in a personal capacity, laid out the playbook: freeze the funds, audit what really happened, then find a way to keep supporting the athletes without the money running through a federation under a corruption cloud. Drawing on his years running sponsorship for Coca-Cola, and on cautionary tales from West Ham United to the International Olympic Committee, Ross made the case for morality clauses South African sport still doesn't use, and for putting athletes like Tatjana Smith and Roland Schoeman on the boards that are supposed to serve them.
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  Rubio’s visa move a blunder: FW de Klerk Foundation appeals to Washington to reconsider 18.09.2026 17นาที

  The Trump administration has escalated its pressure on South Africa, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing new visa restrictions over land expropriation laws and racial discrimination against the Afrikaner minority. Christo van der Rheede, executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, calls it a profound strategic blunder, one that risks handing the ANC a political gift ahead of local government elections. Van der Rheede also takes issue with the framing of Afrikaners by the Trump administration, arguing that associating Afrikaners only with white people is problematic. In an interview with BizNews, Van der Rheede argues that the real culprits have already been identified in the findings of the Zondo and Madlanga commissions and that Washington had a far more effective and far less divisive path available to it. He appeals to the US to reconsider its approach to South Africa if it is interested in saving the country and a society in which all enjoy the fruits of a hard-earned constitutional democracy. – Linda van Tilburg
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  How Alec Hogg's 45 years in journalism culminated in BizNews and its loyal "tribe" 18.09.2026 49นาที

  This interview was livestreamed on Conscious Caracal on 11 September 2026. Find Ernst van Zyl's Conscious Caracal Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCeNFLCUJ2lM1S_H32ICVs4w Before BizNews, there was a bank job Alec Hogg quit within three years, a company called Moneyweb he built from a room above his garage and then lost control of, and a High Court letter that convinced him to start all over again rather than retire. In this conversation with Ernst van Zyl, Hogg walked through the full history: the SABC newsroom he ran the year Nelson Mandela was released, the corporate takeover that pushed his stake in his own company down to 18 percent, the year of gardening leave that turned into a second startup, and the decision to own almost all of BizNews himself this time. He also covered what BizNews has become since 2013: a newsroom that moved from Bryanston to Hermanus, a YouTube and podcast audience of around a million people a month, and two annual conferences that now sell out within weeks of opening.
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  BN Daybreak: ANC 'could collapse'; US visa ban; trillion-rand spaza economy; Fed hikes, Wall St up 18.09.2026 13นาที

  FF+ leader Corné Mulder tells Alec Hogg that Pretoria's foreign policy has exhausted Washington's patience and that the ANC could collapse well before 2029. New US visa restrictions name no names, making official travel to America a gamble. Kasinomics author GG Alcock says the deportation drive barely dented a trillion-rand township economy, with spaza volumes back to normal within weeks of the July deadline. Plus Wall Street rallies while the Fed hikes for the first time since 2023.
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  Corné Mulder says SA could have a new government before 2029 17.09.2026 28นาที

  South Africa just joined a short and unflattering list of countries facing individual US visa restrictions, and Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder says he saw it coming from a manifesto launch stage days before it happened. He tells Alec Hogg why he thinks Cyril Ramaphosa's habit of avoiding decisions has left the country exposed to an American administration that has run out of patience, why the ANC seems willing to simply wait out the Trump presidency, and why he believes ordinary South Africans, not the "comrades" benefiting from ANC patronage, are the ones now pushing back. He also lays out his read on the coalition scramble coming after 4 November, throws down a direct challenge to the DA over Tshwane and Johannesburg, and explains why he thinks South Africa's next real change of government could arrive well before 2029.
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  GG Alcock says SA's R1-trillion "informal" economy is anything but 17.09.2026 49นาที

  South Africa's townships are not a side economy. According to GG Alcock, author of the Kasinomics book series, they're a trillion-rand-plus market that the country's biggest listed companies are already quietly fighting over, from Shoprite's cash-and-carry pivot to Capitec's entrepreneur accounts to Pepkor's handset financing. Alcock, who grew up in a mud hut in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, and never went to university, sat down with Alec Hogg to explain why the xenophobic crackdown on foreign traders barely dented the spaza sector, why Pick n Pay's QualiSave format misread who actually shops in a township, how a social grant became one woman's ten-year start-up fund, and why an entire generation of township entrepreneurs is quietly building wealth in bread, eggs, hardbody chickens and handset finance while the formal economy stalls.
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  Solly Moeng: BOTH Cyril AND Mashatile are too ill to run the country 17.09.2026 16นาที

  In their latest weekly chat, Chris Steyn and Political Commentator Solly Moeng talk about both President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile having been declared unfit - because they are too ill - to perform official duties; the US the visa restrictions for certain - still unamed -government officials; the performance (or lack) of US Ambassador Roelf Meyer; the 181 lost candidate crisis for the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the Local Government Elections (LGEs) in November this year; the body tally of raped and murdered women in Ekurhuleni rising to 9 as Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi gives criminals a heads-up of a lockdown; the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dropping charges against National Commissioner Fannie Masemola; and a year of sittings of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into Police and Political Capture.
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  BN Daybreak: US visa ban on SA officials, AfriForum's farm attack report, SA banks resilient 17.09.2026 15นาที

  Washington stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract this week. Marco Rubio named individual officials for visa restrictions over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement, and the US ambassador in Pretoria called it only the first move. Hudson Institute's Joshua Meservey explained why Washington chose a scalpel over a sledgehammer, and why South Africa's own dealings with Tehran, Moscow and Hamas made this outcome close to inevitable. Denker Capital's Kokkie Kooyman weighed in on how South African banks are quietly benefiting from the same Iran war that's rattling oil markets, even as FirstRand heads for the exit in the UK and the country drifts closer to Beijing and Moscow. AfriForum's Jacques Broodryk laid out a disturbing new report on the patterns of torture behind 47 farm attacks. And on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to fight an oil-driven inflation spike, sending stocks lower.
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  SA joins Colombia, South Sudan on short list hit by this US visa tool. Meservey unpacks why 16.09.2026 34นาที

