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Community policing activist Ian Cameron - who heads up NGO Action Society - made headlines when cops ejected him from a community meeting in Gugulethu after a war of words with Police Minister Bheki Cele. Cameron told BizNews he was the 13th speaker at the event, where he proceeded to tell the minister about the reality of crime and gender-based violence in the area. Cameron said: “I’m tired of the excuses and I’m tired of you making this a political thing. I want to graciously invite you to come and patrol without a bodyguard, without a grand car, in normal clothes with this community tonight to get the sewage on your shoes that they patrol through.” The minister warned Cameron not to provoke him. “You regard me as a garden boy,” Cele said. When Cameron stood to defend himself from the racial assertion, Cele yelled at him to, “Shut up” several times and sit down. “It’s your turn to listen, young man, or get out,” shouted Cele. Cameron will be laying a complaint with the Independent Police Investigative Directorate regarding police conduct, as well as criminal charges against officers who attempted to assault him.

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Hot on the heals of the recent BRICS summit we gather top experts to unpack South Africa’s membership of BRICS with a keen focus on economic opportunities for our own development as well as for the rest of the African continent. Busi Mabuza, chairperson of the South Africa chapter of the BRICS Business Council, Ziaad Suleman, Chair of the South Africa BRICS Business Council Digital Economy Work Group and Leslie Maasdorp, vice-president and Chief Financial Officer of the New Development Bank share exclusive insights into how best to leverage SA’s position in BRICS.

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This morning's briefing looks at the overnight market movers – tech stocks surge in New York following tough session on the JSE. The show also features excerpts from interviews with David Bacher of Corion Capital on recognising the value on offer in markets now, in spite of the worst first half of shares since 1970; and the DA’s two-pronged approach to ending ANC cadre deployment.

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Renewable power generation costs have fallen sharply over the past decade, driven by steadily improving technologies, economies of scale, competitive supply chains and improving developer experience. Thiago Almeida, Sector Lead: Power and Infrastructure at Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking spoke to Bronwyn Nielsen about the appetite from commercial banks to finance increased demands, and the interest from most African countries in deploying renewable energies, as well as the lack of required collaboration between the private and public sectors on this matter.

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BizNews founder Alec Hogg held a webinar with OrbVest's Martin Freeman and Justin Clarke. OrbVest, established almost a decade ago, sources, acquires and manages stable, profitable medical commercial real estate in fast-growing states and cities across the USA. This webinar presented some special offerings.

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Rural KZN lad Brett Gehren and his wife Paige have established a portfolio of four luxury resorts, Isibindi Africa, which has come through the Covid-19 challenge stronger than before. In this interview with BizNews’s Alec Hogg, Gehren shares his own path from hosting game drives to owning four exclusive tourist havens based in some of the wildest parts of Southern Africa. The secret, he says, is establishing partnerships with local communities, creating a virtual cycle built on four-star prices, five-star accommodation in six-star locations. With a permanent 30% discount for South Africans.

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In this morning's episode of the BizNews Breakfast Briefing, there's some cheering for investors. The US markets were closed for Independence Day overnight, but locally the JSE posted a strong session, the Rand was steady and Bitcoin broke back above the key $20 000 level. Also, highlights from the team's interviews with Wayne Duvenage of OUTA and the inimitable political scientist RW Johnson.

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After being underweight stocks, and US shares in particular, Corion Capital’s David Bacher says investors should act like the proverbial Man From Mars and recognize the value now on offer. In reviewing the monthly Corion Report, which unpacks market and fund performance of the past month, Bacher says his firm had moved back to neutral weighting and from a focus on South Africa to offshore.

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Serial entrepreneur Adrian Gardiner is at his happiest relaxing at the 500ha centre-piece he retained when selling the world famous Shamwari Game Reserve to Dubai World. BizNews founder Alec Hogg travelled to the Eastern Cape to spend time with the 79-year-old dynamo whose dream of returning his adopted province’s rural area into Big Five bush, has turned large swathes of it into a global tourist haven. Inside his luxury a rail carriage now permanently parked in the place where it all began, Gardiner shares the story of how an industry was born.

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Prolific author, columnist and revered academic RW Johnson is known among fans and foes as a Rhodes scholar who became an Oxford Don and, since returning to SA in 1995, outspoken critic of the ANC. This interview, however, digs deeper into what makes him tick, exposing much more about BNC#4's opening speaker. Including Johnson’s extremely humble roots, fiercely anti-Apartheid past (and present) and the real reason he continues to challenge taboos, attack convention and speak uncomfortable truths to power. He spoke to BizNews founder Alec Hogg, who will host him for that keynote in the Drakensberg at the Aug 30-Sept 2 gathering.

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