The Daily Friend Show

The Daily Friend Show is a 30-minute current affairs podcast featuring our analysts and writers. It presents a liberal perspective on the political, social and economic issues of the day on Monday and Friday.

The Daily Friend Wrap is a 10-minute show that rounds up the news events of the day 3 times a week Tuesday to Thursday.

No topic is taboo, nothing is off-limits. Our team of analysts and writers from South Africa's fastest-growing liberal news site - dailyfriend.co.za.

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851 Episodes
12 – 32

Unfit and incapable

Today's Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the comments of the Joburg mayor on a rates boycott in Johannesburg due to the water outage. They also discuss the legacy of Pravin Gordhan and a Mpumalanga mayor who is accused of stealing electricity.
8 Mar 7AM 27 min

ANC makes an oopsie

Today's Daily Friend with Nicholas Lorimer, Michael Morris, and John Endres. They discuss the numerous tangled corruption binds the ANC has gotten itself into, the failure of the Change Starts Now Movement and lastly they chat about getting economic growth up.
4 Mar 7AM 32 min

Government uses non-racialism to defend BEE

Today's Daily Friend Show with Mlondi Mdluli, Michael Morris, and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the government hiring an "all-white" team of lawyers to defend the state in a BEE case. They also discuss a fistfight between the ANC and EFF and lastly, they discuss mismanagement at Eskom.
1 Mar 7AM 28 min

What is Gordhan hiding? | Daily Friend Wrap

Nicholas Lorimer and Sara Gon discuss the strangeness of Gordhan's behavior around the SAA deal. They also chat about another MK by-election and SAMWU demanding more money.
29 Feb 9AM 13 min

ANC manifesto: tired, old, bad ideas

Today's Daily Friend Show with Hermann Pretorius, Makone Maja, and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the ANC election manifesto and political violence between MK and ANC supporters.
26 Feb 7AM 35 min

We can’t comply with the court because: The System is down

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Michael Morris.They discuss the latest revelations on the cadre deployment documents released by the ANC. They also chat about the budget and kids walking to school in rural SA.
23 Feb 7AM 32 min

DA manifesto: a credible offer for South Africa?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Terence Corrigan, and Gerbrandt van Heerden. They discuss the DA manifesto and the ANC running out of time to deploy the cadre deployment minutes.
19 Feb 7AM 30 min

Billions of Rands lost every single month

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Mlondi Mdluli, and Hermann Pretorius. They discuss the terrible state of SOEs like Eskom, and the poor analysis of the DA by many political analysts. They also discuss the theft of a City Power Substation.
16 Feb 7AM 31 min

Gwede defends Cadre Deployment | Daily Friend Wrap

Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the weak defence of cadre deployment offered by Minister Gwede Mantashe, they also discuss a crazy corruption scandal in Gauteng and water shortages in Joburg.
13 Feb 9AM 13 min

Is the MK party the end of the ANC's dominance ?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, and Terence Corrigan. They discuss the first polling showing Zuma's new MK party is polling better than expected. They also discuss the EFF's manifesto for 2024 and lastly, they discuss the Cadre deployment committee meeting minutes.
12 Feb 7AM 31 min
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