The feed
A live stream of standout moments from South African radio — a punchy quote, a sharp exchange, a revealing admission — picked as they air and posted with the audio. Press play; no sign-up needed.
On 702, a speaker argues that South Africans of all races feel betrayed by the political elite, citing white Capetonians pushed to the city's outskirts.
“But have you noticed that all South Africans, black and white, are saying that this country has not served me? I don't know if you are watching. Yeah, I'm with you. White South Africans in Cape Town are saying,”
Aubrey Masango tells listeners an angry SMS misread him: he says leaders who belittle voters as uneducated are demeaning the people who elected them.
“I'm saying that black leadership hates black people.”
The story so far
2 moments on 702
Yesterday 23:12702This one
Aubrey Masango: black leadership hates black people, not the reverse
A book author tells Cape Talk that AI-induced stupidity arises because AI amplifies whatever habits users already have, polishing laziness.
“How to put guardrails around this technology. So I always give that example of a car that when it started, it is not what it is now.”
A guest on 702 argues Biden and Harris ignored their base while Trump, an outsider, tapped resentment of the Washington elite over fuel and grocery prices.
“That even when Biden and then came in in 2020, they ignored the people that put them there. So the issues of the Black Lives Matter movement took a back, you know, took a backstep to the issues they wanted to do in…”
An MK Party representative on Kaya 959 says ANC and DA coalition talks predated the May 2024 elections, so Zuma stayed away from the meeting.
“Leadership team. You also do have a party where your president has a lot of powers according to your constitution.”
Laughter on air
A Corder Report host says black Johannesburg voters privately admit they dislike the DA but will vote for it to get basic service delivery.
“Confession, which is: I hate the DA and I hate what they stand for, but I want basic service delivery competence in my city. And I believe the DA is the best place to do that.”
The Corder Report hosts explain Casper stands for the police and the CSIR, and the Kentridge artwork 'Casper's Full of Love' mocks apartheid-era radio greetings.
“Casper, the vehicle. Yes, the military vehicle used by the apartheid state to crush dissent and fight other countries at our border.”
On Cape Talk, a host and guest discuss men hiding emotional pain, the critique that men built oppressive systems, and unresolved childhood wounds.
“Maybe you find yourself in a situation where you can't. You simply can't cope, but you dare not express that because the expectation is that you must be a man. You must be in control.”
Laughter on air
A BizNews commentator says the Freedom Front Plus is not a scary right-wing party and that some black voters are backing it too.
“This group of Afrikaners have got friends in there, you know what I'm saying, who love to be of this country. They're not out there to say, let's exit or let's break up Slovakia.”
A political commentator says South Africa should not celebrate Trump's midterm loss and must lobby harder as AGOA removal hits citrus, cars and wine.
“We sent a reasonably well-mannered man to go and represent South Africa as ambassador to the USA. I think that we should give him the chance. We should not work against him. So it's not time to celebrate Trump losing.”
The story so far
2 moments on BizNews Radio
Wed 4 Nov, 15:39BizNews Radio
Sarderson-Mayer: Trump's midterm hammering doesn't ease pressure on SAYesterday 18:30BizNews RadioThis one
Commentator: removing AGOA is collective punishment of South Africa
A BizNews commentator says ActionSA's Herman Mashaba is well-intentioned but should set aside personal anger at Helen Zille to help Johannesburg.
“Sole, I can't see him and Helen Zille coming to an agreement. What do you think? Look, I like Mashaba as a person. I think his intentions are well.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Yesterday 15:24SAfm
ActionSA will talk to any party, but sets coalition conditionsYesterday 18:12BizNews RadioThis one
Commentator urges Mashaba to bury anger at Zille for Joburg's sake
A guest on 702 says lessons from the 2024 national coalition show partners ignore agreements and chase portfolios, paying lip service to values.
“For a start I found that many coalition partners in South Africa don't read the coalition agreement.”
ActionSA national chairperson Michael Beaumont says voters are rejecting the same parties and urges that failing parties, including his own, be kicked out.
“But where I think we must celebrate as a country is we're moving to an era of performance-based voting.”
Former DA leader Tony Leon says the DA could invoke the ANC's 2024 'largest party leads' formula for metro mayoralties, a high-stakes game of chicken.
