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Currency News and Scrolla.Africa join forces to bring you South Africa's sharpest weekly conversation. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova sit down each week to talk straight about politics, money, and power. No spin. No script. Just the truth.

  1. The March That Could Tear South Africa Apart

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    The March That Could Tear South Africa Apart

    June 30 is days away. March and March have set their deadline and all foreigners must leave South Africa. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into what happens when the deadline hits, whether the security forces can hold it together, and what the Zulu king's extraordinary intervention ahead of June 30 actually means for how this plays out. They also get into Geordin Hill-Lewis removing John Steenhuisen as agriculture minister, the loyalty versus capacity debate in the new DA, and Hill-Lewis's visit to the Zulu king as a blueprint for building a political base beyond the DA's traditional support. Then Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential joins to take it continental. Mnangagwa pushed a constitutional amendment through the Zimbabwean parliament last week to extend his presidential term. Wicknell Chivayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei bankrolled the votes. The sovereign wealth fund that controls all of Zimbabwe's utilities and mineral wealth has no public oversight. And three million Zimbabweans in South Africa are the direct result of that misgovernance, meaning the pressure on South Africa will not ease until Zimbabwe changes. Sharp Sharp is a weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.

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  2. Hector Pieterson's Unfinished Business

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    Hector Pieterson's Unfinished Business

    Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, South Africa's schoolchildren are still being failed. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova mark June 16 with a retrospective that asks not what went wrong but what went right — and finds that racial harmony, against all the odds and against the global trend, is the unexpected success story of post-apartheid South Africa. Then they turn to the ledger of failure. Eighty-one percent of grade four learners cannot read for meaning. Almost a million children drop out before matric. The pass rate is a statistical illusion. BEE has been treated as a goal rather than a tool and produced legalised looting — R65,000 to fix one pothole, R26 for a single-ply toilet roll at Eskom. And the first trillionaire in human history was born in Pretoria three years before June 16 1976, but South Africa blocks his satellite internet service from connecting 5,000 schools that still do not have textbooks by June. They also get into Geordin Hill-Lewis removing John Steenhuisen as agriculture minister, the DA stamping its authority on the GNU, and the World Cup — Bafana losing badly, African nations trolling South Africa with Mexican jerseys, and the Japanese fans who cleaned up the entire stadium after their match. Sharp Sharp is a weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.

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  3. Are South Africans Really Xenophobic?

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    Are South Africans Really Xenophobic?

    President Cyril Ramaphosa went on national television this week to say South Africans are not xenophobic. But the Human Sciences Research Council data tells a different story — those willing to welcome all immigrants dropped from 26% to 15% in four years, while the bloc that wants no immigrants at all grew from 30% to 42%, the highest hostility on record since 2003. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined this week by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential to dig into the real story behind the headlines. Zuks has a different answer to the data — in his village in Mthatha an Ethiopian shopkeeper has lived inside a South African homestead for decades, protected by community norms, because that is how things actually work on the ground. The marches are real, the frustration is real, but the target is wrong. The real story is a decade of state failure, porous borders, broken promises, and politicians from the ANC to ActionSA using immigrants as a scapegoat in an election year. Patrick widens the lens — Nigeria expelled three million West Africans in 1983, Ghana kicked out half a million Nigerians in 1969, and from Texas to Middlesborough this is a global moment of ethno-nationalism being weaponised by governments everywhere. They close with the World Cup curtain raiser — Bafana Bafana play Mexico tonight and Zuks wants a 2-1 win. Sharp Sharp is a weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.

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  4. Go Gogo Go

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    Go Gogo Go

    A 61-year-old woman in church clothes just beat the ANC in a ward they have held since 1994. Eight votes. Maki Tshabalala, the DA's new Ward 28 councillor in Emfuleni in the Vaal Triangle, wiped the floor with a party that had 90% of that ward in 2011 and is now down to 31%. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into what it means for the November local government elections, why communities always know their own people better than any party headquarters does, and whether Helen Zille can replicate it in Johannesburg. They also get into the fuel price hitting R28 a litre, the government's decision to quietly reverse the fuel levy relief, and why Joburg residents are paying 65% more for water while being told it is only 12% more. And they close with SAFA, the World Cup, 12 players on the pitch against Nicaragua, visas not ready for Mexico, and the question of whether Bafana getting knocked out early might actually be the best thing that could happen to South African football. Sharp Sharp is a weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.

