Chris Steyn

Journalist at BizNews.com

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Articles

Ian Cameron: 10-Point plan to fight farm attacks

2 weeks ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has drawn up a 10-point plan to deal with farm attacks. In this interview with BizNews, Ian Cameron, the DA spokesperson on Police, says the plan will be submitted to the Minister of Police “and there's a lot of engagement ahead of us regarding rural safety”.
Helen Zille: How a Mayor Zille will rescue Jo’burg

2 weeks ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

The possibility of Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille as the next Mayor of Johannesburg has the country talking. In this interview with BizNews, Zille says although she has not yet made up her mind, she is “tending in the direction of doing so”. If she were to become Mayor, she says, her “only objective will be to restore service delivery and functionality” to Joburg. “And then Joburg will fly. It's got everything going for it. It's got every potential going for it.
Piet Croucamp: Ramaphosa fears Mantashe’s knock on the door…

3 weeks ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

The “embarrassment of being removed” is “foremost” in the thinking of President Cyril Ramaphosa. So says political analyst Piet Croucamp who deems the break between the president and African National Congress (ANC) Chair Gwede Mantashe as irreparable. “Mantashe was the person who knocked on Thabo Mbeki’s door to tell him that time is up - and he was the one who knocked on Jacob Zuma's door to tell him time is up.
Grant Abbott: Corruption, capture & victimisation of whistleblowers at SA universities

3 weeks ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

Bad governance involving collusion between councils and management is enabling corruption and capture at some of South Africa’s historic universities. That is the charge from National Tertiary Education Union Secretary General Grant Abbott who says: “We've coined the term, you use the Corruption Mafia and that's a very good term.
R33bn in pension funds squandered on high-risk, politically-driven investments

1 month ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

The business rescue of Daybreak - a poultry farm bought by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) in 2015 for R1.2 billion rand - is not the only horror story involving the irresponsible use of the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF). In this interview with BizNews, Zirk Gous, the spokesperson for the Association for Monitoring and Advocacy of Government Pensions (AMAGP), says: “…we need to act on 33 billion rands which are squandered in irresponsible political high-risk investments.
Squatter, sewage - and crime -crisis in the Cradle of Humankind

1 month ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

Hekpoort residents are in an epic battle to get the Mogale City Council to stop an influx of tens of thousands of apparently unemployed vagrants in the area. In this interview with BizNews, attorney Christopher Bean describes the drama surrounding the council’s building of 208 low-cost houses in an area where there was an invasion in 2019, and around which between 150 000 and 200,000 people are living in squatter camps without facilities.
Hermann Pretorius: Majority of ANC supporters oppose key ANC policies

1 month ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

African National Congress (ANC) policies are out of step with the majority - between 65 and 79% - of its remaining self-identified supporters. That is the finding of recent polling by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
(Ret) Col. Chris Wyatt: CR is taking the B, C, D team to America

1 month ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

All eyes will be on the meeting between presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday. In this interview with BizNews, US intelligence analyst retired Colonel Chris Wyatt slams the composition of Ramaphosa’s team. He says neither Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen nor International Relations Minister Ronnie Lamola is “that credible” in the United States’ eyes. “I think both of those are bad decisions that are going to backfire.
The Sunday show: Neil De Beer - The silence of the lambs in the cabinet of wolves

1 month ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

“…if the DA (Democratic Alliance) does not…get up and fight, no matter if it costs…the seats of power… if we are going on the trajectory we are today,… the loss of a country will be blamed, not on the ANC (African National Congress)…but because...of the Democratic Alliance not being now able to get up and freely defend us on a surgical basis like they previously had.” This is the warning from United Independent Movement (UIM) President Neil De Beer who says: “…you’ve got DA ministers sitting...
Wayne Sussman: “Stand-out” by-election night for the ANC - and a new leader emerges…

1 month ago | biznews.com | Chris Steyn

The African National Congress (ANC) had a strong by-election night last night. In this interview with BizNews, Election Analyst Wayne Sussman says it was “either their second-best night or you could say equal their best night since 2024.” In Soweto, they had “resolute” support - despite uMkhonto weSizwe’s (MKP) Floyd Shivambo and Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) campaigning there.