The Best of Afternoon Drive with Bongani Bingwa

Bongani talks to the DA’s Shadow Deputy Minister of Finance, Alf Lees about the latest on SAA. This is after the news of government possibly selling Telkom to bail SAA out, surfaced yesterday.

Bongani speaks to Dr Guy Lamb about the recently released Urban Safety Report. This is the second of its kind to offer a city-by-city breakdown of crime trends.

Bongani talks to Angelo Coppola who is a freelance journalist and correspondent currently working on the Angolan elections. The elections will mark the end of a 38 year reign by by Eduardo Jose Dos Santos.

Bongani speaks to Murray Hunter from the Right2Know campaign about the minimum law enforcement agencies that are spying on at least 70 000 South Africans and by some estimates, that number could go as high as over 190 000.

Bongani talks to Educational Psychologist Melanie Hartgill about the impact that smartphones have on parent-child relationship. A new study has revealed that the amount of time parents spend on their phones, does have behavioral effects on children as they spend less time bonding with their parents.

Bongani speaks to Caxton professor of journalism at Wits Anton Harber about Mzwanele Manyi’s latest purchase of the Gupta media companies. It has since emerged that Manyi paid about 10 times more than the actual valued price for the companies.

Bongani talks to the ANC’s Geoffrey Makhubo and DA’s Rabelani Dagada about whether the City of Johannesburg is bankrupt. This comes after Former Mayor Parks Tau claimed that his successor DA Mayor Herman Mashaba's administration has brought the city to economic and financial ruin which Mashaba has denied.

Bongani speaks to Chris Yelland who is the MD of EE Publishers about an alleged report yet to be finalized by the Auditor General, this is according to the DA energy spokesperson Gordan McKay. McKay alleges that the report shows that key nuclear related contracts entered into by the national energy department are irregular and unauthorized.

Bonagni talks to Investigative Journalist Sipho Masondo and Mlimandlela Ndamase who’s Nomvula Mokonyane’s spokesperson on municipalities that owe the department R7 billion. Mokonyane was appearing before the committee to explain R2.5 billion in irregular expenditure in 2015-2016.

Bongani talks to Statistician General at Stats SA Pali Lehohla about the poverty figures in the country. According to the latest Poverty Trends in South Africa in SA report, one out of every two South Africans was poor in 2015.