{"podcast":{"title":"BizNews Radio","slug":"biznews-radio-9869","podcast_index_feed_id":9869,"rss_url":"https://iono.fm/rss/chan/4829","website_url":"https://www.biznews.com/","image_url":"https://cdn.iono.fm/files/p1500/logo_8218_20250908_210546_1400.jpeg","author":"BizNews","episode_count":150,"summary":"Welcome to BizNews Radio where we interview top thought leaders and business people from South Africa and across the globe.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T14:17:58.745315+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/biznews-radio-9869"},"episode":{"title":"BizNews Edge: Whistleblowing FMD-hit farmer Pete Kean; DA staggers, BUSA exits","slug":"biznews-edge-whistleblowing-fmd-hit-farmer-pete-kean-da-staggers-busa-exits","published_at":"2026-07-02T14:16:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/biznews-radio-9869/biznews-edge-whistleblowing-fmd-hit-farmer-pete-kean-da-staggers-busa-exits","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/biznews-radio-9869","url":"https://iono.fm/e/1691869","audio_url":"https://dl.iono.fm/epi/prov_1500/epi_1691869_medium.m4a?p=rss","summary":"Six months ago, KwaZulu-Natal farmer Pete Keene came to BizNews with a warning nobody wanted to hear. His herd was a hundred percent infected with foot and mouth disease, the government's response had a zero percent chance of working, and the law wouldn't even let him reach for a needle and syringe. Today, a lot has changed on paper — the High Court struck down that law, the minister who defended it has been removed — but Pete's message is stark: the fire is still burning, and the real cost, a calving rate that crashed from ninety to thirty percent, won't fully show up until 2032. He never asked for a bailout. He asked to be heard. Also today: Johan Rupert sits on a R100bn cash pile after the cleanest exit in Remgro's history; the DA leads the ANC in by-elections nationally for the first time, then detonates a credibility bomb in the same week; and Business Unity SA walks away from the UIF after six years of being ignored.","meta_description":"Six months ago, KwaZulu-Natal farmer Pete Keene came to BizNews with a warning nobody wanted to hear. His herd was a hundred percent infected with foot an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1981,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/biznews-radio-9869/episodes/biznews-edge-whistleblowing-fmd-hit-farmer-pete-kean-da-staggers-busa-exits/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/biznews-radio-9869/biznews-edge-whistleblowing-fmd-hit-farmer-pete-kean-da-staggers-busa-exits.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}