Listener call
Ask AIClose management and operational discipline
Says close supervision is sometimes necessary for inexperienced employees, missed standards and maintaining operational discipline.
Tabel
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 13:53
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Listener call
Ask AIManaging different employee needs
Explains that some employees need close supervision while others work independently, and managers remain accountable for team performance.
“People are not the same.”
Sisi
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 13:49
Listener call
Ask AIDistinguishing management from micromanagement
Argues that enforcing company standards should not automatically be called micromanagement, while acknowledging genuine bullying and urging employees to meet their responsibilities.
“There’s a very thin line between micromanagement and a manager wanting things to be done as per the requirement of the company.”
Milton
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 13:47
Voice note
Ask AIHidden workplace surveillance camera
Says employers hid a camera inside a teddy bear to monitor workers and describes confronting them and threatening labour intervention.
A listener
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 13:45
Listener call
Ask AIMicromanagement as workplace bullying
Argues that micromanagement is bullying, says workers should receive a mandate and feedback, and recounts hearing troubling advice given to blind workers.
“You give me the mandate going, I finish my job, you check if I did not go right, you tell me.”
Tro in Soshanguve
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 13:42
Voice note
Ask AIPunitive workplace supervision
Describes being ordered to stand at the gate and monitor employees arriving at work by checking the time on their watches.
“I was once asked to stand at the gate and watch people coming into work in the morning.”
A listener
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 13:38
Voice note
Ask AIMicromanagers avoiding accountability
Argues that micromanagers control employees but blame them when things go wrong instead of taking responsibility themselves.
“They never blame themselves or take accountability.”
A listener
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 13:36
Voice note
Ask AIFootball defeat and fandom
Jokes that losing to Eritrea lets listeners understand what it feels like to support Mamelodi Sundowns.
“It's the only time some of us feel how it is to be a Sundance fan, you know.”
A listener
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 12:40
Listener call
Ask AIAge-gap relationships and violence
Says parents should warn daughters about exploitative age-gap relationships because resentment when young women leave can lead to violence.
Chris
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 12:39
Listener call
Ask AIGovernment response to gender violence
Argues that the president’s response to gender-based violence is weak, lacks accountability, and relies on pleading rather than enforcing laws against criminals.
“You make them true by enforcing the law.”
Fighter
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 12:34
Listener call
Ask AIMen addressing gender violence
Urges men to pursue practical interventions including fatherhood clinics, mentorships, accountability groups, school programs and economic support.
“We need to come up with practical intervention, my brother.”
Tapel
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 12:25
Listener call
Ask AIAge of consent and morality
Argues that sex may be legal for an 18-year-old but remains morally wrong when involving a much older man.
“Morally it's wrong, but legally it's right.”
Tabo in Pitori
Power FM · POWER Lunch · 30 Sept 12:23
Listener call
Ask AIViolent crime versus GBV
Argues that gender-based violence should be understood as part of South Africa’s broader violent-crime problem rather than treated separately.
“There's a bigger picture that needs to be looked at, which is violent crime as a whole.”
Thompson
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 11:49
Listener call
Ask AISocial causes of crime
Argues that crime should be addressed by tackling poverty, absent fathers, and unsupportive social environments before people become entrenched in criminal gangs.
“What made you want to go and steal? What made you want to go and kill this woman?”
Dando
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 11:42
Listener call
Ask AILeadership and institutional failure
Argues that poor implementation, weak border controls, corruption, and failures in policing and intelligence reveal the need to overhaul government institutions.
“We have a leadership problem within which involves mainly our politicians.”
Lerato
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 09:59
Listener call
Ask AIGender violence and leadership
Argues that men should mobilize against gender violence, politicians have failed, and the country needs stronger enforcement and new leadership.
“It can't be business as usual a monthly.”
The clip plays the first three minutes.
A caller
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 09:54
Listener call
Ask AIGBV, women’s empowerment and voting
Argues that gender-based violence is linked to absent fathers, supports empowering women, and feels citizens are losing hope when choosing among political parties.
“Many men in the country are not taking care of their kids.”
The clip plays the first three minutes.
Vincent
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 09:46
Listener call
Ask AIUnity among black parties
Argues that black parties should not be expected to unite because they have different morals, ideas and political paths.
“You cannot lower the bar and say that just because we're black, we must all think the same way.”
A caller
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 09:45
Listener call
Ask AITransactional relationships and morality
Argues that transactional relationships and permissive parenting are contributing to prostitution and says men should not be demonized when addressing the problem.
“Women are not God, we are we must all be equal in this country, we must fix this problem together.”
Rolex
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 09:39
Listener call
Ask AIMen’s disempowerment and gender violence
Argues that ANC policies have disempowered men, unemployment is disproportionately affecting them, and men need psychological support rather than being treated as inherently dangerous.
“Anybody who still expects anything from the ANC are still living in a dream.”
Rolex in Rustenburg
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 09:36
Listener call
Ask AIStructural causes of GBV
Argues that government must address crime, unemployment and broader social conditions underlying gender-based violence rather than relying only on short-term measures.
“GBV does not happen in a silo environment.”
The clip plays the first three minutes.
Astoria in Tshwane
Power FM · POWER Talk · 30 Sept 09:24
Listener call
Ask AIProcurement and local content
Argues that someone respected the commission, then questions how procurement and supply-chain terminology relates to local content requirements.
“Touch not the anointed one or something along those lines.”
A caller
Power FM · POWER Breakfast · 30 Sept 08:56
Listener call
Ask AIDarkness and security risks
Describes severe darkness in Tembisa, saying it creates a major security risk and worsens chaotic traffic, possibly because of cable theft.
“It was so dark.”
Mauta in Riverside
Power FM · POWER Breakfast · 30 Sept 08:55
Listener call
Ask AIRiverside View streetlights
Reports that 60% of Riverside View’s streetlights have been off since July because of a payment dispute between City Power and Eskom.
“So 60% of the area is dark.”
Mauta in Riverside View
Power FM · POWER Breakfast · 30 Sept 08:53