Podcast Party The Burning Platform - Level Up

The Burning Platform - Level Up

After a decade run as South Africa’s first and longest-running online current affairs show, The Burning Platform, launched alongside CliffCentral.com in 2014 with Gareth Cliff and Justice Malala, is levelling up – Level Up with Phumi Mashigo. Phumi a founder host of CliffCentral and current Burning Platform co-anchor, will continue to bring insightful perspectives and questioning with thought leaders, politicians and social commentators on the critical issues that affect our lives. Podcasts available on Podcast Party app, website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all major podcast platforms.
Weekly English South Africa Politics · News
642 Episodes
600 – 620

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

This week's red-hot edition of The Burning Platform brings you all things State of the Nation address. Why does the President deserve "Survivor" by Destiny's Child as his theme song? How did Baleka Mbete lose order in parliament? And what is this new energy in politics all about? Justice answers…
18 Feb 2016 36 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

On this edition of The Burning Platform, Justice Malala talks about expectations for the State of the Nation Address 2016. He also discusses how the recent events in the Constitutional Court over the Nkandla saga may influence this year's proceedings. The Burning Platform
11 Feb 2016 9 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Do the Guptas really make all of our important decisions? This is the leading question on this scorching hot edition of The Burning Platform. Justice also discusses the potential leadership of the ANC, the upcoming Budget Speech and other political events to look forward to. Also, how much is actually…
4 Feb 2016 34 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

In a nation where frustrated citizens bare their bums at politicians, you need the likes of Justice Malala to be the voice of reason. In this edition of The Burning Platform fired up by Nando's, Malala looks at intra-political party conflicts, gunshot homicides in Cape Town and Denis Goldberg on…
28 Jan 2016 43 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Justice Malala doesn't disappoint once again as he brings the hottest political headlines courtesy of Nando's on The Burning Platform. This week he focuses on questions and topics such as - Why Bantu Holomisa went to the Public Protector; Who's actually funding our political parties?; The race debates taking place…
21 Jan 2016 37 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Bringing the heat once again in 2016, Justice Malala joins Gareth Cliff and the team for another scorching hot edition of The Burning Platform. Together they look at why the country's recent drama is convenient for the President, why Justice finds race discussions in SA unsettling and Thabo Mbeki breaking…
14 Jan 2016 43 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Here's a bumper edition of The Burning Platform to end the year off. The latest on the 'Miners Shot Down' documentary gets discussed including Gareth giving his take on it. Following the firing of Nhlanhla Nene on a Sunday night, Justice gets to the bottom of President Jacob Zuma making…
17 Dec 2015 55 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Justice Malala is naturally on fire in this week's Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's. The Nene firing has put the country in a new state of shock, as again this points towards Jacob Zuma shaping the cabinet for his own personal interests. What does this all mean for…
10 Dec 2015 37 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

This edition of The Burning Platform sees Justice Malala look at the Chinese state visit to South Africa, Julius Malema attacking the Mandelas and an update on the textbook case in Limpopo with Gareth Cliff and the team. Malala also touches on the importance of a good credit rating. In…
3 Dec 2015 40 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Justice discusses this week's scorching hot topics with Gareth Cliff and the team including the latest regulations on tourist's birth certificates, the importance of bringing tourists into South Africa, the SACP speaking on the ANC being taken over and so much more! A recent survey reveals the amount of ANC…
26 Nov 2015 33 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

This scorching hot edition of The Burning Platform kicks off with finding out how Justice's book launch went in Cape Town. The team gets stuck into discussing who actually votes for COPE and why Justice believes SA is better than the low standards we're accepting. Another day means another SABC…
19 Nov 2015 25 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Justice Malala brings the latest scorching edition of The Burning Platform from Cape Town, beginning with why he describes the citizens of this country as acting like they're in an abusive relationship with its leaders. Violence is still occurring in universities around the country, why? What is happening at SAA…
12 Nov 2015 23 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Justice Malala, author of 'We Have Now Begun Our Descent', comes to the party with another scorching hot edition of The Burning Platform, fired up by Nando's. He kicks things off by looking at how South Africa can begin to save itself. Malala discusses whether anything will change within the…
5 Nov 2015 31 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Still unsure of the meaning of the EFF march? Well Justice Malala is on hand to elaborate on this. The #FeesMustFall movement is still a hot topic despite the main protests dying down, but what is the result here? With all this uncertainty, it's almost fitting that the unemployment rate…
29 Oct 2015 36 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

An action packed session of politics and protests, teed up by Justice Malala and enhanced by Anthea Gardner from a financial perspective. #FeesMustFall is what everyone is talking about, so get the unique insights into what this all means for South Africa. The Burning Platform
22 Oct 2015 43 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

The Burning Platform with Justice Malala presented by Nandos, holds a flame to the latest happenings in South Africa right now. The Police Commissioner job continues to be a poisoned chalice as Riya Phiyega is now suspended. Is this her doing, or just another case of President Zuma's cabinet being…
15 Oct 2015 34 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's has Justice Malala talking all things ANC.The ruling party is currently enjoying their NGC, something that Justice explains to you in his usual cutting style. Hlaudi Motsoeneng could be out of a job soon, but first the law will have to be…
9 Oct 2015 45 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's, your one stop current affairs shop with Justice Malala. Nobody shakes the news down like Justice, and he kicks off with the crime stats. Just another black mark on the Zuma presidency, as is this whole Hitachi saga. There is some better…
1 Oct 2015 34 min

The Burning Platform brought to you by Nando's

Hlaudi Motsoeneng now earns how much? The Burning Platform brought to you by Nandos has Justice Malala stoking some pretty big flames. The SABC COO continues to plunder the local broadcasters coffers, Jacob Zuma mysteriously reshuffles his cabinet and the teacher trade union crises highlights some big concerns in what…
24 Sep 2015 32 min
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