Pity the Voter

Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for the sixteenth episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa, and this one's a first, our debut video episode, filmed live in studio.

This week Rob and Zuks start with the sorry state of South Africa's diplomatic missions abroad, from a London embassy where staff are reportedly told to bring their own toilet paper to work, to a shuttered mission in the Netherlands still waiting on renovations a year later. They ask what institutional neglect at home and abroad says about the country's priorities.

Then it's the Public Investment Corporation, the R3 trillion asset manager now mired in fresh scandal, before Julius Malema's link to the Madlanga Commission and what it could cost the EFF ahead of November's municipal elections.

The DA's Tony Leon finds himself at the centre of a lobbying row, and Rob and Zuks weigh up whether it'll actually cost the party any votes. Then it's on to the MK Party's pick for the eThekwini mayoral race, and what that says about patronage over principle in KwaZulu Natal politics.

Rob closes with two takeaways: sympathy for KZN voters stuck choosing between bad, worse and inept options, and a warning to stay off the Stella Artois this weekend.