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.

Chapters:

01:44 - Mine

27:18 - Imraan Coovadia

41:58 - Vijay Prashad

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.

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.

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.

Chapters:

00:00 - Teaser

01:22 - Environmental justice

25:15 - Steven Friedman

40:20 - Sign-off

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.

Chapters:

00:00 - Teasers

02:15 - Mahmood Mamdani

22:26 - Kyle Shepherd

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.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe

Guests: Eusebius McKaiser, Samira Sawlani and Nick Nyamusa

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

02:05 - Political podcasts

09:48 - Eusebius McKaiser

26:07 - Samira Sawlani

36:21 - Nick Titan

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.

Hosted by: Tebadi Mmotla

Guests: Suzen Phoshoko, Father Michael Lapsley and Nadira Omarjee

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

02:51 - Esidimeni

21:15 - Lapsley

37:26 - Omarjee

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.

Guests: Sisonke Msimang

Song: Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokotho – Nothembi Mkhwebane

Production: The Good People at Between Productions

Editor: Charles Leonard

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.

Chapters:

00:00 - Teasers

01:39 - Feminists vs Zuma - Shireen Hassim

27:02 - Beirut revisited - Liliane Chlela

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.

Chapters:

00:00 - Teasers

01:34 - Mandla Langa 

26:02 - Geo Maher