RC 260811Power FMColleen Makhubele
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
The episode centred on whether South Africa’s many commissions of inquiry are delivering real reform, then shifted to Anton Lembede’s legacy and a hard-hitting debate on Eskom, municipalities and electricity costs.
- 21:10
South Africa has been running commission after commission — Zondo, Mpati, Nugent, Madlanga and others — but panelists said the real test is whether recommendations are actually implemented, not just broadcast publicly.
- 21:21
Zondo’s unimplemented recommendations on board appointments, oversight and anti-corruption structures were singled out as proof that weak state capacity, not only bad actors, is keeping governance failures alive.
- 22:11
Anton Lembede was described as the intellectual architect of African nationalism, a disciplined law student and ANC Youth League founder who died at 33 before seeing the movement he helped shape.
- 22:25
Dr Malusi Gigaba argued young South Africans are politically conscious but lack activism, and urged them to vote, study history and help finish the decolonisation project Lembede began.
- 23:39
Eskom was portrayed as being held back by municipal middlemen, with 119 billion rand owed and calls for a single, affordable tariff, while warning that unbundling amounts to privatisation by stealth.