PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ – the march that could tear South Africa apart

June 30 is days away. March and March has set its deadline and foreigners must leave South Africa. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into what happens when the deadline hits, whether the security forces can hold it together, and what the Zulu king’s extraordinary intervention ahead of June 30 actually means for how this plays out.

They also get into Geordin Hill-Lewis requesting that Cyril Ramahposa remove John Steenhuisen as agriculture minister, the loyalty versus capacity debate in the new DA, and Hill-Lewis’s visit to the Zulu king as a blueprint for building a political base beyond the DA’s traditional support.

Then Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential joins them to take it continental. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa pushed a constitutional amendment through parliament last week to extend his presidential term. Wicknell Chivayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei apparently bankrolled the votes. The sovereign wealth fund that controls all of Zimbabwe’s utilities and mineral wealth has no public oversight. And the 3-million Zimbabweans in South Africa are the direct result of that misgovernance, meaning the pressure on South Africa will not ease until Zimbabwe changes.

Sharp Sharp is a podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency and Scrolla.Africa. New episode every week.

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