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 AIQuestions how municipalities can undertake the safety work while struggling to provide services and maintain dilapidated infrastructure.
“Because now the infrastructure is dilapidated, no water, no”
A listener
SAfm · First Take SA · 1 Oct 05:38
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that the President cannot remove competent people, replace them with bad ones, and then give municipalities 60 days to address violence against women.
“You can't remove the good people by the bad people.”
A listener
SAfm · First Take SA · 1 Oct 05:36
Voice note
Ask AISays Sol Plaatje Municipality and local organisations are trying to combat gender-based violence through awareness programmes.
“The South Laiki Municipality in Kimberley is actually trying its best.”
A listener in Kimberley
SAfm · First Take SA · 1 Oct 05:35
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that fathers can guide children but cannot control the social media, friends, and environment that shape who they become.
“You can only guide your child.”
Bobby
SAfm · Quantum · 1 Oct 04:29
Voice note
Ask AIWarns that weight-loss injections are risky and insufficiently tested, advising people to exercise and walk instead.
“They are basically experimenting. So my advice is don't go for that.”
Bob in Polokwane
SAfm · Quantum · 1 Oct 03:32
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
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 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
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that climate change has always driven evolution, rejects fear-mongering, and urges people to love nature rather than fear it.
“So this fear-mongering about climate change is absurd.”
A listener
SAfm · The Meeting Point · 30 Sept 20:33
Listener call
Ask AIQuestions whether research on the death penalty establishes absolute facts and criticizes broadcasters and academics for treating research as unquestionable.
“So my question is to say: is there any absolute fact in this world?”
Isaac in Middelburg
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:47
Voice note
Ask AISays passengers waiting for buses at Inanda SIPS bus stop are left in darkness and that the councillor’s attempted intervention has not solved the problem.
“We need lights there because the passengers, those are waiting for the last passes from town, they are waiting in darkness.”
A listener
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:46
Voice note
Ask AIAsks how artificial intelligence should be controlled and regulated after being used for targeting and tracking by the Israeli military.
“The question should now be on how to control this and to regulate it.”
A listener
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:45
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that the commission appears partisan, withholds information, and should investigate Johannesburg, Johnny Speck, and how CPR received an appointment.
“It seems like the gatekeeping some information.”
A listener
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:45
Voice note
Ask AICriticizes managers who treat subordinates as tools and praises action taken over the Shoprite matter.
“Just when we get the management position, we think our subordinates are our tools.”
Marum
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:29
Voice note
Ask AIQuestions why government receives credit for positive developments while individuals are blamed when outcomes are negative.
“When such cases, if somehow they decline, the president should not take credit.”
Abu
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:28
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that expired poisoned food cannot be addressed without first improving inhumane living conditions, especially in informal settlements.
“Until we address this issue of inhuman living conditions on the ground, we cannot expect healthy food to come out of such places.”
A listener
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:28
Listener call
Ask AIDisagrees that people should not fear AI, citing major technology companies shedding jobs as they adopt more artificial intelligence.
“I think that if you look at Google and Facebook and Microsoft and see how many people they have let go as they have used more and more AI.”
Bam in Durban
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:26
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that hungry people cannot focus on learning jobs or business skills and will pursue immediate results instead.
“We cannot teach hungry people on how to catch a fish.”
A listener
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 17:25
Listener call
Ask AIArgues that claims of a white genocide are untrue, South Africa has law and accountability, and repeating them will divide society.
“It doesn't mean when you are repeating things they tend to be the truth.”
Sipo in Northern Cape
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 16:49
Voice note
Ask AIArgues that relevant ministers must implement the president’s plan to address violence against women and children and rejects claims of a failing state.
“There is no failing state.”
A listener
SAfm · The National Pulse · 30 Sept 16:42
