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What a week in politics! This week on WAW Politricks, DJ Fresh and Botsang Moiloa unpack five major stories making headlines across South Africa, Africa and the world. The ANC wins a crucial Constitutional Court battle ahead of the local government elections, while the DA raises questions about ActionSA's candidate submissions in Tshwane. South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize as the Trump administration escalates its confrontation with the International Criminal Court. In the DRC, former president Joseph Kabila launches a new political-military coalition involving M23 rebels. And Rwanda secures a landmark Formula 1 agreement, bringing the world's premier motorsport championship back to Africa. The big question: Are Africa's political institutions, leaders and economies keeping pace with the continent's ambitions? Join DJ Fresh and Botsang Moiloa for another thought-provoking edition of WAW Politricks. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WAWPolitricks #WhatAWeek #DJFresh #BotsangMoiloa #SouthAfricanPolitics #ANC #ActionSA #DA #NaviPillay #NobelPeacePrize #DonaldTrump #JosephKabila #DRC #Rwanda #Formula1 #AfricanPolitics #LGE2026 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

From teaching maths and history to making audiences laugh around the world, comedian Dalin Oliver has one incredible story to tell! This week on WAW – What A Week with DJ Fresh, we sit down with the award-winning South African comedian, former teacher and radio personality for a hilarious, honest and revealing conversation. Dalin takes us through his journey from Retreat on the Cape Flats to international comedy stages, the realities of making a living from laughter, navigating race and identity in South Africa, and the sacrifices behind building a successful entertainment career. We also unpack his extraordinary experience of being stranded in Dubai during missile attacks — and how he somehow turned a frightening ordeal into his comedy show, Stuck in Dubai. From relationships and career risks to comedy, controversy and life lessons, nothing is off the table! What a comedian. What a journey. WHAT A WEEK! Catch Stuck in Dubai live: Strand: 24 October KuGompo City: 31 October Gqeberha: 6 November Tickets: www.dalinoliver.com Subscribe, like, comment and share for more unfiltered conversations with DJ Fresh. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WAW #WhatAWeek #DJFresh #DalinOliver #SouthAfricanComedy #StandUpComedy #StuckInDubai #CapeFlats #SAComedy #ComedyPodcast #SouthAfricanPodcast #MzansiComedy #DJFreshSA Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What a week in South African politics! This week, DJ Fresh and Botsang Moiloa unpack the stories making headlines and raising serious questions about power, accountability and justice. From the Constitutional Court's Scalabrini asylum ruling to tensions involving traditional leaders and government, we ask where constitutional authority, cultural leadership and politics intersect. We also tackle South Africa's soaring fuel prices, possible fuel levy relief, and the latest legal developments involving Khomotso Phahlane, Fannie Masemola and Shadrack Sibiya. Plus, MTN and Vodacom challenge ICASA's consumer data regulations. Who protects the consumer when the regulator and network operators disagree? The big question: Is justice being served, or are South Africans losing confidence in the institutions meant to deliver it? It's politics, power, the courts and the consequences — on WAW POLITRICKS with Botsang Moiloa. Subscribe, like, comment and join the conversation. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WAWPolitricks #WhatAWeek #DJFreshSA #BotsangMoiloa #SouthAfricanPolitics #ConstitutionalCourt #Scalabrini #TraditionalLeadership #FuelPrices #FuelLevy #FannieMasemola #ShadrackSibiya #KhomotsoPhahlane #ICASA #MTN #Vodacom #JusticeSA Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What happens when the game you've dedicated your entire life to is suddenly taken away from you? This week on **WAW – What A Week with DJ Fresh**, former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper **Brighton Mhlongo** opens up about the highs and lows of professional football, the devastating eye injury that ended his career, his personal battles, and the courage it takes to start over. From sharing a dressing room with the late Senzo Meyiwa to navigating fame, loss, mental health and life beyond the pitch, Brighton shares the lessons football taught him — and the even bigger lessons life had waiting. **An honest, inspiring and sometimes hilarious conversation about resilience, identity and finding purpose when life changes the game plan.