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Between the Pages Episode 144 This week: Are the "Beast"'s days wearing green and gold numbered ? We hear about the DA's latest poster boy, and Kgalema Mothlanthe holds the Left together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 143 This week: Is our Deputy Chief Justice squeaky clean? The latest on the Selebi trial and how the Eskom leadership battle played itself out online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 143 This week: Is our Deputy Chief Justice squeaky clean? The latest on the Selebi trial and how the Eskom leadership battle played itself out online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 142 Several major institutions dominate this week: Confusion reigns at Eskom over its leadership, Athletics South Africa confronts charges of corruption as the Board and CEO are purged, and the SABC backtracks on a R1bn deal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 141 This week: Balfour three months after the service delivery protests - has anything changed? Joost has confessed - does anyone care? And the new Finance Minister has made his first major speech - Richard Calland delivers his report card. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 140 This week: Is Madiba about to become a bestselling author...again? Leonard Chuene's plotting revealed, and Jackie Selebi's desperate effort to get a retrial. Plus - the latest from the M&G Online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 139 This week: More fractures in the ANC/SACP/COSATU alliance; in the spectator box at the Selebi trial; and are our cops fiddling the crime statistics? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 138 This week: The first week of the Selebi trial; interview with Zapiro about the newly launched "ZA News", and some insight into Julius Malema's power base. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 137 This week: Spending a fortune to not build houses; has President Zuma got "shoot to kill" wrong?; the DA and COPE draw closer and could the ANC change the constitution to end gay marriage and abortion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 136 Sam Sole on being spyed on; Ndumiso Ngcobo on the correlation between the BC movement and dodgy TV ads; and an in-depth look at the M&G's Race Supplement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 135 This week - recorded face to face at the M&G....Adriaan Basson on the gap in our corruption-busting arsenal; and Sello Alcock on Kriegler vs. the JSC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 134 Another succession battle looms for the ANC, this time for the Secretary General post; the BRT has hit the ground running in Gauteng, we’ll find out what simmering tensions still lie beneath; and an intriguing story of murder, confusion and misdirection…in the judiciary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages- Announcement No podcast this week - our apologies - major technical glitch! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 133 Mmanaledi Mataboge on how Mosouia Lekota has been ‘terrorising’ some of his provincial officials, a sneak preview of the much-hyped District 9 and Mandy Rossouw on what South Africa’s potential business partners might do to prisoners behind closed doors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 132 This week: Sello Alcock gives his side of the Hlophe interview saga; Chris Roper reports back from Oppikoppi and Mandy Rossouw scores President Zuma's first 100 days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 131 This week: Public officials with their noses in the public purse; a swine flu vaccine is on the (distant) horison; and Sello Alcock reports back on his dinner with John Hlophe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 130 This week: Sam Sole on new top cop Bheki Cele; the perks of being a public servant, and a ghost hospital in Kempton Park. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 129 This week: Richard Calland on a new breeze blowing through the Union Buildings. We hear about politicking among the Judges, and of a new project aimed at showing how those behind bars are having their human rights violated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Between the Pages is on its annual mid-year break for a couple of weeks - we'll see you soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 128 This week: Tweeting the Iranian revolution; who is in charge of South Africa - some surprising answers; and it's more spy vs spy as Sam Sole tells us more about Operation Destroy Lucifer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 127 This week: Top 300 young South Africans to take to lunch; the SABC implodes; and Charlotte Bauer on the World Economic Forum...her view is not what you'd expect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 126 This week: Report card on President Zuma's State of the Nation speech; Confederations Cup security tenders cause confusion; and how the ANC plans on dealing with COPE now the elections are over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 125 This week: Jacob Zuma appoints his advisors - we look at his choices; what lies ahead for the judiciary, and all the SABC vs Mail & Guardian drama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 124 This week: Spy vs Spy - all the cloak and dagger of our country's