“Are entitled to the mayoralty in the places where we got the most votes. Now, the ANC can say, well, you know, what worked two years ago for us doesn't work for you two years later. And then what's the DA going to do?”
Independent economist Stephen Mancho reacts to South Africa's removal from AGOA on Power FM, claiming it targets black economic participation.
“Africa's participation in AGOA talking to Stephen Mancho, who's an independent economist. Immediate reaction: number of reasons why we've been longing for it. Longing for it.”
The story so far
2 moments on Power FM
Yesterday 03:46Power FM
South Africa and Rwanda kicked out of AGOA, host sarcastically thanks lobbyistsYesterday 14:34Power FMThis one
Economist: AGOA exclusion tells South Africa 'being black is a crime'
Premium Reward Advisors' Dr Mark Busen says executive bonuses amid falling profits must be justified by beating peers.
“Should company executives still receive substantial bonuses when profits are falling, shareholders losing money, and employees facing retrenchments?”
On 702, a philosophy lecturer explains that people hold conflicting beliefs by describing the part wanting to lose weight and the part wanting cake.
“There's a part of you that wants to eat that piece of cake that you see in front of you right now. So we're battling these various parts of ourselves. As in the two truths that can exist at”
Laughter on air
On 702, Azania Mosaka says anyone who can afford a Bentley or G-Wagon should fix the bumps, and listeners add their own assumptions.
“And those are people that drive really expensive cars that have bumps in them or scratches or missing taillights. And I'm not talking just normal cars, I'm talking about your Bentleys, your BMWs.”
Laughter on air
A Cape Talk guest compares the ANC's slide to India's Congress Party and says coalitions will now be the norm at every level of government.
“That was about to become a governing party. How do you interpret its decline? You know, it's probably in a certain way not that strange.”
Crowd moment
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Yesterday 12:55Cape TalkThis one
Negotiator: ANC decline mirrors India's Congress, one-party rule is over
Yesterday 20:17Kaya 959
Analyst: ANC and its offshoots fall below 50% for first time
A Power FM panel argues many black South Africans outsource political participation, citing a community that fixes a church but not a clinic.
“Instead of stupid, I believe we've got politically illiterate South Africans, especially black people. You see, ours is a”
A KZN professor tells Cape Talk local government rot set in after the first decade of democracy and urges meritocracy.
“They provided basic services and they were quite responsible as municipal functionaries. Now, at that stage, we can say in the first decade of democracy, the municipal functionaries, in other words, the officials, the…”
On 947, Mo Flava weighs a listener's dilemma over a Christmas 'biggest borrower' award that upset her unemployed cousin, and advises an apology.
“Okay, so it's time for the daily dilemma. A tricky life situation that you're dealing with, you know, we always want to hear about it and you can obviously get some perspective and see how you are going to play your…”
A Freedom Front Plus spokesperson tells SAfm coalitions fail because parties haggle over posts in two weeks; the new bill allows a month.
“Coalition that will work on the principles that we say a municipality should put forward: merit, rule of law, consequence management, and so forth, and then work with certain parties that do not stand for those values…”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Wed 4 Nov, 20:27Kaya 959
Coalition bill: two weeks to govern is absurd, Germany takes monthsYesterday 10:56SAfmThis one
FF Plus: negotiate a governing programme first, not positions in 14 days
After Republican midterm losses, Trump says he would repeat the Iran war, while JD Vance blames the war, costs and Israel ties, a 702 host relays.
“The war in Iran. Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short term, and probably that's probably true.”
Crowd moment
A Durban caller who skipped the vote says his ballots never changed anything; the host replies that abstaining also shapes governance.
“Secondly, I so wish that a coalition does not happen in Durban. Because for myself, I grew up in the 80s.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Wed 4 Nov, 18:10Kaya 959
Ex-statistician: non-voters are SA's biggest political partyYesterday 08:44SAfmThis one
Durban caller gave up on voting; host says not voting is still a choice
947 hosts banter about firstborn energy, curfews and the thirdborn sent down the hill in a beer box first.
“Really, do that. You are correct. But your sister gives firstborn energy. No, my sister moans about my firstborn energy all the time. Right.”
Columnist William Saunderson-Meyer says polling shows ANC voters link the party to corruption, yet true believers keep voting for it.
