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Solidarity gets ready for the BELA fight
Nicholas Lorimer, Makone Maja and Anlu Keeve, discuss Solidarity’s opening salvo in the fight to stop the BELA bill being implemented. They also discuss COGTA
Why South Africans struggle to escape poverty
Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the huge shortage of spaces in universities for first-year students. They also discuss as ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) prepares
ActionSA grows larger
Marius Roodt and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the merger of ActionSA and the Forum 4 Service Delivery. They also talk about the success of a school
What does the matric pass rate tell us
Nicholas Lorimer and Sara Gon discuss the 2024 matric pass rate, the illegal miners in Stilfontein, and the Competition Commission report on supermarkets.
Last chance saloon for the GNU
John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discuss what 2025 has in store for South Africa and the world.
TDF on holiday
To all our valued readers, the Daily Friend will be on a well-deserved break until next year. We will still be publishing occasional opinion pieces
Daily Friend Special: Britain is subduing free speech with Simon Lincoln Reader
In this Daily Friend Show Special Sara Gon interviews DF contributor and fund manager, Simon Lincoln Reader, about the bizarre and chilling clamping down on
Daily Friend Special: Securing the tools to defeat corruption, an interview with Paul Hoffman
In this special episode Nicholas Lorimer talks to Advocate Paul Hoffman about a private member’s bill to create a new chapter 9 institution which would
Ramaphosa shuffling cabinet
Today’s Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon and Nicholas Lorimer discusses the cowardly decision to not fire the justice minister. They also talk about a
Fikile vs the KZN ANC
Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the battle between the KwaZulu-NatalANC and the ANC national leadership over who is to blame for the party’s performance