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.
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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.
S2 Episode 6: Doctors in danger | Misjudgement on Israel
A doctor opens up about coping with the fears of being a healthcare worker during the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, South Africa’s top judge has defiantly sided with Israel. A Jewish academic explains why this is bad for the judiciary.
S2 Episode 5: Jobs bloodbath | Basic income grants
Lockdown job losses are soaring. A union organiser tells us about their battles. Also, the Covid-19 pandemic has prompted fundamental questions, such as whether a basic income grant could work for everyone.
S2 Episode 4: Angela Davis speaks to us | A greener Eskom?
Angela Davis speaks to us about hope, racial capitalism, police violence, American imperialism, Palestine and jazz. Also, a plan for Eskom to change its coal-tainted colours to green.
S2 Episode 3: Drugs under Covid-19 | Football lockdown
In Durban, a unique programme to help destitute drug users may yield positive results beyond the government’s Covid-19 lockdown. Also, what happens when a left-wing football obsessive is deprived of his sport.
S2 Episode 2: Violence in uniform | The Urban Zulu
During the Covid-19 lockdown, police officers and soldiers have been using violence against the public. Why do they believe they have free rein? Also, we celebrate Busi Mhlongo, the woman who wrestled maskandi from the macho men.
S2 Episode 1: Futureless future | SA gets back to work
The anger over police brutality in the United States has exposed a futureless future for Donald Trump’s country. And in South Africa, will workers have jobs to return to?
Episode 12: Hidden epidemic in SA? | Zero hours
After an initial promising response to the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa now runs the risk of a hidden epidemic, warns a health expert. Also, we investigate how zero hours contracts have encroached on South African factories.
Episode 11: Achille Mbembe on Covid-19 | RIP Denis Goldberg
Achille Mbembe warns that the global Covid-19 pandemic shouldn’t be used as a laboratory to experiment with ideas that will diminish our freedoms. Also, Raymond Suttner pays a moving tribute to his fallen comrade, Denis Goldberg.
Episode 10: Hunger and Covid-19 | Brazil’s Bolsonaro virus
There are almost a billion hungry people in the world. We look at how the Covid-19 pandemic is going to make this situation far worse. Also, Brazil is a scary case study of what happens when a president doesn’t take the coronavirus seriously.
Episode 9: Is SA’s Covid-19 plan sufficient? | Humour and coronavirus
Will the government’s financial relief plan be enough for South Africa’s impoverished citizens? Also, the desperation of living in a shack settlement with Covid-19 in the air and how comedy has changed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Episode 8: HIV lessons for Covid-19 | Chicago love song
In responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa can draw on how it tackled HIV and Aids. Also, a Chicago musician pays tribute to the doctors and nurses of his city with a beautiful song.
Episode 7: After Covid-19 | Mandla Langa turns 70
Will it be business as usual for the global economic order after the coronavirus pandemic? And, how poet and writer Mandla Langa has responded to a Covid-19 reality that’s far stranger than fiction.
Episode 6: Domestic workers under Covid-19
Domestic workers are left exposed by Covid-19 at their workplaces – will they be covered by the law? Travelling under the threat of infection. And, we take a philosophical look at school. What it is and what it should be.
Episode 5: The spy who cried | Fanon on football
Former South African spy boss, Moe Shaik, has just published an amazingly frank account of his life. Also, anti-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon not only loved football, he was a fine player too.
Episode 4: Coronavirus in my country
The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated the globe, with the number of infections and resulting deaths exploding. We speak to an Italian journalist who gives us a taste of a day in the life of a country in lockdown.
Episode 3: Women on the mines | Working-class food
Women have been working underground alongside male mineworkers in South Africa’s mines since 2004. We go down a mine to find out if the repressive macho culture has changed. Also on our menu today, the food that working-class people around the world eat has a lot in common. We find out what’s for lunch.