President Yoweri Museveni bans the sale of second-hand clothing in Uganda, and is outraged that the country has been kicked out the duty-free, all-access programme called AGOA. Sudanese paramilitaries seize control of a third military base in Darfur, and a record number of migrants head over to Spain’s Canary Islands off the western bulge of Africa. Brought to you by Johannesburg Business School.
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JJ Cornish joins the team for the latest African news that includes Berbers taking to the streets of Brussels to commemorate the Rif rebellion 100 years ago in Northern Morocco, a new Prime Minister for Burundi, and an immoral music festival in Uganda that had officials fearing that the event would promote “sexual immorality and homosexuality”. Brought to you by Johannesburg Business School.
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20.09.22 Pt 2 - JJ Cornish kicks off the show by giving us the latest African news, including an immoral music festival in Uganda. There’s a new episode of Blind History, as we find out about Gilles de Rais.
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As world leaders and global organisations wrestle with the geopolitics and economic strategy for Covid-19, Africa is now entering its 'second wave'. Is the continent ready to deal with what’s to come, and can lessons be learned from Tanzania’s approach? In the DRC, which continues to function amid all its tribal and militant tensions bubbling close to the surface, Laurent Kabila's real killer may have been found. Brought to you by Johannesburg Business School.
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The Pope needs a poke
20.11.20 Pt 1 - The SABC is an analogue product in a digital time, they don't have wi-fi. If you work at a company and the board earns all the money, how should the workers feel about it? How difficult is it to cross the South African border illegally? Reporter Lindokuhle Xulu took his journalistic endeavour to a new level to prove the porous nature of border control in South Africa. Imagine you had woken up from a 2019 coma in 2020! It seems the Pope is into Brazilians... who can blame him?
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