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Weekly English South Africa News · News Commentary Narrated by Lindsey Schutters
3 Episodes

26 Jan ’23: Eskom sets the load shedding schedule to permanent

Our power utility leads the news again with talks of permanent load shedding, but at least they’re being honest and have FINALLY given us a plan. We’re using the glut of Oscar nominations for one of our favourite 2022 flieks as a comfort blanket for what has been a wild…
26 Jan 16 min

/The Wrap/ 19 Jan '23: Court action, protests and a TIGER!

Just when we thought a tiger prowling the streets in the South of Joburg was the wildest thing that would happen this week, the ANC brought some jokes about joining the National Shutdown to protest the destructive forces of load-shedding. That’s right. The party in power is protesting itself. But…
19 Jan 15 min

/The Wrap/ 12 Jan '23: Release the Kraken (and a cure for cancer)

Welcome to 2023! They’ve already released the Kraken, but we may have cured cancer… We’re on the eve of a cabinet reshuffle that could finally bring about Cyril’s New Dawn. Like, if his overwhelming victory over Ace and co. at Nasrec can’t give him the confidence to vanquish the bad…
12 Jan 14 min