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Trumix.com listings available of Mail & Guardian\'s Between the Pages Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Between the Pages Episode 83 This week: Zapiro on drawing Mandela; Premiers in the firing line; a quick update on Zimbabwe and Drew Forrest on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 82 This week - the all-new M&G Online website under the microscope, and Cape High Court Judge John Hlophe to (finally?) face the music... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 81 This week: Jacob Zuma's political headaches; squabbling in the Western Cape leaves displaced refugees stranded; and cartoonist Rico tells us of Eve's time working for Mad Bob! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 80 This week: Judge John Hlophe faces the Judicial Services Commission (again), we'll find out why; SASOL are reporting record profits as the world faces petrol price gloom; and Chris Rock makes a surprise appearance at a Melville comedy club... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 79 More on the Xenophobic attacks - face to face with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela; the human side of the story and Richard Calland argues that it's time for a change in government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 78 This week - a special focus on the xenophobic attacks sweeping the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 77 Land claims cripple SA farming, a new innovation from the team that brought you Thought Leader, and ethnic cleansing...in South Africa Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 76 This week: Ferial on the latest intrigue and drama at the SABC; Adriaan talks us through some of the big revelations at the Ginwala Commission this week; and Thought Leader Bruce Cohen on smoking and more... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 75 A slightly shorter episode than usual...but we still manage to squeeze in the big stories of the week; a look at how Thabo Mbeki faced a revolution within his cabinet over Zimbabwe, and a review of the big online stories of the week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 74 Jacob Zuma's European charm offensive; another ministerial member of the "Bling Bling Club" and two perspectives on Freedom - firstly, the lost generation of Afrikaans youth; and secondly freedom lost due to crime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 73 Spinning Jacob Zuma to power; shipment of arms destined for Zimbabwe; and more legal troubles for Robert McBride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 72 To celebrate the Mail and Guardian’s Thought Leader blog winning SA Blog of the Year, this is a compilation of highlights from some of the podcasts interviews with Thought Leader bloggers. These include Michael Trapido, Ndumiso Ngcobo, Llewellyn Kriel, Terri Barnes and Sandile Memela. It is presented by programme producer Jayne Morgan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 71 Mandy Rossouw tells of the challenges of reporting from Zimbabwe, ANC Youth League Chair in plagiarism row and Ndumiso Ngcobo embraces his "coconut-ness" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 70 On the ground in Zimbabwe with Mandy Rossouw, and the latest ANC leadership struggle - this time it's in the provinces. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 70 On the ground in Zimbabwe with Mandy Rossouw, and the latest ANC leadership struggle - this time it's in the provinces. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 69 Special focus on religion - Judge Dennis Davis on what happens when the Church and the Law collide; and how churches view Gay marriage today. Also - the Scorpions open a new phase in the arms deal investigation, and casino chips buy seats in the Western Cape legislature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 68 How will Thabo Mbeki be spending his retirement years? Find out what his options are this week. Also, do South Africans drink too much, and Thought Leader Jarred Cinman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 67 This week...we talk about the SA Blog Awards (and urge you to vote for us as Podcast of the Year); hear about ongoing racial conflict at UFS; and discuss whether or not Jacob Zuma is COSATU's Trojan Horse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 66 Ferial shares her views on the Black Journalists' Briefing done by Jacob Zuma; we try and understand the tensions at the University of the Free State and blogger Ryland Fisher talks on identity, language and culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 65 This week: Rapule Tabane on in-fighting at the SA Communist Party, and Matthew Krouse casts his eye on two big Arts events. Also Thought Leader blogger Roy Jobson, and Riaan Wolmerans of the M&G Online Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 64 The latest on the unfolding Scorpions controversy, the Education Ministers speaks on the Pledge of Allegiance, and Thought Leader blogger The Sumo talks to us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 63 This week: Full analysis of Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech, and is our Deputy President thinking of jumping ship? Also, we hear from another Thought Leader blogger and walk through the Top 10 online stories of the week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 63 This week: Full analysis of Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech, and is our Deputy President thinking of jumping ship? Also, we hear from another Thought Leader blogger and walk through the Top 10 online stories of the week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 62 Sam Sole brings us the latest on Jackie Selebi's first court appearance; is the economy to blame for the power outtages? Jocelyn Newmarch thinks not...and a Thought Leader who vlogs... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 61 President Mbeki digs in; Thought Leader Sandile Memela maintains "there are no black Thought Leaders"; and it is the end of the Scorpions era...a former Justice Minister reflects on their closure exclusive to the M&G Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 60 Jackie Selebi gets help from above; the Skielik community still reeling from shooting tragedy and Thought Leader Stephen Friedman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 59 The very latest on Jackie Selebi's court action; Jaxon Rice gazes into his techno crystal ball and Riaan looks back at the big stories of 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 58 Adriaan Basson tells us more about the charges against Jacob Zuma and spells out some of its implications; Lloyd Gedye introduces us to the new chairperson of the SABC; and Thought Leader Ndumiso Ngcobo shares his views on the Polokwane conference and throws the bones for 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 57 A changing of the guard in Polokwane...what now for the ANC and South Africa? An in-depth discussion with Mail & Guardian's journalists and analysts Ferial Haffajee, Riaan Wolmerans, Richard Calland and Mandy Rossouw. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 56 Ferial on her exclusive interview with Mo Shaik, Sam tells us why Jackie Selebi's days are numbered and Mandy on the dark side of the ANC's succession race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 55 This week: The gloves are off between Zuma and Mbeki; an inspirational librarian making a world of difference; South Africa's first blogger fired for blogging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 54 The ANC in a tender scandal and a new book peels away the skin of South African politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 53 This week: Ferial talks of her new-found blogging success on Thought Leader and shares her views on media ownership; Pearlie has the inside scoop on the latest in the ANC leadership battle and exclusive audio from Zapiro's book launch this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 52 We take a look at Jacob Zuma's latest legal woes; the political bid to buy the Sunday Times' holding company; Thought Leader blogger Anja Merret talks us through the death of the PC and we get a preview of Mark Gevisser's new biography on President Mbeki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 51 Fikile talks us through the DG Report Card and tells us why those who say SARU shouldn't let Jake go are wrong; Pearlie on spy intrigue in the Western Cape and Riaan on the big stories of the week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 50 What might a Zuma Presidency's agenda be? We do some speculation. Also: Zapiro's not happy with a recent political assault on cartoonists, and Zukile tells us why Jake White should walk out the door... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 49 Sam Sole on the latest revelations about Jackie Selebi; Adriaan Basson gets a taste of what the Ginwala Commission might be hearing; and Thought Leader blogger Michael Trapido Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 48 Richard Calland on the challenge facing Frene Ginwala; the heat is on Judge Hlophe, and Pearlie tells us all about it. Plus another Thought Leader - this week it is Kristin Palitza's turn to talk to us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 47 The latest on the Pikoli suspension; whites fall in love with Soweto and call it home; and would Tokyo Sexwale settle for the number two job? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 46 Stefaans Brummer on the latest in the Vusi Pikoli suspension and what that means for Thabo Mbeki; a fascinating first hand account of life in Zimbabwe and a chat with Thought Leader blogger Ivo Vegter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 45 A new health precinct for Hillbrow, Zukile Majova on his exclusive interview with former spy boss Billy Masethla plus his thoughts on being a Thought Leader. Also Riaan Wolmerans with his scan of the M&G Online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 44 This week - Pearlie Joubert on the anger in Joe Slovo settlement; "Thought Leader" Ndumiso Ngcobo on his writing; Yolandi Groenewald obsesses about rugby and Matthew Buckland on the internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 43 Eve Dmochowska tells us why corporates should embrace Facebook; Iraj Abedian on the major economic challenges facing the country's leadership; and Riaan Wolmerans with the week's biggest online news stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 42 Jacob Zuma's legal battles continue in Bloemfontein; Richard Calland on the leadership options facing the ANC; and Shaun de Waal meets former Black Panther Angela Davis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 41 This week: Tender rigging at parliament; a report card on the real work of the Dept. of Health (and they score an 'F'...); how BEE can make a big difference to small business; and a new blog from the M&G Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 40 "The Full Manto" - Editor Ferial Haffajee fills us in on the intrigue at the Department of Health; Riaan kicks up some dust at Oppikoppi; and we hear how Cyril Ramaphosa needs to get a move on if he wants to be President.