South Africa has opened a new military hospital in the Eastern Cape but what does this investment mean for the health, dignity and readiness of those who serve the country?

On this Nnete Fela Show we ask how can Africa turn its vast natural wealth into lasting development and what could new digital systems mean for how Africans move across the continent?

As South Africa marks 70 years since the Women’s March, we look at women’s economic empowerment, 60 years of conservation at Augrabies Falls and whether a new hospital in Mpumalanga can help make quality healthcare more accessible.

On this Nnete Fela Show we discuss the International Portraits of Power exhibition which celebrates women who shaped nations. We also visit a SA Social Security Agency office in Soweto, where Social Development Minister Dina Pule made an surprise visit responding to concerns over long queues and service delivery.

On this Nnete Fela Show, we centre South Africa’s migration debate as “Operation Ubuntu” mobilises against xenophobia. We also discuss the deepening US-Iran war, the prospects for diplomacy and the wider geopolitical stakes.

In this Nnete Fela Show we discuss South Africa accelerated efforts to repatriate the remains of liberation heroes who died in exile. Later we talk to a South African researcher developing a promising AI-powered approach to faster TB screening.

Can South Africa’s migration debate be settled in its own courts? How do we protect local sugar producers without shutting out trade? And why are healthy oceans becoming central to Africa’s future? This episode answers these three questions.

Zimbabwe is betting on new development finance and mineral beneficiation to drive its economic revival. As the country joins the BRICS New Development Bank and moves deeper into lithium processing, can it turn its natural wealth and new access to capital into jobs, infrastructure and lasting industrial growth?

In this Nnete Fela Show, Naazim Adam examines The Elders' warning that hopes for an independent Palestine are fading. Meanwhile Gazan academic Professor Haidar Eid recounts displacement, the loss of colleagues and students, and the systematic destruction of Palestinian education.

South Africa has been iced out of the G20, the Russian Foreign ministry says that this exclusion will make decision making difficult. To explain what all of this means for the geopolitics of South Africa and the African continent, political analyst and researcher Gustavo de Carvalho joins the show.