Interviews

Director’s Cut: Foot-and-mouth fallout – Athol Trollip warns of zero income and food insecurity
By
Alec Hogg
4 min read
Athol Trollip outlines how foot-and-mouth disease has crushed production, frozen incomes and exposed deep failures inside the Department of Agriculture.
Director’s Cut: Iran on a knife edge - Dr Iraj Abedian on killings, SA silence and Trump's gamble
By
Alec Hogg
4 min read
Economist Iraj Abedian warns that Iran has entered a violent endgame as South Africa’s silence and global inaction fuel a deepening humanitarian crisis.
Miningweb Weekly: Mining’s surge, gold’s pause and the stocks investors are chasing now
By
Alec Hogg
4 min read
From copper overtaking gold to PGMs roaring back, Peter Major unpacks the forces driving mining’s global outperformance.
Wayne Sussman - The 2026 battles facing SA’s political parties - and leaders
By
Chris Steyn
10 min read
Wayne Sussman analyses South Africa’s by-election trends, MK Party impact, ANC decline, DA challenges, and surprises ahead in.
Prof Theo Venter - 2026: Trump, the ANC, the GNU, AfriForum and Solidarity…
By
Chris Steyn
14 min read
Professor Theo Venter analyses 2026 geopolitics, US power, multilateralism’s decline, and South Africa’s foreign policy dilemmas ahead globally.
Director’s Cut: Foot-and-Mouth crisis - Why SA’s livestock industry is on the brink
By
Alec Hogg
4 min read
Farmers and vets warn that state control of vaccines is worsening South Africa’s foot-and-mouth outbreak and threatening food security.
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