Politricking Season 4, Episode 4: Xiluva party leader and former DA Mayor, Bongani Baloyi joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s podcast as he shares what makes Xiluva different from other political parties and why he decided to leave the DA and Action SA and formed his own party which will contest in the national elections for first time after launching in 2023 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Politricking Season 4, Episode 3: ATM Leader, Vuyo Zungula joins Tshidi Madia on this week’s podcast and shares his thoughts on party funding and how it can impact the work of parliament and on Busisiwe Mkhwebane joining EFF. With their manifesto launched in December, he shares what they have to offer to South Africa and why people should vote for ATM. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Politricking Season 4, Episode 2: BOSA’s leader, Mmusi Maimane on leaving the DA, tough lessons from being too politically trusting, fighting for transformation in the DA & putting a job in every home and his vision to put a job in every home. Maimane also responds to ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba mocking his proposal to create a job in every home - says they've done the research See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Politricking Season 4, episode 1: ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba on the gruelling & brutal but rewarding 2024 election campaign. Just before the proclamation of the election date and the posters went up, Mashaba popped into 15 Fredman to reflect on his political career, which kicked off in the 2016 local government elections. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two time Olympic Medalist Caster Mokgadi Semenya joins Tshidi Madia for a special episode that celebrates the athlete's legacy and the release of her memoir "The Race to be myself". Caster reflects on the highs and lows of her 15 year long career,  the massive court challenge against World Athletics which has effectively banned her from competing and the wins along her journey. She also speaks about life beyond the track, her activism and life as a wife and mother. See omnystudio.com/listener...

City of Johannesburg Speaker Colleen Makhubele joins Tshidi Madia on this last episode of season 3, and she speaks about what inspired her to join politics and the importance of having educated people as part of governance. She also speaks about her political party COPE, stating that she is still hopeful and trusting her party because though there might be indifferences in the party, COPE is still the only party that has not been accused of corruption. She also touches on the coalition, table...

Felicia Mabuza-Suttle joins Tshidi Madia on this episode and she reflects on her talk show days. She also speaks about how to this day women are still questioned for being strong, emotional and for standing up for themselves. She also adds that when man speaks, we first listen then look but when women speak, we first look then listen. She also encourages young people of South Africa by stating that they need to self-acknowledge their great work and need to learn to pat themselves on the back...

Tshidi Madia speaks to Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and she takes us back to the beginning of Democracy and she speaks about how women had to fight to be part of the CODESA talks. Adding how she cried when Tata Nelson Mandela when he was inaugurated, she cried as she remembered how many people had to fight to achieve the democracy. She also speaks on how the first cabinet had only two ministers who were women. She also touches on the ministerial positions that she occupied, and she also speaks...

For the Women's Day episode, Tshidi Madia is joined by the Executive Director of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, Gugu Ndebele and she speaks about her journey of her being appointed as the Executive Director of OWLAG. She notes the importance of encouraging children to read books from the early age, explaining that she traveled and experienced the world not by traveling but through books. She further touches on the work the school does in order to bring up girls who are ready...

Lindiwe Mazibuko Co-Founder and CEO of Futurelect joins Tshidi Madia in this episode and she speaks about women in politics, public service and getting young people into political space. She also reflects on her time in the DA and also adds her thoughts on coalition. She adds that though she is not yet ready to go back to the political space, she does have the ambition to going back but she cannot say when she will be ready for that. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Economic Freedom Fighters is 10 years old and is now the third-largest party in Parliament. Tshidi Madia invited the party's spokesperson - Sinawo Thambo for this episode. Thambo gives his reflections of this milestone, his thoughts on the party's leadership succession plan and what the 2024 general elections looks like for the EFF.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tshidi is joined by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and she held a press conference regarding the court judgement about the invalidity of the President’s decision to suspend her. She also touches on how the judges and the courts are used as a tool to tarnish her credibility. Her Husband also joined in the conversation and was vocal about how he is not impressed with Fikile Mbalula outburst regarding his wife. Mkhwebane further states that the constitution on South Africa needs to change...

