In this episode, Russell speaks with Dr Frans Cronje, CEO of the South African Institute of Race Relations and the Centre for Risk Analysis. He lays out his view on how ANC ideology and factionalism resolve the seeming paradox of the ANC pursuit of a lockdown strategy that is likely to damage its popular support. Frans explains why corporate South …

In this episode, RusselI speaks with Dr Jonathan Witt, an anaesthetist in South Africa’s public healthcare system, podcaster and political commentator. Jonathan brings his knowledge of the medical research to put the COVID-19 pandemic into empirical context, explains why it looks like a repeat of the H1N1 overestimation, how social media is hyping …