The Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa join forces to bring you South Africa's sharpest weekly conversation. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova sit down each week to talk straight about politics, money, and power. No spin. No script. Just the truth.
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The Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa join forces to bring you South Africa's sharpest weekly conversation. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova sit down each week to talk straight about politics, money, and power. No spin. No script. Just the truth.
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August 13, 2026
Joburg Ready to Dump the ANC
<p>Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for the twentieth episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa.</p><p>A new poll from the Social Research Foundation has the ANC at just 18% in Johannesburg, down from 30% in March, in a city that's been the party's political heart since before 1994. Rob and Zuks unpack what that collapse actually means, and Zuks reveals an exclusive detail from his own reporting, ActionSA has told him they'd genuinely consider a coalition with the DA after the election.</p><p>From there, they turn to Zuks' own column on the DA's new manifesto, and whether South Africa's problem is the wrong policies or simply years of bad implementation. Zuks pushes back hard on "efficiency" as a fix, pointing to who actually holds economic power in the country, and revisits why the DA's past coalitions in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni fell apart.</p><p>The episode closes on the case against seven special forces soldiers and one military police officer charged with murdering Hawks detective Frans Mathipa, and what it says about whether South Africa's military answers to anyone at all. Zuks makes the sharpest case of the episode: nothing will happen to the generals involved, because they're simply carrying out what the ANC wants, and an outgoing president has little authority left to stop them.</p>
August 6, 2026
The White Party Winning Black Votes
<p>Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential for the nineteenth episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa.</p><p>This week Zuks makes the case, from his own reporting and personal experience in the Eastern Cape, that the Freedom Front Plus, long seen as an exclusively white party, is quietly winning support across racial lines. Minister Pieter Groenewald's prison bakery fix becomes the episode's clearest example of efficiency beating ideology, and Patrick brings an outsider's eye to why rural and urban South Africans are experiencing the same parties so differently.</p><p>From there, Julius Malema's public attack on MacG's Podcast and Chill becomes a window into something bigger, whether podcasts are depoliticising young South Africans or simply giving them somewhere else to go. Patrick then walks through the real story behind this week's chaos in Ceuta, how a staged political moment obscured the fact that crossings into Europe are actually down this year, not up.</p><p>They close on Jacob Zuma stripping a senior MK Party figure of his role in parliament and handing it to his own son, Duduzane, a move both hosts read as the clearest sign yet of where the party is really headed.</p>
July 30, 2026
ANC For Sale
<p>Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for the eighteenth episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa.</p><p>This week covers South Africa's culture of paying for political access, ANC gala dinners selling seats next to the president for up to R2 million, set against Donald Trump's Truth Social selling millisecond trading access to his own posts for $100,000 a month. Rob and Zuks pick apart where legitimate lobbying ends and buying influence begins, and look at just how little of this actually gets declared to the IEC.</p><p>From there it's another blow to Ramaphosa's New Dawn, IDAC head Andrea Johnson's resignation after damaging Madlanga Commission testimony, a Public Investment Corporation with no board and no CEO, and the growing risk that South Africa gets greylisted by FATF all over again.</p><p>They also revisit Zuks' own column making the case for a grand ANC-DA coalition to keep the EFF and MK Party out of South Africa's hung municipalities, before closing on Jacob Zuma tightening his personal grip on MK Party finances.</p>
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