Listener calls
When a listener phones a show, or sends a voice note that gets played, we log the call: the topic, their view in a sentence and their own words, with a clip of the call as it aired. Browse the last 7 days by station, show or topic.
Voice note
Ask AIDescribes becoming a teacher and starting a business designing school sports tours and day trips to recreate memorable school experiences for adults.
“I also enjoyed my school trip so much that when I finished school, I became a teacher.”
A listener
702 · 1 Oct 00:34
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that cultures evolve but South Africa lacks ambitious standards, effective leadership and a clear national direction, citing schools, Singapore and crime.
“Our country does not have direction.”
Tony in White City
702 · The Aubrey Masango Show · 30 Sept 23:49
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that Zulu, Xhosa and other labels describe languages rather than identity, saying Africans should share a broader identity while discussing imposed tribal categories.
The clip plays the first three minutes.
Keshana in Soweto
702 · The Aubrey Masango Show · 30 Sept 23:41
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that immigration concerns are wrongly treated as ethnic or tribal issues and warns that South Africans may lose their languages, traditions and identity.
Tumsani in Germiston
702 · The Aubrey Masango Show · 30 Sept 23:39
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that recognising the feminine within men can help them understand that violence against women is also violence against themselves.
“Once you can understand as a man that there is feminine in you, it will be easy to shine.”
Maviani in Orange Farm
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 23:33
Voice note
Ask AIAsks whether people living with HIV or taking HIV medication need to worry about prostate cancer and other diseases.
“Can a person living with HIV have a prostate cancer?”
A listener
SAfm · Night Fall · 30 Sept 23:29
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that politicians should stop scoring points and provide specific timelines and solutions to improve residents’ lives after taking office.
Rolex
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 23:10
Listener call
Ask AIPraises the presenter, recalls a former Mangaung mayor’s effective leadership, and asks what leadership style and improvements he would bring if returned.
“Just ten and a half out of ten for you and the way you are giving the speakers a chance.”
A caller
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 23:08
Voice note
Ask AIAsks whether a voucher purchased three and a half years ago can still be honored by the retailer.
“We have discovered a voucher that was purchased just over, in fact, three and a half years ago and that hasn't been used yet.”
Cheryl
Cape Talk · 30 Sept 22:58
Listener call
Ask AIAsks how to change her relationship with money after earnings fall and previously affordable extras, such as shoes and family trips, become unaffordable.
“What has changed in that relationship to money?”
Mariah in Rivonia
702 · The Aubrey Masango Show · 30 Sept 22:55
Voice note
Ask AIBlames ANC arrogance for missing the candidate submission deadline and says its general secretary and provincial secretaries should be held accountable.
“Deadline was at five. Why they didn't submit?”
A listener in Matrasana
SAfm · Night Fall · 30 Sept 22:54
Listener call
Ask AIAsks why the EFF seeks South African votes while supporting undocumented immigrants, and asks what three priorities the DA would implement in Mangaung's first 100 days.
“My question is that if they do not see illegal immigrants as a problem in us who are staying in the township, why do they request votes to South Africans?”
Mawande
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 22:51
Listener call
Ask AIQuestions why municipalities cannot be capacitated to provide services themselves and asks the EFF to explain its insourcing policy and how it would work.
“Why can't they capacitate state to actually provide services for the citizens?”
Akola in Bloemfontein
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 22:41
Listener call
Ask AIAsks how privatization can keep essential services affordable for poor communities and what the EFF will do to improve university students’ safety and lives.
“We don't feel safe anymore.”
Waruna in Bloemfontein
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 22:31
Listener call
Ask AIAsks what the African Transformation Movement will do about farm schools closing in the Free State and how it will support jobs and economic growth.
“I wanted to ask the African Transformation Movement leader what they're going to do about the farm, the school farms closing here in the Free State.”
Palisa in Free State
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 22:19
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that candidates failed to answer questions about local economic activities and safety, particularly for children, and did not present an adequate government plan.
Taneth in Soshanguve
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 22:18
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that race should not be used to frame murders, noting that victims include coloured people and communities in the Western Cape.
“Let's not play a race card on these murders.”
Ross
SAfm · The Meeting Point · 30 Sept 21:53
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that current gender-based violence victims are black women and objects to white people narrating experiences they do not encounter.
“There is no African or black person that comes here who can come here and tell us and narrate these things.”
The clip plays the first three minutes.
Mamvuyi in Parktown North
SAfm · The Meeting Point · 30 Sept 21:45
Listener call
Ask AIAsks where the DA is to protect white people begging on the streets, while raising broader concerns about forgotten rural communities.
“Where is DA to protect them?”
Ntanta
SAfm · The Meeting Point · 30 Sept 21:43
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that government neglects rural people despite constitutional obligations to provide fair and equitable services, citing the Freedom Charter.
“People from rural areas because the Constitution says services must be provided fairly, equitable, and without bias.”
A caller in Land Chasworth
SAfm · The Meeting Point · 30 Sept 21:40
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that parliamentarians disregard rural residents and only consider them when seeking votes.
“Parliamentarians do not take us as human beings.”
A listener
SAfm · The Meeting Point · 30 Sept 21:34
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that property hijacking also occurs in villages and questions how occupants can gain rights after only 48 hours.
“Building or property hijacking does not only happen in the city, it also happens in the villages.”
Bongani
702 · The Aubrey Masango Show · 30 Sept 21:23
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that local beneficiation and black economic empowerment should be central to development, with businesses hiring or empowering local suppliers and retaining 30% locally.
The clip plays the first three minutes.
Khoto in Pretoria North
702 · The Aubrey Masango Show · 30 Sept 21:11
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that giving a teenager a suspended sentence and criminal record could prevent employment and push him toward becoming a professional criminal.
“So, what are we saying? Are we grooming this boy to become a professional criminal?”
A listener
Power FM · POWER Perspective · 30 Sept 20:57
