Politically Aweh

Flags? Flying. Speeches? Delivered. Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest plan to tackle gender-based violence? Due in 60 to 90 days. Comrades, set a reminder. This family meeting needs a follow-up. KG, Zoë and Stephen look at what Cupcake has promised, from reviewing unresolved cases and tackling forensic backlogs to women’s safety audits and action on illegal alcohol trading. The president says these are mor...

The ANC is in chaos right before elections, there's a a serial killer loose in Johannesburg, and celebs are running for mayor. This week KG & Stephen expose South Africa's most chaotic election moment yet. From the ANC's last-second candidate meltdown to a horrifying series of murders in Kempton Park, exploding tensions around Cape Town's Pride crossing vandalism, and why t...

An Afrikaner refugee family comes back to South Africa for medical treatment (and a Kauai smoothie?) and gets stuck here. Women are being found murdered in and around Kempton Park, and the price of onions goes up 219%. South Africa, are we okay? KG, Zoë and Stephen unpack the Kempton Park murders and the questions these killings raise about gender-based violence and somehow action seems to fall on...

South Africans gambled over R1 trillion last year. A 30% jump in twelve months. And you can feel it everywhere. Every billboard. Every rugby jersey. Every airport. Every second ad break. The casino used to be somewhere you drove to. Now it lives in your pocket, right next to your banking app. This week the team goes deep on the gambling boom that's quietly become a national crisis. We spoke t...

How does 541kg of seized cocaine just vanish? This week we dive into the Madlanga Commission's wildest mysteries, Airlink's stadium stunt, and the ANC forgetting to register 150 candidates. Welcome to the new Weekly Aweh! And honestly? That flyover isn't even top three most unhinged things this week. Stephen, KG and Zoe are back to make you aware. Inside the Commission: a former Haw...

A pride flag went up at Bishops boys' high school for two whole days during Pride Month, and some of the school's old boys had a full meltdown about it. But here's the thing, they don't all speak for the school. Anton Taylor, another Bishops old boy, took one look at the ooms trying to yank it down and said "absolutely not." Actor, comedian and friend of the show, Ant...

Online gambling in South Africa did not grow. It exploded. And the man shouting loudest about it in Parliament also happens to be chairing the committee looking into the President. Host KG Mokgadi sits down with RISE Mzansi MP Makashule Gana, 26 years in politics, chairperson of the parliamentary committee investigating President Cyril Ramaphosa, and the most persistent voice in Parliament on gamb...

KG sits down with political analyst and author Tara Roos, and honestly, buckle up. She reckons the DA is going to lose its majority in Cape Town, a take that got her cyberattacked,  prompting her to open a case with SAPS. No regrets though. They cover why Cyril's probably safe from impeachment, why MK still can't act like the real opposition, why the anger around xenophobia is pointed in...

In 1976, students marched peacefully for their right to learn. Yet, they were met with bullets. Seth Mazibuko was one of the youngest leaders that day. He calls it the battle of the bullet versus the book. A generation that risked everything for an education. But Seth isn't only looking back. He draws a line from Soweto to #FeesMustFall, to the young South Africans facing record unemployment...

Brett Herron is not your typical politician. As a former city of Cape Town Mayco member and a DA insider for years, he was in the room where decisions were made, and he watched closely how the party operated, who really had influence, and what happened when you pushed back. He pushed back and suddenly the exit signs became very visible.  Now as Secretary General of the Good Party, Brett joins KG M...

Mark Heywood once smuggled drugs into South Africa to break pharmaceutical patents and force the government's hand on HIV treatment. It worked. Six million people are now on ARVs. Now he's picked a new fight,  and this time, the enemy is an empty plate. KG sits down with Mark to unpack why a country with a food surplus has 20 million hungry people, why hunger shows up at the scene of eve...

She's interviewed assassins, gangsters, and corrupt politicians, and somehow made all of them trust her. Now she's sitting down with KG, and nothing is off limits. We get into the Oval Office, a freezing Polish farmhouse, a very tense braai, and a phone contact that might just be the most infamous person on the planet right now. This one goes places. You'll want to hear it. This goe...

We sat down with Irfaan Mangera, Y20 spokesperson and seasoned youth wrangler, to unpack why the G20 felt like a group project where the grownups didn’t read the brief. We get into youth rage, protest culture, anime flags taking over parliaments, and why South African leaders still act shocked when young people hit the streets. It seems African leaders keep missing the point for the continent&apos...