“You know, if you look at the polling that gets done, and 53% of ANC voters associate it with corruption, more than half of them say that it doesn't care about the poor, actually, less than that.”
DA's Cilliers Brink tells BizNews he doubts voters want a DA-ANC metro coalition, citing patronage networks and the ANC's diminished brand.
“The DA Cilliers Brink on why he doesn't see voters wanting a DA ANC coalition in the metros and what it would mean to sit at the table with the ANC and Twine. Check out biznews.com for more. That grand coalition.”
A Cape Talk caller says toddlers can swipe phones, and hosts warn screens and tablets in schools erode face-to-face learning and handwriting.
“And now, every second kid, and I'll see 18-month-olds sitting in my practice who can swipe and get rid of adverts. It's really quite alarming.”
Laughter on air
On 702's The Upside of Failure, Mo Flavor says missed auditions often reflect fit or timing, and urges not letting one audition define you.
“So I think the point is: you know, not getting that gig is viewed as a failure. And to some degree, that's how I saw it in the beginning when I was a lot younger in the industry.”
Laughter on air
A University of the Free State religion professor explains why religious teachings change, citing slavery, women's ordination and Jehovah's Witnesses.
“Because religions historically have changed positions throughout centuries. For example, the issue of slavery, the issue of racism.”
A Power FM tech guest says parties use AI for posters, not for interactive manifestos, and that a 94-year-old could ask a chatbot on WhatsApp.
“My advice to political parties is we first need to move away from having policies and manifestos as just a written document. They need to be live and interactive documents, right?”
A Power FM guest says SA's economy prizes making money over production and that unskilled would-be entrepreneurs fuel unemployment.
“First of all, our economy has been based on trying to make money rather than on production. That's why we've got so much unemployment. Why is China so successful?”
A Power FM guest argues Democrats have never respected international law, citing Libya, and says Trump is not worse than Obama or Clinton.
“On any scale with arms. And even some of these wars are because the arms manufacturers are pushing for them so they can sell arms and make profit and the US economy, by the way, the USA spends more on arms than the next…”
A Cape Talk panel on the 2016 girls' hair protests says Afro hair was labelled exotic at school while straight hair counted as native.
“In fact, the words that we used to refer to Afro-hair was that it was exotic hair and it was not allowed.”
A 702 guest explains writing Chef Rendani, a woman left at the altar who rebuilds her life through cooking, in Venda to showcase her culture.
“And then, right there at home, that is where she found herself. So, I just wanted to write a different story.”
A 702 caller argues politics is negotiation and parties refusing to talk to rivals expect outcomes to reflect immature convictions.
“I think Cooney is just as silly as Lizzie, okay, in that both of them expect a situation where political outcomes must reflect their immature convictions. Politics is about negotiation.”
An Aubrey Masango Show host says South Africa's free speech means visitors can address a handful of people and be tolerated.
“That's the power of this thing called South Africa: that idiots can just come here and say whatever they want to say. Yeah. Stand on lecterns where there's nobody there. There's just nobody there. We know.”
Panelists say compliance has become an end in itself, politicised administration and fear among competent staff undermine municipal performance.
“Uh, a municipality may achieve clean audit, as you have correctly put it out, while communities continue.”
The story so far
2 moments on Power FM
Wed 4 Nov, 20:18Power FM
R1.5bn spent on consultants across 225 municipalities, AG report findsWed 4 Nov, 22:43Power FMThis one
Clean audits don't fix water or roads, Power FM panel says
A Cape Talk host recommends Sylvester Stallone's memoir The Steps, describing his brutal childhood and fight to play Rocky Balboa.
“It. I finished it about six days ago, and I just think about it all the time. I think, what was it about? What points were being made here? What's it saying about history?”
A guest on The Aubrey Masango Show argues Africans gave up their own spirituality for tithing, yet some who tithe look down on sangomas.
“We lost our own magic. We started believing that we needed to go to a particular place or a landmark to get that magic. When we get there, we need to tithe. We need to be dressed in this particular uniform.”
A Kaya 959 guest draws on Zambian and Brazilian youth to urge South African young people to organise beyond the ballot after local elections.
