Jul 6, 202629 min
How did it all go wrong? Former South African Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tells Peter Bruce is this final episode of their three-part series of his stewardship of the Post Office how he tried to take on local courier...
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Peter Bruce, veteran South African newspaper editor and commentator, interviews the country's social and political leaders and experts in a weekly effort to explain what is actually going on in this complicated country. Bruce's interviews are about making events easy to understand for people with little time to listen.
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What is Podcasts from the Edge about?
Peter Bruce, veteran South African newspaper editor and commentator, interviews the country's social and political leaders and experts in a weekly effort to explain what is actually going on in this complicated country. Bruce's interviews are about making events easy to understand for people with little time to listen.
What has Podcasts from the Edge covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Death of the South African Post Office (Part 3)" (6 July 2026, 29 minutes), "Death of the Post Office (Part 2)" (29 June 2026, 46 minutes), and "Death of the Post Office (Part 1)" (22 June 2026, 32 minutes).
How often does Podcasts from the Edge publish?
Podcasts from the Edge publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 165 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Podcasts from the Edge?
Booking probability for Podcasts from the Edge is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Podcasts from the Edge requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Podcasts from the Edge's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Podcasts from the Edge?
The strongest fits for Podcasts from the Edge are Government & Politics. Podcasts from the Edge has a news audience.
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Podcasts from the Edge is a news podcast with 165 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #25
Death of the Post Office (Part 2)
Jun 29, 202646 minFormer South African Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tell Peter Bruce, in the second episode of their three-part Podcasts From the Edge Special, what he found when he first walked into his office at Post Office headquarters...
Episode #24
Death of the Post Office (Part 1)
Jun 22, 202632 minListen in as banker, financier, entrepreneur and former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tells Peter Bruce the story of his appointment as CEO of the South African Post Office in 2016, its recovery from constant State...
- May 13, 202637 min
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- Apr 16, 202640 min
Business Day parliamentary reporter Tara Roos tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that, while DA leader Helen Zille may secure the most votes in Johannesburg in the upcoming local government...
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- Apr 8, 20261h 2m
Africa’s populations are exploding. By 2050 one in 10 children born in the world will be Nigerian. Right now 29 of the world’s top national fertility rates are African. But Africans need to find new power and position...
Episode #20
Cyril picks a number, any number…
Mar 30, 202611 minPresident Cyril Ramaphosa will tell delegates at the Sixth South African Investment Conference this Tuesday morning that he plans to raise R2 trillion in news fixed investment over the next three years. Or five years...
- Mar 25, 202652 min
The government is planning something quite audacious and it isn’t a high speed train from Tshwane to Durban. Instead it wants to create, out of the often dishevelled mass of land and property it owns through the...
- Mar 18, 202646 min
Incoming DA leader Geordin Hill Lewis says that to grow the party it is going to need the votes of people who have never voted for it before. DA members can do the math, he says. But is he comfortable that those new...
- Feb 25, 202657 min
Songezo Zibi, leader of Rise Mzansi and chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in Parliament, tells Peter Bruce in this wide-ranging edition of Podcasts from the Edge that the ANC and US President Donald...
- Feb 4, 202642 min
Agriculture author and expert Wandile Sihlobo tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that Agriculture mMinister John Steenhuisen has not option but to import foot and mouth vaccines through a...
- Jan 21, 202647 min
If the past is any guide then some middle-ranking official of officer is going to take the fall for the cock-up at sea last week when an Iranian corvette took part in exercises off of False Bay with the South African...
Episode #14
Why Imports don’t explain our decline
Dec 10, 202554 minOne of the best industrial minds in South Africa, XA Global Trade Advisors MD Donald Mackay, tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that using import tariffs to protect local industry is a losing...
Episode #13
Amateur hour in South African diplomacy?
Dec 3, 202545 minFormer DA leader Tony Leon tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that South Africa is taking a chance in there way it is confronting US President Donald Trump’s decisions to boycott the recent G20...
Episode #12
Fantastic Summit, but sadly no consensus
Nov 25, 202510 minPeter Bruce argues, in this Podcasts from the Edge monologue, that while the G20 Summit in Johannesburg at the weekend went well, and that the West gathered around to support President Cyril Ramaphosa, he was unable to...
- Nov 19, 202552 min
Amid a flurry of upbeat economic news — a good mini-budget, a stronger rand, escape from the Grey List, the JSE on steroids and progress, on paper at least, on reform of South Africa’s moribund rail and ports system —...
- Nov 12, 202547 min
Veteran ANC leader Mathews Phosa, a former ANC Treasurer-general and Mpumalanga premier, tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that he doesn’t take talk of renewal in the ANC seriously. It’s spin...
Episode #9
Can the State step on the gas?
Oct 29, 202547 minSouth Africa is taking a huge bet on a new fuel source for electricity — liquid natural gas (LNG). Electricity Minister Kghosientsho Ramokgopa has said we will target using LNG for 6 00MW of powerby 2030 but there...
- Oct 22, 202544 min
Deputy President Paul Mashatile is a flawed individual who should probably not be president, journalist and author Pieter Du Toit tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge. Du Toit in his new book on...
- Oct 15, 202532 min
US President Donald Trump’s flash coup in bringing fighting in Gaza to end end on Monday, along with the return of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, may still be on shaky ground but it’s a good moment for South Africa to...
Recent guests
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Mark Barnes
author of Why We Ride and host of the MOA podcast The Ride Inside, Respect Rx Pharmacies
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Wandile Sihlobo
Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, South Africa's Presidential Envoy on Agriculture and Land
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Emma Powell
Real Estate investor, Lifestyle enthusiast, South African Department of Foreign Affairs
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Hon. Donald Mackay
Director at XA International Trade Advisors, South African trade and industry
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