The Alternative BreakfastPolitical analyst Dr Ralph Mathekga joins Alternative Breakfast for a wide-ranging news roundup examining South Africa's economic contraction, the country's positioning within an increasingly divided BRICS bloc, and the IEC's new rules on election disinformation — three developments that raise bigger questions about the performance of government, South Africa's place in a changing global order, and the integrity of democratic politics.
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Nco Dube examines the growing tension between political leadership and the independence of South Africa’s legislatures, asking what happens to parliamentary accountability when the person presiding over the legislature becomes an active political player.
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Dr Brittany Kesselman explores whether the plants we dismiss as “weeds” could actually hold nutritional, ecological and cultural value — and what their disappearance tells us about indigenous food knowledge and the way we have come to define what counts as food.
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As National Wills Week encourages South Africans to put their affairs in order, we reflect on what it really means to leave a legacy — and whether a “free” will gives families freedom, protection and clarity or simply begins a more complicated conversation about what happens after we die.
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