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  5. eGoli’s Meltdown

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    eGoli’s Meltdown

    Zukile Majova and Rob Rose dig into a week of high political drama as President Cyril Ramaphosa files his affidavit arguing why the Phala Phala impeachment report should be set aside - and why the whole saga looks set to drag well past the November election. The ANC elders are breaking ranks, caretaker presidents are circling, and the succession whispers are getting louder. Then: Johannesburg. Africa's richest city is effectively bankrupt, its roads are disintegrating, and the mayor wants to hire more executives to oversee the chaos. Rob and Zuks debate whether anyone - Helen Zille included - can actually fix a city that needs a miracle. And Bafana Bafana head to the World Cup. Can they finally escape the group stage? Rob and Zuks dare to hope. Sharp Sharp is hosted by Rob Rose of Currency News and Zukile Majova of Scrolla.Africa.

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  6. Ruled by Hitmen

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    Ruled by Hitmen

    South Africa increasingly resembles a mafia state, where it can cost as little as R2,000 to organise a hit. This week, Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into the case of taxi boss Joe "Ferrari" Sibanyoni, and the prosecutor who was too scared to show up in court. From cut-price hired hitmen to the brazen killing of AKA on Florida Road, they ask whether the rule of law has simply collapsed in the face of organised crime.The taxi industry's grip extends far beyond South Africa. Special guest Patrick Smith, editorial director of Africa Confidential, joins to unpack the Matatu strike that brought Kenya's capital to a standstill, and what it reveals about who really holds power across the continent.Then: the Iran war's ripple effects on African fuel prices, shipping backlogs, and food security — and why one man is coining it. Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, has built the world's largest single-process oil refinery. With oil at $105 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz closed, his timing looks like genius.Sharp Sharp is hosted by Rob Rose of Currency News and Zukile Majova of Scrolla.Africa.

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  7. Inside Cyril's Couch Lottery

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    Inside Cyril's Couch Lottery

    The Constitutional Court ruled last week that Parliament failed in its duty when it buried the section 89 panel report on Phala Phala. An impeachment enquiry is now required. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into everything you need to know about how $580,000 in cash ended up stuffed under a couch on Cyril Ramaphosa's game farm, why a Sudanese businessman left without his buffaloes, and why the president who nearly resigned in 2022 is not going anywhere this time. They also ask the big question: has Ramaphosa actually been good for South Africa? Rob gives him 65 percent. Zuks gives him 80. You decide. Then they get into the construction mafia story of the week — a JSE listed company paid eight and a half million rand to a mafia boss for what was invoiced as strategic security services. Sharp Sharp is a weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.

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  8. Crocodiles Ate My Budget

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    Crocodiles Ate My Budget

    A man was eaten by a crocodile in the Komati River this week. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova used it as the perfect metaphor for what is happening to ordinary South Africans right now. Paraffin is now R28 a litre at the regulated price and R40 by the time it reaches a village spaza shop. It is the fuel of the poorest South Africans heading into winter and nobody in government seems to care. Rob and Zuks dig into the cost of living crisis that is eating through people's pockets, the HSRC survey showing support for democracy has collapsed from 65% to 36% since the mid-2000s, why that collapse is pushing people toward strongman leaders like Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump, the NSFAS disaster and the deeply questionable new appointment to fix it, and the Chad Du Plessis award of the week which goes to Gwede Mantashe's department for getting the fuel price calculation wrong by a rand. Sharp Sharp is a weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.

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Currency News and Scrolla.Africa join forces to bring you South Africa's sharpest weekly conversation. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova sit down each week to talk straight about politics, money, and power. No spin. No script. Just the truth.

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