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Peter Bruce, veteran South African newspaper editor and commentator, interviews the country's social and political leaders and experts in a weekly effort to explain what is actually going on in this complicated country. Bruce's interviews are about making events easy to understand for people with…

Episodes

Death of the Post Office (Part 2)

Former South African Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tell Peter Bruce, in the second episode of their three-part Podcasts From the Edge Special, what he found when he first walked…

5 days ago46:14

Death of the Post Office (Part 1)

Listen in as banker, financier, entrepreneur and former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tells Peter Bruce the story of his appointment as CEO of the South African Post Office in 2016,…

12 days ago32:04

Cyril, a plodder by day and a cowboy in the dark?

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13 May 202636:30

Why Helen Zille is unlikely to become Johannesburg’s mayor

Business Day parliamentary reporter Tara Roos tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that, while DA leader Helen Zille may secure the most votes in…

16 Apr 202640:26

How the vanities of small differences trap Africa

Africa’s populations are exploding. By 2050 one in 10 children born in the world will be Nigerian. Right now 29 of the world’s top national fertility rates are African. But…

08 Apr 20261:02:25

Cyril picks a number, any number…

President Cyril Ramaphosa will tell delegates at the Sixth South African Investment Conference this Tuesday morning that he plans to raise R2 trillion in news fixed investment…

30 Mar 202610:51

Can we really make money out of our police stations?

The government is planning something quite audacious and it isn’t a high speed train from Tshwane to Durban. Instead it wants to create, out of the often dishevelled mass of land…

25 Mar 202651:46

“You have to get your hand on the steering wheel of state”

Incoming DA leader Geordin Hill Lewis says that to grow the party it is going to need the votes of people who have never voted for it before. DA members can do the math, he says.…

18 Mar 202645:54

Stuck in the 80s, has the ANC found the perfect adversary in Donald Trump?

Songezo Zibi, leader of Rise Mzansi and chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in Parliament, tells Peter Bruce in this wide-ranging edition of Podcasts from the Edge…

25 Feb 202656:42

Steenhuisen is just following the vaccine rules

Agriculture author and expert Wandile Sihlobo tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that Agriculture mMinister John Steenhuisen has not option but to import…

04 Feb 202641:48

If Ramaphosa caused the navy exercise fiasco, will anyone tell us?

If the past is any guide then some middle-ranking official of officer is going to take the fall for the cock-up at sea last week when an Iranian corvette took part in exercises…

21 Jan 202647:06

Why Imports don’t explain our decline

One of the best industrial minds in South Africa, XA Global Trade Advisors MD Donald Mackay, tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that using import tariffs…

10 Dec 202554:02

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