In an exclusive interview, singer and activist Billy Bragg talks about making music with meaning, Marx, refusing to give in to Boris Johnson – and passion on an Italian volcano.

Chapters:

02:04 - Billy Bragg 1

29:45 - Billy Bragg 2

With more than 7 000 languages globally, we look at mother tongues. Can Kiswahili be Africa’s lingua franca? And we explore two people’s complex relationships with their languages: Setswana and Arabic.

Chapters

02:20 - Kiswahili

19:27 - Setswana

29:42 - Arabic

To mark June 16, we unearth Afrikaans’ Black roots and focus on contemporary Black Afrikaans. Also, a new book on how Nelson Mandela led Umkhonto weSizwe to war against Africa’s strongest army.

Chapters:

02:34: Hein Willemse

29:24: Emile YX

41:05: Paul Landau

Shamed by 2020 exposés of forced sterilisations at public hospitals, the health department vowed to act – but victims still await justice. Also, is the Saxonwold Shebeen open for a drink?

Chapters:

03:13 - Bongekile Msibi

16:09 - Baragwanath

21:21 - Women’s Legal Centre 

31:55 - Guptas

Banyana are not treated well, despite being one of the favourites to win the Women’s Afcon in July. Could their American counterparts’ equal-pay victory help our national women’s football side?

Chapters:

2:47 - US Women's Soccer

8:24 - Amanda Dlamini

22:22 - Joseph Mkhonza

32:12 - Busisiwe Mokwena

02:58 - Shireen Abu Akleh

11:12 - Can Themba

31:41 - Joe Thloloe

Chapters:

02:33 - Abortions down town

08:39 - Catherine Burns

28:17 - Emihle Ntuli

33:51 - Matthew Kavanagh

Chapters

01:58 - Annah Moreki

10:51 - Who are casual workers?

18:55 - Casual workers protest

22:39 - Rights and numbers

25:56 - What about the working class?