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POWER Talk is a mid-morning talk show programme, hosted by Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. The show delves deeper into the news of the day along with larger societal themes, inviting listeners to help unpack issues on the day’s current affairs agenda and topics close to their hearts. Ndlozi also interviews the biggest newsmakers and experts in South Africa, helping listeners make sense of their world.

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45:02

Doctors slam trade union as working conditions in...

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2025/06/20

A collective of doctors from across South Africa has lambasted the South African Medical Association Trade Union (Samatu) for failing to represent the interests of health professionals with many facing deteriorating working conditions. The doctors, say their urgent call to Samatu to “confront the deepening crisis” in the health system has fallen on deaf ears as junior doctors continue to face mass unemployment, and public-sector clinicians struggle with resource constraints and excessive

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32:57

Hanging Out with: BANDABANDA

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2025/06/20

BandaBanda is a celebrated South African musician, producer, and creative entrepreneur with a rich career spanning multiple facets of the music industry. Born and raised in Durban by his grandparents Ester and Jame Banda, he was deeply influenced by African values and music from an early age. These roots continue to inspire his work and define his identity as an artist. Denzil Taylor is in conversation with Musician, Producer, and Creative Entrepreneur, BANDABANDA.See omnystudio.com/listener for

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45:39

Road Accident Fund: A state entity marred with fraud,...

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2025/06/18

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) provides compulsory cover to all users of South African roads, citizens and foreigners, against injuries sustained or death arising from accidents involving motor vehicles within the borders of South Africa. This cover is in the form of indemnity insurance to persons who cause the accident, as well as personal injury and death insurance to victims of motor vehicle accidents, and their families. Denzil Taylor is in conversation with Road Accident Fund Head of Corporate

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19:32

Home Affairs Passport Syndicates: How easy is it to...

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2025/06/18

The Department of Home Affairs’ (DHA’s) bid to rid its ranks of corruption moved ahead this weekend with another round of arrests in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. On Saturday, 14 June, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (The Hawks) arrested five people who were allegedly part of a syndicate involved in passport fraud. Among those arrested was a former Home Affairs official from the DHA’s Prospecton office and a municipal project volunteer from the Commercial Street office

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43:35

Johannesburg: A city in dire state

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2025/06/17

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa met senior leaders of Johannesburg and Gauteng, the province it’s located in, in March 2025 to discuss ways to arrest the steep decline in South Africa’s largest city. Ramaphosa announced a two-year-long presidential intervention to tackle some of the city’s most pressing issues. It is to be led by the Presidential Johannesburg Working Group with eight cross-governmental and multi-stakeholder workstreams. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation

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18:10

Construction mafias target R550-million Gauteng...

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2025/06/17

A construction company that was awarded the contract worth almost R550 million earl this year to rehabilitate the Golden Highway in Gauteng, has dragged Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, several taxi associations, business forums and councillors to court over allegations of extortion, threats, assaults and attempted murder of its employees workir on the now halted project. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation with GP Infrastructure Development Spokesperson, Theo Konki and Master Builders SA President.See

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24:53

Boipatong Massacre etched in many minds 33 years on

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2025/06/17

On 17 June 1992 the Joe Slovo Informal settlement in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in nearby Sebokeng Township. Over 40 people were killed in the Massacre and scores injured. The armed men were affiliated to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and observers suspected that the attack was aimed at undermining the delicate process of negotiations between the Nationalist Party (NP) government and the African National Congress (ANC)

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33:10

South Africa’s GNU Turns One: Marking one year of...

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2025/06/17

As South Africa marks the one-year anniversary of its Government of National Unity (GNU), the country stands at a crossroads, again. The 2024 general election failed to produce an outright majority, ushering in a coalition arrangement intended to provide political stability and economic direction. But has it worked? Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation with Professor at Wits Business School, Prof. Jannie Rossouw, Professor Emeritus, Wits University, and Research Consultant, Prof. Susan Booysens,

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70:51

Barney Pityana and the Making of a black concious...

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2025/06/17

The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a South African grassroots anti-apartheid movement that emergedin the late 1960s, largely due tothe banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The movement, spearheaded by figures like Steve Biko, aimed to foster black pride, self-reliance, and solidarity, ultimately challengingthe psychological and physical effects of apartheid. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation with Co-foundingmember of the South African Students'

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24:30

South Africa’s TikTok Generation: Using Social Media...

