Rob Rose and Zukile Majova return for episode 26 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa.
Fikile Mbalula is facing growing pressure after the ANC failed to submit 181 council candidates before the election deadline. Rob and Zuks ask what the blunder reveals about the party’s leadership and whether the ANC can continue protecting its secretary-general.
They also discuss Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma’s allegations of vote buying within the ANC and threatened legal action against Mbalula over comments about an Eastern Cape school principal. Mbalula denies the vote-buying allegations.
The conversation turns to the turmoil at the top of the police, Johannesburg’s collapsing inner city, Donald Trump’s claims about South Africa and the political battle delaying Starlink’s arrival.