intelligence services PLUS one theory on why ICASA tried to block Vodacom's listing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 123 This week: Ferial's last podcast interview covers Helen Zille vs. Julius Malema, the SABC, and her challenges ahead. Also Adriaan on President Zuma's cabinet and their business interests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 122 This week: Nic Dawes on President Zuma's cabinet; we hear of the SABC's financial troubles; and stripping back the glitz of the IPL with Neil Manthorpe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 121 We hear the intriguing behind the scenes story on the Browse Mole report; racism on SA campuses still rife; and how the new government will be deploying loyalists to key positions in business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 120 Elections 2009: Analysis of the election results with Nic Dawes and Mandy Rossouw Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 119 ELECTIONS 2009: Hear last-minute analysis from Mandy Rossouw, plus the election platforms of the major parties, and how they view the shortcomings of the ANC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 118 Full analysis and discussion around the NPA decision to drop charges against ANC President, Jacob Zuma. PLUS, new M&G Editor-in-Chief Nic Dawes on what lies ahead for the paper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages - Announcement An announcement letting you know that this week's podcast is going to go live on the afternoon of Monday 6 April, as we wait for the NPA's announcement on their decision whether or not to proceed with the prosecution of Jacob Zuma. Make sure you download us later for full analysis of the announcement - whichever way it goes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 117 Another defection from COPE back to the ANC, but is it of "national importance"? The latest legal wranglings around John Hlophe who could face possible impeachment and just how damning are the "Zuma tapes" anyway? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 116 Jayne Morgan standing in for Tony Lankester. This week: Mandy speculates on what might happen to the ANC's majority after elections; Nic talks us through the new Jacob Zuma evidence before the NPA; and Tony reports from the SXSW Fest in Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 115 with guest presenter Sue Valentine. This week: Phillip de Wet - should we have a case of the unemployment blues? Zackie Achmat warns against the language of disrespect and Schabir Shaik goes house-hunting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 114 This week: Barbie takes on Bratz; two "terminally ill patients" - Schabir Shaik and the SABC; and COPE sees their momentum grind to a halt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 113 This week: Pearlie on the ANC "War Room" that has been set up to deal with COPE; and we hear about COPE's leadership woes. PLUS...a sneak preview of a brand new set of podcasts about to be launched by the M&G Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 112 Sam Sole talks us through the state of pl on Selebi, and explains why the ANC employed Carl Niehaus in the first place. Riaan Malan lets a rare moment of optimism in, and we get to hear about it, and Rapule Tabane begins his look at Elections 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 112 Sam Sole talks us through the state of pl on Selebi, and explains why the ANC employed Carl Niehaus in the first place. Riaan Malan lets a rare moment of optimism in, and we get to hear about it, and Rapule Tabane begins his look at Elections 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 111 Pearlie Joubert gives us the detail of how she broke the Carl Niehaus story, and Niren Tolsi reports on his hunt for Grammy winners Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 111 Pearlie Joubert gives us the detail of how she broke the Carl Niehaus story, and Niren Tolsi reports on his hunt for Grammy winners Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 110 SPECIAL EDITION: This special podcast presents analysis and discussion around Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's 2009-2010 Budget Speech from a panel of Mail & Guardian journalists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 110 SPECIAL EDITION: This special podcast presents analysis and discussion around Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's 2009-2010 Budget Speech from a panel of Mail & Guardian journalists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 109 Special Parliamentary Edition...in which we take a look at President Kgalema Mothlanthe's State of the Nation address and try to read between the lines with Nic Dawes and Mandy Rossouw Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 109 Special Parliamentary Edition...in which we take a look at President Kgalema Mothlanthe's State of the Nation address and try to read between the lines with Nic Dawes and Mandy Rossouw Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 108 This week: Judge Hlophe stymied in his efforts to return to work; Cholera in SA - is Zimbabwe really to blame? And the M&G gives evidence of corruption in the Departmer of Correctional Services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 108 This week: Judge Hlophe stymied in his efforts to return to work; Cholera in SA - is Zimbabwe really to blame? And the M&G gives evidence of corruption in the Departmer of Correctional Services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 107 This week: Pearlie on COSATU's cunning plan; Nic takes us into the parliamentary hearings on Pikoli, and Matuma speculates on what a Jacob Zuma might look like. