Politricking with Tshidi Madia

IFP Founder’s first successor, Velenkosini Hlabisa joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s episode as he talks about campaigning for the first time without their founder and Prince Buthelezi’s legacy.He shares the party’s 13 point manifesto and also speaks about the IFP’s role in achieving democracy. He reflects on the party’s conflicted past and their growth in KwaZulu Natal and denounces that the IFP is a Zulu party because they campaigning throughout the country.

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As the country celebrates 30 years of democracy, Tshidi Madia had the opportunity to speak to 3 journalists who’ve watched over South Africa’s evolution in the last three decades: from the historic presidential debate and advent of democracy, to now, where the ANC might go under and give rise to a possible national coalition.

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Politricking Season 4, Episode 8:16 submissions were received by the IEC from independent candidates to campaign in the 2024 elections but only a few made it to the provisional lists. 5 national candidates and 6 provincial seats were approved by the independent electorate, a first for South Africa. So what do some of our candidates have in store for us? On this week’s episode, Tshidi spoke to three independent candidates, Anele Mda, Tshepo Mogano and Sesing Ramatswabodi, who say they have what it takes to change the political landscape for the better…

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Politricking Season 4, Episode 7: The African National Congress’s Head of Elections, Mdumiseni Ntuli joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s episode. He reflects on the 30 years as the governing party and where it could’ve gone wrong as they have seen a dip in numbers over the years. He delves deeper into the decay that has seen itself become the culture of the ANc and how they working to fix it. He also shares the party’s stance on coalitions and how they hope to convince South Africans that they still deserve lead in the 7th administration.

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Politricking Season 4, Episode 6: Good Party Founder and Leader, Patricia De Lille joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s episode. Someone who is a veteran in her own right, she shares her party’s offering and why she choose to run as it’s Western Cape Premier candidate even though she is the party’s leader. She reflects on the delays in the arms deal case, her life in the DA and being one of the first females who founded a political party.

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Politricking Season 4, Episode 5: FF Plus leader , Dr Pieter Groeneweld joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s episode to share the party’s manifesto as the party celebrates 30 years since its founding, he speaks on why identity politics is important in the context South Africa. He reveals that contrary to popular belief, FF Plus is for all races and that it is shown in their call for BEE and Affirmative Action to be done away with.

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Politricking Season 4, Episode 4: Xiluva party leader and former DA Mayor, Bongani Baloyi joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s podcast as he shares what makes Xiluva different from other political parties and why he decided to leave the DA and Action SA and formed his own party which will contest in the national elections for first time after launching in 2023

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Politricking Season 4, Episode 3: ATM Leader, Vuyo Zungula joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s podcast and shares his thoughts on party funding and how it can impact the work of parliament and on Busisiwe Mkhwebane joining EFF. With their manifesto launched in December, he shares what they have to offer to South Africa and why people should vote for ATM.

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Politricking Season 4, Episode 2: BOSA’s leader, Mmusi Maimane on leaving the DA, tough lessons from being too politically trusting, fighting for transformation in the DA & putting a job in every home and his vision to put a job in every home.

Maimane also responds to ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba mocking his proposal to create a job in every home - says they've done the research

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Politricking Season 4, episode 1: ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba on the gruelling & brutal but rewarding 2024 election campaign. Just before the proclamation of the election date and the posters went up, Mashaba popped into 15 Fredman to reflect on his political career, which kicked off in the 2016 local government elections.

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Two time Olympic Medalist Caster Mokgadi Semenya joins Tshidi Madia for a special episode that celebrates the athlete's legacy and the release of her memoir "The Race to be myself". Caster reflects on the highs and lows of her 15 year long career,  the massive court challenge against World Athletics which has effectively banned her from competing and the wins along her journey. She also speaks about life beyond the track, her activism and life as a wife and mother.

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City of Johannesburg Speaker Colleen Makhubele joins Tshidi Madia on this last episode of season 3, and she speaks about what inspired her to join politics and the importance of having educated people as part of governance. She also speaks about her political party COPE, stating that she is still hopeful and trusting her party because though there might be indifferences in the party, COPE is still the only party that has not been accused of corruption. She also touches on the coalition, table of motion of no confidence that keeps being brought up against the JHB Mayor. She also spoke about the importance of women and young people in the political space.

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Felicia Mabuza-Suttle joins Tshidi Madia on this episode and she reflects on her talk show days. She also speaks about how to this day women are still questioned for being strong, emotional and for standing up for themselves. She also adds that when man speaks, we first listen then look but when women speak, we first look then listen. She also encourages young people of South Africa by stating that they need to self-acknowledge their great work and need to learn to pat themselves on the back instead of waiting for others to tell them that they are doing great.