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2025/06/17

TikTok, the short-form video platform developed by Chinese tech company ByteDance, was launched globally in 2016 and quickly became a dominant force in the digital content landscape. In South Africa, the platform began gaining significant popularity around 2019, driven initially by the youth demographic seeking new and creative forms of expression. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation with Tik Tokers, Tadeus Mbatha and Kananelo Thamae.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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City of Johannesburg A former World Class African...

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2025/06/13

Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic hub, is falling apart. The state of the road, electricity, and water infrastructure is showing clear signs of collapse.As the country’s largest city and primary economic hub, Johannesburg is home to over 5.5 million people and contributes nearly 16% of South Africa’s GDP. The City is home to the headquarters of major corporations and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and is a crucial centre for commerce, finance, and industry.However,

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23:17

Israel attacks Iran and declares emergency over...

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2025/06/13

Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Iran early Friday morning, targeting locations it said were related to Iran’s nuclear program. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of the Iranian Armed Forces, the country’s most senior military official, was killed during the strikes, alongside the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, Iranian state media reported. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation with Director of the Centre for Africa-China

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74:04

Statistics South Africa’s data ecosystems: Analysing...

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2025/06/10

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) publishes the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) every quarter. GDP measures the size of the economy and its growth rate over time and is the most familiar and widely recognised feature of the national accounts.The international gold standard for national accounts compilation is the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008), published jointly by the European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,

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16:44

National Lottery Commission: Ithuba Holdings Granted...

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2025/06/10

The minister responsible for the National Lottery has awarded an “emergency” 12-month temporary licence to Ithuba Holdings, the company that has operated the National Lottery for the past 10 years. The awarding of the temporary licence was made just hours before Ithuba’s contract ended on 31 May 2025.According to the Lotteries Act, an operator’s licence is valid for eight years but may be extended once for a maximum of two years. Ithuba’s original licence, issued in

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22:08

When ELIZA meets therapists: A Turing test for the...

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2025/06/10

If your relationship is on the rocks, your best bet to patch things up might not be to seek counseling from a therapist, but from AI — or so posits a new study exploring the potential of ChatGPT in couples therapy. The experiment, which was published in PLOS Mental Health, put 830 participants in couples therapy scenarios to determine whether AI would receive more favorable marks than a human therapist. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation with Researcher and Author, pROF. Laura Vowels and

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38:16

IN CONVERSATION WITH…

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2025/06/10

Ihashi Elimhlophe is a household name in South African maskandi traditional Zulu music. Leader Bheki Ngcobo, the brains behind the group, first recorded in 1986. He has never looked back since. In 1976 Bheki Ngcobo left his small village of KwaBiyela in KwaZulu-Natal for Johannesburg, in search of opportunities in the big city of gold. He started his music career as bass guitarist for the legendary Soul Brothers. They noticed his great talent and made him lead singer for their junior group,

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Rectifying the ‘false’ colonial narrative of...

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2025/06/10

Traveller and author Treive Nicholas reclaims the tragic story of the Gcaleka clan by exploring ancient amaXhosa heritage and offering a powerful re-examination of Nongqawuse within a harshly scarred history. In his book "In Search of Nongqawuse," Nicholas tells the story of a young orphan girl whose life intersects with a catastrophic historical calamity. At the heart of this disturbing and ruinous tale is Nongqawuse, the young prophetess from the Gcaleka clan. Her intriguing spiritual prophecy

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20:16

Trump and Musk Feud

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2025/06/10

President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to cut off government contracts with billionaire Elon Musk's companies, while Musk suggested Trump should be impeached, turning their bromance into an all-out brawl on social media. The hostilities began when Trump criticized Tesla CEO Musk in the Oval Office. Within hours, the once-close relationship had disintegrated in full public view, as the world's most powerful man and its richest launched personal barbs at one another on Trump's Truth Social and

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9:45

Parks Tau's appoints Ithuba Holdings to operate the...

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2025/06/09

The minister responsible for the National Lottery has awarded an “emergency” 12-month temporary licence to Ithuba Holdings, the company that has operated the National Lottery for the past 10 years. The awarding of the temporary licence was made just hours before Ithuba’s contract ended on 31 May 2025. According to the Lotteries Act, an operator’s licence is valid for eight years but may be extended once for a maximum of two years. Ithuba’s original licence, issued in

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22:22

DA Federal Leader, Helen Zille looking to be...

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2025/06/09

Helen Zille is considering throwing her hat into the ring to become the DA’s mayoral candidate for Johannesburg. Senior DA sources indicated to City Press sister publication Rapport in the past week that Zille is being encouraged to make herself available as the party’s candidate for the municipal election set to take place at the end of 2026. Zille confirmed that she has been approached to make herself available and is considering it. However, she emphasised that it’s far from a

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