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South Africa's wittiest news show. Join comedian KG Mokgadi, Zoë Human, and the Politically Aweh team every week as we make sense of South African and international news and politics. Let's get aweh!
Unknown Host hosts Politically Aweh, a news show with 26 episodes published.
In 1976, students marched peacefully for their right to learn. Yet, they were met with bullets. Seth Mazibuko was one of the youngest leaders that day. He calls it the battle of the bullet versus the book. A generation t
Brett Herron is not your typical politician. As former Mayor of Cape Town and a DA insider for years, he was in the room where decisions were made, and he watched closely how the party operated, who really had influence,
Mark Heywood once smuggled drugs into South Africa to break pharmaceutical patents and force the government's hand on HIV treatment. It worked. Six million people are now on ARVs. Now he's picked a new fight, and this ti
She's interviewed assassins, gangsters, and corrupt politicians, and somehow made all of them trust her. Now she's sitting down with KG, and nothing is off limits. We get into the Oval Office, a freezing Polish farmhouse
We sat down with Irfaan Mangera, Y20 spokesperson and seasoned youth wrangler, to unpack why the G20 felt like a group project where the grownups didn’t read the brief. We get into youth rage, protest culture, anime flag
Comedian and activist Justine Wanda joins PA to unpack African youth anger, satire’s role in politics and why we’re laughing through the chaos. We get into everything: protests over bread and pads, politicians swapping c
Zane Dangor is South Africa’s foreign policy boss and he joins us to unpack Gaza, Ukraine, the UN, the US tariff drama and what SA is actually doing on the world stage. This episode was recorded in August 2025, right in
In this raw conversation, social media Law Expert Emma Sadleir reveals the terrifying reality behind anonymous WhatsApp channels, deepfakes, and sextortion targeting South African youth. Emma recently won TWO court order
Songezo Zibi joined us back in August at The Gathering 2025 right when Rise Mzansi, GOOD and BOSA were flirting with the idea of a political merger. We talked about Parliament’s chaotic economy, Scopa’s mission to follow
Cape Town’s Mayor Geordin Hill Lewis joins KG to talk rent crisis, tourism, and how even he can’t afford to live on the Atlantic seaboard. What happens when the Mayor of Cape Town sits down with KG? You get a brutally ho
Caryn Dolley accidentally became an investigative journalist and now exposes SA's organised crime syndicates while dodging death threats. KG sits down with Caryn to unpack the absolute chaos that is South Africa's organi
We ask Adriaan Basson if the media can survive being broke, Big Tech eating advertising money and consumers crying over paywalls. Politicians hate him, trolls love to roast him, and even his mom gets upset on his behalf.
Ferial Haffajee - journalist, columnist and Associate Editor at Daily Maverick, talks democracy, internet trolls, Big Tech, and the future of SA. Watch what happens when KG introduces Ferial Haffajee as a Champion of Dem
Pieter-Louis Myburgh unpacks bribes, tenders, corruption, and whether South Africa is starting to feel like a mafia state. We sat down with award-winning investigative journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh to talk about the in
Dion George, SA’s Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, speaks on climate change, coal vs green energy, rhino poaching, and South Africa’s energy future. KG Mokgadi sits down with the former finance guy turned
KG Mokgadi chats to Dr. Mmusi Maimane, leader of BOSA and former Leader of the Opposition, about why smaller parties matter now more than ever. Maimane unpacks how parties like BOSA can keep the GNU on its toes, why it's
ActionSA's Herman Mashaba spills the tea on the DA, ANC and EFF. Plus, he talks GNU coalition chaos, Donald Trump, and foreigners. This podcast is a companion series to our YouTube comedy explainer videos about South Afr
Just Share's Executive Director, Tracey Davies, explains how South Africa's largest private emitter of carbon pollution, Sasol, has escaped scrutiny for so long - and what we can do about it. Watch our honest remake of S
Ground Work Collective's Mbali Ntuli gives us the lowdown on how we can rebuild South Africa's crumbling towns. Watch Kakkest Dorp Van Die Jaar Awards here: https://youtu.be/AaNL955S3F4?si=_v6csp2WMjf6X745 This podcast i
What does it take to stand up for the truth? In this podcast, we dive into the harsh realities faced by whistleblowers in South Africa. Join Cynthia Stimpel, from The Whistle Blower house, as she discusses the critical r
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