S4 Episode 1: Covid-19 conspiracies | SA’s new jazz dawn
Covid-19 hoaxes have been rife since the start of the pandemic. But where do these conspiracies originate? And why is it so easy to dupe so many?
Radio New Frame
S3 Episode 15: Great minds | Round table | Oops
In this final episode for the year, Radio New Frame reflects on 2020. For the first time since lockdown, the whole team, masked and at a distance, got together and picked some of our favourite interviews.
S3 Episode 14: Pumla Gqola | Trucks ablaze | Workers win
Feminist thinker Pumla Gqola tries to make sense of 2020, a migrant truck driver takes us on the road and what the Constitutional Court ruling means for South Africa’s domestic workers.
S3 Episode 13: Anxious Joburg | LGBTQIA+ Games
South Africa’s economic hub, Johannesburg, is also its most stressed city. Some Joburgers tell us why they’re so anxious. Also, South Africa’s first openly gay male footballer is kicking bigotry out of the sport.
S3 Episode 12: Ethiopian war | A jazz classic saved
Watching Ethiopia from afar, a Johannesburg community leader speaks about his fears. Jeremy Corbyn’s “antisemitism” is nonsense, says a Jewish ally. Also, a happy ending for a South African jazz classic.
S3 Episode 11: Radioactive Joburg | Left after Trump
South Africa’s mineral wealth has been built on the backs of Black people. Damaging mining practices still take their toll on people’s health. Also, is it now payback time to the Left for Joe Biden?
S3 Episode 10: My America | Top football analyst
In a country still dominated by the defeated Donald Trump, four progressives tell us about their America. And, how a South African became the performance analyst for Africa’s top football club.
S3 Episode 9: TRC unfinished | Bolivia’s new dawn
We look at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s unfinished business. The socialists won in Bolivia, but can they keep the right wing at bay?
S3 Episode 8: Dirty water | Black votes in America
We visit a municipality where corruption threatens even the basics such as drinking water. Also, how Black Lives Matter will affect African Americans’ votes in the United States elections.
S3 Episode 6: Grants, continued | Not such proud boys
Why South Africa’s Covid-19 special grant needs to become a permanent grant. Also, United States President Donald Trump has bolstered fascists in America.
S3 Episode 5: Che today | Journalism’s best and worst
We explore why Che Guevara still matters today. Also, when journalists go rogue – a new book investigates the deepest lows of South African journalism.
S3 Episode 4: Fanning xenophobia | Hatred by media
Since the lockdown, four Somalis have been killed in South Africa, showing how xenophobia and police brutality collide. The story of a brave football team that won the league in war-torn Cameroon.
S3 Episode 3: Forced sterilisation | Beirut burning
A woman tells of her horror at being sterilised without her permission. And Beirut is burning, but the Lebanese government seems unwilling to put out the fires.
S3 Episode 2: Goodbye, George Bizos | Urban land
Two of George Bizos’ colleagues pay tribute to the South African human rights lawyer. The high court has forced Cape Town to address apartheid inequality. What are the implications?
S3 Episode 1: Rise of the Left in SA | Rugby and BLM
Cosatu has rediscovered its soul, but how is this likely to affect South Africa’s political landscape? And an Afrikaans dominee urges white rugby players to “take the knee” and support Black Lives Matter.
S2 Episode 12: Beyond Women’s Day | Washington Bullets
Women’s Month is just a PR tool for politicians but activists struggle on. Will Joe Biden make the US less imperialistic? And, a coach describes watching football without a crowd.
S2 Episode 11: A day in the life of a spaza shop
Gauteng is in the eye of a storm. As part of a series of intimate portraits, we capture a day in the life of an Alexandra spaza shop at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
S2 Episode 10: BLM in cricket | Zambia vs rapper
In SA, how to deal with cricket’s dirty racist secret. Then, Italian lessons on life when Covid-19 subsides. And, a Zambian musician on the music that’s landed him in jail three times.
S2 Episode 9: Terrorist Album | Deaf under Covid-19
Apartheid’s terrorist album was a “wanted” list of insurgents, and it could get you killed. Also, when you cannot lip read – how deaf people cope under Covid-19.
S2 Episode 8: How Trump abets Israel | Tribute to a fine African mind
How United States President Donald Trump’s vindictive administration went after a veteran Palestinian leader. Also, we pay tribute to one of Africa’s greatest intellectuals.
S2 Episode 7: SA’s rape scourge | LKJ, a poet for 2020 | Finishing football
Only 30% of rape cases reported in South Africa are prosecuted. What can be done? Also, why Linton Kwesi Johnson is a poet for these times, and how Tanzania finished its football season in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.