“The reason I'm sharing this is because, in the conversation I was having with the Zambian youth, for example, they then said to me they had to spend time outside of the electoral system tracking reforms and political…”
A university spiritual support practitioner on 702 describes students from children's homes with no family, food packs that run out, and a system that fails them.
“Makes me think of a couple of my students because some of them don't even have a family background. Some of them come out of children's homes.”
Columnist William Saunderson-Meyer says South Africans endure scandals like a beaten donkey, with poor media coverage and a very short crisis shelf life.
“If we're numbed, we're a nation numbed.”
A Power FM panelist says some mayoral hopefuls can't explain a clean audit and will hire friends, while permit delays for farmers stretch past two years.
“And I think Kulagani, the reason why I took long to vote is mainly when you listen to these people who are supposed to be our mayors, some of them don't even understand what is the clean audit, what is the unqualified…”
After a caller said she skipped voting because she had no water, an SAfm host opens the line for reasons she should vote.
“There's still time for that lady to go and vote. But let's open it. Right, Keith? All right? Let's open it. Give me reasons, or give us reasons, or give that lady in particular reasons why she should vote.”
A Move Essay mayoral candidate says officials who fail to approve developments and return money to treasury will be fired, and housing must have services.
“Secondly, we want to make sure that there's good governance, so we'll fire the people that are not doing the job.”
The story so far
3 moments on 2 stations
Mon 2 Nov, 15:45BizNews Radio
Move Essay candidate: pay the R13bn owed to Joburg entrepreneurs firstMon 2 Nov, 15:47BizNews RadioThis one
Move Essay pledges to fire officials who return unspent housing money
Mon 2 Nov, 16:40702
How could Johannesburg grow its economy once basics are fixed?
An ATM candidate says crime in the CBD, drug dens and potholes show Johannesburg no longer works for its citizens, township or suburb.
“Joburg is said to be the world African-class city, and yet you can't even walk in Johannesburg CBD because it's not safe. I think that is telling, and it's the reality of our crisis in the city.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Mon 2 Nov, 15:43BizNews RadioThis one
ATM's Tzabalala: Joburg is unsafe and even suburbs now lack services
Mon 2 Nov, 17:51SMWX
ATM mayoral candidate: Joburg needs a firm mayor to take on criminal networksOn 702, a speaker argues that South Africans of all races feel betrayed by the political elite, citing white Capetonians pushed to the city's outskirts.
“But have you noticed that all South Africans, black and white, are saying that this country has not served me? I don't know if you are watching. Yeah, I'm with you. White South Africans in Cape Town are saying,”
Aubrey Masango tells listeners an angry SMS misread him: he says leaders who belittle voters as uneducated are demeaning the people who elected them.
“I'm saying that black leadership hates black people.”
The story so far
2 moments on 702
Yesterday 23:12702This one
Aubrey Masango: black leadership hates black people, not the reverse
A book author tells Cape Talk that AI-induced stupidity arises because AI amplifies whatever habits users already have, polishing laziness.
“How to put guardrails around this technology. So I always give that example of a car that when it started, it is not what it is now.”
A guest on 702 argues Biden and Harris ignored their base while Trump, an outsider, tapped resentment of the Washington elite over fuel and grocery prices.
“That even when Biden and then came in in 2020, they ignored the people that put them there. So the issues of the Black Lives Matter movement took a back, you know, took a backstep to the issues they wanted to do in…”
An MK Party representative on Kaya 959 says ANC and DA coalition talks predated the May 2024 elections, so Zuma stayed away from the meeting.
“Leadership team. You also do have a party where your president has a lot of powers according to your constitution.”
A Corder Report host says black Johannesburg voters privately admit they dislike the DA but will vote for it to get basic service delivery.
“Confession, which is: I hate the DA and I hate what they stand for, but I want basic service delivery competence in my city. And I believe the DA is the best place to do that.”
The Corder Report hosts explain Casper stands for the police and the CSIR, and the Kentridge artwork 'Casper's Full of Love' mocks apartheid-era radio greetings.
“Casper, the vehicle. Yes, the military vehicle used by the apartheid state to crush dissent and fight other countries at our border.”
On Cape Talk, a host and guest discuss men hiding emotional pain, the critique that men built oppressive systems, and unresolved childhood wounds.
