Fired SAPS major-general and gang specialist Jeremy Vearey talks about being vindicated by the Madlanga Commission, the cost of speaking out, and his life after the police – devoted to writing, trees, and retracing the Cape Corps through World War II – in a conversation with Anneliese Burgess.

Deputy Defence Minister Bantu Holomisa wants private capital and pension fund money to rebuild the SANDF’s crumbling barracks and bases on 500 000 hectares of military land – and this time, he tells Anneliese Burgess, there will be nothing in it for the looters.

Two weeks into the agriculture minister’s job, Willie Aucamp has settled the foot-and-mouth legal war that consumed his predecessor. He speaks to Anneliese Burgess about vaccinating 14 million cattle, on whether he is the DA’s fireman (he says he’s not), and why he refuses to say a bad word about John Steenhuisen.

Tembinkosi Bonakele built the Competition Commission’s cartel division from scratch and has now been appointed to chair the board of South Africa’s most looted regulator. He speaks to Anneliese Burgess about herding goats, studying at Fort Hare, breaking the bread cartel, and why deterrence begins with the certainty of being caught.

In an interview with Anneliese Burgess, Christo van der Rheede – the mild-mannered former music teacher now leading the FW de Klerk Foundation – emerges as a quiet disruptor challenging Trump’s false genocide claims, championing electoral reform, and fighting to keep the promise of the 1994 Constitution alive for every South African.

Geordin Hill-Lewis has been the DA leader for just over two months. He speaks to Anneliese Burgess about demoting his closest political ally, picking a fight with the FF Plus, and setting his sights on six metros as the local government election looms.

Anneliese Burgess speaks to Dr Mike Masiapato, the head of South Africa’s Border Management Authority – the very institution he helped recommend 17 years ago – about corruption, capacity constraints, and why, without serious investment in border management, the cycle of xenophobic violence is guaranteed to repeat.

With just two parliamentary seats, Rise Mzansi has quietly secured the two most powerful accountability roles in South African politics. Makashule Gana, who heads up one of those roles after securing chair of the impeachment committee, speaks about being a cattle-herding boy from a village without electricity, his 20 years in the DA before co-founding the party, and being a measured, marathon-running mathematician.

Reality star Mel Viljoen, who fled to Florida chasing the American dream, speaks to Anneliese Burgess about ending up on the cold concrete floor of an ICE detention facility – and why she came home a Democrat supporter.

Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi is on a mission to connect South Africa, whether the establishment likes it or not. He speaks to Anneliese Burgess about the lessons of a rural village, the generational shift in the DA, and loving pap and boerewors.