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Many South Africans are facing rising interest rates, growing inflation and 25% less take-home pay than they had in 2016 according to the country’s largest debt counsellor, DebtBusters. In That Weekend Feeling with Daron Mann this week, we speak to economist Dawie Roodt on budgeting, interest rates and the fuel price increases expected for rest of the year.
Premier Oscar Mabuyane has bagged a second term at the helm of the ANC in the Eastern Cape after beating rival Babalo Madikizela in a hotly contested battle for the position of chair at the weekend. In Behind The Herald Headlines with Daron Mann this week, we speak to Mabuyane on how he intends to use his second term in office.
A personal crusade in pursuit of animal welfare is set to take Daily Dispatch contributor Daron Mann to war-ravaged Ukraine within the next few days. Daron, who is responsible for the weekly online podcasts The Daily Dispatch in Discussion with Daron Mann and That Weekend Feeling, will be accompanying well-known bear and big cat rescue specialist Lionel de Lange on a mission that could end up rescuing nine or 10 lions abandoned in zoos or by private individuals fleeing the armed conflict.
Scores of farmworkers, joined by residents, protested for almost a week in the Kirkwood area, demanding an hourly wage increase of R6.81 and a 30% limit on the hiring of foreigners.
Madikizela and Mabuyane talk to Daron Mann about the on-again-off-again scheduling of the conference, which was again announced to be going forward less than an hour after the interviews were recorded.