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President For Now Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the ANC is seeking a government of national unity. Here's what it is, how it might work, and why it might not happen.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Analysing the results and projections so far of a country-changing election.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The Dan Corder Show, South African late night news, analysis and humour. On eNCA Mondays and Tuesdays at 9pm! We can't believe it.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
In partnership with TikTok, we spoke to South African news and culture commentator and superstar creator Zethu Gqola about the state of the nation and the power of internet media as we head in this pivotal election season.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Enormous media platforms have a responsibility to counteract misinformation, disinformation and bigotry, particularly during elections, when bad actors are trying to sway voters and influence democracies. In partnership with TikTok, we find out how the platform plans to keep South Africa safe from those who may try to misuse TikTok. This is our exclusive interview with Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, sub-Saharan Africa Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at TikTok.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Zackie Achmat is a legendary activist, and also most people's bet for most likely to become South Africa's first independent member of parliament. In this exclusive interview, we ask him what he intends to do to make our government function better, and why independent candidates are worth supporting come the election.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The Independent Electoral Commission rejected the ANC's attempt to have Jacob Zuma's MK party removed from the May 29 election. National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is trying every play in the book to avoid facing charges for accepting bribes when she was Defence Minister. Tens of thousands of students are victims of one of the country's biggest private higher education institutions, Educor, being forced to close.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The world was rocked by Markus Jooste's passing last week, as he was about to be arrested for a massive case of fraud with international consequences. Here's what he was alleged to have done wrong.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's home was raided a few days ago, after she was accused of soliciting a multi-million rand bribe for tenders while she was Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. Prominent whistleblower Brigadier Dennis Chili claims that he was removed from his post in Crime Intelligence over a stitch-up involving an airfryer that was on sale at his local supermarket. All you need to know!Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
South Africa is a world leader in having women in politics, but no positions of true power in the government are held by women. Nearly all of South Africa's political parties are led by men, and men fill most parties' executive positions. In a country where most registered voters are women, and women suffer the awful gender based violence, why are women being kept out of positions of power?Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Silly season is getting scary for South Africa's elections. An MK Party leader threatened our democracy and the DA begged America to get involved in our elections.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The EFF is embroiled in an uncharacteristic mess. One of their most prominent leaders, Naledi Chirwa, was made to apologise for her behaviour, and her apology has dragged the party into a public fight to save their reputation that has even drawn in Julius Malema. And the Cape Independence Party was brutally exposed in front of the country as they scrambled to get on the ballot for the election. All you need to know on News Worth Knowing.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Naledi Chirwa is a member of parliament for the EFF and is heading up party communications for their 2024 campaign to win Gauteng province. In our exclusive interview, we asked her about the EFF's plans to expropriate the land without compensation, how the party intends to create jobs, why they partner with the ANC, and where their funding is coming from.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The courts ordered the ANC to release their cadre deployment records to the DA, and then the mudslinging began. Also, South Africa has been rocked by the craziest fake qualifications scandal yet, involving Telkom and municipal pension funds. All you need to know!Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Political parties rely on funding from donors to cover their costs and expand their operations. We South Africans usually know very little about who is paying our politicians' bills. Let's find out what the law says about disclosing private funding of political parties, what we do know about who is giving which party money, and which parties are trying to keep their donors' identities a secret.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The Presidency finally announced the election date, South Africa falls in love with the Special Investigating Unit's new social media style, and another round of crises at South African universities. All you need to know.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Nobody knew how much power Jacob Zuma still holds over voters. Just a few months after slamming the ANC and beginning his campaign for the Umkhonto weSizwe Party, he has inspired two successful results in by-elections and taken swathes of voters from the ANC, EFF, and IFP. With one polling company projecting that MK half the ANC's support in KZN, let's look at how Jacob Zuma's unprecedented shakeup of South Africa's political establishment.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Former Northern Cape Premier Sylvia Lucas managed to infuriate a whole country, doctors are exasperated by the health ministry's money decisions, and Palestine's men's football team has become a political battle in South Africa. Let's look at News Worth Knowing for this week.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The average young South African doesn't vote. Many people with many hot takes have accused the country's youth of being apathetic, lazy, or just lacking understanding of our democracy. But those aren't the reasons why young South Africans aren't voting. Let's look at what is actually going on, to see what it might take to get young South Africans to vote in the 2024 election.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
A bombshell poll projects that the ANC will only get 45% of the vote in the upcoming election. The Please Call Me inventor looks set to make billions of rands from Vodacom. The EFF may be banned from tonight's State of the Nation Address. Let's understand all of this big news on News Worth KnowingFind us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Online disinformation networks are duping South Africans and changing the agendas of our politics. They look set to influence the upcoming election. In this week's deep dive we unmask two massive disinformation networks and explain how we can all spot the liars.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
A raid at Stellenbosch University's historic Wilgenhof residence has uncovered evidence of awful, cult-like traditions of abuse that has taken place for decades. The evidence is disturbing, and confirms that generation after generation of students have been both victims and perpetrators of abuse. Here's what we know, and what it says about toxic cultures of initiation and abuse in the residences of learning institutions in South Africa.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