** Because sometimes, the greatest save of your life happens off the field. **Watch, like, comment and subscribe to WAW – What A Week with DJ Fresh!** Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WAW #WhatAWeek #DJFresh #BrightonMhlongo #OrlandoPirates #BafanaBafana #SouthAfricanFootball #SenzoMeyiwa #MentalHealth #LifeAfterFootball #FootballLegends #DJFreshSA Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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This week on WAW — What A Week, Conrad Koch and South Africa’s most outspoken puppet, Chester Missing, are in the hot seat! We talk about Chester's Got Talent, Conrad's award-winning live show. It's a talent show for puppets where the audience are the judges. Chester competes against Gunter the German mosquito, Hilton the dramatic ostrich, DJ Hoodie and Mr Dixon the high school teacher, and as usual Chester refuses to do what he's told. The show won the Standard Bank Gold Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival, and it's family friendly, from 8-year-olds to 80-year-old grannies. Then we unpack another wild week in South Africa: politics, the approaching local government elections, GBV, and headlines so ridiculous even a comedian struggles to improve them. Plus, we get behind the puppet to find out what makes Conrad tick, what still gets Chester fired up, and what made them look back at the last seven days and say… Satire, honesty, and the questions nobody else will ask. WAW — What A Week! Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week on WAW! What A Week, DJ Fresh sits down with Thabo "T-Bose" Mokwele. He quit chemical engineering in 1997 for a smaller salary at YFM and a microphone. Twenty-nine years later he's still on air — Metro FM, then Kaya 959 since 2006, where he's just marked two decades with The Best T in the City. Every weekday at nine he takes the baton from Fresh and Thato, and every weekday thousands of strangers hand him their marriages, their money problems and their mothers-in-law on The Blind Spot. Fresh and T-Bose get into the long game: what keeps a broadcaster relevant across three decades, what it costs to carry other people's secrets for a living, and what changes about a man in his early fifties that nobody warns you about. Also on the table: the leap from Tembisa to the airwaves, life as #MothoWaBatho, marriage in public with Mapaseka, fatherhood, the book Pause.. Etc Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WAWWhatAWeek #DJFresh #TBoseMokwele #ThaboMokwele #Kaya959 #TheBestTInTheCity #TheBlindSpot #MothoWaBatho #SouthAfricanRadio #SAPodcast #BigDawgProductions #RadioLegends #Broadcasting #SAMedia Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Springbok legend Breyton Paulse joins DJ Fresh on WAW! What A Week for a special conversation about Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry — Springboks vs All Blacks. From his own unforgettable battles against New Zealand to what makes this rivalry different from any other, Breyton talks pressure, pride, the evolution of the Springboks and life after 64 Tests in the green and gold. We also get beyond the rugby to find out what kind of week Breyton Paulse has had. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane joins What A Week (WAW) for a conversation that goes far beyond jazz. From growing up in Umlazi to studying in New York, becoming a Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz and releasing music through the legendary Blue Note Records, Linda’s journey has been shaped by sound, spirituality, ancestry and an ever-deepening search for identity. With his new self-titled album LINDA, he turns the lens inward — exploring purpose, relationships, community and what it means to truly know yourself. Linda speaks about the influence of John Coltrane and Winston Mankunku Ngozi, his relationship with mentor Nduduzo Makhathini, carrying African musical traditions onto global stages, and why he sometimes thinks of music not as something he creates, but something he receives. And, of course, he brings the saxophone. 🎷 Linda Sikhakhane on What A Week. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WhatAWeek #WAW #LindaSikhakhane #SouthAfricanJazz #Jazz #BlueNoteRecords #LINDA #Kaya959 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

