The former Joburg mayor and now leader of the DA caucus is this week’s guest on Politricking with Tshidi Madia. She shares her thoughts on being an ordinary councillor, new mayor Kabelo Gwamanda and her political love story with ActionSA’s Brutus Malada.

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Rise Mzansi's Songezo Zibi on bringing seriousness back to politics, 2024 being this generation's 1994 and listening as the pathway to solving SA's troubles.

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Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie on his excursion to Orania, the politics of coalitions, being Mayor for a year and his party's future post 2024 general elections. 

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South Africa's electricity czar Minister, Dr Kgosientsho "Sputla" Ramokgopa joined Tshidi Madia this week, he shared his thoughts on his new portfolio that lacks the necessary powers to effectively fight off load shedding, winter expectations and possible costs of rolling blackouts for the ANC ahead of the 2024 general elections.

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Sihle Zikalala's journey in the ruling party, the African National Congress is one that has proved interesting. From being booted out by his Province of KwaZulu Natal and resigning from his Premier seat and now, we catch up with him as a Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure who received the highest ANC NEC votes, might I add. Zikalala reiterates the issue of the ANC renewing itself,  and says there is no other organisation with a clear vision for all south africans outside of the ANC. 

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Rekgotsofetse Chikane, Co-editor of Protest in South Africa: Rejection, reassertion, reclamation and Dr. Ebrahim Harvey who is an independent writer, analyst and author of The Great Pretenders: Race and Class under ANC Rule re this episode's guests, together with Tshidi Madia they try make sense of the spate of protests witnessed in the first three months of 2023. 

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Tina Joemat-Peterson is the guest for this episode. A South African politician and the former Minister of Energy from the period May 2014 to March 2017. Joemat-Peterson was alleged to have sold the country’s oil reserves in a controversial deal that’s since been reversed by the court, during her tenure as Energy Minister she joined Tshidi Madia to clear her name. 

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Action SA leader Herman Mashaba joined Tshidi Madia for a discussion on the current controversies that surround the party. Just in the month of March the party has fired one of its councillors, Nkele Molapo and parted ways with its Gauteng Provincial Chair, Bongani Baloyi.

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We end the season with a look at how the ANC55th national conference played out. Spoiler alert: Ramaphosa’s been re-elected ANC president & Stan Mathabatha is in trouble?

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This episode explores the link between politics and song, with the ANC's conference just days away we unpack the tradition of how music has been used to communicate in the liberation movement until now. Dr Blondie Makhene and Dr Sisanda Nkoala help enlighten us in this interesting journey. 

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