People have been claiming that South Africa has a crisis of farm murders for longer than a decade, and recently some have claimed that a genocide of white South Africans is either taking place or about to. What does the evidence say in reality, and how are people trying to keep the believe of a crisis alive?Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The International Court of Justice rules with South Africa against Israel, and finds plausible evidence that Israel has committed genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza. The court orders temporary measures, but no ceasefire. All you need to know.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Government has announced that seventy fuelling stations have been selling watered down diesel to South Africans. Nelson Mandela's daughter is selling some of his most personal items, including his hearing aids. Jacob Zuma must now pay back R28m of taxpayers money. This is the News Worth Knowing this week on The Issue!Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has faced some of the biggest stories and scandals in South Africa in the last few years. In this exclusive interview, we ask him about all of them, and he answers, from accusing Israel of genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza, to why Jacob Zuma and the Guptas walk free today. He also defends his party, the ANC, in the run-up to the 2024 general election. Let's see what he has to say.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Everything you need to know about the new arrest in the murder of Nadine Terblanche and her son, Jacob Zuma's embarrassing speech mistake, and famed economist Thabi Leoka's missing PHD. This is News Worth Knowing, a once a week update on big news from the last seven days, from The Issue with Dan Corder.Find us elsewhere:Youtube: @theissuewithdancorderInstagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorderPatreon: TheIssuewithDanCorderInquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
South Africa has charged Israel with committing genocidal acts and showing genocidal intent against Palestinians in Gaza. The case has become a worldwide news headline. Yet, many news organisations have misunderstood the arguments. Let's look at exactly what South Africa is accusing Israel of, and consider what might happen if South Africa wins their case in the International Court of Justice. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Patreon: TheIssuewithDanCorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
What we're doing in 2024, the wildest year in South Africa's modern era. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Former President Jacob Zuma shocked the world when he announced that he would be campaigning and voting for a different party to the ANC, and accused the ANC of being sellouts and apartheid collaborators. Let's look at what this unprecedented act may mean for the 2024 election, and the ANC's future. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The ANC has pushed through their plan for National Health Insurance, despite facing massive opposition from medical professionals, political parties and big business. The ANC looks set to make the plan a significant part of their 2024 election campaign. Let's figure out what the plan is, whether it can work, and why so many people are so loudly against it. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
In our exclusive interview with voting data expert Wayne Sussman, we analyse voting patterns in recent local and national elections in South Africa to infer what is likely to happen in 2024. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Chris Pappas is the Democratic Alliance's Premier candidate in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Pappas has shot to nationwide attention in the last few years after becoming the only DA mayor in KZN, and is now attempting to dethrone the ANC in the province. In this exclusive interview, we ask him the questions that the country has been wondering about. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Twenty eight banks stand accused of illegally manipulating South Africa's currency to make huge profits for themselves, to the detriment of the South African economy. We explore what we know so far, how banks could have manipulated the Rand, and how the plot has affected South Africa's economy. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Rise Mzansi is a new political party that has grabbed South Africa's attention. In our exclusive interview with its leader, Songezo Zibi, we find out what Rise Mzansi stands for, why it has got the nation's media obsessed, and why it is so confident of having a potentially record-breaking debut in the 2024 election. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Jacob Zuma's feud with Cyril Ramaphosa has defined modern South African politics. How Zuma behaves and how Ramaphosa responds in the coming months could define the next general election. Let's look at this feud and what may happen next. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is supposed to help young South Africans from poor backgrounds get deserved opportunities to study beyond school at higher education institutions. Instead, decades of disasters have left a trail of victims. Let's try to understand what has led to one of the most extraordinary government failures in modern South Africa. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The taxi industry is more powerful than most South Africans realise. Let's look at how it got so powerful, why it is so ungovernable, and what, if anything, can be done to change the industry. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The new census data is going to be used by all political parties to try and get votes in the next election. Let's look at the numbers that are likely to matter in 2024, and whether the data is reliable. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Herman Mashaba is South Africa's biggest new political force in a decade. His proposed policies would fundamentally change South Africa, if he became president. In our exclusive interview, we ask him the big questions on some of his controversial proposals. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The dark history of the South African national rugby team makes what the Springboks has become a total miracle. Let's look at how the Springboks was used by the apartheid government to advance racist ideology, and how extraordinary work then changed the team into a celebratory, multiracial national treasure. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The DA has boldly made a young white mayor from rural Kwa-Zulu Natal their candidate for Premier of the province for the 2024 elections. In many ways, he is fundamentally different to the leaders the DA has been picking up until now. Let's look into why Pappas might bring clarity to the party whose future is so uncertain. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
The tragic fire that took more than seventy lives in Joburg's CBD exposed so many massive issues that will likely influence the 2024 national election. Let's analyse factors that caused this disaster, and what we can learn from the aftermath. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
South Africa's journalism industry had a massive fight recently, over whether reporters are failing to hold powerful people to account, and effectively tell the right stories. We spoke to prolific journalist and news24 assistant Editor for Politics and Opinion Qaanitah Hunter about what is good and bad about South African journalism. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Maimane explains what makes BOSA, his new political party, so different, and why he thinks it will work. He speaks on what would happen if the ANC asked him to go into coalition in 2024. Maimane also talks about making an opposition coalition with old exes and enemies. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
Coalition governments have been disasters across the country, but coalitions are our future. Let's see how they might impact the 2024 elections. Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
BRICS has just added six massive countries as new members, but what does this mean? What is BRICS, what is its aim, and what is its potential? Find us elsewhere: Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
South Africans have never been more gatvol of the political parties available to us. 2024 is going to be the most important election since 1994. What can we expect? Youtube: @theissuewithdancorder Instagram: @theissuewithdancorder Twitter: @theissuewith Tiktok: @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
How white economic empowerment through targeted government intervention made modern South Africa. Youtube @theissuewithdancorder Instagram @theissuewithdancorder Twitter @theissuewith Tiktok @dancorder Inquiries: theissuewithdancorder@gmail.com
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