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Until his acquisition ten years ago of the South African assets of Irish Group Independent Media, Iqbal Survé was best known as the entrepreneur who had created the successful JSE-listed empowerment group Sekunjalo. Media ownership, however, has turned his reputation on its head. Even though Survé says the media business is only 3% of his group's assets, it delivers 99% of the reputational headaches. In this in-depth interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews, Survé gives his side of a story that has taken on a life of its own - explaining why he is ready to hand over the baton of South Africa's leading newspaper group.

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Bronwyn Nielsen speaks to SA Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana who is leading team SA at the 2023 WEF in Davos. Godongwana says team SA is being warmly received. Godongwana explains how there are four critical things to be done to put loadshedding in the past.

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Standard Bank chair Nonkululeko Nyembezi says "Africa is our play, we want to gather support for Africa. The key issues we are keenly following in Davos with regards to the African Continent are growth, climate change and the enormous opportunities that surround The African Continental Free Trade Area."

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Brown Nielsen speaks to Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank about the state of the country's economy which he says is, despite its issues and historical vulnerability, quite resilient.

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There has been a massive uptick in applications to study abroad and overseas universities are getting hundreds of thousands of applications. That is according to Brent Morris, managing director: Study Abroad of Sable International. Morris told BizNews that parents, and students who are thinking of studying elsewhere, should however not panic and advised parents not to overload their offspring with additional programmes. He said it was a lot simpler than you would think to get South African students into overseas universities. South Africans are popular because of the diversity they provide and Sable International has a 99% success rate with students they put forward. They don’t charge students for the service. – Linda van Tilburg

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A grateful nation will always be indebted to South Africa's former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, whose whistleblowing proved the catalyst that turned the tide against the Gupta-plundering Zuma Administration. He started the Zupta collapse by rejecting the now fugitive Indian family's massive offer to join the dark side - and then despite huge personal risk, going public with the details. Now chairman of the R250bn mobile phone business MTN, Jonas is at the WEF meeting in Davos. He shared his thoughts with on how South Africa can be pulled out of its current quagmire providing some clear insights into what's wrong with the political system and how to fix it. Jonas spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews.

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MultiChoice CEO Imtiaz Patel shares insights on why he values attending The World Economic Forum as a Business Leader. An interesting discussion on the value of knowledge and why no expense should be shared as we navigate the highly unpredictable world we live in.

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Professor Zeblon Vilakazi saysThe World Economic Forum was started by Professor Klaus Schwab as an academic to collate different views on the future. Zeblon will be attending the Expert Forum on Higher Education a think tank focused on jobs and the economy of the future, themes every parent with young children desperately wants some insight into.

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Reporting from the annual WEF meeting in Davos, BizNews founder Alec Hogg provides a wrap of the day as he prepares to attend the first round of discussions. Under the theme of “Cooperation in a Fragmented World,” this year’s event will focus on solution-driven discussions on topics deemed to present the most pressing issues facing the world today. Of these, the cost of living crisis is at the top of the agenda.

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Cape Town-based professional photographer Greg Beadle is one of the ultimate insiders at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting - a man whose badge that gets him into literally every meeting room in the Davos confab. In this fascinating inerview, Beadle shares his insights of the event and its true purpose with another long-time WEF attendee, fellow Saffer Alec Hogg of BizNews.com

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