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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 days 2 hours 35 minutes
First major load shedding protest: will there be more?
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Gabriel Crouse and Chris Hattingh. The crew chats about the DA's march on Luthuli House in protest of load shedding. They also chat about the ANC's defence of the policy of cadre deployment in court and the confusing message from Lesufi on Soweto's Eskom debt.
Marching on Luthuli House
Today's Daily Friend show with John Endres, Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the planned DA march to Luthuli House protesting load-shedding. They also discuss the way out of the Eskom crisis and the growing debate over federalism in South Africa.
Ignore Eskom, build your own nuclear reactor.
Today's Daily Friend Show with Terence Corrigan, Nicholas Lorimer, and Sholan Booysen. They discuss the plan Afriforum to build its own power stations as well as the president's comments on Eskom's tariff hike. Also they discuss the matric pass rate and the commemoration of the battle of Isandlwana.
Eskom crisis: too many chickens!
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Sara Gon and Makone Maja. They discuss the glut of chickens as a result of loadshedding, the failure of the education system to produce people for the workplace, comments by the health minister on NHI and a possible mistake by City Power in Johannesburg with regards to bill collection.
How to pass Matric
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Sholan Booysen and Marius Roodt. They discuss the IEB matric pass rate. The drop in China's population. Comments by Ramaphosa on the electricity tariff increase. They also discuss the issue of "unofficial" traffic pointsmen.
Eskom Crisis: Now the taps start to run dry
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Sara Gon and Chris Hattingh. The discuss the ongoing Eskom crisis and how government is perhaps not fully truthful in its claims to foreign audiences. They also discuss a legal effort to challenge load-shedding in the courts, and they discuss fewer people dying on the roads in 2022.
Is there even a plan to deal with load-shedding?
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Hermann Pretorius and Terence Corrigan. They discuss the seeming lack of urgency on the part of government to do anything to fix Eskom and the ongoing stage 6 crisis. They also discuss a survey of SA executives, who are worried about "state collapse"
Who is really behind loadshedding ??!!!??!
Today's Daily Friend Show with Alex Weiss, Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius. They discuss comments by government figures about the malevolent forces who are really to blame for loadshedding. They also chat about the problem of vandalism and the first day back to school.
South Africa: Land of Assassins
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Martin van Staden and Chris Hattingh. They chat about the disturbing trend of assassinations at Fort Hare University. They also discuss moving Eskom to the ministry of Energy and the talk about expanding the South African reserve bank's mandate.
Ditsobotla, a guide to SA's future
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Sara Gon. They discuss the mass of by-elections in Northwest in December last year. They also discuss a bad audit report for Tshwane and Panyaza Lesufi's comments on the IEB.