Show notes
We introduce you to our friend, GT, who is now part of the podcast.He is as much passionate about radio as H and myself, in fact, between the 3 of us, he has had more opportunities to be on air, than the two of us, for better or worse, lol.He is a pedi guy from Limpopo, but he is now based in Cape town, working and furthering his studies. Okay, that is an understatement, he is doing his PHD.This episode starts off by H jokingly warning him against dating the Xhosa women (or Xhosa daughters, as our friends refer to them these days) there in Cape-town, or maybe H was not joking, lol, I don’t know.This opens up an interesting conversation about inter-tribal dating and marriage.H recently got married, to a Venda lady, and GT and I are convinced that it was a conscious decision by him to marry someone from his tribe. The conversation then quickly offramps into how South African ladies are not impressed with pedi guys and the close relationships they maintain with their moms, bo mma, which GT tries to defend.The conversation then naturally progresses towards finding out how is our newly married friend, H, finding marriage. I think by now you are getting used to H, his answer is nothing like what you will hear from the Naked DJ on AskAMan. Let me just say, Mjolo has never sounded this philosophical before. Thereafter, H provides a much needed segue into our first topic of the day, females in sports broadcasting, The topic comes after an episode of the Unklipped with Tats Nkonzo that we watched on Youtube, where he sat down with the 3 queens of sports broadcasting in the country. This conversation takes different twists and turns, including the discussion of the inclination by different genders towards different careers fields, men and women relations, how our respective human experiences shape our outlook of life, and other related topics.From this discussion about, how evolutionary biology may have influenced the number of females who are interested in sports versus men, H then draws an analogy between the way evolution can influence the decision-making process of people, and the failures of the ANC government as a liberation movement, and their complacency when the struggle was finally over. I know this kind of an analogy may sound like a bit of a stretch, but it worked somehow. He then closes off his argument with a rather “half empty glass” conclusion, which he uses various claims to support. H’s arguments, and what may seem to many like pessimism, are interwoven with the theories of the famous French political philosopher, Frantz Fanon around what he refers to as national consciousness. You can check out AudioBook Masters SA channel on Youtube, where you can get to hear H expanding on these kind of ideas.And then later in the recording, you will hear our conversation rudely interluded by the soundtrack. This was my best attempt at disguising the fact that H’s power got cut, mid-sentence, due to loadshedding. I mean, in this country you cannot make things like this up. Yes I know, we do sometimes struggle for some really opportune segues in our conversations, but a power cut to transit us to talk about loadshedding is not my idea of a good segue.In any case, GT and myself seized the opportunity to talk about Eskom and loadshedding. GT makes an argument based on an accusation made recently by Julius Malema about the deliberate attempts by the ANC government to destroy Eskom in order to be able to sell off to private ownership, which is an argument that is gaining some serious momentum in the country. Although I do not totally disagree with the possibility of this being the case, I challenge GT, and many others who share these sentiments to consider whether the failures of the ANC may be purely due to their incompetence.

