The Daily Friend Show

Is 'racial capitalism' to blame for the poor's electricity woes?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Bheki Mahlobo and Terence Corrigan. The team discusses a study out of UJ which examines the experience of Soweto residents problems with electricity. They also chat about inflation and the attacks on paramedics across the country.

18 May 2022 8AM 29 min

R147 million for Cuba since 2018 from SA government

Today's Daily Friend Show with Terence Corrigan, Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer. The crew discusses the revelations that Cuba has been let almost R150 million by SA since 2018 and they also discuss the allegedly racist incident at Stellenbosch university.

17 May 2022 8AM 32 min

442 shootings in the Western Cape in 18 months: The crime blame game

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Hermann Pretorius and Sholan Booysen. The team discusses the huge number of gang related shootings in the Western Cape, the writing off of R1,2 Billion in debt by an Eastern Cape Municipality and the horrible shooting in America.

16 May 2022 8AM 31 min

ANC making plans for 2050

Today's Daily Friend Show with Hermann Pretorius, Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh. The team discusses the Transport department's plan to build a new Gautrain like system by 2050. They also chat about comments made by Trevor Manuel about how he is no longer an ANC member and the Australian election.

12 May 2022 8AM 31 min

SAA sold for R51 but we still might need to bail it out.

Today's Daily Friend Show with Tiego Thotse, Nicholas Lorimer and Sara Gon. The team discusses the purchase of SAA and how taxpayers may still need to bailout SAA, ANC plans in the Eastern Cape to shed its salary costs by moving them onto the province, a plan to subsidize taxis…

11 May 2022 8AM 31 min

Government to spend R22 million on a giant flag

Today's Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Gabriel Crouse and Nicholas Lorimer. The participants discuss the plan by the government to erect a 100 m high flag pole for R22 million, the dropping of charges against Mark Boucher by Cricket SA and the Filipino election.

10 May 2022 8AM 31 min

Woman denied firearms licence for wearing Hijab

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Hermann Pretorius and Terence Corrigan. The crew discusses that case of an Eastern Cape woman denied a gun licence for not removing her headscarf. They also discuss the role of SA in funding international terrorist activities and ICSA's thoughts on DSTV.

9 May 2022 8AM 31 min

ANC down, DA steady, EFF Up. Latest election results.

Today's Daily Friend Show with Hermann Pretorius, Nicholas Lorimer and Marius Roodt. On today's show the crew chats about the latest by-election results from around the country. They also discuss the public sector wage bill and the IEC's funding problems.

5 May 2022 8AM 30 min

The Fifth Wave, is it here? And what does it mean?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Gabriel Crouse and Chris Hattingh. The crew discusses the latest with the fifth wave and latest with the health regulations, a change to Mpumalanga's trout fishing regulations and Gauteng plans to get the country high on weed.

4 May 2022 8AM 31 min

Ramaphosa chased away from COSATU rally!

Today's Daily Friend Show with Michael Morris, Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer. The team discusses President Ramaphosa being driven away from a COSATU rally by angry workers. They also chat about the issue of stock theft and a suburb getting itself off of the grid in Joburg.

3 May 2022 8AM 29 min

R2.6 million rand for ONE RDP house

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon, Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan. The crew discusses the latest scandal involving the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), the state of the ANC women's league and the City of Joburg's new informal traders policy.

28 Apr 2022 8AM 31 min

Elon Musk buys Twitter: A new era for social media?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Chris Hattingh and Marius Roodt. The crew discusses Elon Musk's successful take over bid of Twitter. They also discuss potential ANC plans for reform and the French election.

26 Apr 2022 8AM 30 min

'Racist' Graeme Smith exonerated

Today's Daily Friend Show with Terence Corrigan, Gabriel Crouse and Nicholas Lorimer. The crew goes through a rapid fire discussion on Graeme Smith's exoneration from charges of racism, the poor state of an Army base in Pretoria, the latest on the health regulations, comments by Busisiwe Mavuso and supposed changes…

25 Apr 2022 8AM 31 min

ANC defeated in by-elections: a sign of things to come?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon, Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer. The crew discusses the recent by-election results across the country. Accusations of sabotage by municipal employees and a story of triumph in SA.

21 Apr 2022 8AM 30 min

Zille attacked for saying poor live better in Western Cape

Today's Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh. They discuss the fuss over Helen Zille's comments about poverty in Langa. They also discuss the comments by the MassMart group chairman and the plan by the UK to deport people to Rwanda.

20 Apr 2022 8AM 31 min

State of Disaster returns: KZN ravaged by floods

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon, Gabriel Crouse and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the terrible floods which have hit parts of KZN and the Eastern Cape. They also chat about the problem of illegal mining and a black man in America accused of "blackface".

19 Apr 2022 8AM 30 min

South Africa enters top 10 worst mining destinations in the world

Today's show with Nicholas Lorimer, Hermann Pretorius and Marius Roodt. They chat about the decline in South Africa's investment attractiveness for miners, a weird Tweet by Andile Mngxitama and the fight in joburg between two senior Joburg civil servants.

14 Apr 2022 8AM 31 min

An Eiffel tower in Joburg?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Chris Hattingh, Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer. The team chats about the Joburg plan to build a tourist mega structure. They also discuss former minister Mkhize being cleared by the ethics committee in Parliament and the floods in KZN.

13 Apr 2022 8AM 30 min

Gayton McKenzie elected mayor

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Sara Gon. They discuss the election of Gayton McKenzie as a district mayor. They also chat about the French election and the latest with Gumede's election in Durban.

12 Apr 2022 8AM 30 min

Un-cancelling BEE: government rushes to reimplement BEE regulations

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Michael Morris and Gabriel Crouse. The team discusses the latest with the PPPFAA, the election of Zandile Gumede to head the ANC's eThekwini region and Elon Musk's Twitter activities.

11 Apr 2022 8AM 30 min