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Politically Aweh

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Sep 22, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Politically Aweh

    South Africans wagered R1-trillion last year. But who’s regulating the betting industry? (opens the original)

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    In case you couldn’t tell from the billboards and athletic sponsorships, online betting is booming. In this video, the team at Politically Aweh asks the question many can’t seem to answer: Who’s actually profiting, and who’s paying for it? South Africans spent more than R1-trillion on gambling last year. Most of that trillion isn’t coming from your aunty’s bingo halls, but online betting, which now makes up about 60% of the entire gambling market and grew from roughly R10-billion in

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Politically Aweh

    SA’s libraries are under threat (opens the original)

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    With Cape Town looking to sell off the land under Camps Bay Library, and libraries shutting or standing half-demolished from Durban to Joburg, the fight for South Africa’s free spaces just got more urgent. The City has proposed selling the land under Camps Bay Library, valued at R63.45-million, to “unlock private sector development”. Politically Aweh calls it what it is: the sale of yet another public space. Durban has permanently shut its Musgrave Library, even as the City found R22-milli

  3. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Politically Aweh

    The danger of being a woman in South African media and politics (opens the original)

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    They are mocked, they are dismissed with jokes, they are humiliated online with deepfakes – they even have their very lives threatened. And still, as the poet Maya Angelou said, they rise. In this episode, Politically Aweh honours the fearless women of South African political life. In honour of Women’s Month 2026, this week the satirical political podcast Politically Aweh shines a light on the sexism, disinformation and threats of violence perpetrated against the women who speak out in the p

  4. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Politically Aweh

    What’s behind SA’s latest wave of xenophobia? (opens the original)

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    Politically Aweh host KG Mokgadi risks getting smacked when he ventures out to a March and March protest to find out why South Africans are so angry about “illegal foreigners”. With less than four months to go until the 2026 South African municipal elections, Mzansi made all the wrong headlines across the continent this June and July with a series of xenophobic protest marches in our city centres, and deportations of a number of undocumented foreign nationals. Political parties, activist gro

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