This section houses interviews conducted by Biznews, both video and audio, and other interesting inputs sourced from Third Parties.
The chicken business in South Africa is a big business. It’s also a tough business, dominated by huge players like KFC on the chicken side and Nando’s on the peri-peri side. So finding a niche is not an easy thing to do. However, Taste Holdings is confident that with its newest deal, the R17m … Read more
Mauritius has been one of the unsung success stories in Africa for many years. While everyone has been swooning over the size and growth of Nigeria, and the oil explosion in Angola, Mauritius has been swooping along below the radar, building the beginnings of a truly competitive, skills- and knowledge-based economy. According to Afsar … Read more
Being the main opposition party in South Africa must be a depressing business. You go out there, you try, and you never seem to make any real headway against the behemoth that is the ANC. The whole thing brings to mind the aphorism about performing a certain bodily function in opposition to a stiff … Read more
A strike is meant to be the final attempt by labour to force employers to agree to its demands. So what happens when your strike is not going to have any impact on the operations of the business? Why bother? Those are the questions pilots at SAA’s low cost Mango Airline need to be asking … Read more
Vigorous, respectful debate is stimulating. And that’s what we got in this interview with Investec Asset Management’s Peter Kent who follows the party line on currencies – which is why desk jockeys in London and New York are apparently targeting Emerging Nations, including SA. It’s not fair, I countered, but then again neither is life. … Read more
When newspaper headlines scream about violent protests, the South African rand keeps tumbling and skilled professionals, like engineers and accountants, continue to trickle out of the country, it is easy to feel pessimistic about the future. Zimbabweans are likely to feel similar when they ponder their fate in the hands of Africa’s oldest head of … Read more
The sharp disparity between rich and poor remains an embarrassing blight on the South African landscape. Shanty towns continue to mushroom on the periphery of towns and cities while some live in suburbs behind high-tech security in comfortable homes. Politics has failed to address the daily hardship faced by most South Africans, so how do … Read more
Journalism is an interesting business. It is simultaneously a profit-making enterprise and a crucial support structure for democratic governance. Journalists seek to please audiences, but their salaries are paid by advertisers and they answer to owners who are sometimes subjects of the stories they write. All in all, it’s an awkward business, as the recent … Read more
Let it never be said that mergers and acquisitions are boring, not when there are deals like Chilean-based CFR Pharmaceuticals’ dramatic and controversial bid for South African pharmaceutical company Adcock Ingram going down. As you may know, the mooted deal has been floundering because the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which holds 18.9% of Adcock’s stock, … Read more
There’s a lot going on at the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s (Numsa) special conference in Boksburg. The conference has attracted a lot of attention since it’s being held to address some of the contentious issues facing organised labour in South Africa, such as the emergence of new, often more aggressive groups like … Read more