Zukile Majova

Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential

The MK’s levy ultimatum to its leaders exposes how parties skim taxpayer-funded salaries

Rob and Zuks talk succession

There are risks aplenty to a coalition with the ANC

Of flyovers and failures

The Didiza vote shows the GNU's centre is holding firm

Rob and Zuks pick apart the ANC’s election manifesto

The DA cannot afford to blur the lines between it and the ANC

Also: SA’s zama zama crisis and a brewing DA scandal

Ramaphosa enters the November 4 municipal elections at his weakest yet, with MK surging, the alliance fractured and his Phala Phala battle still unresolved

Has the city finally lost its place as the party’s political heart?

As ideological lines between the DA and the ANC become blurred, the real contest will be over credibility: the ANC says it can renew itself and finally implement reforms promised…

The typical FF+ voter might not be the oom you think he is, the Ceuta backstory, and Zuma family fun

A social-media meme celebrating a white minister’s competence is unsettling the ANC. Can performance can outweigh race at the ballot box?

This week: paid political influence, Ramaphosa’s reform setbacks, the PIC leadership vacuum and looming FATF greylisting concerns

The EFF and MK could decide who runs South Africa’s metros after November 4. An ANC–DA pact is the only alternative to coalition chaos.

The PIC’s latest crisis, Ramaphosa’s credibility, El Niño risks and Air Zimbabwe’s London return – as told by Rob Rose and Zukile Majova

Helen Zille’s DA could top the poll in Joburg’s November 4 election and still be locked out of City Hall by an ANC-led coalition

South Africa’s diplomatic decay, the PIC scandal, Julius Malema and election politics take centre stage in the first video episode of ‘Sharp Sharp’

Coalitions have opened a back-room market where unelected negotiators and donors lobby over who runs South Africa’s cities