“Maybe you find yourself in a situation where you can't. You simply can't cope, but you dare not express that because the expectation is that you must be a man. You must be in control.”
A BizNews commentator says the Freedom Front Plus is not a scary right-wing party and that some black voters are backing it too.
“This group of Afrikaners have got friends in there, you know what I'm saying, who love to be of this country. They're not out there to say, let's exit or let's break up Slovakia.”
A political commentator says South Africa should not celebrate Trump's midterm loss and must lobby harder as AGOA removal hits citrus, cars and wine.
“We sent a reasonably well-mannered man to go and represent South Africa as ambassador to the USA. I think that we should give him the chance. We should not work against him. So it's not time to celebrate Trump losing.”
The story so far
2 moments on BizNews Radio
Wed 4 Nov, 15:39BizNews Radio
Sarderson-Mayer: Trump's midterm hammering doesn't ease pressure on SAYesterday 18:30BizNews RadioThis one
Commentator: removing AGOA is collective punishment of South Africa
A BizNews commentator says ActionSA's Herman Mashaba is well-intentioned but should set aside personal anger at Helen Zille to help Johannesburg.
“Sole, I can't see him and Helen Zille coming to an agreement. What do you think? Look, I like Mashaba as a person. I think his intentions are well.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Yesterday 15:24SAfm
ActionSA will talk to any party, but sets coalition conditionsYesterday 18:12BizNews RadioThis one
Commentator urges Mashaba to bury anger at Zille for Joburg's sake
A guest on 702 says lessons from the 2024 national coalition show partners ignore agreements and chase portfolios, paying lip service to values.
“For a start I found that many coalition partners in South Africa don't read the coalition agreement.”
ActionSA national chairperson Michael Beaumont says voters are rejecting the same parties and urges that failing parties, including his own, be kicked out.
“But where I think we must celebrate as a country is we're moving to an era of performance-based voting.”
Former DA leader Tony Leon says the DA could invoke the ANC's 2024 'largest party leads' formula for metro mayoralties, a high-stakes game of chicken.
“Are entitled to the mayoralty in the places where we got the most votes. Now, the ANC can say, well, you know, what worked two years ago for us doesn't work for you two years later. And then what's the DA going to do?”
Independent economist Stephen Mancho reacts to South Africa's removal from AGOA on Power FM, claiming it targets black economic participation.
“Africa's participation in AGOA talking to Stephen Mancho, who's an independent economist. Immediate reaction: number of reasons why we've been longing for it. Longing for it.”
The story so far
2 moments on Power FM
Yesterday 03:46Power FM
South Africa and Rwanda kicked out of AGOA, host sarcastically thanks lobbyistsYesterday 14:34Power FMThis one
Economist: AGOA exclusion tells South Africa 'being black is a crime'
Premium Reward Advisors' Dr Mark Busen says executive bonuses amid falling profits must be justified by beating peers.
“Should company executives still receive substantial bonuses when profits are falling, shareholders losing money, and employees facing retrenchments?”
On 702, a philosophy lecturer explains that people hold conflicting beliefs by describing the part wanting to lose weight and the part wanting cake.
“There's a part of you that wants to eat that piece of cake that you see in front of you right now. So we're battling these various parts of ourselves. As in the two truths that can exist at”
On 702, Azania Mosaka says anyone who can afford a Bentley or G-Wagon should fix the bumps, and listeners add their own assumptions.
“And those are people that drive really expensive cars that have bumps in them or scratches or missing taillights. And I'm not talking just normal cars, I'm talking about your Bentleys, your BMWs.”
A Cape Talk guest compares the ANC's slide to India's Congress Party and says coalitions will now be the norm at every level of government.
“That was about to become a governing party. How do you interpret its decline? You know, it's probably in a certain way not that strange.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Yesterday 12:55Cape TalkThis one
Negotiator: ANC decline mirrors India's Congress, one-party rule is over
Yesterday 20:17Kaya 959
Analyst: ANC and its offshoots fall below 50% for first timeA Power FM panel argues many black South Africans outsource political participation, citing a community that fixes a church but not a clinic.
“Instead of stupid, I believe we've got politically illiterate South Africans, especially black people. You see, ours is a”
A KZN professor tells Cape Talk local government rot set in after the first decade of democracy and urges meritocracy.
