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Rand Water says the crisis is here

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Today’s Daily Friend Show, with Nicholas Lorimer, Terence Corrigan, and Sara Gon discusses the connection between cadre deployment and the growing water crisis in Johannesburg.

Hunger still stalks SA

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Today’s Daily Friend Show with Anlu Keeve, Nicholas Lorimer, and Hermann Pretorius looks at a report from the National Food and Nutrition Security Survey which

Vibes are not enough | The Daily Friend Wrap

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Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss how important it is for the GNU to make job creation the center of its policy objectives. They also

ActionSA and ANC make a deal in Tshwane | Daily Friend Wrap

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First-time guest, Chris Patterson, and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the election of ActionSA candidate Nasiphi Moya as mayor of Tshwane. They also discuss new visa regulations

ANC showdown: Mbalula vs Lesufi | Daily Friend Wrap

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Marius Roodt, and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the internal conflict in the ANC between Lesufi and Mbalula over the GNU. They also talk about the interrogation

Getting around BEE, empowering South Africans

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Today’s Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Michael Morris, and Chris Hattingh discusses new regulations from the minister of communications, Solly Malatsi, which will allow

Government can’t define race

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Today’s Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer and Sara Gon talks about how despite having many race based laws on the books, government cannot actually

Millions on grants, millions without jobs: how long can it last?

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Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the horrifying number of South Africans on social grants. They also discuss the latest polling from the SRF on

Operation Tailwinds: a note of clarification

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In his essay, Operation Tailwinds: Scrap BEE in return for an amnesty (19 September), contributing author Sean Mclaughlin examined the idea of the parties in

Malema on the edge: Poll shows EFF support collapsing | Daily Friend Wrap

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Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest polling from the Social Research Foundation (SRF) which shows EFF support down to 6%. They also talk