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Frankly Speaking

Frankly Speaking looks at topical issues through the eyes of young people doing amazing things. Hosts Andrew Levy and Rorisang Tshabalala take on everything from politics to social issues to lifestyle. Join them for a often provocative, sometimes amusing look at the country and world we live in.
Weekly English South Africa Society & Culture · News
163 Episodes
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Were the Stellenbosch Mafia the Original State Capturers?

State Capture has dominated the South African socio-political landscape recently, culminating in an explosive report by the Public Protector outlining various cases of politicians being compromised by wealthy businesspeople. Others have argued that the focus on the Guptas and others is misplaced and should rather be directed at the looting…
23 Nov 2016 55 min

What Would you Give Up for a Better South Africa?

What would you give up for a better South Africa? Andrew Levy opens with an extract from a short story called The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Andrew speaks to a number of guests including Vinayak Bhardwaj, Kevin Foster, Kayan Leung, Maloba Tshela, and Tizi Merafe to discuss this…
16 Nov 2016 56 min

Are Trump Voters Acting Rationally?

The common refrain from the middle-class has been that Trump voters are unintelligent deplorables acting irrationally, but what might we be missing out on by writing their actions off as irrational? In this show Andrew and Rori speak to Tinashe Chuchu to unpack what is really happening in the hearts…
9 Nov 2016 55 min

Is Apartheid, Race & Poverty Still Linked in South Africa?

Twenty-two years into democratic South Africa, demographics still reflect that poverty is concentrated along race lines in the country. Some have argued that after so long, apartheid can no longer be blamed for this. In this show Andrew and Rori speak to the Statistician-General, Dr Pali Lehohla and social activist…
2 Nov 2016 57 min

How should 80's Babies Make their Mark on SA's Political History?

It tends to seem that the 90's babies have found their place and their voices in shaping and making their mark on the South African political landscape, while the 80's babies have struggled to do the same. Andrew and Rori speak to fellow 80's baby, DA Member of Parliament and…
26 Oct 2016 55 min

Frankly Speaking - What Does It Mean To Be Black? Part 4

In the fourth episode in the series, Andrew and Rori follow up the conversations that have been had on what it means at an individual level to be black, with a discussion on what it means at an organisational level. There are a range of organisations in South Africa that…
28 Sep 2016 58 min

Frankly Speaking - What Does It Mean To Be Black? Part 3

In this third episode of the series titled 'What Does It Mean To Be Black?', Rori explores the question more deeply, assisted by the CEO of Steve Biko Foundation, Obenewa Amponsah, and activist and researcher Bryan Keith Murray. They begin to define the differences between the cultural meaning of being…
21 Sep 2016 55 min

Frankly Speaking - What Does It Mean To Be Black? Part 2

In this second installment of the series titled 'What Does It Mean To Be Black?', Andrew and Rori unpack some of the discussions from the first episode... and end up even more confused and no less challenged by the thoughts that Phumi Mashigo of Womandla! and Nozipho Mbanjwa of The…
14 Sep 2016 59 min

Frankly Speaking - What Does It Mean To Be Black? Part 1

For a long time blackness has represented more than just a skin colour and more of a culture encompassing many unique nations, voices and skin colours. It has been called a state of mind, it has been called an attitude of the mind. But what exactly does it mean to…
7 Sep 2016 57 min

Frankly Speaking - Black Hair, Don't Care!

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh campaign, where black learners openly protested what they referred to as racist and discriminatory rules on the hair of black learners at the highly-regarded Pretoria High School for Girls, the nation was once again divided. While there was overwhelming support for…
31 Aug 2016 53 min

Frankly Speaking - Are Coloured People Black People?

In the wake of Wayde van Niekerk's epic, world record-breaking victory in the Olympics 400m race, instead of celebrating as one, naturally, South Africans quickly turned the moment into a racially-polarised tweetstorm. On the one hand was those who celebrated under #colouredexcellence, arguing that it was time for coloured people…
24 Aug 2016 53 min

Frankly Speaking - Do you still care about Marikana?

Four years after the Marikana massacre that left 41 miners dead from the bullets of police officers, Andrew and Rori reflect on the commemorative events of the fatal day (16 August 2012) and ask whether they don't suggest that in spite of what politicians say, general society has long since…
17 Aug 2016 55 min

Frankly Speaking - Is she your Domestic Worker or your Slave?

Ever wondered what your domestic worker thinks about the way you treat her? Behind every successful man in pinstripes and woman in heels in the corporate boardroom is a humble woman in a maid's outfit back home walking the dog, feeding the kid and making sure that the whites remain…
10 Aug 2016 58 min

Frankly Speaking - Why did you vote the way you did?

On the day of the municipal elections in South Africa, Andrew and Rori set up camp outside a voting station to engage with voters about who they are voting for and what informs their voting decisions.
3 Aug 2016 1 hr 03 min

Frankly Speaking - Why are you Hating on the CEO SleepOut?

It's that time again for the critically acclaimed CEO SleepOut™... and even after a resounding success in the first year where R26m was raised, it appears that the initiative does not have everyone won over. Andrew and Rori tackle and explore the various critiques of the event and ask, do…
27 Jul 2016 52 min

Frankly Speaking - Controlling the Airwaves

Is the SABC censoring the news or taking control of the national narrative? The media is often criticised for only focusing on the "negative" and SABC, for one, appears to have decided to change that through an editorial policy that has been labelled as censorship. Media Freedom Organiser at Right2Know,…
20 Jul 2016 54 min

Frankly Speaking - What Should White People Do?

In this second instalment of the series, Andrew and Rori extend the question to CEO of YFM, Kanthan Pillay, self-proclaimed foe of Frankly Speaking Roman Cabanac, and Pastor Greg Tait of the God First Church - who put a different twist to the question, leaving us asking ourselves if we…
13 Jul 2016 56 min

Frankly Speaking - What must White People do?

The team has kicked Rorisang out of the studio and are having a frank discussion amongst whites about what they must do. This is not a prescriptive 'How To' guide... rather an in-depth look at different viewpoints and perspectives about what white people must/can/should do in SA.
6 Jul 2016 52 min

Frankly Speaking - Are The Zulus Taking Over?

A question heard on the street in midst of the Tshwane unrest has been why Thoko Didiza, a Zulu person, has been sent to be mayor in a majority Sotho area, when it would be unheard of for a Sotho person to be a mayor in KZN. President Zuma has…
29 Jun 2016 58 min
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