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Daily Maverick’s Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee puts the hard questions to Cape Town's Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, on inequality, the DA leadership race, and what a functional city actually means.

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Guest: Mayor of Cape Town Geordin Hill-Lewis

Edited by: Joel Seboa

Produced by: Emilie Gambade & Joel Seboa

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Two competing narratives have emerged since KwaZulu-Natal police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi alleged in July 2025 that a cartel had penetrated South Africa’s criminal justice system, politics, and private security. Either he is exposing a national crisis, or he is deflecting from his own alleged misconduct. Daily Maverick's Caryn Dolley explains.

Reporting by: Caryn Dolley 

Edited by: Joel Seboa 

Filmed by: Joel Seboa 

Produced by: Emilie Gambade 

Sub-edited by: Ian Wolstenholme 

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South Africa is in the grip of an infrastructure supercycle, but it isn’t roads or rails. It is the rise of the AI Factory, windowless fortresses consuming small cities worth of power. 

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Lindsey Schutters & Tony Carnie 

Edited by: Anda Tolibadi 

Filmed by: Joel Seboa 

Produced by: Emilie Gambade 

Creative Lead by: Malibongwe Tyilo 

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In this solo episode of The Readiness Report, Redi Tlhabi discusses newly appointed US Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, and the recent rebuke from Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola. Drawing on her own experience of living abroad, from the United States to London, she offers four “tips” on what it means to enter a new society as a guest, why understanding local sensitivities matters, and how diplomacy can unravel when those lessons are ignored. Listen in!

This episode was made possible thanks to The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom: 
https://www.freiheit.org/sub-saharan-africa

You can listen to the Let’s Talk Human Rights podcast here: 
https://open.spotify.com/show/59LYbrnDnmsupzBh9Sb9dH?si=9ea830a251094765

Hosted by: Redi Tlhabi

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In this video, Scorpio investigative journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh unpacks documents pointing to an alleged slush fund linked to Brian Molefe during his tenure at Transnet and Eskom — and what they suggest about money, influence and State Capture. Daily Maverick reached out to Molefe for comment, but he did not respond. Reggie Maponya said she did not wish to comment. 

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