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Join the Conversation: Climate crisis responsibilities and obligations of the developed world
Vice President and CFO of the New Development Bank Leslie Maasdorp says the collective 100 billion dollar annual pledge made by the developed world to the developing world many years ago in Copenhagen to help fight climate change has not yet left the developed world. If not now, then when?…
Buying Crypto: Getting your own slice of tomorrow’s money a lot easier than you may think
In the second of our four part introduction to crypto currencies, Luno’s Carin Bowman and lawyer Bright Tibane of Bowmans offer some practical steps to acquire your first digital money. It’s easy (click a button) and with fractionalization ensuring a low barrier to entry (R100), this new investment class is…
Join the Conversation: Will COP27 help drive adaptation action in Africa?
Accelerating Adaptation in Africa aims to support the international community to make Sharm El-Sheikh a keystone moment to deliver a big win for Africa with international partnerships at COP27 really helping to drive adaptation action in Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join the Conversation: Will the energy on the ground at COP27 translate into implementation?
DBSA Boss Patrick Dlamini says the right energy is certainly here at COP27 but he hopes that there is also clarity of mind on how to move forward on implementation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join the Conversation: Why Nedbank is on the ground at COP27, Egypt
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking Head Arvana Singh is at COP27, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt discussing Nedbank's commitment to the global climate convention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Treasury regulation spells the end of compulsory BEE in state procurement
Following a five-year court battle, Sakeliga is welcoming a new Treasury regulation for public procurement that completely omits BEE and local content requirements when tendering to do business with the state. Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux says it marks the end of "compulsory BEE and local content requirements in state…
Join the Conversation: Climate change responsibilities between developing and developed nations
The developed world must take responsibility and lead in terms of climate financing, but the developing world must also act responsibly in terms of their own stance towards combatting climate change. Simon Angombe is Associate Dean at the School and Agriculture and Fisheries at the University of Namibia. Learn more…
Join the Conversation: How the WWF is working to tackle the climate crisis
WWF is working to tackle the climate crisis in a variety of ways. From encouraging governments to implement more ambitious climate policies, to supporting the shift to renewable energy, to working with cities, businesses, and communities to create a climate resilient, net-zero future. We caught up with Laurent Magloire Some, Head…
'Bad times fit' - Ocean Basket's recipe to tackle overseas markets – CEO Grace Harding
Ocean Basket has been fishing in other waters since 2008 and when everybody battened down the hatches and pulled in the lines during the Covid-19 pandemic, the advice of the company’s founder was: it’s time to think about growing. The seafood restaurant, loved by South Africans, has just opened its…
SA paleoscientists save Stilbaai rock depicting 'A day at the beach' in the Middle Stone Age
On a rugged, remote stretch of coast east of Stilbaai in the Southern Cape, palaeoscientists Charles Helm and Jan de Vynck have discovered a rock believed to contain one of the oldest examples of our human ancestors drawing symbolic expressions in the sand. This important find was about to fall into…
Join the Conversation: Namibia wants climate financing to see results!
Namibia is one of the climate change vulnerability hotspots in the Southern African region. Adaptation is of primary importance to the country and high on the government's agenda to guarantee the welfare of Namibia's people while reducing risks and building resilience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Corion's 'best ideas' money managers beating market, Vintcent adds Kaap Agri to outperforming portfolio
Innovative Corion Prime Equity unit trust keeps delivering the goods with the fund, and the best ideas of its four external fund managers, comfortably beating their benchmark this year. Corion's hand-picked money managers remain bullish about South African shares, believing them to have fully discounted all of the bad news…
Join the Conversation: Should developed nations compensate developing nations for loss sustained owing to the climate crisis?
At this African COP for the first time since the adoption of the UN climate Convention parties have agreed to introduce loss and damage funding as an agenda item at the climate conference. The bottom line is that developing nations want to be compensated for the loss and damage inflicted…
Join the Conversation: Farmers need to produce more with less on less
This year's climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt sees four pavilions dedicated to food and farming. Theo de Jager former President of The World Farmers’ Organisation says every farmer knows what he or she can do better on their farms. Farmers need to produce more with less on less…
Elimination of CO2 is a suicide pact – Professor William Happer on climate change misconceptions and hysteria
It’s safe to assume no one consciously sets out to challenge a narrative as deeply entrenched and emotionally charged as climate change. Dr William Happer, an American physicist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, certainly didn’t. It was only in 1991, upon Happer’s appointment by…
The Gupta's dairy project could come back to kick Zwane in the teeth
Mosebenzi Zwane is one of 16 accused in the state’s case against a coterie of Gupta acolytes and hangers-on. It’s the state versus seven individuals and nine companies. Among them, the former MEC (also former minister) Zwane, the former head of department Peter Thabethe, the former CFO Seipati Dhlamini, and…
Sun comes out in October after September's nightmare - Corion Capital’s David Bacher on keeping a cool head
September’s Corion Report was aptly titled ‘A Nightmare on All Streets’ after record market downturns, the report did however end on a high note, with the cheery notion that the ‘sun will come out tomorrow’ and it did exactly that in October. The Dow Jones rebounded with returns of 14%,…
Trucking industry having a torrid time as diesel costs continue to spike
An overall feeling of dismay is probably the best way to describe how transport operators are processing the latest diesel price hike on Wednesday. While petrol increased by 51c/l, it's the continuing hike in diesel - this month by R1.40/l - that will be straining the economic lifeblood of our…
‘The great pandemic fraud’ – bioterrorism expert and internist Dr Meryl Nass draws parallels between the Ebola, anthrax, and Covid-19 epidemics
As far back as March 2020, Dr Meryl Nass, a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and anthrax expert, proposed that the pathogen we know today as “SARS-CoV-2” was likely made in the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab. BizNews spoke to Nass to discuss the basis of her lab…
All you ever wanted to know about Crypto but were too shy to ask
Alec Hogg of BizNews is joined by country head of Luno, Christo de Wit, and Ashleigh Hale, co-head of Corporate at Bowmans in the first episode of this four-part series which demystifies the complicated world of crypto currencies, what exactly they are, their various utilities and how to get involved…