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Tshidi Madia speaks to Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and she takes us back to the beginning of Democracy and she speaks about how women had to fight to be part of the CODESA talks. Adding how she cried when Tata Nelson Mandela when he was inaugurated, she cried as she remembered how many people had to fight to achieve the democracy. She also speaks on how the first cabinet had only two ministers who were women. She also touches on the ministerial positions that she occupied, and she also speaks on the office she is currently service under tabling the plans they have when it comes to GBV and Femicide. She also opened up about serving under President Cyril Ramaphosa and said that she is not service the President but serving the people of South Africa. She also touches on Brics youth summit, Jacob Zuma not going to prison as well as the possibilities of South Africa having a female president.

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For the Women's Day episode, Tshidi Madia is joined by the Executive Director of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, Gugu Ndebele and she speaks about her journey of her being appointed as the Executive Director of OWLAG. She notes the importance of encouraging children to read books from the early age, explaining that she traveled and experienced the world not by traveling but through books. She further touches on the work the school does in order to bring up girls who are ready to success in the world. She also touches on the South African curriculum, how the SA government is not still serious about education and more.

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Lindiwe Mazibuko Co-Founder and CEO of Futurelect joins Tshidi Madia in this episode and she speaks about women in politics, public service and getting young people into political space. She also reflects on her time in the DA and also adds her thoughts on coalition. She adds that though she is not yet ready to go back to the political space, she does have the ambition to going back but she cannot say when she will be ready for that.

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The Economic Freedom Fighters is 10 years old and is now the third-largest party in Parliament. Tshidi Madia invited the party's spokesperson - Sinawo Thambo for this episode. Thambo gives his reflections of this milestone, his thoughts on the party's leadership succession plan and what the 2024 general elections looks like for the EFF. 

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Tshidi is joined by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and she held a press conference regarding the court judgement about the invalidity of the President’s decision to suspend her. She also touches on how the judges and the courts are used as a tool to tarnish her credibility. Her Husband also joined in the conversation and was vocal about how he is not impressed with Fikile Mbalula outburst regarding his wife. Mkhwebane further states that the constitution on South Africa needs to change suggesting that South African can maybe adapt the USA and UK system where they do not have a constitution but legislative laws that can be changed not requiring Two Third majority.

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Tshwane Mayor Ciller Brink speaks to Tshidi Madia and he opens about how it has been being in the office of Tshwane Mayor for 100 days. He notes that Tshwane has a lot of financial challenges which were contributed by the 18% salary increase towards the end of 2019, misgovernance by the administrator which brough the budget of the municipality to a deficit of over 4 billion, covid-19 and loadshedding. Touching on the Eskom debt that the municipality has, he says that they are in continuous engagements with Eskom, and they are seeing a slow progress. He touches on as well on the water crisis at Hammans kraal saying that they are working with the department of water and ensuring that they have a long-lasting solution. He says that he is best navigating on the coalition by giving parties a chance to participate in the governance by giving them the seat in the decision table and by cultivating relationships. He further adds that he is not available for the Gauteng Premier Candidate and says that he does not have much relationship with the EFF as they have not been very kind to him.

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The ANC Youth League held its first national elective conference over the weekend after eight years, and Ekurhuleni’s Collen Malatji emerged as the new president. He joins Tshidi and opens up about the plans that the youth league has and how they plan to work with the mother body to ensure that the issues of the youth of this country are tackled by the ANC government. He also touches on how he plans to go back to the Luthuli house and to work towards the next coming elections and the strategy is to mobilize young people so that they vote in the next coming elections. He further states that he will not act like a communist, as he is staying true to himself and does not shy away from the benefits that came with being deployed and serving in the parliament.

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To close of the month of June where we commemorated the youth of 1976 as well as celebrated Pride month, Tshidi speaks to Dr Bev who is an activist for the LGBTQ community. She begins by reflecting on her how she started her journey of fighting for human rights for the Queer community. She also spoke on the 2024 up coming General Elections and said that she feels that we need leaders and though there are up coming political parties she still has no confidence on any of the political leaders. She then also spoke on what happened in Ghana by adding that even in South Africa even though we might have the bill of rights for the Queer community in the South African Constitution, yet she feels that the bill of right is not easily accessible. Dr Ditsie also said that she feels that the South African media is the most homophobic media.

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Tshidi Madia has a conversation with General Bantu Holomisa and he speaks about what needs to change in order for our democracy to work. He shares his feelings about the peace keeping mission saying that "we should not have poked our nose into the affairs of Russia and Ukraine". He further touches on the UDM adding that he is happy with what the party has achieved in its 24 years of existence. He goes on to add that UDM has a bright future and he also believes that it will be able to survive even if he is no longer the Chairperson of the party.