“They provided basic services and they were quite responsible as municipal functionaries. Now, at that stage, we can say in the first decade of democracy, the municipal functionaries, in other words, the officials, the…”
On 947, Mo Flava weighs a listener's dilemma over a Christmas 'biggest borrower' award that upset her unemployed cousin, and advises an apology.
“Okay, so it's time for the daily dilemma. A tricky life situation that you're dealing with, you know, we always want to hear about it and you can obviously get some perspective and see how you are going to play your…”
A Freedom Front Plus spokesperson tells SAfm coalitions fail because parties haggle over posts in two weeks; the new bill allows a month.
“Coalition that will work on the principles that we say a municipality should put forward: merit, rule of law, consequence management, and so forth, and then work with certain parties that do not stand for those values…”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Wed 4 Nov, 20:27Kaya 959
Coalition bill: two weeks to govern is absurd, Germany takes monthsYesterday 10:56SAfmThis one
FF Plus: negotiate a governing programme first, not positions in 14 days
After Republican midterm losses, Trump says he would repeat the Iran war, while JD Vance blames the war, costs and Israel ties, a 702 host relays.
“The war in Iran. Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short term, and probably that's probably true.”
A Durban caller who skipped the vote says his ballots never changed anything; the host replies that abstaining also shapes governance.
“Secondly, I so wish that a coalition does not happen in Durban. Because for myself, I grew up in the 80s.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Wed 4 Nov, 18:10Kaya 959
Ex-statistician: non-voters are SA's biggest political partyYesterday 08:44SAfmThis one
Durban caller gave up on voting; host says not voting is still a choice
947 hosts banter about firstborn energy, curfews and the thirdborn sent down the hill in a beer box first.
“Really, do that. You are correct. But your sister gives firstborn energy. No, my sister moans about my firstborn energy all the time. Right.”
Columnist William Saunderson-Meyer says polling shows ANC voters link the party to corruption, yet true believers keep voting for it.
“You know, if you look at the polling that gets done, and 53% of ANC voters associate it with corruption, more than half of them say that it doesn't care about the poor, actually, less than that.”
DA's Cilliers Brink tells BizNews he doubts voters want a DA-ANC metro coalition, citing patronage networks and the ANC's diminished brand.
“The DA Cilliers Brink on why he doesn't see voters wanting a DA ANC coalition in the metros and what it would mean to sit at the table with the ANC and Twine. Check out biznews.com for more. That grand coalition.”
A Cape Talk caller says toddlers can swipe phones, and hosts warn screens and tablets in schools erode face-to-face learning and handwriting.
“And now, every second kid, and I'll see 18-month-olds sitting in my practice who can swipe and get rid of adverts. It's really quite alarming.”
On 702's The Upside of Failure, Mo Flavor says missed auditions often reflect fit or timing, and urges not letting one audition define you.
“So I think the point is: you know, not getting that gig is viewed as a failure. And to some degree, that's how I saw it in the beginning when I was a lot younger in the industry.”
A University of the Free State religion professor explains why religious teachings change, citing slavery, women's ordination and Jehovah's Witnesses.
“Because religions historically have changed positions throughout centuries. For example, the issue of slavery, the issue of racism.”
A Power FM tech guest says parties use AI for posters, not for interactive manifestos, and that a 94-year-old could ask a chatbot on WhatsApp.
“My advice to political parties is we first need to move away from having policies and manifestos as just a written document. They need to be live and interactive documents, right?”
A Power FM guest says SA's economy prizes making money over production and that unskilled would-be entrepreneurs fuel unemployment.
“First of all, our economy has been based on trying to make money rather than on production. That's why we've got so much unemployment. Why is China so successful?”
A Power FM guest argues Democrats have never respected international law, citing Libya, and says Trump is not worse than Obama or Clinton.
“On any scale with arms. And even some of these wars are because the arms manufacturers are pushing for them so they can sell arms and make profit and the US economy, by the way, the USA spends more on arms than the next…”
A Cape Talk panel on the 2016 girls' hair protests says Afro hair was labelled exotic at school while straight hair counted as native.
“In fact, the words that we used to refer to Afro-hair was that it was exotic hair and it was not allowed.”
