Trump's war on Iran has sent the fuel price through the roof and South Africa is feeling it hard. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into the three rand a litre relief cut and whether the government can sustain it, Ramaphosa's investment conference and the smoke and mirrors around two trillion rand, the fascinating poll showing 47% of ANC voters want Patrice Motsepe as their next leader, why Ramaphosa cannot fire his police minister even when he knows he should, and Helen Zille swimming in a Joburg pothole.
Sharp Sharp is a new weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.
Rob Rose from the Financial Mail and Zukile Majova from Scrolla Africa speak to election analyst Wayne Sussman in a special post election briefing for episode 33 of Sharp Sharp.
Wayne explains why the ANC lost so much ground in the cities, why voters told the pollsters one thing and did another, and whether the ANC can rebuild before 2029. They also ask if Cyril Ramaphosa is now a lame duck, why the ANC did not announce its mayors, and how KwaZulu-Natal will shape the coalition talks.
Then they turn to Joburg. Can the DA and ActionSA strike a deal, is the ANC and DA partnership the most likely outcome, and who will end up as mayor? They also look at ActionSA's big result, how MK did without Jacob Zuma on the campaign trail, and why so many councils are hung.
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Rob Rose from the Financial Mail and Zukile Majova from Scrolla.Africa speak to Helen Zille, the DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate, ahead of South Africa's local government elections on 4 November, in episode 32 of Sharp Sharp.
Zille says the election will decide whether Joburg and the other metros succeed or fail. She explains why she won't name her coalition red lines, whether she could work with Herman Mashaba again, and what she would do about a bankrupt city and its water crisis. She also takes on Rob and Zuks over why the DA has struggled to break through, and says it is about to become the biggest party in the country.
They also ask about inequality in Cape Town and Joburg, the future of the Government of National Unity, whether she would go into opposition, and what she really thinks of journalists.
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Rob Rose from the Financial Mail and Zukile Majova from Scrolla.Africa are joined in the studio by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential for episode 31 of Sharp Sharp, as South Africa and the United States go to the polls a day apart.They ask what the local government elections mean for the Government of National Unity, why the DA's maths in Joburg is so hard even at 40%, and whether Herman Mashaba and the ANC could cut a deal that keeps Helen Zille out of the mayor's chair. They also look at why professionals feel pushed out of the ANC and how the youth vote has been pulled towards the EFF and MK.Then they turn to the world: the US midterms, corruption and the cost of living, Brazil, Israel's election, and whether South Africa slips down Donald Trump's list of targets.Sharp Sharp is the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa.Subscribe for new episodes. You can also watch on YouTube.
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova cannot agree on the Constitutional Court's ruling that lets the ANC register the candidates it failed to submit.
Rob says rules are rules, and the ANC missed its own deadline by not pressing submit. Zuks says punishing the party means punishing voters, especially in the Eastern Cape, where people could lose the party they have backed for 30 years. They also ask whether the ruling has saved Fikile Mbalula's career, and who takes the blame if the ANC does badly in November.
In the first half of the show, they speak to Dr Elsa Thirion Venter from MarkData about the new poll with eNCA. It puts the DA on 35% and the ANC on 21.8% in Joburg. Dr Elsa explains how the poll was done, why so many voters are still undecided, and what people really want from their next mayor.
Sharp Sharp is the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa.
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Jacob Zuma has shaped South African politics for nearly two decades. Now uncertainty over his health raises a major question: can the MK Party survive without the man holding it together?
Rob Rose, Zukile Majova and Patrick Smith examine Zuma’s political power, his complicated legacy and the struggle that could follow him inside MK.
They also discuss the ANC’s Constitutional Court battle over 181 excluded election candidates, Rwanda beating South Africa to Formula One and Donald Trump’s reaction to Navi Pillay winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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