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 39 How the Deputy Health Minister was set up; the SACP leaks money; and an eyewitness account from the Zimbabwe/South Africa border. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 38 Nic Dawes chats to us about the report detailing secret Angolan support for Jacob Zuma's presidential campaign; FW de Klerk has answered the M&G's questions on apartheid murders; and Riaan discovers a new cyber-library Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 37 The National Broadcaster continues to gag the M&G; Tom Eaton takes pot shots at Potter; and another forensic report highlights massive misspending at the Post Office....and implicates Mafika Sihlali, a top SABC Executive Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 36 The M&G gagged over explosive SABC story; former President FW de Klerk may yet face charges over apartheid crimes; and the Gauteng Finance MEC receives a suspicious gift. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 35 Zapiro wins a global cartooning award; Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor appeals for sanity as the economy crumbles; and Judge Hlope gets his timeline wrong! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages - Episode 34 Two shocking reports - one on crime, the other on the environment. Tom Eaton hides on Facebook, and a wrap from the National Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 33 Ferial shares her views on the rhetoric of the Left; we discuss the National Arts Festival and where it is going; and Glenn Agliotti's circle of shady friends widens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 32 This week: Zapiro talks us through his cartooning week; Darryl Accone shines the spotlight on SA literature and we get a glimpse of some of the debates likely to take place at the upcoming ANC Policy conference Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 31 This week: Focus on Youth Day, and a debate on whether or not the youth should be exempt from affirmative action. Also, insight into a new book that sheds some light on the enigmatic Thabo Mbeki presidency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 30 Bheki Khumalo talks to us with his views on how the ANC should approach its conference; more on the public sector strike; and the Church of Scientology infiltrates KZN government programmes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 29 War of words between President Mbeki and COSATU head Zwelinzima Vavi; Public Service strike - what's still at issue; and the gay sex blogger clams up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 28 Racism on the nightclub circuit; Tokyo Sexwale's generous gifts to influential people; and SA author in plagiarism row. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 27 Tokyo Sexwale on his presidential ambitions, or lack of them; two responses to a new book that looks at gender politics through the Zuma trial; and a reportcard on our police force. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 26 Net closes in on Jackie Selebi, Jacob Zuma's security fears, chaos in the vehicle licencing department and another side to M&G reporter Tumi Makgetla Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 25 A last look at Tony Leon as DA leader, M&G cartoonist Zapiro on his work and how he gets it so right week after week, the flamingo population of Kimberley under threat, and the state of prostitution in this country in the build up to 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 24 This week: Nigerian elections called into question, the hoax email saga takes a new turn, and what makes you a South African? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 23 Are Jacob Zuma’s supporters shooting themselves in the foot in KZN? Problematic fashion for African women, and a further look at the ongoing problems in Zimbabwe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 22 Horrifying stories of child rape in the Cape, the start of a brand new section that will focus on Zimbabwe, under the skin of the South African Music Awards, and Cosatu's strategy to exert influence on the highest decision making body in the ANC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages - Episode 21 This week: The extraordinary story from inside Robert Mugabe's death squads, politican pay under the spotlight and a focus on women and homosexuals in modern organised religion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages - Episode 20 Richard Calland argues for more openness in the way the ruling party chooses its leader. Stephanie Wolters on the knife-edge situation in Kinshasa and the South African Post Office is in the spotlight still as the Minister of Communications asserts her position on suspended CEO Khutso Mampeule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages - Episode 19 We reflect on the legacy of murdered cricket coach Bob Woolmer with Tom Eaton who was collaborating with Woolmer on a new book at the time of his death. Vicki Robinson will help us understand some of the intrigue around the “are the email hoaxes actually hoaxes” drama playing out in the top echelons of the ANC, and Zukile Majova has the inside scoop on a spying plot in KZN. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages - Episode 18 Have we entered the endgame in Zimbabwe? Fear and loathing in the Department of Public Enterprises, and a fascinating debate on who should be honoured in the new "Freedom Park". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages - Episode 17 Exploding the myth that the rise in teen pregnancies in SA is because destitute young women need the cash they receive from the child support grant; the Trade and Industry Minister in a tricky situation around the Lotto, and massive crackdowns in Zimbabwe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 16 A possible re-introduction of elephant culling in our national parks, two thumbs up for the JDA as they painstakingly revamp the inner city precinct by precinct, and the latest from the M&G Online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 15 8.4 billion rand tax relief for South African workers courtesy Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, intractable land struggles in Hout Bay and the Fidentia scandal that's taking more casualties by the minute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 14 **Updated version** Hosted by Zulpha Khan this week...Will payouts to the widows and orphans of mineworkers continue after Fidentia was placed under curatorship; new allegations relating to the sacking of former National Intelligence Agency DG, and why a song about a long-dead general is uniting alienated Afrikaners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 13 Why ASGISA must not fail, President Mbeki's State of the Nation gets graded, cross-border crime on the KZN/Mozambique border and the M&G's "Full steam ahead" award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 12 The M&G preview the state of the nation and find a contrast between economic growth and declining public confidence over crime and corruption. Also - broken promises of service delivery in Ezenzeleni, and Maya Fisher-French flies the flag for consumers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 11 Much ado about Tony Yengeni's spearing of a bull upon his release from prison, the SPCA needs to brush up on cultural sensitivity, a grim picture of disarry in the ANC Youth League, and more intrigue in the ANC's presidential race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 10 The M&G is vindicated as Glenn Agliotti is named in court as "the Landlord" of one of SA's biggest crime syndicates. Pearly Joubert makes a case for "swimmer education", and Tony Yengeni becomes rainmaker for Zuma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 9 More on the BAE arms-deal bribe allegations; How much SA's govt departments spend on restaurants; How will Cape Town's Green Point Stadium be funded?; The best stories of the week on the M&G Online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 8 Trevor Ncube on the Zimbabwe government's attempts to take away his citizenship; Ferial talks about mediocrity in our leadership; and we find out more about Pagad activities in the Western Cape Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 7 The big story: The M&G's annual cabinet report card - how did our ministers do? Also - the hottest New Year's Eve parties, and Matthew Krause shows us a world in one country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 6 Agliotti's bail hearing, the E.Cape Premier gets involved in eco-development controversy, and foreskins to get the chop....to prevent the spread of HIV. PLUS a bonus podcast outtake! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 5 M&G Columnist Richard Calland joins us in studio to comment on some of the top stories, Parliament has no sexual harrassment policy, Ebrahim Rasool has a difficult week and what Agliotti's bail hearing might reveal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 4 The M&G goes to court to ungag itself, more evidence of links between Selebi and Agliotti, taking back the night in Hillbrow and the race to succeed Tony Leon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 3 More on the Agliotti saga, Tik takes over the Cape, a palace coup in the Department of Health, and de Waal on Borat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 2 How are SA's commissions doing?. We get our hands on Thabo Mbeki's private diary, Glenn Agliotti finds himself behind bars, and ANC Chief Whip Mbulelo Goniwe's political career in turmoil over sexual harassment charges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 1 An ANC front company exposed, verdict against Schabir Shaik gives Jacob Zuma sleepless nights, report from PW Botha's funeral and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website