RC 261106Power FMColleen Makhubele
Friday, 6 November 2026
Election-week Friday night on Power Lounge, with frank talk about ANC leadership and coalition politics, plus a 1982 throwback segment on Mandela's transfer and Ruth First's assassination.
- 20:01
A party member said the ANC knows where its problem lies and that leadership must take membership seriously, insisting it cannot keep people fingered as corrupt.
- 22:38
With no party expected to reach 50 percent, the speaker said coalition governments are the consequence of how voters cast ballots, and that egos must be parked for deals to work.
- 23:43
On 17 August 1982, anti-apartheid activist and writer Ruth First was killed in Maputo by a parcel bomb, which the show attributed to South African security agents.
- 23:42
On 31 March 1982, Nelson Mandela and fellow political prisoners were moved from Robben Island to a Cape Town prison, with Ahmed Kathrada joining them later that October.