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M&G Listen is the official podcast channel of the Mail & Guardian. Audio for a better South Africa.

The City of Johannesburg has recorded an increase in illegal mining activities, which include tunnelling on the road reserve, below road surfaces and excavations of bridge embankments in recent years. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

PODCAST | The human cost of South Africa’s mining and corporate riches

A common thread in our mining history has been inequality – mining companies still avoid their social obligations during and post mining

PODCAST | “SA Needs a Reset”

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh chats with Prince Mashele about Operation Dudula, Eskom Crisis, Cyril Ramaphosa, EFF Parliament, 2024 Election

Lukhona Mnguni. Image: Tsholanang Rapoo

PODCAST | The state of the nation

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh chats with Lukhone Mnguni about loadshedding, South Africa’s governance crisis, the 55th ANC National Conference, and SONA

PODCAST: The ANC deputy president speaks

The Mail & Guardian has done a six-part podcast series looking back at the years that defined the ANC since the dawn of democracy

PODCAST: The Future of the ANC

The Mail & Guardian has done a six-part podcast series looking back at the years that defined the ANC since the dawn of democracy

PODCAST: What does SA’s coalition future look like?

The Mail & Guardian has done a six-part podcast series on the story of the ANC after Polokwane conference of 2007

PODCAST: The new dawn

The Mail & Guardian has done a six-part podcast series on the story of the ANC after Polokwane conference of 2007

PODCAST | Duped by Zuma

The Mail & Guardian has done a six-part podcast series on the story of the ANC after Polokwane conference of 2007

PODCAST | How South Africa, ANC changed in the years of Jacob Zuma

The Mail & Guardian has done a six-part podcast series on the story of the ANC after Polokwane conference of 2007

PODCAST: Thabo Mbeki’s failed battle for the soul of the ANC

In the first episode of the six-part mini-series of podcasts, Mail & Guardian’s editor, Ron Derby, and veteran journalist Paddy Harper take readers back to former president Thabo…

PODCAST | Dark fate awaits SA if we don’t address Marikana triggers

An enlightening panel discussion reflects on the lead up to the massacre, its fallout and the new M&G documentary

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PODCAST | Defend our democracy

Sizwe Mpofu Walsh and Dudu Mmeti chat about South Africa’s political crisis and the conference for democratic renewal

PODCAST | The Mail & Guardian team breaks down the ANC policy conference

The M&G looks at some of the key issues in the ANC that will undoubtedly make for robust conversation as the party congregates

PODCAST | NEC member Nonceba Mhlauli on the ANC’s electoral reform and state capture

The M&G chats with national executive committee member Nonceba Mhlauli on the ANC’s electoral reform and state capture findings

PODCAST | The ANC policy conference with Gwede Mantashe

We chat with Gwede Mantashe on the days leading to the ANC policy conference and the root cause of corruption and state capture

PODCAST | ANC national spokesperson Pule Mabe on the step-aside rule

The Mail & Guardian journalists discuss the step aside rule, its genesis and role in the ANC’s renewal programme with NEC member Pule Mabe

PODCAST | War for diamonds – An unequal battle

These are the illegal miners who are in constant battles with the government to obtain legal mining permits

PODCAST | Standerton fights to get municipality working

Ron Derby, Sarah Smit and Khaya Koko in conversation about Eskom’s ‘sabotaged’ Tukuka power station and why Lekwa local municipality faces rolling blackouts and crumbling…

PODCAST | After the ANC

We need to reimagine South Africa without the ANC and if we do not, we will either live with false hope or the country’s crisis will intensify

PODCAST | Remembering Louis Maqhubela

How did the iconic master painter Louis Maqhubela change the game in the 1990’s and how did he pave the way for artists today with his ‘transformative’ art?