All things South Africa, Politics, Pop culture, Comedy, Books, media and radio and some critical analysis of the current affairs. Hosted by former housemates from Wits university, who initially wanted to become radio broadcasters until the new media took over. All the other burning topics that require some critical thinking and a healthy debate. We do this in the most natural way possible, as a group of friends would, over drinks.
OC 154 South African Podcast
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All things South Africa, Politics, Pop culture, Comedy, Books, media and radio and some critical analysis of the current affairs. Hosted by former housemates from Wits university, who initially wanted to become radio broadcasters until the new media took over. All the other burning topics that require some critical thinking and a healthy debate. We do this in the most natural way possible, as a group of friends would, over drinks.
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May 1, 2023
Episode 11 - South African education system| Financial & Academic university exclusion| Tips for new tertiary students| Being street smart| Chronicles of varsity res life (Mens Res @ Wits)|Friendships
<p>Welcome to episode 11 of the OC 154 Podcast. </p> <p>This is one episode that is jam packed with stories, stories for days I tell you, of our time during varsity days, at Wits, which is where the three of us first met.</p> <p>A bit of background on what the CC, or Central Committee we keep referring to is…basically an informal think tank of some sort at Mens Res that we had. From what I can recall, the genesis of this so-called CC was around our second year into third year at Mens Res. There was a pool table in there where gents would gather during their free time to play pool in the common room. Now and again, an argument would erupt about any range of topics, but mostly politics, both on a national level and Wits. Over time there started being rules around how these arguments take place, some house rules if you like. I just remember us nit even playing pool anymore in that room, where the primary reason for going there was to hang out and argue with gents. My memory might be failing me here, but I hope I got the crux of it right. </p> <p>I am recording this after a weekend where I attended my fiancé graduation at the University of the Free State. And she, like many of her fellow graduates, have very little experience of a university campus life because a great majority of their degrees were completed remotely, while the world was under COVID lockdowns. So if you are a first year at a tertiary institution this year, your seniors on campus this year who doing their post-graduate might not be the best example of the sort of mindset that a tertiary student should have, and to no fault of their own. So I highly recommend this episode as we make a deep dive into discussing the hidden curriculum that comes with sharing a physical campus with different people from all walks of life, and who are equally or smarter than you, who are from different financial backgrounds from you, and so forth. In fact, this particular episode was inspired by an interview we had watched of one of our former fellow raiders at Mens Res, Phesheya, that he did with Penuel. The guy comes from a very affluent family and he stayed with the rest of us, peasants at Mens res. And I was taken aback to hear some of the challenges he spoke about that came with being a cheese boy. It turns out, that the identity crisis that many of us suffer in our early adulthood, is orthogonal to how well off the family you come from is.</p> <p>We explore many other related topics such as, the quality, or lack thereof, of the basic education in South Africa, university administrative structures, the value of Res life versus off campus living, the importance of being street smart in university, financial and academic exclusion, navigating friendships with friends that did not get to go to university, and other topics. </p> <p>We start off the episode by exploring the complexities and the dynamics between inter-socio class friendships, and the moreki complex amongst friends, sparked by a story about myself and a friend of mine who could not make it to varsity but ended up with "I blew it" money after the passing of his father.</p> <p>As we approach the end of our recording, we begin to catch out on all the stories that were narrated throughout our recording, we get into the what I can call the punchline of our conversation, we extract lessons the country can learn from this micro-community that we were part of at Mens res, given the striking similarities between the little community and the country at large. So I would urge you to listen till the end because that is where cash value of all the stories lie.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
February 25, 2023
Episode 10-Lessons from AKA's death| Phalaphala farm case| Cyril Ramaphosa's corruption versus Jacob Zuma's corruption| South African governance problem| Private Sector complicity in politics
<p>So much has happened in this country since the recording of this episode, and here is some of the big events I would like to reflect on before we get into today’s episode.</p> <p>last week, , we woke up to the tragic news of AKA being shot outside a club in Durban. But at the same time, during the mourning process and the shock that many people are rightfully displaying, some other weird things also start happening.</p> <p>You see people on twitter, who were not that close to AKA, who are just remote fans like myself, become a little bit hysterical, almost to a point of attention seeking.