  The night before this interview, Marco Rubio picked up a weapon Washington has never used against South Africa before: visa restrictions aimed at individual officials, not the country as a whole. Hours later, the US ambassador in Pretoria said it was only the start. Joshua Meservey of the Hudson Institute had spent months arguing publicly for exactly this approach, and told Alec Hogg why the scalpel beats the sledgehammer, why AGOA is not off the table whatever the ambassador implies, and why South Africa's own record with Tehran, Moscow and Hamas made this outcome close to inevitable. He also had a hard question for South Africans weighing in on BEE and land expropriation from here: does it matter that Washington agrees with you, if agreeing with Washington is now politically radioactive.
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  Kooyman: Making SA investable again, pressure from Washington, and November’s election stakes 16.09.2026 38นาที

  FirstRand just put its UK business up for sale after a motor finance mis-selling scandal turned an eight-year-old acquisition into a multi-billion-rand headache, and analyst Kokkie Kooyman of Denker Capital walked Alec Hogg through what it's actually worth. He explained why Capitec is quietly trying to build six versions of itself across Eastern Europe and Latin America, why South Africa's big three banks keep poaching each other's executives, and why a punishing war between Iran and the United States is, oddly, good news for bank profits and bad news for everyone else. He also weighed in on Washington's new visa restrictions on South African officials, what a strong DA showing in the upcoming local elections would mean for the rand, and why he thinks South Africa's own BEE rules are capping the entrepreneurial growth the country badly needs.
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  Jacques Broodryk: Trump hits SA officials with “bombshell” visa restrictions 16.09.2026 16นาที

  In this interview with Chris Steyn, Jacques Broodryk, the Chief Spokesperson for Community Safety at AfriForum, hails the announcement by the Trump administration of visa restrictions for those “responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa.” In his reaction, Broodryk says: “We've been asking for direct sanctions against these political leaders for quite some time now, publicly and as well as in discussions with the US…we hope that the work that we've been doing has had some kind of an impact on the steps that the US has now taken. Because this is what we've been asking for, for international pressure so that the South African government can stop dismissing minorities' complaints and concerns the way that they have been doing for the last 30 years.” Broodryk also unpacks a new AfriForum report – focused on 47 separate violent farm attacks - that reveals a recurring pattern of torture. He says AfriForum will now continue to expand and strengthen its 178 neighbourhood and farm watches and invest in volunteer training as well as the expansion of its specialised response capabilities, technology, and communication networks.
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  Boardroom Talk: US announces visa restrictions on SA citizens relating to racism concerns 16.09.2026 21นาที

  Washington has stopped talking about South Africa in the abstract. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a new visa restriction policy aimed not at the country, but at named officials inside the Pretoria government, over land seizures, race-based discrimination and incitement. No names were published, but the bar for inclusion is deliberately low, and family members with a US visa, a green card, or a child studying in America could be caught up in it too. Within hours, US Ambassador Brent Bozell was on X calling it "only the first step in a series of escalatory measures." Alec Hogg traced the arc from Trump's February 2025 executive order through the Oval Office ambush, where a 2020 roadside memorial became "over a thousand" burial sites on camera, to this week's announcement, and laid out what it actually changes for anyone with capital, a career, or a conscience invested in South Africa.
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  BN Daybreak: Kempton Park bodies; ANC 'finished' in eThekwini; Chelsea flowers; AI slowdown 16.09.2026 16นาที

  Action Society's Juanita du Preez tells BizNews six bodies in Kempton Park finally forced a multidisciplinary task team, years after the Gaby Ndaba case stalled on DNA backlogs, while the station tops the country for kidnappings with 76 in three months. DA eThekwini mayoral candidate Haniff Hoosen says the ANC is finished in the city and rates his chances against MK at 50/50. Leon Kluge recounts how Cape storms nearly sank South Africa's Chelsea Flower Show display. Plus Amodei, Altman and Musk's AI slowdown call, and a Wall Street selloff as the Senate blocks Trump's crypto bill.
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  Leon Kluge: The botanist turning South Africa's flowers into gold 15.09.2026 42นาที

  Leon Kluge pulled off a hat-trick no South African had managed before: three straight gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, the world's most prestigious garden show. But this year's win very nearly didn't happen. Storms and flooding tore through the Western Cape days before the harvest, cutting farmers off from the airport and leaving Kluge with no backup plan and no government funding to fall back on if the flowers didn't land in time. He sat down with Alec Hogg at the Chelsea Flowers exhibition in Stanford to explain why fynbos, the smallest and strangest of the world's floral kingdoms, cannot survive without fire, why a single protea sells for twenty-five pounds in the London flower market, and what a plant that farms its own assassin bugs reveals about survival in the wild.
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  With the ANC finished, eThekwini's mayoral contest comes down to the DA and MK 15.09.2026 38นาที

  Haniff Hoosen made the trip from Durban to BizNews's Hermanus studio with a blunt message: the ANC is finished in eThekwini, and what replaces it could be worse. The DA's mayoral candidate walked through how a metro that once out-drew Cape Town for tourists now loses 65% of its water to 13,000 active leaks, why he believes MK is running a placeholder candidate to make way for a scandal-tainted former mayor, and why he isn't arguing with The Economist's description of South Africa drifting into a "mafia state." He also put a number on his own chances in November: five out of ten, a coin flip between the DA and a party he says is already broke.