Festive Fun or Festive Risk? Keeping Children Safe During the Holidays

Child negligence during the festive season is a recurring and serious concern, as the period brings unique risks linked to travel, social gatherings, alcohol use, and reduced supervision. Below is a clear, factual overview of the issue, its causes, risks, and prevention strategies, with relevance t…

Inside the Deadly World of Hijacked Buildings: Tragedy, Crime, and Neglect

Recent case studies illustrate the harsh realities of South Africa’s hijacked buildings crisis, including the Usindiso Building tragedy and the killing of DJ Warras, both of which highlight systemic failures, dangers, and the intertwining of crime and urban decay. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversatio…

Capitec: Stalking Giants

In Capitec: Stalking Giants, top-selling business author TJ Strydom tells the gripping tale of a small team of entrepreneurs that turned a small microlending network into a challenger bank. With their luxurious head offices in Johannesburg, the giants disregarded the small Stellenbosch upstart. But…

Coj Community Safety on DJ Warras killing and banning Street Bashes this festive season

Radio and club DJ Warrick Stock, popularly known as DJ Warras, was fatally shot in the Johannesburg CBD on Tuesday in what is believed to have been an eviction showdown. Reports suggest DJ Warras was actively involved with a security company conducting evictions when an unknown gunman walked up to …

China trade surplus tops $1tn for first time amid pivot to counter US lull

China’s annual trade surplus in goods has topped $1 trillion for the first time, with plunging exports to the United States amid a tariff war more than compensated for by shipments to other markets, new data shows. Figures released by China’s General Administration of Customs on Monday showed the t…

Reconfiguring South Africa’s Financial Architecture to Promote Development: The National Planning Commission releases a report identifying elasticity spaces

A new report by the National Planning Commission (NPC) shows that there is a significant build-up of capital in the economy that is not being reinvested in gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), but which needs to be circulated through transactions to drive growth and development.  'The Transformat…

SANDF audit reveals only 27% of soldiers fit for duty/combat.

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is in conversation with Associate Editor of the Daily Friend, and defence analyst at the Institute of Race Relations, Ricardo Teixeira.

40 years of COSATU

POWER Talk host Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi speaks to Mike Shingage, Deputy President of the Congress of South African Trade Unions  on 40 years of COSATU.

Unpacking the Danger: Why SIM Card Fraud Poses a Serious Threat to South Africa’s Digital Security

Advocate Thokozani Mvelase, CEO of COMRiC speaks to POWER Talk host Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi on the Communications Risk Information Centre 2025 Telecommunications Sector Report which found that telecoms fraud, including Sim-swap, subscription and identity fraud, cost South Africa around R5.3-billion in …

ANC to investigate allegations of vote buying at Johannesburg conference - Radical proposal to block vote-buying on agenda at ANC NGC

ANC to investigate allegations of vote buying at Johannesburg conference - Radical proposal to block vote-buying on agenda at ANC NGC. Mzi KhumaloAfrican National Congress Gauteng Provincial Spokesperson speaks to POWER Talk show Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.