Yoh: A News-ish Podcast

Public transport in South Africa remains one of the least viable ways to get around. I looked at the reasons why and what could be done to make it better. Follow Yoh on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/yohpodcast Twitter: twitter.com/yoh_podcast Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/yohpodcast Sources: An analysis of the quality of public transport in Johannesburg, South Africa using an adapted SERVQUAL model https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146520305111 How the current state of public transport impacts employment in South Africa https://www.dbsa.org/article/how-current-state-public-transport-impacts-employment-south-africa - Development Bank of Southern Africa SOUTHERN AFRICAN SOLUTIONS TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT CHALLENGES http://www.satc.org.za/archive17/assets/essay_mtizi.pdf “Unsafe and inefficient public transport endangers our lives” https://www.southafricanlabourbulletin.org.za/unsafe-and-inefficient-public-transport-endangers-our-lives/ The City of Cape Town has drafted a new plan outlining plans to improve public transport in Cape Town in the next 5 years. https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/457366/what-would-drive-you-to-use-public-transport-more-coct-unveils-its-5-year-plan Devolution of rail network to municipalities needs clear time frame, Parliament told https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-19-devolution-of-rail-network-to-municipalities-needs-clear-time-frame-parliament-told/ #UniteBehind #FixOurTrains https://unitebehind.org.za/campaigns/fix-our-trains/ https://unitebehind.org.za/wp-content/uploads/metrorail-pamphlet-black-and-white.pdf The state of public transport in South Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J3-OCXdcgE

For our 10th episode, we take a look at some of the issues we've covered and look for any updates (and glimmering lights at the end of the tunnel).

It turns out femicide in SA is a uniquely scary phenomenon that warrants its own investigation. Jody unpacks her MA thesis in this episode. GBV resources: The Warrior Project: https://thewarriorproject.org.za/what-can-i-do/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhqaVBhCxARIsAHK1tiPv6WkNpIXXYq7cOcXFvp5PqCGwMlDVi9jnyPISAinJi740a3mk-CYaAmupEALw_wcB Safer Spaces: https://www.saferspaces.org.za/resources/entry/new-materials-for-gbv-survivors Sources: Jody van der Heyde, 2020, A portrait of intimate femicide in South Africa, MA Thesis, The University of Manchester. Contact for a copy. Abrahams, N., et al. (2009). ‘Mortality of women from intimate partner violence in South Africa: a national epidemiological study', Violence and Victims, 24(4), Abrahams, N. et al. (2013). ‘Intimate partner femicide in South Africa in 1999 and 2009.', PLos Med, 10(4). Research brief: Decrease in Femicide in South Africa: Three National Studies across 18 Years, South African Medical Research Council, 2022. https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/research-brief-decrease-femicide-south-africa-three-national-studies-across-18-years . Watch the release on the study on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0zwFMuOS0&t=715s Isaacs, D. and Mthembu, J. (2018). ‘“I forgive him. It wasn't easy for him”: social representations of perpetrators of intimate partner violence in the Western Cape Province media', Critical Studies in Media Communication, 35(5), Moffett, H. (2006). ‘“These women, they force us to rape them”: rape as a narrative of social control in post-apartheid South Africa', Journal of Southern African Studies, 32(1),

Mobile data in South Africa is notoriously expensive and the #DataMustFall movement is a bit of a hit-and-miss. So why is data so expensive and when will it become more affordable? Sources: Victor Kgomoeswana on eNCA in September 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYL9xbE5bwo A Karen from MTN says increasing data costs is in line with their "treat customers fairly" policy: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/445918-increasing-data-prices-by-28-in-line-with-treat-customers-fairly-policy-says-mtn.html The Real Reason Why Mobile Data Is So Expensive In South Africa https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2019/01/15/the-real-reason-why-mobile-data-is-so-expensive-in-south-africa/#ixzz7UK4A8rb1 Data Must Fall: The Politics of Mobile Telecommunications Tariffs in South Africa by Ewan Sutherland https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2154165 ICASA concludes the high-demand radio frequency spectrum auction on eNCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkGvGLLcAno&t=360s Is mobile data (still) expensive in South Africa? by Bra Willi Seyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rl7Hik1bss

Jody wraps up the July Riots unpacking by looking at the aftermath, the follow-up reports and we try to pinpoint who is really responsible.

Jody briefs Michelle on what brought about the riots that brought the country to its knees in July 2021. Strangely enough, the event sheds a light on the pervasive issues South Africa is still struggling with and might forecast a grim future. Sources: ● Report into the expert panel into the July 2021 civil unrest. ● South Africa the world's most unequal country – World Bank report, by Ed Stoddard https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-03-13-south-africa-the-worlds-most-unequal-country-world-bank-report/ ● The July 2021 Protests And Socio-Political Unrest in South Africa by Dr CLayton Vhumbunu https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/the-july-2021-protests-and-socio-political-unrest-in-south-africa/ ● Timeline: The July Unrest That Left The Country Crippled by Neo Motloung https://www.sabcnews.com/timeline-the-july-unrest-that-left-the-country-crippled/ ● Unrest July 2021: Grim details emerge of deaths in Phoenix by By Nokulunga Majola for GroundUp

In this episode, Michelle tells Jody about the long and turbulent history of Eskom. We also attempt to figure out whether or not we'll EVER have stable electricity again. Sources: Anatomy of State Capture, Chapter Five: BETWEEN LIBERALISATION AND STATE CAPTURE: A DEEPER LOOK AT THE CASE OF ESKOM by Erica Johnson Eskom: The real cause of the crisis by James Myburgh Why Eskom's Power Crisis Is South Africa's Top Risk, by Mike Cohen and Paul Burkhardt The anatomy of a disaster: A short history of Eskom and South Africa's reliance on coal, by Tim Cohen Restructuring Eskom: Transforming South Africa's Electricity Sector, by Tino Petros Eskom: Are we missing the opportunity to learn from history? By Grove Steyn

In this episode, Jody takes the reigns and tells Michelle about how one murder is indicative of the mountain of canned worms making up the South African police.

In this last episode of our series on State Capture (finally!), we unpack the Transnet capturing, discuss Dodgy People in Governance, and Michelle gets a lot of facts wrong.

In this very long and slightly chaotic episode, Michelle tells Jody about the next bit of State Capture, this time centring on the Russia Nuclear Deal, which is all very complicated.

Welcome to Yoh Podcast - where we tell you that we're super annoyed at genuinely not understanding anything in the headlines but knowing that it's super important we do understand! Together, we're going to dissect the news and put them in words that you can *actually* understand, and not pretend you do.

In the very first episode, Michelle tells Jody about State Capture and what all those headlines actually mean.