Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for episode four of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa.
This week they start with the incident that stopped South Africa in its tracks. A minor bumper bashing in Emmarentia became a murder scene. A man was shot dead in front of his children. His son ran to perform CPR on his dying father. His wife is still in hospital. And the gun used was legally licensed.
Rob and Zuks dig into what the numbers actually say about road rage in South Africa and the picture is shocking. In a single quarter, 1,453 murders were linked to road rage and provocation. SA is ranked first in the world for aggressive driver behaviour. Thirty four people are shot dead every single day. And unlike most gun crime in South Africa where illegal firearms dominate, road rage killings are overwhelmingly committed with licensed weapons.
They also cross to Scrolla’s royal correspondent Celani in KZN where xenophobic violence is building on the streets of Durban. Every political party except the DA is using anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of the local elections and Celani explains why the king is the only figure with the moral authority to calm things down.
Then they get into Fannie Masemola, the police chief charged over a R360-million tender, and what Ramaphosa’s response tells us about how he leads.
