Wednesday, June 11, 2025

“Name Dropping Is An Avenue For Getting What We Want” – Listen To The Mail & Guardian’s Dissection Of The Gupta Briefing, Here [PODCAST]

Do you know anybody famous or powerful? Senior staffers at Mail & Guardian tackled the embarrassing issue of Guptagate this week, and the surprising conclusions that emerged from the government briefing on the incident. The lesson? "Dropping names" will get you everywhere.

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We have the podcast of this week’s Mail & Guardian Newsroom show for your analytical pleasure. Feel free to listen on the page, or download for later listening.

In this week’s M&G Newsroom, Verashni Pilllay and Nickolaus Bauer took listeners through the stories naking headlines. From the Guptagate Ministerial report to Zimbabwe’s state media celebrating the “exposure” of a sinister campaign for the opposition by Coca-Cola.

Thalia Holmes joined them in studio to talk about an interesting initiative that sees people from improverished areas planting trees and collecting in exchange for bicycles. Will it work? Listen to the podcast to find out.

Deshnee Subramany and Sthembile Gasa spoke to us about the MTV Base Africa All Stards concert that rocked Durban ahead of Snoop Lion’s performances in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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