Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for the 18th episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency and Scrolla.Africa.
This week covers South Africa’s culture of paying for political access, and ANC gala dinners selling seats next to the president for up to R2m set against Donald Trump’s Truth Social selling millisecond trading access to his own posts for $100,000 a month. Rob and Zuks pick apart where legitimate lobbying ends and buying influence begins, and look at just how little of this actually gets declared to the Electoral Commission of South Africa.
From there it’s another blow to Ramaphosa’s “new dawn”, Investigating Directorate Against Corruption head Andrea Johnson’s resignation after damaging Madlanga commission testimony, a Public Investment Corporation with no board and no CEO, and the growing risk that South Africa gets greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force all over again.
They also revisit Zuks’s Currency column making the case for a grand ANC-DA coalition to keep the EFF and MK Party out of South Africa’s hung municipalities, before closing on Jacob Zuma tightening his personal grip on MK Party finances.
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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