S6 Episode 14: Gatvol Christmas | 2021’s best | Oops
We visit Gatvol, where Christmas is set to be bleak. As in many places, politicians’ promises to shack dwellers have come to nothing. Also, our best and our bloopers of 2021.
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S6 Episode 13: Apartheid hitman | Anti-apartheid hitmakers
South Africa has much unfinished business. A security cop’s book lifts the lid on unpunished apartheid crimes and we rediscover the role Prophets of Da City played in the cultural revolution.
S6 Episode 12: Absent fathers: The impact on SA’s children
Two out of every three fathers in South Africa do not play an active role in their children’s lives. We examine the reasons for this and hear how it can be reversed.
S6 Episode 11: Land matters: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi speaks to us
Despite the promises made in the Constitution, South Africa’s farm workers still cannot gain any ground. That is why land matters, lawyer and author Tembeka Ngcukaitobi explains.
S6 Episode 10: End of liberation parties | SA’s New Left?
What does the future hold for the ANC after the hiding it got at the polls? Swapo’s experience in Namibia gives some answers. And, a party of the proper Left is what the ANC should fear.
S6 Episode 9: Food insecurity | The Red Party Part 2
Even with enough food, South Africa still has a high level of food insecurity. We talk to people who are fixing the problem. Also, historian Tom Lodge assesses the SACP’s influence.
S6 Episode 8: The Red Party | Fat Freddy’s Drop
Inside the secretive world of the SACP with author Tom Lodge. And, a party of a different kind: Fat Freddy’s Drop are the ultimate party band and Covid-19 won’t stop that.
S6 Episode 7: A town of darkness | Nomboniso Gasa
What election? We visit a North West town to see what happens when a municipality fails. Also, political researcher Nomboniso Gasa explains why democracy is about more than voting.
S6 Episode 6: The case for a shorter working week
We look at Iceland’s effective four-day workweek, hear from dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson about what he’d do with more time and find out from sociologist Eddie Webster if it could work in South Africa.
S6 Episode 5: Jabbed workers | Poisoners | India protests
Only 20% of people in South Africa are vaccinated. We visit a mine that achieved 80%. Also, Imraan Coovadia on poison as a political weapon and why the farmer protests in India still matter.
S6 Episode 4: Abolish prisons | Who’s the blues for?
Prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore talks about the one resource prisoners can never get back. Author Fred de Vries explains what makes the blues so alluring to white middle-class ears.
S6 Episode 3: Waste pickers of the world unite
They do essential work, yet most governments, cities and residents ignore them and their rights. We speak to reclaimers and the people who organise them globally.
S6 Episode 2: Eco-justice | The Left and the climate emergency
An activist paid the ultimate price for resisting a mine digging for profit on her doorstep, but her neighbours fight on. Meanwhile, South Africa’s Left is getting the climate emergency wrong.
S6 Episode 1: Revisiting 9/11 with Mahmood Mamdani | Kyle Shepherd
Global thinker Mahmood Mamdani helps make sense of two decades of the so-called War on Terror. And Kyle Shepherd explains why his response to the Covid-19 pandemic is a solo piano album.
S5 Episode 14: Podcasts for change
Can podcasts be a force for progressive change? We look at global examples and then hone in on African podcasts, plus a popular South African broadcaster who has crossed over.
S5 Episode 13: Life Esidimeni | Marikana | SA analysed
The Marikana massacre and the Life Esidimeni scandal keep reminding us that justice is an easy word to use, but difficult to get. We talk to a few South Africans who won’t give up.
S5 Episode 12: Writer Sisonke Msimang speaks to us
As an African living in Australia but with deep roots in South Africa, writer Sisonke Msimang is an insider-outsider. She tells us how she felt from afar as South Africa was burning.
S5 Episode 11: Feminists vs Zuma | Beirut revisited
A feminist perspective on how South Africa got here, and a Lebanese musician with a new album that’s a wail for her country and its people.
S5 Episode 10: Mandla Langa | Rise of the pink tide
Esteemed South African poet and novelist Mandla Langa discusses his work, what’s wrong with the ANC and what looting we should be looking at. Also, why Latin America is swinging Left.
S5 Episode 9: Saving Mother Earth | Sarathy Korwar
What do you do when you’ve retired as a unionist and a cabinet minister? You try and save the Earth. Jay Naidoo tells us why this is his mission now.
S5 Episode 8: Reporting from eSwatini
Security forces in eSwatini detained, assaulted and tortured two New Frame journalists covering the pro-democracy uprising in that country. We bring you their harrowing tale. Warning: This episode contains disturbing content.