Rob Rose and Zukile Majova open episode 22 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa, by paying tribute to country music icon Dolly Parton, who died this week at the age of 80.
From there, they turn to the ANC’s election manifesto, launched this weekend in Diepsloot, one of the areas the party has failed to deliver basic services to for three decades. Rob and Zuks pick apart promises of free electricity and water that ring hollow given municipalities owe Eskom more than R110 billion, and electricity costs have risen 900% over twenty years.
