WAW! What A Week with DJ Fresh
Every week is more WAW!!! than the one before. DJ Fresh talks to comedians, sports stars, celebrities, know-it-alls and human beings about what went down this week. For media enquiries, contact waw@africapodcastnetwork.com For sales, contact advertising@africapodcastnetwork.com
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July 17, 2026 • 100 mins
This week DJ Fresh sits down with legendary investigative journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika — the man who broke the Arms Deal story, exposed the R1.7-billion police lease scandal, got arrested for it, and made the Minister of Police apologise in writing.
From rural Bushbuckridge to the most feared byline in South African journalism, via a deep-house album and a memoir called Nothing Left to Steal — this is a conversation...
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July 10, 2026 • 42 mins
ONCE A MONTH WE OPEN WAW AND DJ FRESH UP TO YOUR CURIOUS QUESTIONS, OFTEN SENT VIA IG DM AND FB INBOX!!!!
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July 3, 2026 • 71 mins
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What A Week with DJ Fresh — Politricks with Botsang. This week DJ Fresh hands over to Botsang Modimowame Moiloa to unpack South Africa's biggest week in politics: Ramaphosa's impeachment committee pressing ahead while the Speaker steps aside, the Madlanga Commission's closed-door testimony and Cat Matlala's guilty plea, the R600 million bill for 30 June, the Lungu family's burial victory over the Zambian government, and a his...
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June 26, 2026 • 76 mins
Twenty years ago, DJ Fresh, Mpho Maboi and Thato Mataboge shared one YFM studio. Then they scattered — 5FM, SuperSport, Metro, behind the glass — and built whole careers apart. Days before they reunite on Kaya 959 breakfast, they sit down on WAW to tell the real story: the fork in the road, the doors they had to kick down, what 20 years actually cost and taught them, and whether they were ever really friends in the gaps...
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This week on Politricks:
▸ Ramaphosa interdicts the impeachment committee over Phala Phala — even as Parliament's own legal team tells the MPs to fight back. Is this exhausting every legal avenue, or weaponising the courts against Parliament?
▸ Vigilantism, immigration, or a failed state? With the 30 June deadline looming, we unpack the Durban Malawian deportation court, the Dudula pressure, and why enforcement was never im...
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June 13, 2026 • 83 mins
President Ramaphosa addresses the nation on illegal immigration and admits the system has been failing for years — while a 30 June deadline looms and the streets get louder.
African states respond with repatriation flights and retaliation threats: Nigeria, Ghana, Mozambique and more pull their citizens out of South Africa as the world watches.
Parliament, Joburg Mayor Dada Morero faces a marathon SCOPA grilling over write...
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June 12, 2026 • 61 mins
DJ Fresh talks to comedians, sports stars, celebrities, know-it-alls and human beings about what went down this week!
Dr Bonisile John Kani, OIS, OBE — actor, author, director, playwright, and a living pillar of South African theatre. From co-creating Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, to winning a Tony on Broadway, to commanding global screens as King T'Chaka in Black Panther and the v...
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Phala Phala is back from the dead. Four years after Parliament voted the Section 89 report into the ground, the Constitutional Court forced a rematch — and now Rise Mzansi's Makashule Gana chairs the 31-member committee deciding whether President Ramaphosa has a case to answer.
Meanwhile, the ANC is vetting mayors with one hand and recycling recalled ones with the other, while Fikile Mbalula gives regional secretaries 30 day...
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This week on Politricks with Botsang, the law goes freelance. Botsang breaks down the week South Africa outsourced enforcement to the streets, and the borders .
The parties suddenly remember you exist as the 4 November local elections heat up. The March and March movement hands government a 30 June ultimatum — and the JCPS cluster shows up late.
Ghana airlifts its citizens home and drags us to the African Union. The ANC mi...
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Politricks with Botsang this week: the ANC finally opens its mayoral candidate process to the public — but is Loyiso Masuku already chosen?
ActionSA is promising MMCs picked on skill, not slate — could competency politics actually land?
Minister Hlabisa swears the Coalitions Bill will be law by November 4 — we ask if it'll stop Joburg becoming Joburg again.
The EU has officially exited the aid era — wha...
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A living legend of South African music walks into the WAW studio. Ringo Madlingozi — the voice behind "Sondela," "Vukani" and a catalogue that's soundtracked weddings, funerals, road trips and first loves for over three decades — joins DJ Fresh for a conversation that moves between music, politics, faith and the long road of staying true to your craft.
From his journey out of Mdantsane to becoming one of the most belov...
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This week on Politricks with Botsang: the ConCourt drops two hammers in five days. The Section 89 panel report is going to an impeachment committee, Ramaphosa says "I will not resign" .
We unpack the Phala Phala chess game: review application vs ConCourt order, why expedited, and what it means for an impeachment committee running in parallel.
Plus: the Irankunda asylum ruling, Magudumana at the apex court, Madlanga's cocaine-and...
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The Big D nobody wants to talk about — divorce — and what happens after.
DJ Fresh sits down with broadcasting heavyweight Bongani Bingwa (Carte Blanche, 702 Breakfast) for a rare personal one: marriage, the unravelling, co-parenting without the cold war, and why being friends with your ex isn't betrayal — it's the assignment.
Bongani steps out from behind the news desk. Fresh holds the room. Honest, funny, and t...
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This week on Politricks with Botsang, Thato and Botsang break down the political tsunami hitting South Africa.
Treasury has declared the City of Johannesburg in severe financial distress — Mayor Dada Morero has weeks to fix a R10.3 billion wage deal or watch R8 billion in equitable share disappear.
In Pretoria, the Big Four law firms — Bowmans, Webber Wentzel, Werksmans, and Deneys — are in the High Court tryin...
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This week on WAW, Thato Fresh sits down with SA screen legend Desmond Dube — Loerie winner, Avanti winner, Hotel Rwanda alum, and the voice behind Amaglug-glug and the Clientele Life ads.
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May 1, 2026 • 51 mins
This week on WAW we sit down with actress Michelle Mosalakae — the Mabopane-born, Rhodes-trained powerhouse you know as Zakithi from Isibaya, Kamina from The Queen, and Rachel Paige in Netflix's Silverton Siege. Beyond the screen, she's a writer, theatre director, Armor FC chairlady, and the first person with albinism to front Revlon globally. Now she's gearing up for SABC2's Pimville in 2026.
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April 25, 2026 • 68 mins
SAPS top brass in court, the ANC-SACP marriage on the rocks, Parliament's race-card lottery, NSFAS tenders under the spotlight again, and Ramaphosa's diplomatic reshuffle — Botsang unpacks the week that was.
New Politricks every Saturday.
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April 24, 2026 • 88 mins
Dr Fezile Mkhize — medical doctor, SAFTA-winning TV presenter, Mister Supranational 2024, actor, — joins DJ Fresh on WAW to talk Top Billing's comeback on S3, what a year on the Mr Supranational circuit actually looks like, the state of SA healthcare from someone still in the ward, and why being a "doctor, model, TV star" makes for a better headline than a reality.
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