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Tshidi Madia speaks to Mbali Ntuli a former DA member. She opens up about leaving DA, the works she is doing with IEC which is to encourage young people to vote in the next coming 2024 General Elections. She also touches on the work she does with the GroundWork Collective which speaks to food production, skills and entrepreneurship and mobilizing people to be part of the democracy by taking park in the elections. 

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Tshidi Madia still in Conakry in Guinea caught up with Simphiwe Dana. Simphiwe speaks about why she was selected to go to Conakry and the music selection which is a tribute to Mariam Makeba songs. She also touches on about how she feels about the state of South Africa. Dana further opens up about the importance of going to therapy and says she would like to be remembered as a person who left a world in better place than how she found it. 

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Tshidi Madia whilst at Guinea Conakry for the Africa Day celebration had a conversation with Former President Thabo Mbeki. They discussed Russia, President Putin and South African hosting the BRICS summit. They also touched on the President Cyril Ramaphosa administration and the Cholera outbreak in parts of Gauteng. He also explained South Africa's position in the world explaining how he feels about South Africa not being invited to the G7 summit. He added that educating South Africans and people in Africa about the success of the continent should be of critical importance. When he was asked about his position of supporting the ruling party in the next general elections, he said that his answer is still outstanding.

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The former Joburg mayor and now leader of the DA caucus is this week’s guest on Politricking with Tshidi Madia. She shares her thoughts on being an ordinary councillor, new mayor Kabelo Gwamanda and her political love story with ActionSA’s Brutus Malada.

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Rise Mzansi's Songezo Zibi on bringing seriousness back to politics, 2024 being this generation's 1994 and listening as the pathway to solving SA's troubles.

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Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie on his excursion to Orania, the politics of coalitions, being Mayor for a year and his party's future post 2024 general elections. 

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South Africa's electricity czar Minister, Dr Kgosientsho "Sputla" Ramokgopa joined Tshidi Madia this week, he shared his thoughts on his new portfolio that lacks the necessary powers to effectively fight off load shedding, winter expectations and possible costs of rolling blackouts for the ANC ahead of the 2024 general elections.

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Sihle Zikalala's journey in the ruling party, the African National Congress is one that has proved interesting. From being booted out by his Province of KwaZulu Natal and resigning from his Premier seat and now, we catch up with him as a Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure who received the highest ANC NEC votes, might I add. Zikalala reiterates the issue of the ANC renewing itself,  and says there is no other organisation with a clear vision for all south africans outside of the ANC. 

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Rekgotsofetse Chikane, Co-editor of Protest in South Africa: Rejection, reassertion, reclamation and Dr. Ebrahim Harvey who is an independent writer, analyst and author of The Great Pretenders: Race and Class under ANC Rule re this episode's guests, together with Tshidi Madia they try make sense of the spate of protests witnessed in the first three months of 2023. 

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Tina Joemat-Peterson is the guest for this episode. A South African politician and the former Minister of Energy from the period May 2014 to March 2017. Joemat-Peterson was alleged to have sold the country’s oil reserves in a controversial deal that’s since been reversed by the court, during her tenure as Energy Minister she joined Tshidi Madia to clear her name. 

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Action SA leader Herman Mashaba joined Tshidi Madia for a discussion on the current controversies that surround the party. Just in the month of March the party has fired one of its councillors, Nkele Molapo and parted ways with its Gauteng Provincial Chair, Bongani Baloyi.

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We end the season with a look at how the ANC55th national conference played out. Spoiler alert: Ramaphosa’s been re-elected ANC president & Stan Mathabatha is in trouble?

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This episode explores the link between politics and song, with the ANC's conference just days away we unpack the tradition of how music has been used to communicate in the liberation movement until now. Dr Blondie Makhene and Dr Sisanda Nkoala help enlighten us in this interesting journey. 

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Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, ANC NEC member shares her views on President Cyril Ramaphosa Phala Phala saga ahead of the ANC’s 55th elective conference and the direction on the ruling party is taking..

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Despite being suspended as Nelson Mandela Bay councillor, ANC Andile Lungisa was nominated for the position of provincial treasure general in the Western Cape. On this episode of Politricking with Tshidi Madia he talks about why he thinks he shouldn't put hand down for the post, as well as other issues.

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Mdumseni Ntuli, the front runner in race to become the ANC’s next secretary general. Ntuli touches on his time as provincial secretary in KZN, the nominations he has received to contest as secretary general and constitutional amendments the ANC must consider when it elects new leadership. He’s also dismissed those wanting to withdraw support from Paul Mashatile’s bid to become deputy president of the party.

