RC 260820Power FMMondli Makhanya
Thursday, 20 August 2026
A polarised morning of call-in debate on March and March’s tie-up with AfriForum, followed by hard-edged interviews on the president’s impeachment fight, Eskom restructuring and the ICC sanctions row.
- 09:36
Callers split sharply over Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma taking March and March to AfriForum, with supporters calling it a pragmatic way to learn from a minority organisation and critics calling it a dangerous legitimising of racism.
- 09:15
Mondli Makhanya argued the AfriForum alliance was nonsensical for a movement claiming to advance black people, saying it legitimised a racist organisation and asking why politicians like Fadiel Adams keep rising despite being “charlatans”.
- 10:13
ATM parliamentary leader Vuyo Zungula said the president’s challenge to advocate Tandazani Matonzela was a deliberate delay tactic in the impeachment process, aimed at discrediting black professionals and frustrating Parliament’s work.
- 11:19
COSATU’s Matthew Parks warned Eskom’s split into separate transmission, generation and distribution companies could worsen debt, weaken morale and distract from the real problems: corruption, municipal debt and failing infrastructure.
- 11:37
International-law experts said US sanctions on ICC officials Tomoko Akane and Abdulla Seye are mainly personal, but could undermine the court if member states fail to defend it; they urged stronger reform rather than dismantling the system.