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The Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa join forces to bring you South Africa's sharpest weekly conversation. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova sit down each week to talk straight about politics, money, and power. No spin. No script. Just the truth.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Financial Mail and Scrolla. Africa join forces to bring you South Africa's sharpest weekly conversation. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova sit down each week to talk straight about politics, money, and power. No spin. No script. Just the truth.
Recent episodes include "SA and USA Go Poll Dancing" (29 October 2026, 34 minutes), "Zuma’s Unfinished Revolution" (15 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "The Dark Art of Election Polling" (1 October 2026, 53 minutes).
Sharp Sharp publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 30 episodes.
Booking probability for Sharp Sharp is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Sharp Sharp requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Sharp Sharp's contact route on record: verified email.
Sharp Sharp is a news podcast with 30 episodes published.
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Episode #31
Rob Rose from the Financial Mail and Zukile Majova from Scrolla.Africa are joined in the studio by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential for episode 31 of Sharp Sharp, as South Africa and the United States go to the...
Episode #29
Jacob Zuma has shaped South African politics for nearly two decades. Now uncertainty over his health raises a major question: can the MK Party survive without the man holding it together? Rob Rose, Zukile Majova and...
Episode #27
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Gareth van Onselen, CEO of Victory Research, for episode 27 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa. Can we...
Episode #26
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova return for episode 26 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa. The pressure is building on Fikile Mbalula. The ANC...
Episode #25
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential for episode 25 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa. The Trump...
Episode #24
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova return for episode 24 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa. The ANC failed one of the most basic tests facing any...
Episode #23
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential for episode 23 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa. The week began...
Episode #22
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova pay tribute to country music icon Dolly Parton, who died this week aged 80, before turning to the ANC's election manifesto, launched this weekend in Diepsloot, one of the areas where the party...
Episode #21
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential for episode 21 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa...
Episode #20
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for the twentieth episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa. A new poll from the Social Research...
Episode #19
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential for the nineteenth episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and...
Episode #18
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for the eighteenth episode of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa. This week covers South Africa's culture...
Episode #16
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 #11
Three scandals, one theme. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova, joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential, dig into the week the Democratic Alliance turned on itself. Former DA leader Tony Leon’s lobbying firm, Resolve...
Episode #14
The June 30 deadline came and went, and South Africa held remarkably steady. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova, joining from Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape, unpack what actually happened and why the anticipated chaos never...
Episode #13
June 30 is days away. March and March have set their deadline and all foreigners must leave South Africa. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into what happens when the deadline hits, whether the security forces can hold it...
Episode #12
Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, South Africa's schoolchildren are still being failed. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova mark June 16 with a retrospective that asks not what went wrong but what went right — and finds...
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