In a landscape where most political parties are rallying behind clear candidates, building personalities, and consolidating support around individuals, the EFF has chosen a different path and one that challenges the norm. Instead of putting forward or endorsing a single candidate, the party will focus on a ward-based electoral strategy, where all leaders must first contest positions as ward councillors before being considered for mayor.mission and collective leadership. Will this decision possibly weaken their influence in a system that often revolves around strong individual figures? To answer this question and more we speak to Political Commentator, Tshepang Magabe.

In a landscape where most political parties are rallying behind clear candidates, building personalities, and consolidating support around individuals, the EFF has chosen a different path and one that challenges the norm. Instead of putting forward or endorsing a single candidate, the party will focus on a ward-based electoral strategy, where all leaders must first contest positions as ward councillors before being considered for mayor.mission and collective leadership. Will this decision possibly weaken their influence in a system that often revolves around strong individual figures? To answer this question and more we speak to Political Commentator, Tshepang Magabe.

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The debate over domestic worker minimum wages in South Africa sits between extreme economic hardship for workers and severe financial pressure on households. On one hand, domestic workers - many of whom are women and primary breadwinners - face rising costs of food, transport, and housing that far outpace their earnings. We are in conversation with Political social commentator, Xoliswa Jwili and  Pinky Mashiane who is an activist and founder of the United Domestic Workers of South Africa on whether South Africans can truly afford the minimum wage for domestic workers and look at how we can restore dignity to minimum wage workers in a society still grappling with inequality?

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