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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 releases episodes at 17:00 which comment on the news events of the day 4 times a week Monday to Thursday. On Friday we do a live show on YouTube at 13:30.

No topic is taboo, nothing is off-limits. Our team of analysts and writers from South Africa's leading liberal opinion site

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1,234 Episodes
832 – 852

The ANC's KZN election disaster

Today's Daily Friend with Terence Corrigan, Nicholas Lorimer and Bheki Mahlobo discusses the results of the election in KZN and the victory of a Republican governor in Virginia and what this means for the global debate on CRT.
3 Nov 2021 8AM 31 min

The weird election

Nicholas Lorimer Gabriel Crouse and Marius Roodt chat about the early results from yesterday's local government elections.
2 Nov 2021 8AM 30 min

Pravin Gordhan: no guys, this time we are serious about load shedding

Today's Daily Friend Show with Terence Corrigan, Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius. They discuss the press conference about Eskom in which Pravin Gordhan promised more action on load shedding, Quinton de Kock's statement regarding taking the knee and the coup in Sudan.
28 Oct 2021 7AM 31 min

Eskom staff go nuclear!

Today's Daily Friend Show with Michael Morris, Sara Gon and Nicholas Lorimer. The crew discusses the shortage of skilled staff at Eskom's nuclear power station, the arrest of officers for shooting women with rubber bullets and the state of the SA media.
27 Oct 2021 7AM 31 min

Cricket SA demands players 'take the knee'

If you are having issues accessing the audio version of the podcast, you can still to access it on YouTube (link attached). On today's Daily Friend Show, Marius Roodt, Gabriel Crouse and Nicholas Lorimer discuss Cricket SA forces all players to take the knee to show support for the Black…
26 Oct 2021 8AM 31 min

Nando's burns Gareth Cliff's platform

Nicholas Lorimer, Terence Corrigan and Sara Gon discuss what's in the news on today's Daily Friend Show. They discuss the canceling of Gareth Cliff by Nando's and the unexpected new political party members as well as city power's failure to avoid load-shedding in Joburg.
25 Oct 2021 8AM 30 min

Vigilante stalks the streets of Mamelodi

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Terence Corrigan. They discuss the story of a vigilante referred to as "John Wick" who is accused of killing gang members in the area. They also discuss the call by Mandla Mandela to boycott Miss Universe and the story of…
21 Oct 2021 8AM 30 min

Prices are going up!

Today's Daily Friend Show with Bheki Mahlobo, Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius. The team discusses the raise in inflation in SA and the world. They also discuss the NUMSA strike and Ramaphosa's pledge to not tolerate corruption.
20 Oct 2021 8AM 30 min

What's the best local government in SA?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Terence Corrigan. The crew discusses an index produced by Media24 about which is the best governed municipality in South Africa. They also talk about the murder of Sir David Amess in the UK.
19 Oct 2021 8AM 30 min

Defence minister taken hostage by army vets

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon, Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan. The crew discusses the alleged taking hostage of two ministers by MK veterans, an update on the Glencoe case and Apple bowing down to China.
18 Oct 2021 8AM 32 min

Taxis burned on the streets of PE

Today's Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer. The team discusses the outbreak of violence between shop owners and taxi drivers in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) sparked by a road rage incident. They also chat about the city of Joburg's request to be taken off the loadsheding…
14 Oct 2021 8AM 31 min

Mogoeng Mogoeng steps down as Chief Justice

Today's Daily Friend Show featuring Nicholas Lorimer, Michael Morris and Gabriel Crouse discusses the run of Mogoeng Mogoeng as Chief Justice, the impact of tariffs on chicken and the state of SA's unions.
13 Oct 2021 8AM 31 min

Rewriting history in our schools

Today's Daily Friend Show with Hermann Pretorius, Gabriel Crouse and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the plans for the reformulation of the history curriculum and what the potential pitfalls could be. They also discuss the charging of an Mpumalanga MEC with a double murder and some new business regulations.
12 Oct 2021 7AM 31 min

Politicians seek to drive racial tensions after shooting in KZN

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Caiden Lang and Terence Corrigan discusses the shooting dead of a 17 year old near Dundee in Kwa-Zulu Natal that has caused tensions in the local community that Terence and Caiden went to KZN to investigate. They also chat about South Africa's immigration…
11 Oct 2021 7AM 30 min

South Africa no longer most industrialised country in Africa

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon, Bheki Mahlobo and Nicholas Lorimer. The crew discusses an article by economist Mike Schüssler which talks about the state of SA's manufacturing. They also discuss Ramaphosa calling on teachers to lower the school dropout rate and on the practical implementations of vaccine passports…
6 Oct 2021 8AM 30 min

Too white and male for the Constitutional Court

Today's Daily Friend Show with Hermann Pretorius Nicholas Lorimer and Michael Morris.They discuss the comments made about white judges at the Judicial Services commission on Monday, the global outage of Facebook and Whatsapp and Japan's new PM.
5 Oct 2021 8AM 31 min

Joburg has to pay R7 Billion of Eskom debt

Today's Daily Friend Show hosted by Nicholas Lorimer with Gabriel Crouse and Marius Roodt. The Crew discusses the city of Joburg's plan to take on 7 billion Rand of Eskom debt for Soweto. They also discuss news from New Zealand and the nomination of Judge President John Hlophe for the…
4 Oct 2021 8AM 30 min

President Lindiwe Sisulu?

Today's Daily Friend Show hosted by Nicholas Lorimer with Terence Corrigan and Sara Gon discusses the Presidential ambitions of Lindiwe Sisulu, the charge by the SAHC commission that the PAC had used hate speech, the Digital Vibes scandal and South Africa asking for money to fight climate change.
30 Sep 2021 8AM 32 min
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