A 702 guest explains writing Chef Rendani, a woman left at the altar who rebuilds her life through cooking, in Venda to showcase her culture.
“And then, right there at home, that is where she found herself. So, I just wanted to write a different story.”
A 702 caller argues politics is negotiation and parties refusing to talk to rivals expect outcomes to reflect immature convictions.
“I think Cooney is just as silly as Lizzie, okay, in that both of them expect a situation where political outcomes must reflect their immature convictions. Politics is about negotiation.”
An Aubrey Masango Show host says South Africa's free speech means visitors can address a handful of people and be tolerated.
“That's the power of this thing called South Africa: that idiots can just come here and say whatever they want to say. Yeah. Stand on lecterns where there's nobody there. There's just nobody there. We know.”
Panelists say compliance has become an end in itself, politicised administration and fear among competent staff undermine municipal performance.
“Uh, a municipality may achieve clean audit, as you have correctly put it out, while communities continue.”
The story so far
2 moments on Power FM
Wed 4 Nov, 20:18Power FM
R1.5bn spent on consultants across 225 municipalities, AG report findsWed 4 Nov, 22:43Power FMThis one
Clean audits don't fix water or roads, Power FM panel says
A Cape Talk host recommends Sylvester Stallone's memoir The Steps, describing his brutal childhood and fight to play Rocky Balboa.
“It. I finished it about six days ago, and I just think about it all the time. I think, what was it about? What points were being made here? What's it saying about history?”
A guest on The Aubrey Masango Show argues Africans gave up their own spirituality for tithing, yet some who tithe look down on sangomas.
“We lost our own magic. We started believing that we needed to go to a particular place or a landmark to get that magic. When we get there, we need to tithe. We need to be dressed in this particular uniform.”
A Kaya 959 guest draws on Zambian and Brazilian youth to urge South African young people to organise beyond the ballot after local elections.
“The reason I'm sharing this is because, in the conversation I was having with the Zambian youth, for example, they then said to me they had to spend time outside of the electoral system tracking reforms and political…”
A university spiritual support practitioner on 702 describes students from children's homes with no family, food packs that run out, and a system that fails them.
“Makes me think of a couple of my students because some of them don't even have a family background. Some of them come out of children's homes.”
Columnist William Saunderson-Meyer says South Africans endure scandals like a beaten donkey, with poor media coverage and a very short crisis shelf life.
“If we're numbed, we're a nation numbed.”
A Power FM panelist says some mayoral hopefuls can't explain a clean audit and will hire friends, while permit delays for farmers stretch past two years.
“And I think Kulagani, the reason why I took long to vote is mainly when you listen to these people who are supposed to be our mayors, some of them don't even understand what is the clean audit, what is the unqualified…”
After a caller said she skipped voting because she had no water, an SAfm host opens the line for reasons she should vote.
“There's still time for that lady to go and vote. But let's open it. Right, Keith? All right? Let's open it. Give me reasons, or give us reasons, or give that lady in particular reasons why she should vote.”
A Move Essay mayoral candidate says officials who fail to approve developments and return money to treasury will be fired, and housing must have services.
“Secondly, we want to make sure that there's good governance, so we'll fire the people that are not doing the job.”
The story so far
3 moments on 2 stations
Mon 2 Nov, 15:45BizNews Radio
Move Essay candidate: pay the R13bn owed to Joburg entrepreneurs firstMon 2 Nov, 15:47BizNews RadioThis one
Move Essay pledges to fire officials who return unspent housing money
Mon 2 Nov, 16:40702
How could Johannesburg grow its economy once basics are fixed?An ATM candidate says crime in the CBD, drug dens and potholes show Johannesburg no longer works for its citizens, township or suburb.
“Joburg is said to be the world African-class city, and yet you can't even walk in Johannesburg CBD because it's not safe. I think that is telling, and it's the reality of our crisis in the city.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Mon 2 Nov, 15:43BizNews RadioThis one
ATM's Tzabalala: Joburg is unsafe and even suburbs now lack services
Mon 2 Nov, 17:51SMWX
ATM mayoral candidate: Joburg needs a firm mayor to take on criminal networksEvery account starts with a 7-day free trial of Pro — the full archive, alerts, clips, and chat, no card required. R199/month after; cancel anytime.