Kaya 959 I Know What You're Thinking

I Know What You're Thinking

'I know what you're thinking' is an inquisitive take on socio-cultural aspects familiar to Afropolitans. Using storytelling to look at quiet curiosities - the kind we think about when waiting for a kettle to boil, waiting for the tub to fill, waiting briefly at the traffic lights, driving on auto-pilot or looking at a piece of art yourself in a gallery – we ponder on life. Through all this we look at correlations and the often elusive causations in our everyday existences.
Occasionally English South Africa Society & Culture
8 Episodes

Obsessions Series : Sample Sizing

Our lives exist as numbers. Brands, government organisations and researchers scrutinize, count and contextualize us all the time. As a collective we form part of a sample size, where we become the most valuable in our 'bigness'. Africa Check's Editor In Chief, Anim Van Wyk takes us through the role…
5 Aug 2019 11 min

One Day, One Day'– SA comedians breaking the fourth wall

The phrase 'One Day, One Day' is colloquial for 'Once Upon A Time' in most South African townships. It typically initiates the slapstick humour of comedians residing eKasi. In this episode 'One Day, One Day' is chanelled to look at the evolution of South Africa's comedy from the days of…
5 Aug 2019 16 min

The Vinyl Story

Most narratives surrounding vinyl are about how it has made an amazing come back. But is nostalgia all there is to the culture? Beyond nostalgia we probe how the vinyl culture intersects with history, geography and commerce. This we learn by having co-founder of Keleketla, university lecturer and kwaito enthusiast,…
5 Aug 2019 26 min

Food Security

Food security is by far one of the biggest news makers within a drought ridden Africa. But what does the language surrounding it mean. Are we running out of food? Is there food but only a few have access to it? Through the eyes of food activist and entrepreneur, Mapheu…
5 Aug 2019 29 min

FOMO and facebook philosophy

Posited as a platform for connecting the world, Facebook’s local narrative advocates for identity politics, the woke generation and public intellectualism amongst other things. This podcast illuminates these trends through the voice of long-time public opinionista Masello Motana.
5 Aug 2019 14 min

The Idea of Character

A look at how modern-day media appropriates ‘characters’ they appear in adverts, PR and the literary world. The podcast features documentarian, Tseliso Monaheng, and reputation manager and author, Andrew K. Miller.
5 Aug 2019 26 min

Fragments - Reading

Lindokuhle Nkosi is a writer straddling Cape Town and Joburg and has contributed for various publications. She presents works that she’s been previously commissioned for as well as some from her Master’s dessertation. Her’s is a fragmanted world that is non linear where she weaves mythologies dripping with violence. She…
5 Aug 2019 14 min

Running Joburg

How does an African city run and most of all how does the language of policy affect city dwellers?We look at these questions through the lens of Johannesburg, a city that is rapidly urbanising and has people from all over the African continent laying their claim to it. On our…
26 Sep 2018 24 min