DJ Fresh and Botsang Modimowame Moiloa break down the week South African politics tried to gaslight us. Mpho Maboi sits in. The EFF came for the Speaker and got sent home. Julius Malema's motion of no confidence in Thoko Didiza — over her refusal to oppose Ramaphosa's interdict of the Phala Phala impeachment process — went down 282 to 101, with the GNU bloc, ActionSA and BOSA all voting to keep her. The DA said she made mistakes. They voted for her anyway. Disclosure: Botsang Modimowame Moiloa is a member of ActionSA. ActionSA voted against the motion of no confidence in Speaker Thoko Didiza. At the Madlanga Commission, Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala spent four days saying almost nothing — and the documents said it for him. WhatsApps, proof of payments, a R4 million trail, and a line drawn straight from tender tycoon Hangwani Maumela to the late taxi boss Jothan "King Mswazi" Msibi, alleged head of the Big Five cartel. Self-incrimination can only cover so much. The ANC decided councillors should have matric. Then the lists came in. Kgalema Motlanthe's electoral committee rejected every waiver request, then handed out a pledge form instead — get your Grade 12 within a year or lose the seat. Two NEC meetings in 48 hours, an IEC deadline closing in, and Fikile Mbalula on TV saying no matric isn't a dealbreaker anyway. Which is it? Gayton McKenzie wants his R30 million back from SAFA. No VAR, no explanation, no Danny Jordaan in the room. But Parliament had questions for the Minister too — starting with the R30.9 million spent flying 151 people to the World Cup. And South Africa and Brazil sat down for the 8th Joint Commission, talking investment protection, tourism and Global South coordination. Two G20 economies, USD 2.3 billion in trade, and a shared theory that the world's decisions shouldn't only be made in the North. WAW: What A Week with DJ Fresh is produced by the Africa Podcast Network. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #PoliTricks #WAW #WhatAWeek #DJFresh #Botsang #ThokoDidiza #EFF #JuliusMalema #MadlangaCommission #CatMatlala #ANC #LGE2026 #GaytonMcKenzie #SAFA #SouthAfricaBrazil #SouthAfricanPolitics Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

MaNgcobo. Mkabayi. Nomcebo. Mazet. Dawn Thandeka King has spent a decade building the kind of characters that don't leave you when the episode ends. This week on WAW, the Eshowe-born actress, musician and motivational speaker joins DJ Fresh — with Mpho Maboi sitting in — to talk about the roles that made her a household name, what it takes to survive two decades in an industry that chews people up, and being honoured with the Lifetime Shero Award at the 10th annual Gagasi FM Shero Awards. From Technikon Natal drama student to Shaka iLembe's Mkabayi kaJama. From a 9-to-5 in Durban tourism to Uzalo, Lockdown, DiepCity and Isitha: The Enemy. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WAW #WhatAWeek #DJFresh #DawnThandekaKing #MphoMaboi #ShakaiLembe #Uzalo #MaNgcobo #IsithaTheEnemy #SheroAwards #GagasiFM #SouthAfricanActress #Mzansi #AfricaPodcastNetwork #SAPodcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Five stories, one question: who belongs, and who gets left out. On this week's Politricks, DJ Fresh breaks down the SADC Summit in Durban — where Ramaphosa told the region South Africans are "deeply concerned and ashamed" over the treatment of foreign nationals, while March and March protested outside the venue demanding another deportation deadline. Then the alliance nobody saw coming: March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma sits down with AfriForum's Kallie Kriel. Strange bedfellows, or the most logical partnership in the country? Plus the DA's federal finance chair Mark Burke, a Reserve Bank probe into R4 billion, and a party that went from "no case to answer" to "stepped aside" in twenty-four hours. Then NSFAS — the Public Protector finds 40,000 students improperly funded to the tune of R5.1 billion, while students who did qualify went hungry. And Zambia, where Hakainde Hichilema takes a second term with 61.4% — but turnout collapsed, and the opposition is crying foul. Thank you for watching, please subscribe to support the channel. Connect on other platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djfreshsa/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@djfreshsa?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJFreshSA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJFreshSA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dRfyK6U2asVL1dtAd7Oub Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dj-fresh-sa/1447149074 Bookings: [email protected] #djfreshsa #housemusic #dancemusic #WAWPolitricks #WhatAWeek #DJFresh #SouthAfricanPolitics #SADCSummit #Ramaphosa #AfriForum #MarchAndMarch #JacintaNgobeseZuma #DA #MarkBurke #NSFAS #PublicProtector #Zambia #Hichilema #SAPolitics #Mzansi #Podcast #SouthAfricanPodcast #BigDawgProductions #IllHouseYou Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.