Peter Bruce, veteran South African newspaper editor and commentator, interviews the country's social and political leaders and experts in a weekly effort to explain what is actually going on in this complicated country. Bruce's interviews are about making events easy to understand for people with little time to listen.
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Peter Bruce, veteran South African newspaper editor and commentator, interviews the country's social and political leaders and experts in a weekly effort to explain what is actually going on in this complicated country. Bruce's interviews are about making events easy to understand for people with little time to listen.
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April 16, 2026
Why Helen Zille is unlikely to become Johannesburg’s mayor
<p>Business Day parliamentary reporter Tara Roos tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that, while DA leader Helen Zille may secure the most votes in Johannesburg in the upcoming local government elections, she is unlikely to become mayor. Roos, whose new book Where To From Here unpacks South Africa’s political landscape in the wake of the 2024 elections, argues that Zille won’t win an outright majority and will lack the numbers needed to form a coalition. The ANC, ActionSA and the Freedom Front Plus are all expected to oppose her. Could the Patriotic Alliance step in? Unlikely, says Roos: “The DA’s only possible coalition partner is going to be the ANC.” And in Gauteng, that remains a long shot. </p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
April 8, 2026
How the vanities of small differences trap Africa
<p>Africa’s populations are exploding. By 2050 one in 10 children born in the world will be Nigerian. Right now 29 of the world’s top national fertility rates are African. But Africans need to find new power and position in the world. Widely-respected South African business leader Phuthuma Nhleko has just published a book, The Invisible People, to make the case for a new Pan-Africanism and tells Peter Bruce in this Edition of Podcasts from the Edge that the continent really can find its voice again. "I know the African Union has got many, many challenges (but) the structures are there. The European Union has done the same … before 1945 Europeans were killing each other … but post 1945, the EU was built block by block, and I struggle to understand why that would be a farfetched vision for Africa in the next 20 years.” </p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
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