Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by AndrovaZA and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa as well as discussing more hard-pressing issues that they deal with as femmes of colour within the industry.
Rushka's socials: https://beacons.ai/rushkagg
Androva's socials: https://androva.live
Season 4, Episode 4: Help us find this VCT Cameraman
Hosts Androva and RushkaGG unpack Kai Cenat's Streamer University and discuss South African creators' missed opportunities in this interview episode.
19 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Season 4, Episode 3: Content Creation Sucks and Women Don’t Owe You Sh*t
Hosts Androva and RushkaGG discuss the struggles of content creation and online entitlement, prioritizing personal sanity over algorithmic pressure in this interview.
5 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Season 4, Episode 2: F*ck Them Kids
Hosts Androva and RushkaGG interview industry experts about South African gaming news, trends, and the latest industry buzz.
22 May 2026
Season 4, Episode 1: Short and Sweet
Hosts Androva and RushkaGG discuss life, work, and beauty in this casual Season 4 premiere of Banter Bit.
28 Mar 2025
Season 3, Episode 1: WE FELL OFF LMAO
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we yap about GloRilla, Sexyy Red, & Bruno Mars. We also talk about all the brands that dropped us as we “fell off” last year and why we’re okay with that. And finally, we discuss the Assassin’s Creed Shadows release and why we’re obsessed with the Ashton Hall meme takeover.
20 May 2024
Episode 3: Androva has had ENOUGH
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we discuss the state of the gaming content creation scene in South Africa & its gatekeeprs, Rushka fantasises about soup and Androva yaps about bad brand management (looking at you Comic Con Africa and Samsung’s #ShareTheEpic & #GalaxyS24 campaigns) while Rushka spaces out.
29 Apr 2024
Episode 2: Can we not just all have fun?
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
Rushka and Andy try to stay focused while playing Stardew Valley. In this episode, we discuss Twitch’s further adjustments to their nudity policy, the aftermath and tea around the Femmes & Thems Invitational, and frequent ‘hot’ streamer takes.
22 Apr 2024
Episode 1: Rushka Cancels Herself
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we discuss Cloud Gaming (specifically GeForce NOW with rain network) and gaming accessibility, Rushka’s annual Femmes & Thems Women’s Day Invitational, the lack of variety with black hairstyles in video games & Twitch’s nudity policy.
22 Dec 2023
Episode 10: Special Announcement
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
Welcome to our season 1 finale as we close off the year with a very special episode sponsored by Gigabyte/Aorus. We chat about #ENTERLAN, GTA 6, problem-child Blizzard, and do something a little different.
RushkaGG's PC:
Intel Core i7-14700KF 3.4 GHz 20-Core ProcessorGigabyte AORUS WATERFORCE X 240 Liquid CPU CoolerGigabyte B760 AORUS Elite AX MotherboardGigabyte AORUS 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5 MemoryGigabyte AORUS 1TB M.2 NVME Solid State DriveGigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8G Graphics CardGigabyte C300 Tempered Glass Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Desktop ChassisGigabyte 850W Gold Fully Modular Black Desktop Power Supply
AndrovaZA's PC:
Intel Core i7-14700KF 3.4 GHz 20-Core ProcessorGigabyte AORUS WATERFORCE X 240 Liquid CPU CoolerGigabyte Z790 GAMING X AX ATX LGA1700 MotherboardGigabyte AORUS 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5 MemoryGigabyte AORUS 1TB M.2 NVME Solid State DriveGigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 WINDFORCE OC 12G Graphics CardGigabyte C300 Tempered Glass Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Desktop ChassisGigabyte 850W Gold Fully Modular Black Desktop Power Supply
https://www.aorus.com/en-za
Watch the full episode on YouTube, Part 1 on RushkaGG's channel & Part 2 on AndrovaZA's channel
11 Dec 2023
Episode 9: Watermelon Muchers
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we reminisce on previous rAge events, chat about the end of the SA esports season, the end of the Overwatch League, and Blizzard's bad money-handling, game crossovers and localised racism on local game servers.
You can also watch the episode on YouTube: Part 1 on RushkaGG's channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OuGN6dZXcM) and Part 2 on AndrovaZA's channel
8 Nov 2023
Episode 8: The "Circle Jerk"
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we tackle unwarranted clapback on Rushka & Julia 'bish' Robson speaking about #ValZA on the Expresso show, catch up on the ladies who represented Africa at the Riyadh Games Festival, the release of the Valorant Cape Town servers, the latest big game releases and South African gamers winning big within the local scene.
12 Oct 2023
Episode 7: Insert ‘Ancient Aliens’ Guy Meme
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this filler episode, we Androva talks passionately about ✨aliens✨ (yep, that’s literally it).
Banter Bit will be back to our weekly releases from next week (16/10/2023).
Full video episode available on Androva's YouTube channel (https://youtu.be/To8NrAsSb1o)
7 Aug 2023
Episode 6: Keyboard Warriors
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we catch up on all things esports related in South Africa and share our excitement about CORSAIR obtaining DROP.
24 Jul 2023
Episode 5: Lazy & Entitled
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we continue the discussion from episode 4 after a fair amount of unwarranted and misplaced backlash on Twitter over the past week. For further context see here: https://youtu.be/ZcnUFuzuiK8
17 Jul 2023
Episode 4: Racial Microaggressions in Gaming
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we dive into a more serious conversation about racial microaggressions that people, specifically, women of colour face within the gaming and tech space in South Africa.
You can also watch the episode on YouTube: Part 1 on AndrovaZA's channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYAfqTAbMQU) & Part 2 on RushkaGG's channel (https://youtu.be/fyF-rMl65zk)
12 Jul 2023
Episode 3: Musk vs Zuck
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we discuss the Musk vs Zuckerberg drama (including the much-anticipated but unlikely-to-happen cage fight at the Colosseum) and South Africans are still dominating overseas as we follow the Tekken 7 boys at Gamers8 and for our Ghibli movie stans, we discuss the unique release of Miyazaki’s final film.
4 Jul 2023
Episode 2: Which controller would you trust with your life?
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In this episode, we discuss the Ocean Gate Titan incident, controllers, Rushka’s Redragon partnership, ‘self-care’ culture and more.
You can also watch full episodes over on RushkaGG (https://www.youtube.com/@rushkagg) and AndrovaZA's (https://www.youtube.com/@AndrovaZA) YouTube channels.
26 Jun 2023
Episode 1: Welcome to Banter Bit
Banter Bit is a gaming podcast hosted by Androva and RushkaGG that covers the latest news and trends in the gaming industry in South Africa.
In episode 1, we introduce ourselves and cover some goings-on within the local gaming and esports scene. You can also watch the episode on YouTube: Part 1 on RushkaGG (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjVbDYjwuEs&pp=ygUIcnVzaGthZ2c%3D) & Part 2 on AndrovaZA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65lMVGouWQ&ab_channel=AndrovaZA)
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Season 4, Episode 4: Help us find this VCT Cameraman
Published 17 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, she made it to Streamer University. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm going to go check her out. I don't know if she streams. I've only seen her stuff on Insta. Yeah, she started streaming. Actually, I couldn't lie to you and tell you when she started streaming. Yeah. But I've been following her for literal years. And I'm so happy to see her get in on something. I think she started streaming maybe about two years ago. I do remember seeing, like, some of her content was, like, clipped from her streams or that kind of thing. She does a lot of IRL streaming, if I remember correctly. She doesn't necessarily, like, she plays games, of course. […]
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