Transnet Acting CEO Siyabonga Gama tells Tim Modise that Black Economic Empowerment is an imperative for the growth and future of South Africa’s economy. He says the R30 billion loan from China is going to be used to build locomotives that will generate 55 000 new jobs. He says Transnet paid “school fees’ of more than R 6 bn when building the Oil Pipeline to Gauteng.

Julius Malema says the compromises at the CODESA talks set the economic empowerment of black South Africans back in the rush to obtain political freedom. He says the state is competent enough to run national banks and mining companies, citing China as an example. He says the DA’s Mmusi Maimane and himself represent a generational change of political leadership, and that President Jacob Zuma suffers from a poverty of ideas.

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The South African contingent among the WEF's Young Global Leaders programme has some auspicious graduates, JSE chief executive Nicky Newton King, global social entrepreneur Taddy Blacher and sought-after analyst Martyn Davies among them. The latest intake includes Hanneli Rupert, scion of SA's most powerful business family. As you'll hear in this interview, Rupert is following in the entrepreneurial footsteps of grandfather Anton and father Johann - with a little millennial spice.

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Alec Hogg speaks to the founder of Springage Raelene Rorke, discussing her career from the early days in Umtata to being a part of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers program.

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For over a decade, I've had the privilege of sharing the same WEF-week Davos hotel with a team from Deloitte. That provided a fast track to the firm's global leaders, including super-smart Gary Coleman who has shared many insights over the years on the way he sees the business world moving. Coleman is at WEF Africa this week and in this fascinating interview shares some thoughts on how disruption engulfing the world gives Africa an opportunity to leapfrog.

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Ms Portia Molefe on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in West Africa by Biznews.com

President of the Progressive Professionals Forum Jimmy Manyi tells Tim Modise that private sector corruption is much worse than what is happening in the public sector through initiatives like ‘transfer pricing’ and that the media is colluding in its silence. He goes on to say that corporate South Africa is reluctant to transform and must be compelled to change through tougher legislation, while the Democratic Alliance will not transform except to elect Mmusi Maimane to help protect white privilege.

Alec Hogg speaks to General George Casey, former U.S. army chief of staff, about managing an organisation the size of Walmart and bringing the lessons learnt in war back to the boardroom.

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Andre Wegner of Singularity University talks 3D printing with Alec Hogg by Biznews.com

Eugene Booysen is one of a new breed of bankers, a group who realise that the industry needs to transform dramatically to remain relevant. His Damascene Conversion came after attending Singularity University in Silicon Valley: "I left SA as Eugene and returned as Newgene." As head of innovation at Barclays Africa he has the challenge of driving new thinking into a 40 000 person enterprise that is full of corporate antibodies ready to attack any suggestion of change. He tells Alec Hogg how he's going about it.

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Ms Nolitha Fakude, Executive Vice President of Sasol, tells Tim Modise that the business community must adopt an enlightened self interest and support initiatives that counter xenophobia. She also say the pace of women empowerment in the workplace is slow due to weak political will in the government and business sectors to drive transformation aggressively.

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John Hagel: even banks can change by Biznews.com

Stephen van Coller on creating businesses today the youngsters want to manage later by Biznews.com

Katlehong athlete Alfred Motaung tells Marika Sboros why he is preparing to run his 14th Comrades, the world's oldest and largest marathon, this year on the Banting (low-carb, high-fat) diet.

Alec Hogg speaks Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with Hod Lipson, Singularity University by Biznews.com