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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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Daily English South Africa News Commentary · Politics
1,234 Episodes
840 – 860

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

Lockdown for thee and not for me

Today's Daily Friend Show with Gabriel Crouse, Nicholas Lorimer and Bheki Mahlobo. The crew discusses the disparity in the enforcement of lockdown regulations, the BEE regulations for Covid relief and Ramaphosa's call for the abolition of Covid vaccine intellectual property rights.
29 Sep 2021 8AM 30 min

What the ANC has planned for us

Today's Daily Friend Show, hosted by Nicholas Lorimer, featuring Sara Gon and Hermann Pretorius. They discuss the ANC local government manifesto, the never ending Zondo commission and the energy crisis in China and the UK.
28 Sep 2021 8AM 30 min

No Police trained in the last two years!

On Today's Daily Friend Show Sara Gon and Marius Roodt, hosted by Nicholas Lorimer. The team chats about the lack of SAPS personnel trained in the last two years . They also discuss the EFF and DA manifesto launches. They also chat about the German elections.
27 Sep 2021 8AM 30 min

Ramaphosa says west must pay reparations for slavery

Today's Daily Friend Show with Gabriel Crouse and Marius Roodt, hosted by Nicholas Lorimer. The crew discusses a speech given by Cyril Ramaphosa at the United Nations, the theft of grants by public servants and the stealth privatization of the state.
23 Sep 2021 8AM 31 min

A big win for mining and a defeat for BEE

Today's Daily Friend Show with Michael Morris and Hermann Pretorius, hosted by Nicholas Lorimer. The team discusses the ruling in the Pretoria high Court getting rid of some key aspects of the mining charter and BEE. They also discuss the sale of Burger King SA and Theranos.
22 Sep 2021 8AM 31 min

Our liberty to choose sweet death

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Terence Corrigan and Marius Roodt. The crew discusses the effects and principles of the sugar tax. They also chat about the Canadian elections.
21 Sep 2021 8AM 30 min

IRR Under Attack

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Gabriel Crouse and Sara Gon discusses a letter in the Daily Maverick attacking the IRR, the constitutional court ruling on the candidate lists reopening and what happened on registration weekend.
21 Sep 2021 2AM 31 min

South Africans say corruption worse under Ramaphosa

Today's Daily Friend show with Gabriel Crouse, Marius Roodt and Nicholas Lorimer chats about a survey from Afrobarometer showing South Africans are losing faith in our institutions. They also discuss the acquisition of nuclear subs by Australia and the German and Canadian elections.
16 Sep 2021 8AM 31 min
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