The Democratic Alliance has kicked off election season by attacking affirmative action. Jeremy Maggs and Zukile Majova discuss the party’s leadership contest and ask if it’s too late for it to stop just being the party of privilege. Read more on Scrolla.Africa

The EFF’s highly-anticipated national shutdown has flopped dramatically. Besides businesses

The Economic Freedom Fighters has confirmed that it will be taking to the streets in a national shutdown on Monday, 20 March, and has called on all South Africans to join in. Numerous court cases have been launched by opposition parties and civil society to end rolling blackouts. The unrest-marred public servants’ wage strike might be over, but not before the Labour Appeal Court interdicted the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union from doing any more damage. Read more on Scrolla.Africa

With two existing Cabinet ministers responsible for managing Eskom and the new supply of electricity, what does President Cyril Ramaphosa give South Africa? Another electricity minister. But Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is going to have his work cut out for him, says Scrolla.Africa political editor Zukile Majova. The long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle, which started nearly two hours late, brings many new, younger faces to Cabinet – as well as two new ministries. Scrollacast host Jeremy Maggs and Majova discuss how this new Cabinet is mostly about helping the ANC say in power – and why Gwede Mantashe can’t be fired. Read more on Scrolla.Africa

It’s a political jungle out there. Jeremy Maggs and Zukile Majova are your guides. Jeremy is an induna of South African political reporting and Zukile, a founder and political editor of Scrolla.Africa, has been investigating South African politics since 2005. He commutes between Mount Frere and Joburg. Read more on Scrolla.Africa

The ANC has shown the country how lightly it takes the issue of removing a sitting president. The infamous “Eight Days in September” detailed shocking details of how decisions were taken around the recall of former president Thabo Mbeki. We are now stuck with this unfortunate precedent. When Kgalema Motlanthe was caretaker president for 18 months, he began the process of stripping the NPA by dissolving the Scorpions. The recall of Jacob Zuma was a similar circus. Now the groups that have been singing “Wenzeni uZuma” (what has Zuma done) brigade are out in the streets demanding what they have been saying for two years: Ramaphosa must go. But what process must be followed to remove a sitting president of the country? Jeremy Maggs and Scrolla’s political editor Zukile Majova discuss this constitutional crisis, who else might lead the ANC and the country and what it means for state capture 2.0. Read more on Scrolla.Africa

After incumbent Cyril Ramaphosa garnered the most branch nominations for the ANC elective conference next month, he seems set to be the ruling party’s president? But with voters likely to punish the ANC for its failings, will he be the country’s outright leader, wonder Jeremy Maggs and Scrolla’s political editor Zukile Majova. Meanwhile, Jacob Zuma’s medical payroll was judged to be illegal. The latest crime stats confirm that police minister Bheki Cele is no good at his job – but Ramaphosa needs this KZN strongman on his side. Read more on Scrolla.Africa

Host Jeremy Maggs speaks to political editor Zukile Majova about the upcoming ANC elective conference in December and the repercussions of this leadership tussle for the country. Scrolla’s Toby Shapshak joins them to discuss the disastrous effects Eskom is having on the country, having spent R12bn on diesel which the power utility says it can’t afford until April next year. Read more on Scrolla.Africa