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TikTok’s Plans For South Africa’s Election: Fighting Fake News and Bigotry
Enormous media platforms have a responsibility to counteract misinformation, disinformation and bigotry, particularly during elections, when bad actors are trying to sway voters and influence democracies. In partnership with TikTok, we find out how the platform plans to keep South Africa safe from those who may try to misuse TikTok. This is our exclusive interview with Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, sub-Saharan Africa Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at TikTok.
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Can Independent Candidates Fix The SA Government? Zackie Achmat Exclusive
Zackie Achmat is a legendary activist, and also most people's bet for most likely to become South Africa's first independent member of parliament. In this exclusive interview, we ask him what he intends to do to make our government function better, and why independent candidates are worth supporting come the election.
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ANC Loses To MK In Court, Mapisa-Nqakula Refuses To Be Arrested: News Worth Knowing
The Independent Electoral Commission rejected the ANC’s attempt to have Jacob Zuma’s MK party removed from the May 29 election. National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is trying every play in the book to avoid facing charges for accepting bribes when she was Defence Minister. Tens of thousands of students are victims of one of the country’s biggest private higher education institutions, Educor, being forced to close.
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What Did Markus Jooste Actually Do? A Summary of Steinhoff
The world was rocked by Markus Jooste’s passing last week, as he was about to be arrested for a massive case of fraud with international consequences. Here’s what he was alleged to have done wrong.
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Military Bribe Scandal Involving South African Politician, Whistleblower Silenced By Airfryer: News Worth Knowing
National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's home was raided a few days ago, after she was accused of soliciting a multi-million rand bribe for tenders while she was Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. Prominent whistleblower Brigadier Dennis Chili claims that he was removed from his post in Crime Intelligence over a stitch-up involving an airfryer that was on sale at his local supermarket. All you need to know!
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South African Politics Is A Men's Club, Where Are The Women In Positions Of Power?
South Africa is a world leader in having women in politics, but no positions of true power in the government are held by women. Nearly all of South Africa's political parties are led by men, and men fill most parties' executive positions. In a country where most registered voters are women, and women suffer the awful gender based violence, why are women being kept out of positions of power?
Customer Reviews
Such digestible content! Love every episode
As new migrants to South Africa, there’s so much to navigate and so much history to catch up on. Dan’s podcast has been an AMAZING resource for us, it’s so enjoyable to listen to and really helps us learn about the chaos and many layers that make up this weird and wonderful country. Highly recommend!
Let’s watch this movie together
I discovered Dan during the World Cup, loved watching his analysis/breakdowns. Seeing that evolve into The Issue is great! Relevant topics, guests from across the board, no faffing.
Full marks because of the beanies though.
Just Brilliant
The takes, analysis’ and/ or breakdowns are unbiased, factual and comprehensible - even on topics that are complex, boring and dreadful. Dan makes keeping up with headlines easy, not to mention in an, and for lack of better words, “unpropagated” and cleanest way possible. His work is impeccable, I feel.