Best of 2025: The top 30 best-read stories on BizNews

From political shocks and market shake-ups to investigative breakthroughs and standout interviews, these were the 30 stories that captured the BizNews tribe in 2025. Our most-read articles of the year reveal what gripped South Africans most — the moments that informed, challenged and energised the national conversation.Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Register here.Support South Africa’s bastion of independent journalism, offering balanced insights on investments, business, and the political economy, by joining BizNews Premium. Register here.If you prefer WhatsApp for updates, sign up to the BizNews channel here..BizNews Reporter.30.Newly named 444-million-year-old marine fossil found in SA is one-of-a-kind.29.Andrew Kenny: Why Rwanda’s Kagame is the most dangerous man in the world.28.Leaked DA document exposes rift in GNU over Budget 2025, VAT hike and ANC power-sharing.27.Magnus Heystek: Hersov & other voices, EWC & clients wanting their money out of SA.26."The Elders" and South Africa’s NHI: Idealism meets governance reality - Corrigan.25.Magnus Heystek – Onshore v Offshore in the past decade. No contest..24.Richard Wilkinson: School Capture - The ludicrous persecution of the Pretoria Girls High principal.23.Rob Hersov: South Africa is uninvestable under the ANC.22.Best of 2024: Massive fraud devastates scores of Standard Bank clients – Horror stories revisited.21.South Africa’s Rand breaks 8-Year streak to lead emerging markets.20.De Beer: Implosion of race hate as SA hits tipping point after Trump’s “dynamite bomb”.19.Expropriation Act: Why its critics are right to be concerned.18.Bullet train to nowhere: Limpopo rail plan is a costly vanity project - Ivo Vegter.17.Driefontein EWC dispute signals danger for property rights in SA: Corrigan.16.Musk wants to launch rockets from the Western Cape - John Matisonn.15.Paul O’Sullivan joins dots, drops bombshell: “Here’s your proof - Mkhwanazi a crook, Trollip a liar”.14.New dinosaur tracks discovered in the Western Cape.13.Magnus Heystek: Please Sir, can we have another R1 million?.12.The 10 biggest retirement mistakes to avoid.11.A persistent falsity on land ownership reporting in South Africa - Jaco Lochner.10.The looming reality of a wealth tax in South Africa.9.Tim Flack: How over 100 Gazans quietly flew to SA, and how the story was twisted online.8.Magnus Heystek: How the ANC destroyed the SA economy – and your wealth – in 15 years.7.MAILBOX – A small (KZN) dairy farmer shares Uber Truths in open letter to Steenhuisen.6.Wanatu: Afrikaans Uber rival launches in South Africa.5.EED over BEE: A smarter path to true economic empowerment.4.What my R23 000 dinner in London taught me: Magnus Heystek.3.Magnus Heystek reports from Europe: SA has fallen off the global investing radar.2.Magnus Heystek: Expropriation without Compensation – what investors should do.1.Eskom declares unregistered solar systems illegal, imposes fees

Best of 2025: The top 30 best-read stories on BizNews

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