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South Africa's wittiest news show. Join comedian KG Mokgadi, Zoë Human, and the Politically Aweh team every week as we make sense of South African and international news and politics. Let's get aweh!
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- Cape Town’s Housing Crisis: Six Parties, Who Has a Plan? | Elections Showdown · 21 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 7Ahead of the 2026 local elections, we asked political parties how they would solve SA's housing issues, from Airbnb in Cape Town, to foreign ownership and rent control. In…
- Petrol Price Explodes & African (Dirty) Energy Week | Weekly Aweh · 41 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 6As South Africa’s petrol prices climb, African Energy Week brings the oil and gas crowd to Cape Town with big promises about ending energy poverty. Lovely. Who’s checking the…
- Ramaphosa’s GBV Promises | Will The Youth Vote For The EFF? | MK's IEC Elections Drama | Weekly Aweh · 37 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 5Flags? 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…
- Afrikaner Refugees U-Turn | Ed Sheeran's K*k Week | Comrades Marathon Sponsor Victory | Weekly Aweh · 24 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 4An 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…
- ANC Insults Voters...Again | Kempton Park Murders | Helen Zille | Edwin Cameron | Weekly Aweh · 22 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 3The 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…
- South Africa's R1 Trillion Gambling Crisis Explained | Politically Aweh · 32 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 2South 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…
- SA Cops Lose 541kg of Cocaine & A Reckless SA Flyover | Weekly Aweh · 26 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 1How 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…
- Anton Taylor on the Bishops Pride Flag & Toxic Masculinity | Politically Aweh · 1 h 5 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 6A 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…
- How Government Funded South Africa’s Gambling Addiction | Makashule Gana | Politically Aweh · 47 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 5Online 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…
- The Two Reasons the DA Is in Trouble in Cape Town | Tara Roos on The Politically Aweh Podcast · 50 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 5KG 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…
- 1976 Youth Leader Seth Mazibuko: I Started a Revolution to Skip Exams | Politically Aweh · 46 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 4In 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…
- Is Brett Herron the DA's Biggest Hater? | Politically Aweh Podcast · 44 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 3Brett 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…
- The Man Who Smuggled Drugs To Save Lives Has A New Fight | Mark Heywood | Politically Aweh Podcast · 25 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 2Mark 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…
- She Asked A Gangster What Human Heart Tastes Like : Annika Larsen Unfiltered | Politically Aweh Podcast · 54 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 1She'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…
- Gen Z Protests In South Africa: Could We Be Next? | Politically Aweh Podcast · 23 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 21We 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…
- Angry & Unserious: Why Africans Are Ungovernable | Politically Aweh Podcast · 39 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 20Comedian 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…
- SA Foreign Policy Chief on Unprecedented Geopolitics & Hosting The G20 | Politically Aweh Podcast · 17 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 19Zane 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…
- This Is The Darkest Online Crisis South Africa Has Ever Faced | Politically Aweh Podcast · 34 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 18In this raw conversation, social media Law Expert Emma Sadleir reveals the terrifying reality behind anonymous WhatsApp channels, deepfakes, and sextortion targeting South…
- Wait... Did He Just Praise The EFF? | Politically Aweh Podcast · 15 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 17Songezo 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…
- If Cape Town’s Mayor Can’t Afford To Live There, Who Can? | Politically Aweh Podcast · 31 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 16Cape 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…
