Justice Malala comes in for an actual State of the Nation Address on the Burning Platform, brought to you by Nando's. The bringing in of the army just further confirms the failings of President Zuma and his administration. Will he be held to account during the speech though, or will he again be oblivious to issues and deflect attention elsewhere? Could this be his last SONA? Justice elaborates on this and more.
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Andrew Levy speaks to media personality Karabo Kgoleng about her bipolar disease. He also speaks to Dr Yusuf Musa about the societal issues South Africans face when it comes to mental illness. Check out Sadag.org for more information about mental illnesses and support.
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Justice Malala is on fire this week on the Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's, slamming MEC Qedani Mahlangu and all the role players that saw 94 mentally ill patients die unnecessarily. More tender irregularities on the back of that with SASSA and the latest on Zimbabwe's ruined nation.
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From speeches that start out the same, to similar pronouncements about foreigners, to policies that lean heavily on the role of big-business Herman Mashaba and Donald Trump seem to be turning out to be similar in many interesting ways. Rori and Andrew explore the question further - joined by Tony Taverna-Turisan, Director of Communications at the Office of the Executive Mayor of City of Johannesburg, and gold-star political analyst, Justice Malala.
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You get paid, you get paid, everyone on #PaidTwitter gets paid! Justice Malala turns up the heat on what has been a fiery week here in South Africa on the Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's. What next in the manipulation of news on social media, and how will this influence elections going forward? This and so much more from South Africa's premier political analyst.
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After a break over the holidays, Justice Malala returns for the Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's. He turns up the heat on what is happening in the ANC. Will Zuma's successor just end up being a proxy for the President though, and further underline that the ANC is a rotten organisation? The cost of the ANC losing municipalities, the latest Eskom problem around defaulted payments and much more.
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Justice Malala turns up the heat for the last time in 2016 on the Burning Platform brought to you by Nando’s. He goes out with a bang with some hard hitting political analysis not to be missed.
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It's been a bad year for the SABC, and it seems to be getting worse. Justice Malala, on the Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's, kicks things off this week with this story. Does the ANC have an unlikely successor making his way up the ranks? Reviewing 100 days of the DA in charge of the Gauteng municipalities and more.
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Frankly Speaking – Are SA NGOs Moneymaking Schemes or Agents for Meaningful Impact?
There are over 200,000 NGOs in South Africa - all tackling the same set of issues. Yet it would appear that we aren’t really moving the needle on resolving those issues, while NGO execs continue to get paid large sums and build up their personal profiles through all sorts of fellowships, lists and international travel... living lives far removed from the lives they are supposedly trying to impact - yet using the experiences of those they are supposedly trying to impact to build up their own currency.
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