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Eusebius on TimesLIVE

Eusebius McKaiser, well-known broadcaster, author, and now also contributor and political analyst for TimesLIVE, hosts a weekly podcast that journeys to the heart of major news items, dissecting politics, law, and ethics.

Eusebius is known for sharp debate, and this podcast is no different. It will inform, entertain, explain and frame evidence-informed debates about the major stories of the week.
Weekly English South Africa News Commentary · Politics
103 Episodes
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ANC divided on whether ethics should matter in politics

You might be perplexed by the debate in the governing ANC on the step-aside rule. Should the rule stay or go? What does the rule say? What should the public make of this “debate”, which has become a hot-button issue at the policy conference in Johannesburg? In this audio explainer,…
30 Jul 2022 19 min

A festival of ideas or dress rehearsal for elective conference?

In this episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, he is joined by fellow political analyst Ebrahim Fakir, and they debate whether the ANC's policy conference this weekend will produce honest and productive debate on policy. Fakir has written a trenchant critique of the ANC's obsession, as he sees it, with externalising…
29 Jul 2022 29 min

Should the SA passport be decolonised?

Koffi Kouakou, an African analyst and senior research fellow at The Centre for Africa-China Studies, said the SA passport should be changed to eliminate the use of French on the cover. He said there are significant symbolic, cultural, economic and geopolitical reasons for his proposal. Eusebius McKaiser, not convinced by…
25 Jul 2022 26 min

Shilowa says SACP is parasitic on ANC

Former general secretary of Cosatu and premier of Gauteng, Mbhazima Shilowa, joined Eusebius McKaiser on his TimesLIVE podcast to dissect the SACP after the party's recent congress. Shilowa had written a provocative column in which he argues that the SACP is parasitic on the ANC, lacking the guts to contest…
21 Jul 2022 25 min

Is Sri Lanka a warning to the ANC?

A year since the July 2021 unrests in KZN and Gauteng, there is still no clear factual account of what had happened. As covered in the Sunday Times last weekend, many individuals and families are living lives irreparably damaged by the riots, quite apart from the incalucable economic consequences for…
12 Jul 2022 45 min

DEBATE | Is Balenciaga’s ‘distressed’ R30,000 sneaker art, or expensive trash?

Eusebius on TimesLIVE hosted an energetic debate about a controversial limited-edition sneaker released by Balenciaga. The “distressed” design, which looks like very dirty, well-worn shoes that only people under conditions of extreme poverty may be reluctantly compelled to wear, retails at about $1,850 (R30,000). Mikhail Brown, who writes about the…
29 Jun 2022 47 min

Lebogang Maile: ‘Delegates must elect me so I can help renew the ANC’

Eusebius on TimesLIVE was joined by Gauteng co-operative governance and human settlements MEC Lebogang Maile to hear why he believes he should be elected ANC provincial chairperson. They started with a discussion about the need for modernisation in the ruling party. McKaiser said voters of Maile’s age and younger are…
21 Jun 2022 33 min

Is the business of media broken?

Arena Holdings group CEO Mzi Malunga is the guest on this latest episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE. They explored the question of whether the business model of media, as some might argue, is broken. They started with host Eusebius McKaiser briefly teasing out Malunga's career in journalism which goes back…
20 Jun 2022 26 min

EXCLUSIVE: Douglas Stuart speaks to Eusebius McKaiser about ‘Young Mungo’

The 2020 Booker Prize winner, Douglas Stuart, spoke to Eusebius McKaiser about his sensational second novel, Young Mungo. Stuart became an international writing sensation after his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the Booker, and gained him countless readers and fans in the literary world. In this episode of Eusebius on…
15 Jun 2022 49 min

France vs Russia: the renewed scramble for Africa

Africa is "the last business frontier" and that is why geopolitical tensions between countries like France and Russia include a renewed scramble for Africa. This is the view of Koffi Kouakou, an Africa analyst and senior fellow at The Centre of Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He unravelled…
13 Jun 2022 37 min

Trevor Manuel says JJ Tabane should, like DJ Sbu, apologise to him

In a wide ranging interview on Eusebius on TimesLIVE, former finance minister Trevor Manuel made some explosive further claims in relation to the legal action he has initiated against broadcaster JJ Tabane. Manuel claims that well-known radio personality DJ Sbu, who had hosted Tabane on his podcast platform, had taken…
30 May 2022 33 min

Black Business Council says ANC isn't a force for good

In a wide ranging interview about the state of our economy, Eusebius McKaiser hosted Black Business Council president Elias Monage on his TimesLIVE podcast. Monage argued that the state of the economy is bad news for business and job creation, as a result of multiple causal factors. State-owned companies are…
25 May 2022 33 min

Steinhoff should resist an appeal and hand over the PWC document

In the latest edition of Eusebius on TimesLIVE we explain a judgment handed down on Tuesday in the Western Cape High Court that directs Steinhoff to hand over, within 10 days, a 2019 PwC report it had commissioned to look into the 2017 collapse of the company. Financial Mail editor…
11 May 2022 16 min

#DebatingZondoPart4 — utterly pointless or closer to justice now?

TimesLIVE contributor and analyst Eusebius McKaiser hosted a Twitter spaces conversation with senior Sunday Times investigative reporter Thanduxolo Jika in which they explored whether the latest instalment of the Zondo commission's report into state capture gets us closer to justice or not. The first part of the conversation delved into…
6 May 2022 53 min

Is the ANC too far gone to modernise?

That was the framing question of this latest episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE in which ANC member Chrispin Phiri articulated his critique of his party's suboptimal internal electoral processes. The first part of the discussion reflected on the history of the party that has led to an opaque and insufficiently…
2 May 2022 28 min

Encountering God through feminist liberation-theologies

University of Western Cape gender and religion scholar Professor Sarojini Nadar  responded to an article by TimesLIVE analyst and contributor, Eusebius McKaiser, in which he had argues that the God he was taught about in Catholicism does not exist. McKaiser argues that the characteristics of being all-loving, all-powerful and all-knowing are…
21 Apr 2022 45 min
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