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  • Death of the South African Post Office (Part 3)

    July 6, 2026 · 29 min

    How did it all go wrong? Former South African Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tells Peter Bruce is this final episode of their three-part series of his stewardship of the Post Office how he tried to take on local courier companies and had been…

  • Death of the Post Office (Part 2)

    June 29, 2026 · 46 min

    Former South African Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tell Peter Bruce, in the second episode of their three-part Podcasts From the Edge Special, what he found when he first walked into his office at Post Office headquarters in Pretoria in…

  • Death of the Post Office (Part 1)

    June 22, 2026 · 32 min

    Listen in as banker, financier, entrepreneur and former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes tells Peter Bruce the story of his appointment as CEO of the South African Post Office in 2016, its recovery from constant State bail-outs and and his…

  • Cyril, a plodder by day and a cowboy in the dark?

    May 13, 2026 · 37 min

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  • Why Helen Zille is unlikely to become Johannesburg’s mayor

    April 16, 2026 · 40 min

    Business Day parliamentary reporter Tara Roos tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that, while DA leader Helen Zille may secure the most votes in Johannesburg in the upcoming local government elections, she is…

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  • How the vanities of small differences trap Africa

    April 8, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Africa’s populations are exploding. By 2050 one in 10 children born in the world will be Nigerian. Right now 29 of the world’s top national fertility rates are African. But Africans need to find new power and position in the world…

  • Cyril picks a number, any number…

    March 30, 2026 · 11 min

    President Cyril Ramaphosa will tell delegates at the Sixth South African Investment Conference this Tuesday morning that he plans to raise R2 trillion in news fixed investment over the next three years. Or five years, depending on which…

  • Can we really make money out of our police stations?

    March 25, 2026 · 52 min

    The government is planning something quite audacious and it isn’t a high speed train from Tshwane to Durban. Instead it wants to create, out of the often dishevelled mass of land and property it owns through the Department of Public Works…

  • “You have to get your hand on the steering wheel of state”

    March 18, 2026 · 46 min

    Incoming DA leader Geordin Hill Lewis says that to grow the party it is going to need the votes of people who have never voted for it before. DA members can do the math, he says. But is he comfortable that those new voters are going to…

  • Stuck in the 80s, has the ANC found the perfect adversary in Donald Trump?

    February 25, 2026 · 57 min

    Songezo Zibi, leader of Rise Mzansi and chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in Parliament, tells Peter Bruce in this wide-ranging edition of Podcasts from the Edge that the ANC and US President Donald Trump might have been…

  • Steenhuisen is just following the vaccine rules

    February 4, 2026 · 42 min

    Agriculture author and expert Wandile Sihlobo tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge that Agriculture mMinister John Steenhuisen has not option but to import foot and mouth vaccines through a centralised operation…

  • If Ramaphosa caused the navy exercise fiasco, will anyone tell us?

    January 21, 2026 · 47 min

    If the past is any guide then some middle-ranking official of officer is going to take the fall for the c**k-up at sea last week when an Iranian corvette took part in exercises off of False Bay with the South African, Chinese and Russian…

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About the show

Peter Bruce, veteran South African newspaper editor and commentator, interviews the country's social and political leaders and experts in a weekly effort to explain what is actually going on in this complicated country. Bruce's interviews are about making events easy to understand for people with little time to listen.