Tshwane Mayor Ciller Brink speaks to Tshidi Madia and he opens about how it has been being in the office of Tshwane Mayor for 100 days. He notes that Tshwane has a lot of financial challenges which were contributed by the 18% salary increase towards the end of 2019, misgovernance by the administrator which brough the budget of the municipality to a deficit of over 4 billion, covid-19 and loadshedding. Touching on the Eskom debt that the municipality has, he says that they are in continuous...

The ANC Youth League held its first national elective conference over the weekend after eight years, and Ekurhuleni’s Collen Malatji emerged as the new president. He joins Tshidi and opens up about the plans that the youth league has and how they plan to work with the mother body to ensure that the issues of the youth of this country are tackled by the ANC government. He also touches on how he plans to go back to the Luthuli house and to work towards the next coming elections and the strategy...

To close of the month of June where we commemorated the youth of 1976 as well as celebrated Pride month, Tshidi speaks to Dr Bev who is an activist for the LGBTQ community. She begins by reflecting on her how she started her journey of fighting for human rights for the Queer community. She also spoke on the 2024 up coming General Elections and said that she feels that we need leaders and though there are up coming political parties she still has no confidence on any of the political leaders....

Tshidi Madia has a conversation with General Bantu Holomisa and he speaks about what needs to change in order for our democracy to work. He shares his feelings about the peace keeping mission saying that "we should not have poked our nose into the affairs of Russia and Ukraine". He further touches on the UDM adding that he is happy with what the party has achieved in its 24 years of existence. He goes on to add that UDM has a bright future and he also believes that it will be able to survive...

Tshidi Madia speaks to Mbali Ntuli a former DA member. She opens up about leaving DA, the works she is doing with IEC which is to encourage young people to vote in the next coming 2024 General Elections. She also touches on the work she does with the GroundWork Collective which speaks to food production, skills and entrepreneurship and mobilizing people to be part of the democracy by taking park in the elections.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tshidi Madia still in Conakry in Guinea caught up with Simphiwe Dana. Simphiwe speaks about why she was selected to go to Conakry and the music selection which is a tribute to Mariam Makeba songs. She also touches on about how she feels about the state of South Africa. Dana further opens up about the importance of going to therapy and says she would like to be remembered as a person who left a world in better place than how she found it.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tshidi Madia whilst at Guinea Conakry for the Africa Day celebration had a conversation with Former President Thabo Mbeki. They discussed Russia, President Putin and South African hosting the BRICS summit. They also touched on the President Cyril Ramaphosa administration and the Cholera outbreak in parts of Gauteng. He also explained South Africa's position in the world explaining how he feels about South Africa not being invited to the G7 summit. He added that educating South Africans and...

The former Joburg mayor and now leader of the DA caucus is this week’s guest on Politricking with Tshidi Madia. She shares her thoughts on being an ordinary councillor, new mayor Kabelo Gwamanda and her political love story with ActionSA’s Brutus Malada. See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

Rise Mzansi's Songezo Zibi on bringing seriousness back to politics, 2024 being this generation's 1994 and listening as the pathway to solving SA's troubles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie on his excursion to Orania, the politics of coalitions, being Mayor for a year and his party's future post 2024 general elections.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Africa's electricity czar Minister, Dr Kgosientsho "Sputla" Ramokgopa joined Tshidi Madia this week, he shared his thoughts on his new portfolio that lacks the necessary powers to effectively fight off load shedding, winter expectations and possible costs of rolling blackouts for the ANC ahead of the 2024 general elections. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sihle Zikalala's journey in the ruling party, the African National Congress is one that has proved interesting. From being booted out by his Province of KwaZulu Natal and resigning from his Premier seat and now, we catch up with him as a Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure who received the highest ANC NEC votes, might I add. Zikalala reiterates the issue of the ANC renewing itself,  and says there is no other organisation with a clear vision for all south africans outside of the...

Rekgotsofetse Chikane, Co-editor of Protest in South Africa: Rejection, reassertion, reclamation and Dr. Ebrahim Harvey who is an independent writer, analyst and author of The Great Pretenders: Race and Class under ANC Rule re this episode's guests, together with Tshidi Madia they try make sense of the spate of protests witnessed in the first three months of 2023.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.