Comedian and activist Justine Wanda joins PA to unpack African youth anger, satire’s role in politics and why we’re laughing through the chaos. We get into everything: protests over bread and pads, politicians swapping corruption tips, and why Africans cope by laughing so we don’t lose our minds. Justine speaks on Kenya’s youth-led resistance, Tanzania’s fear-fuelled silence, Uganda’s forever elec...

Zane Dangor is South Africa’s foreign policy boss and he joins us to unpack Gaza, Ukraine, the UN, the US tariff drama and what SA is actually doing on the world stage. This episode was recorded in August 2025, right in the middle of the year’s geopolitical chaos. From missile scares to trade tantrums, Zane breaks down how SA navigates global crises with nothing but international law and a lot of...

In this raw conversation, social media Law Expert Emma Sadleir reveals the terrifying reality behind anonymous WhatsApp channels, deepfakes, and sextortion targeting South African youth. Emma recently won TWO court orders against Meta in one week, forcing them to hand over the identities of perpetrators hiding behind anonymous accounts. She breaks down the gendered nature of online harm, explains...

Songezo Zibi joined us back in August at The Gathering 2025 right when Rise Mzansi, GOOD and BOSA were flirting with the idea of a political merger. We talked about Parliament’s chaotic economy, Scopa’s mission to follow the trail of taxpayer’s money, and what happens when world leaders like Trump are out here skipping G20 invites. It’s an unfiltered, funny and frightening look at the machinery th...

Cape Town’s Mayor Geordin Hill Lewis joins KG to talk rent crisis, tourism, and how even he can’t afford to live on the Atlantic seaboard. What happens when the Mayor of Cape Town sits down with KG? You get a brutally honest convo about who the city really works for. From 600 000 people stuck in housing limbo to the rise of digital nomads and Gauteng “semi-grants” flooding the Cape, the Mayor defe...

Caryn Dolley accidentally became an investigative journalist and now exposes SA's organised crime syndicates while dodging death threats.  KG sits down with Caryn to unpack the absolute chaos that is South Africa's organised crime landscape. It's not just happening "somewhere else" - it's in your backyard, your municipality, and probably in that dodgy tender your cous...

We ask Adriaan Basson if the media can survive being broke, Big Tech eating advertising money and consumers crying over paywalls.  Politicians hate him, trolls love to roast him, and even his mom gets upset on his behalf. We sat down with Adriaan Basson, editor of News24, to talk about the messy reality of South African journalism. From the glory days of three-paper Sundays to the Big Tech takeove...

Ferial Haffajee - journalist, columnist and Associate Editor at Daily Maverick, talks democracy, internet trolls, Big Tech, and the future of SA. Watch what happens when KG introduces Ferial Haffajee as a Champion of Democracy… and also a Snake in the Grass? Ferial touches on everything from cyberbullying to whether SA hosting the G20 is a flex or just admin work nobody asked for. We give a deserv...

Pieter-Louis Myburgh unpacks bribes, tenders, corruption, and whether South Africa is starting to feel like a mafia state. We sat down with award-winning investigative journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh to talk about the infamous R60k bribe waved at him, the dodgy tender offers, and whether corruption has completely swallowed SA. We also get into the Mashawana court case, the state of investigative j...

Dion George, SA’s Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, speaks on climate change, coal vs green energy, rhino poaching, and South Africa’s energy future. KG Mokgadi sits down with the former finance guy turned environment minister who unpacks South Africa’s toughest environmental battles: moving away from coal without collapsing the economy, tackling climate change on the global stage,...

KG Mokgadi chats to Dr. Mmusi Maimane, leader of BOSA and former Leader of the Opposition, about why smaller parties matter now more than ever. Maimane unpacks how parties like BOSA can keep the GNU on its toes, why it's important for the youth to be proactive in government, and what real accountability could look like in this chaotic new political era. The tea is hot, the PhD is fresh, and t...

ActionSA's Herman Mashaba spills the tea on the DA, ANC and EFF. Plus, he talks GNU coalition chaos, Donald Trump, and foreigners. This podcast is a companion series to our YouTube comedy explainer videos about South African and international current affairs. Watch the show and subscribe at youtube.com/politicallyaweh . 📌 Follow us on: Facebook: facebook.com/politicallyaweh Instagram: instag...