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The Daily Friend Show

The Daily Friend Show is a 30-minute current affairs podcast featuring our analysts and writers. It presents a liberal perspective on the political, social and economic issues of the day on Monday and Friday.

The Daily Friend Wrap releases episodes at 17:00 which comment on the news events of the day 4 times a week Monday to Thursday. On Friday we do a live show on YouTube at 13:30.

No topic is taboo, nothing is off-limits. Our team of analysts and writers from South Africa's leading liberal opinion site

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1,177 Episodes
760 – 780

Unemployment at record high levels

Today's Daily Friend Show with Gabriel Crouse, Sara Gon and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the record high levels of unemployment in SA and the discussion around vaccine mandates.
30 Nov 2021 4AM 31 min

Ramaphosa holds off on hard lockdown

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Terence Corrigan and Marius Roodt. The team discusses the speech by President Ramaphosa last night, the state of the passenger rail network in SA and a strange tweet by Texas governor Greg Abbott.
29 Nov 2021 4AM 29 min

The ANC keeps a hold on Durban...by a slim margin

Today's Daily Friend Show with Terence Corrigan, Marius Roodt and Nicholas Lorimer. The crew discusses the mayoral election in Durban and the prospect of SA hosting the Rugby world cup.
25 Nov 2021 4AM 31 min

The ANC's misfortune continues as councillors defect

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Sara Gon and Michael Morris. The team chats about the embarrassing defeat of the ANC in Mkhondo, the prospects of an ANC loss in Durban and they tackle the question of if China is a declining power.
24 Nov 2021 4AM 31 min

Has the ANC met its Waterloo?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Gabriel Crouse, Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan. The crew discusses the surprise election of DA mayors to Gauteng metros due to EFF support.
23 Nov 2021 4AM 31 min

Joburg is EFF-ed

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Sara Gon and Gabriel Crouse. The crew today discusses the latest with coalitions in NMB and Joburg and the accusations that Eskom has been sabotaged.
22 Nov 2021 4AM 31 min

The privatisation of law and order in SA

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Sara Gon and Terence Corrigan. The team discusses the ratio of police to private security officer in SA. A coming battle over names at UCT and the vanishing of a Chinese tennis star.
18 Nov 2021 4AM 31 min

BEE strengthened

Nicholas Lorimer, Terence Corrigan and Hermann Pretorius discuss the employment equity act, the latest with coalitions and the Polish border crisis.
17 Nov 2021 4AM 30 min

Government plans to abolish medical aid

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Gabriel Crouse. The crew discusses comments by senior health care official about what the national health insurance (NHI) will involve. They also discuss the latest with regards to coalition arrangements. #InNoUncertainTerms 🌍 WEBSITE: https://dailyfriend.co.za 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY FRIEND…
16 Nov 2021 4AM 30 min

The never ending state of disaster

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon, Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius. They discuss the state of disaster which has been extended again, a stupid tweet by Cher and the introduction of an Asian-American muppet on Sesame Street.
15 Nov 2021 4AM 31 min

The life of F.W. de Klerk

Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Terence Corrigan. The team discusses the passing of former president and deputy president F.W. de klerk and his impact on SA, recounting votes in the Western Cape and shenanigans with the firearms control amendment act.
11 Nov 2021 3AM 29 min

Andre de Ruyter gets serious about Eskom

Today's Daily Friend Show, featuring Nicholas Lorimer, Bheki Mahlobo and Gabriel Crouse. They discuss the comments by Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter about the state of Eskom. They also discuss the medium term budget update and the latest on Covid numbers.
10 Nov 2021 3AM 31 min

Is water shedding upon us?

Today's Daily Friend Show with Terence Corrigan, Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer. The team discusses a planned water outage in Joburg and the prospect of water shedding in SA's metros. They also talk about anti-foreigner legislation in Botswana and the theft of a massive load of cocaine from the Hawks.
9 Nov 2021 3AM 30 min

The coalition dance begins

Today's Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Gabriel Crouse and Nicholas Lorimer discusses the first moves in the coalition game and some comments made by Herman Mashaba.
8 Nov 2021 4AM 30 min

Coalitions everywhere

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon, Terence Corrigan, hosted by Nicholas Lorimer, discusses the prospects for coalition governments across SA, Mmusi Maimane's attempt to run for president and COP-26.
4 Nov 2021 5AM 32 min

The ANC's KZN election disaster

Today's Daily Friend with Terence Corrigan, Nicholas Lorimer and Bheki Mahlobo discusses the results of the election in KZN and the victory of a Republican governor in Virginia and what this means for the global debate on CRT.
3 Nov 2021 5AM 31 min

The weird election

Nicholas Lorimer Gabriel Crouse and Marius Roodt chat about the early results from yesterday's local government elections.
2 Nov 2021 5AM 30 min

Pravin Gordhan: no guys, this time we are serious about load shedding

Today's Daily Friend Show with Terence Corrigan, Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius. They discuss the press conference about Eskom in which Pravin Gordhan promised more action on load shedding, Quinton de Kock's statement regarding taking the knee and the coup in Sudan.
28 Oct 2021 4AM 31 min

Eskom staff go nuclear!

Today's Daily Friend Show with Michael Morris, Sara Gon and Nicholas Lorimer. The crew discusses the shortage of skilled staff at Eskom's nuclear power station, the arrest of officers for shooting women with rubber bullets and the state of the SA media.
27 Oct 2021 4AM 31 min
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