</p> <p>I saw someone joke that, Rasta is busy preparing his paint as we speak, and I mean that is a fairly innocuous joke, it is not insensitive in any way because it is not making fun of AKA’s death itself or making fun of the fact that he is dead, so when I went into the comments, most people just chuckled along and liked the joke, because it is a South African inside joke that when someone passes away, Rasta will soon paint a remotely resembling portrait of them, which he did eventually by the way, and this time around it wasn’t bad honestly. But then some people started attacking this poor guy for this joke, the “its too soon brigade”. And if we are being honest, how angry are they really about this joke, or do they just want to demonstrate how good and compassionate people they are, who care so much about AKA’s death that they are willing to attack another guy who probably didn’t know AKA in real life just like them, for making a harmless joke in the mist of the news about his death. I cannot help but think that this virtue signalling behaviour is the product of the woke culture that is currently dominating social media these days, where people think the more outrage they express, the more of good hearts we will think they have.</p> <p>Don’t even get me started with Panyaza Lesufi and his attempts to get AKA a state funeral. Put aside the argument about whether or not AKA deserves a state funeral, but do we really think an attention seeking politician like Panyaza Lesufi was trying to do this out of the goodness of his heart? Or it was just an opportunity for his to grand stand and pave his way to the 2024 elections, like we have seen him do with many issues that he knows are close to people’s hearts. This guy is really starting to become annoying. It was all good when he was doing it during his MEC of Education days, but now it is getting too much bro. We don’t have to see you handing out sanitary pads to school girls, you can do it privately, in fact, something like that should be done privately. For those who have not seen that picture, you don’t want to its too cringe.</p> <p>The second thing that started happening that brought with it some bizzare things as well, is when people want to try and piece together what happened and what was the motive behind. And unfortunately, knowing the incompetence of Bheki Cele and his people, we may never know, we may have to wait another 10 years like we saw with the Senzo Meyiwa case.</p> <p>Everyone is doing their own research these days; we don’t need the so-called experts anymore.</p> <p>But guys, we cannot build a justice system on twitter threads and Youtube channels. As cute as alternative media, alternative medicine, alternative this and that may be, we cannot rely on Adv Barry Roux twitter account to resolve the crime for us in this country, we need the police force that work, we need impartial and competent courts, we need intelligence, we need experts.</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
December 20, 2022
Episode 9 - Mental health, psychedelics and spirituality | Wits' lecturer scam, Jeremia Lelosa | Binge drinking, MILFS and Ben 10s in Cape Town
In this episode, we explore a somewhat esoteric aspect of our lives. H and I had experience with the psychedelics in a form of psilocybin mushrooms. The goal, for me at least, was to continue the search for and to investigate the nature of consciousness. I have been a meditator for almost 4 years now, and most of my insights in this area of my life were greatly influenced by the American philosopher and Neuroscientist, Sam Harris. I use his meditation app to start my day every morning, and I have consumed tens, if not hundreds of hours of the content on his meditation app on topics ranging from moral philosophy, to living a good life all the way to Buddhist teachings and Eastern Philosophy in general. He is one public intellectual who has had the most influence in my life in the recent years, especially after I officially became an atheist. He introduced me to what spiritually means and looks like outside of organised religion, what has come to be known as secular spirituality. On the other hand, H’s curiosity was sparked by his encounter with Will Smith’s ayahuasca story in his auto-biography as well as Bill Burr’s magic mushroom experience that he shared in his latest Netflix special, and other people who had claimed to have had a spiritual experience from ingesting these compounds. We spend the greater part of the first half of this episode, sharing our subjective experiences, or trips as they are colloquially referred to. We had a whole build up to our respective experiences, and naturally, we did a lot of research too. Was the experience as pyrotechnic as we had anticipated? Have you ever wondered what sex is like while on a psychedelic trip? There is some ground-breaking research at the moment taking place in the states on these substances, decades after they were banned even for purposes of scientific research. The research so far is proving the tremendous psychological benefits that these substances can have, and the health of many addicts and mental patients they have managed to restore, even on patients with mental pathologies that had proven to be resistant to pharmaceutical drugs and therapy. Later in the podcast, GT, whose life is self-admittedly a mess of a different kind, finally joins us after a weekend of binge drinking, and he tries his best to convince us that he is sober. We then proceed to do our favourite thing; we judge him relentlessly. He had actually convinced me to take out that part of the podcast because he felt like he was not his best self, but I convinced him otherwise. You can listen and be the judge. Okay, maybe it’s about time we did a bit of psychoanalysing here, are we maybe jealous that GT is having too much of a good time for our liking down in the mother city? I mean the guy is living the life of a rock star down there, in this episode, we even find out that he may or may not be Mamokgethi Phakeng’s Ben 10, and she is essentially the one funding this unruly lifestyle of his. On the other news, at our Alma Matta, Wits university, a lecturer by the name of Jeremia Lelosa is embroiled in a scandal for allegedly scamming a couple of people, including his colleagues there at Wits and one of GT’s friends. GT gives us all the scoop in this controversy, Wits has since suspended the lecturer pending investigations. We also have a voice note from the lecturer himself, that he had sent to this friend of GT, so, you cannot afford to miss that part of this episode.
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