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Outgoing ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe joins Tshidi Madia this week, discussing his bid to become the next ANC treasurer general, concerns over the non-payment of salaries, the state of the party and its NEC, as well as reflections of the past 5 years as the ANC’s mouthpiece. 

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Justice Minister Ronald Lamola joins us to discuss his bid to become the ANC’s next deputy president. He also shares his thoughts on his evolution from the youth league to serving in cabinet, the president’s Phala Phala saga, the rise of the youth leaguers and defends the contentious step aside resolution.

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Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on putting his hand up for the Secretary General position ahead of the ANC elections, being trusted with responsibilities within the ANC and the transport ministry.

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Former President Kgalema Motlanthe - on how things have gone bad in SA, that a shared vision could take SA forward and why he thinks the new electoral bill would not work.

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Herman Mashaba – President of ActionSA on working with Zwakele Mncwango in leading AtionSA in KZN, being more than happy to take in some members of the DA who would have left the party and making it clear that ActionSA has nothing to do with the DA OF Hellen Zille.

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Paul Mashatile – ANC Gauteng’s number one - on his relationship with David Mabuza, whether or not Ramaphosa should return and Dr Zweli Mkhize’s chances and his views on Nomvula Mokonyane. 

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Acting Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka: on running a chapter 9 institution amidst political warfare, the Phala Phala farm investigation, women in leadership and her love for Amapiano & rap music

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Makashule Gana on leaving the DA & his next stop. Gana, former member of the provincial legislature in Gauteng says Helen Zille should have been more circumspect before publishing a list of black DA reps & that he’ll announce his new home before 2022 wraps up. 

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ANC Youth League convener Nonceba Mhlauli in conversation with Eyewitness News associate editor for politics Tshidi Madia. 
”We need to discuss the issue of transition, history of our country and movement has taught us that we don’t handle transitions well. I am worried that if he comes back he won’t finish his second term,” she says on calls for Cyril Ramaphosa to be re-elected as party president in December. Mhlauli also explains why the league has no choice but to elect a woman president when it finally holds its own conference.

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ANC National Chairperson and Secretary General Gwede Mantsane who is also the Minister of  Mineral Resources and Energy speaks to Eyewitness  News Associate Editor for Politics Tshidi Madia on the 3rd and final day of the ANCs 6th National policy conference about his sense of the party in the tough times SA finds itself in with rising fuel prices, energy uncertainty and growing unemployment.

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Former President Thabo Mbeki joins Eyewitness News Associate Editor for Politics - Tshidi Madia on day 2 of the 6th ANC national policy conference in Nasrec to talk about what the members of the party have been discussing on the actuality of the challenges they have encountered like the Zondo Commission, women empowerment and the renewal of the ANC.

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ANC national executive committee member and economic transformation subcommittee chairperson Mamoloko Kubayi, who is also Minister of human settlements joins Eyewitness News Associate Editor for Politics Tshidi Madia for a daily Political Roundup  at the ANC 6th National Policy Conference, currently underway at Nasrec to talk about leading the ANC’s ETC, NEC failures to implement some ANC resolutions & her availability to run, should she be nominated to contest as deputy president of the ANC in December.

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“The ANC is defocused, with some of our comrades focused on what should not be done on those of us accused of corruption,” decried ANC NEC member Gungubele. Dubbed one of the “Chris Cabal,” lobby group members in support of ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, Gungubele in a sit down with Eyewitness News head of politics, Tshidi Madia spells out what he thinks this week’s policy conference should focus on and the kind of leadership that emerges come December.

Gungubele, a former mayor and unionist, is currently minister in the presidency and oversees the state security agency. He is an NEC member.

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This week South African learnt of the sad passing of ANC deputy secretary general, Jessie Duarte  - following an 8-month-long battle with cancer, and renowned author and poet Don Matter, and of course in politics news, Solly Mapaila took over from Blade Ndimande as SACP General Secretary. In this episode Tshidi pays a heartfelt tribute to both legends and caught up with the newly elected SACP General Secretary himself for a warm welcome to the job and for an exclusive interview. 

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Tshidi Madia joined the a media briefing on Tuesday following the first meeting of the ANCWL's National Task Team (NTT) on Monday. She invited former deputy president and National Assembly Speaker - Baleka Mbete for an interview - who is the newly appointed ANCWL convener. Mbete shares her thoughts on the current  state of the ANC as an organization, the Phalaphala farm scandal and just why she chose to accept this role and so much more.

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To launch the first episode of Politricking, Tshidi Madia sits down with the former Minister of Communications, Water and Sanitation - Ms Nomvula Mokonyane - for a in-depth analysis of the workings of Eskom, the state capture report and her eye on the top 6 position in the ANC come December 2022. Mokonyane leaves no stone unturned in this exclusive interview living up to her AKA  "Mama Action". 

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