Peter Bruce

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Peter Bruce

Peter Bruce was editor-at-large at Arena Holdings (formerly Tiso Blackstar) and editor-in-chief of Business Day, Financial Mail and ABC, the broadcaster of the Business Day TV, Home Channel and Ignition channels. He was editor of Business Day from 2001 until August 2012. His previous roles include editor: Financial Mail; editor: Business Report; UK news editor: Financial Times; and Madrid correspondent, Bonn correspondent, industrial correspondent: Financial Times. He describes himself as a media junkie, a die-hard Proteas and Springbok fan and a hopeless Sharks supporter.

President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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WATCH: Cyril picks a number, any number …

President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates at the 6th South African Investment Conference on Tuesday that he plans to raise R2-trillion in new fixed investment over the next three…

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis joined DA supporters and residents in protest against Eskom’s proposed tariff hikes.
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WATCH: ‘You have to get your hand on the steering wheel of state’

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, the frontrunner in the DA leadership race, says that for the party to grow, it will need the votes of people who have never voted for it before.

Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi.
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WATCH: Stuck in the 1980s, has the ANC found the perfect adversary in Donald Trump?

Songezo Zibi, leader of Rise Mzansi and chair of the standing committee on public accounts in parliament, tells Peter Bruce that the ANC and US President Donald Trump might have…

Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen has no option but to import foot-and-mouth disease vaccines through a centralised operation, says agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo.
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PODCAST: Steenhuisen is just following the vaccine rules

Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen is compelled to import foot-and-mouth disease vaccines centrally, following the World Organisation for Animal Health’s regulations, despite…

The DA says residents queue at water tankers while money that should have been directed to repairing broken infrastructure was moved to cater for 'general financial obligations'. Stock photo.
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WATCH: Why imports don’t explain our decline

Peter Bruce talks to XA Global Trade Advisors MD Donald Mackay

Former DA leader Tony Leon told potential voters in Eldorado Park that the current system of black economic empowerment (BEE) was a 'scam' that benefited only a select few.
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Amateur hour in South African diplomacy?

Peter Bruce talks to former DA leader Tony Leon

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers closing remarks during the G20 leaders’ summit at Nasrec, Joburg.
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Fantastic summit, but sadly no consensus

Peter Bruce argues, in this Podcasts from the Edge monologue, that while the G20 leaders’ summit in Johannesburg at the weekend went well, President Cyril Ramaphosa, was unable…

The JSE. Picture: 123RF/MICHAEL TURNER
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WATCH: Are we turning the economic corner or still getting to the corner?

Peter Bruce talks to Ann Bernstein, head of the Centre for Development and Enterprise

Luthuli House, the ANC's offices in Johannesburg.
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PODCAST: Renewal? Seriously? How does the ANC cook with rotten eggs?

Veteran ANC leader Mathews Phosa, a former ANC treasurer-general and Mpumalanga premier, tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that he doesn’t take talk of…

With Sasol set to cut supplies by 2030, the country faces a race to build LNG infrastructure and avoid a looming gas cliff.
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Industrial users urge state to step on the gas and avoid a looming crisis

Peter Bruce talks to Jaco Human, CEO of the Industrial Gas Users Association of South Africa

Paul Mashatile
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Why Paul Mashatile should never be president

Peter Bruce talks to journalist and author Pieter du Toit in this episode of Podcasts from the Edge

Time now to reopen our embassy in Tel Aviv?

Peter Bruce talks to Freedom Front Plus leader Corne Mulder in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge

Can Cyril get a US trade deal over the line?

Peter Bruce talks to Phillip van Niekerk, former South African newspaper editor in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge

PODCAST: Jumping Jack Flash just wants gas gas gas

Peter Bruce talks to energy analyst Chris Yelland

People, we’re tired

Peter Bruce talks to South African researcher, author and analyst Prof Richard Calland in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge.

PODCAST: When a trillion rand might not be enough

President Cyril Ramaphosa said recently the State would spend more than a trillion rand over the next three years on building and repairing infrastructure.

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PODCAST: Why Enoch and the Treasury are fair game

There’ve been voices raised around the failure, twice, of finance minister Enoch Godongwana to pass a 2025 budget through parliament, each time trying in vain to slip in a VAT…

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Don’t do it

If he were a young Afrikaner, former Gauging Premier Mbhazima Shilowa tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge, he wouldn’t take up Donald Trump’s offer of…

Eskom Group board chair Mteto Nyati.
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PODCAST: "We need leadership and discipline"

Eskom Chairman Mteto Nyati tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that South African’s crisis is about a lack of leadership.

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PODCAST: So what?

Former DA leader Tony Leon tells Peter Bruce that with Trump in the White House, South Africa should not expect the next few years to be a walk in the park