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 107 This week: Pearlie on COSATU's cunning plan; Nic takes us into the parliamentary hearings on Pikoli, and Matuma speculates on what a Jacob Zuma might look like. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 106 Welcome to 2009....this week we look at the possibility of Oprah Winfrey becoming US Ambassador to South Africa, and interrogate the SCA's overturning of Chris Nicholson's Zuma judgement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 106 Welcome to 2009....this week we look at the possibility of Oprah Winfrey becoming US Ambassador to South Africa, and interrogate the SCA's overturning of Chris Nicholson's Zuma judgement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 105 Ferial Hafajee brings us the 2008 Cabinet report card, a new ANC survey reveals that COPE could take 10% of the vote next year, we look at the ANC's response; and we find out where Robert Mugabe is finding his weapons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 104 This week: Gadgets for Geeks; how Ginwala blew it; and Cope gives the ANC a snotklap in the Western Cape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 103 The latest on the Ginwala Commission's findings and the extraordinary development in the story after the newspaper went to bed last week; and who is braced to leave the ANC for COPE, and the inside scoop on what the ruling party intends to do about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 102 The South African economy - are we still immune from the credit crunch? Shaun de Waal looks at two remarkably different movies that he's previewed, and Adriaan Basson talks of the latest last shout by the Scorpions and their arms deal raids last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 101 This week: Why is our nation getting sicker as it gets richer? Former Justice Minister Penuell Maduna steps into the Nicholson verdict debate, and the Skierlik community - ten months after the shooting, and the week after sentencing....how are they coping? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 100 Some of the questions we're answering this week: Could the ANC lose 20% of its support in the election? Are cracks starting to appear in Shikota? Will Snuki Zikalala be out of a job? And what did Robert Mugabe write in a top secret letter to Barack Obama? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 99 We look at the evolution of the Shikota party's new name; The Frene Ginwala report has gone to the President, but what does it say? And Obama-fever hits Johannesburg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 98 Ferial on the US elections; Pearlie talks us through the latest twist in the Xenophobia victims' plight; and Mandy brings us the latest on the 'Shikota' Party on the weekend of its National Convention. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 97 How the ANC Youth League fat cats are skimming the cream; good news for HIV Positive patients in need of an organ transplant; Riaan Wolmerans' fond farewell; and Nic Dawes on how we are weathering the credit crunch storm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 96 This week: Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki square off in court; Evita Bezhuidenhout talks of her surprising re-entry onto the political scene; and we get to grips with what impact the ANC breakaways may have. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 95 This week: A look at how the SA economy is standing up amid the global crisis; analysis on what the ANC split means; and how Facebook has become a safe haven for SA hategroups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 94 This week - insight on the Presidency from the journalist who had an exclusive interview with Kgalema Mothlanthe this last week, and Ferial joins us to offer her perspective on the last dramatic few weeks in South African politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 93 This week - the turmoil in South African politics. We try to understand what it all means and where to from here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 92 Special edition looking at the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 91 This week: All the drama from Jacob Zuma's court victory; the M&G's Ombudsman on the Zapiro cartoon; and we take a look at the M&G's new focus on Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 90 This week: The late Brett Kebble's empire continues to unravel; Pearlie talks us through the latest crisis facing Somali refugees in the Western Cape; and we look at Tito Mboweni's future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between the Pages Episode 89 The ANC at war...with itself; "propaganda campaign" being waged against the highest court in the land; the real story about the sale of Table Bay, and new stats point to the need to shift priorities in the fight against spiralling crime. 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 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 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