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Saturday, 7 November 2026
Saturday's 947 Essentials was a listener-driven chat about South African slang like 'dwang' and 'meetingitis', with a Guess the Suburb game and election vote-count updates.
- 06:16
With 97% of votes counted, final results from the local government elections are due tomorrow, according to the news the host read on air.
- 01:14
A viral clip of a woman saying the president, the ANC, the Joburg mayor and both water utilities have deserted residents, ending 'we are in the dwang', sparked the show's slang debate.
- 01:56
Listeners coined 'meetingitis' for the exhaustion caused by unnecessary meetings, and the host has added it to a proposed 947 South African dictionary.
- 02:57
Bryanston was the answer in Guess the Suburb, with clues about potholes, no electricity, a famous Italian restaurant and a shopping centre named after a road. Tafara was among the listeners who got it right.