Don't Shoot The Messenger
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Don't Shoot The Messenger
Don’t Shoot the Messenger is a podcast brought to you by South Africa’s leading independent news and analysis website, the Daily Maverick. We take you into the stories behind the stories, to give you a fresh view and new insight on some of the most important topics of the moment.
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How koeksisters and Bible verses can keep women safe
You can only address gender-based violence in the long term through major structural reform. But South Africa’s women don’t have the long term: they n...
Would you pay for dinner to get told that you’re racist?
Would you pay to attend a dinner party at which you’re told that you are probably more racist than you realise? A business established by two women of...
What Rwanda got right that South Africa didn’t
Is there any way to “solve” racism? Are there any means by which we can achieve true racial reconciliation? In this episode, we’re looking at the exam...
Nobody watches women’s sport - and other myths
Women’s sport in South Africa is still decades and decades behind the state of play for men. In this episode, we’re talking to Daily Maverick’s reside...
Social media: How troll tactics are being used for good
Social media is making us more unhappy, less safe, and in some cases just stupider. This while the power of these websites grows unstoppably: Facebook...
The Museum of Toxic Statues
Ever since the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was targeted in 2015, statues of apartheid and colonial figures around South Africa have been vandalised. W...
Why South Africa needs a ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ campaign
South Africa is literally running out of places to store its rubbish: the City of Johannesburg has warned that its landfills are almost full. Who want...
Could giving people free money revolutionise SA society?
Giving people free money? That might sound like the last thing South Africa can afford. But numerous studies have found that giving people a universal...
What Finland and reverence for teachers can teach SA's school system
We’re constantly told that education is the single most important service to get right to secure South Africa’s future. In this episode, we’re speakin...
The country that turned its crime rate around
The latest crime stats prove that the violent crime rates in South Africa are getting worse. In this episode, we hear about a country which turned aro...
SEASON 3: How To Fix It - Trailer
In our third season we're exploring ideas on how to fix things in South Africa. We all know the problems: education, crime, poverty, inequality. Now w...
The plot to blow up Koeberg, Part 2: The man with the bombs
As a young man, Rodney Wilkinson won Springbok colours in fencing - but he would enter the South African history books in a different way. On 16 Decem...
The plot to blow up Koeberg, Part 1: The man with the blueprint
Professor Renfrew Christie risked death by hanging to spy on the apartheid government’s power stations - using his doctoral thesis as a pretext to gai...
The worst that could happen: How ready are we to face disaster?
On 26 September, Cape Town was rocked by tremors after an earthquake occurred off the South African coast. The incident was minor, but it got a lot of...
In the Rough: Golf courses may be South Africa’s most wasteful luxury
When legal advocacy group Ndifuna Ukwazi launched a 2019 campaign to have Rondebosch Golf Club land re-allocated for affordable housing, it was reveal...
QAnon: How the world’s fastest-growing conspiracy theory is spreading to SA
On this week’s show, we’re exploring the global movement called QAnon: a web of conspiracy theories, fantasies and lies which may have started in the...
Roll-Call by Emoji: The battle to use technology to save SA’s schooling
A teacher logs on to a WhatsApp group at a specified time. All students who are present send emojis to indicate their readiness. And so class begins.<...
Can life be normal after kidnapping by Al-Qaeda?
Stephen McGown is regarded as Al-Qaeda’s longest surviving hostage. Since his release in 2017, he has been putting his life back together, and is work...
Where are South Africa’s superheroes?
Your local bookstore will definitely stock ‘Harry Potter’, but when it comes to South African kids’ books featuring children of colour, all bets are o...
Puff & Pass: The legal limbo of SA’s marijuana laws
Since a March 2017 Western Cape High Court ruling, you can’t be arrested for smoking marijuana within your own home in South Africa. But that doesn’t...
The Long-Haulers: When Covid-19 doesn’t go away
Seven months into the Covid-19 pandemic, frighteningly little is still known about this new disease. But one thing that is now clear is that Covid-19...
The New Underworld: How Covid-19 helps create new kinds of criminals
Lockdown conditions imposed all over the world have succeeded in halting certain types of illegal trade – but also given rise to new and expanded blac...
Inside the bizarre world of the Zumas’ new YouTube series
“Zooming With The Zumas” is the real title of a real YouTube series offering the public a front-row seat to intimate video chats between former South...
The Big Chill: What lockdown can teach us about the benefits of slowness
The great global slowdown imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic is forcing a slower pace of life on most of us, whether we like it or not. There’s somethin...
The White Coat Army: Why is South Africa paying Cuba for doctors?
In late April, Cuba sent 217 healthcare workers to South Africa to help fight Covid-19. A tremendous humanitarian gesture involving heroic doctors? Pe...
Tomorrowland: The effects pandemics have on popular culture
On this week’s show, we’re thinking about Tomorrowland: the fascinating connections between pandemics and pop culture. The Bubonic Plague struck Europ...
Unintended Consequences
What happens when a country suddenly makes the sale of alcohol and tobacco illegal? It turns out the answer is: quite a lot. Suddenly the trauma units...
The Endearing Elders of the Eastern Cape
When the regulations for COVID-19 kicked in, Dave Martin actively disseminated information to the community about safety practices and different ways...
The New Normal
Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford and author of The Butterfly Defect chats to us about the effects pa...
Love in the time of Corona
The coronavirus pandemic is already taking a significant toll on human relationships. In this episode, we look at the separations between loved ones c...
Covid-19: How Pandemics Give Birth to Revolutions & Dictatorships
It’s now clear that the Covid-19 pandemic is going to have effects that we’ll be dealing with for quite some time afterwards - not just in terms of pu...