John Robbie's Comment
John's daily opinion on something going on in the world around us.Podcasts
Is South Africas political situation so bad that it poses a global risk?
Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 7:24 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
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The problem with matric results
Published: Jan. 4, 2017, 7:33 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds
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Are we doing our children any favours with a 20% concession?
Published: Jan. 3, 2017, 7:32 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 8 seconds
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Should inmates be allowed cellphones in prison?
Published: Dec. 29, 2016, 9:05 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
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World Anti-Corruption Day
Published: Dec. 9, 2016, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds
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John is back from the UK
Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 8:19 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 43 seconds
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Can Speed Limits Really Apply to All? ( S.GROOTES)
Published: Dec. 7, 2016, 7:29 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds
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Wits Fees go up 8% ( S.Grootes)
Published: Dec. 6, 2016, 7:56 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
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Municipalities Fight new Owners
Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 8:35 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
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Does Anyone Pay Tolls?( S.Grootes)
Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 8:07 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
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South Africa has alternatives
Published: Dec. 1, 2016, 8:42 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds
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Education failing its Students
Published: Nov. 30, 2016, 7:38 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 54 seconds
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Leadership Starts Now ( S.Grootes )
Published: Nov. 28, 2016, 7:54 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
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COSATU Backs Ramaphosa
Published: Nov. 25, 2016, 8:21 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
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Another Top Cop in the Line of Fire ( S.Grootes)
Published: Nov. 24, 2016, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
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The Key Word is Freedom( S.Grootes)
Published: Nov. 23, 2016, 7:53 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
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Land Claim Delays ( S.Grootes)
Published: Nov. 22, 2016, 8:06 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds
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Could the veterans wise words appeal to Zumas conscience?
Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 8:11 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds
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The Value of Social Events
Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 8:06 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds
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No progress on posters
Published: Nov. 16, 2016, 8:17 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Julius gone too far
Published: Nov. 15, 2016, 8:19 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds
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The State of Change
Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 8:26 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
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Discipline is the glue that holds the ANC together
Published: Nov. 11, 2016, 8:10 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds
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Flash Floods Cause Havoc
Published: Nov. 10, 2016, 8:33 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
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The Checks and Balances Against Excess
Published: Nov. 4, 2016, 8:07 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds
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The Final Leg of the Journey?
Published: Nov. 3, 2016, 8:12 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
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So why did NPA want to prosecute PG?
Published: Nov. 1, 2016, 8:11 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds
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The imminent rise of the inner city
Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 8:17 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 24 seconds
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A lesson from Iceland on effective protest
Published: Oct. 27, 2016, 8:43 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
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What if PG spilled the beans?
Published: Oct. 26, 2016, 8:01 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
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Freedom of speech
Published: Oct. 25, 2016, 8:12 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds
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A Tale of Two Cities
Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 7:58 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds
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Where is the compromise?
Published: Oct. 21, 2016, 8:38 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 6 seconds
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Sympathy is an important ingredient
Published: Oct. 20, 2016, 7:57 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
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Stats show the informal sector as a solution
Published: Oct. 18, 2016, 8:31 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
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FMF needs regrouping
Published: Oct. 17, 2016, 7:57 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
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The Interdict and the Report
Published: Oct. 14, 2016, 8:11 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 24 seconds
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Cricket gets a win
Published: Oct. 13, 2016, 7:44 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 23 seconds
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Its not just factionalism
Published: Oct. 12, 2016, 8:32 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
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SAPS: professional peacekeepers or brutal bullies?
Published: Oct. 12, 2016, 3:33 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
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Boks lose to All Blacks...once again
Published: Oct. 10, 2016, 7:51 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
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The Good and the Bad of the CBD
Published: Oct. 7, 2016, 8:04 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds
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General Assembly called at Wits
Published: Oct. 6, 2016, 8:38 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds
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At the root of all the anger
Published: Oct. 5, 2016, 8:07 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds
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Who should the buck stop with?
Published: Sept. 28, 2016, 7:52 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
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The Initial Question Remains
Published: Sept. 27, 2016, 8:04 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 3 seconds
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Happy Birthday Ma Winnie
Published: Sept. 26, 2016, 7:47 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 3 seconds
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Vote with your people, not just your party
Published: Sept. 23, 2016, 8:14 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds
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Joburg CBD Still worthy of being on the map
Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 8:52 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds
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Zuma speaks at the United Nations General Assembly
Published: Sept. 21, 2016, 7:51 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds
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Its all about Priorities
Published: Sept. 20, 2016, 7:52 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 1 second
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Boks crushed by the All Blacks
Published: Sept. 19, 2016, 8:15 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds
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Just Who is Richard Mdluli?
Published: Sept. 16, 2016, 8:15 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes
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This is how you build a nation
Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 7:59 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds
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Where in education should we focus?
Published: Sept. 14, 2016, 8:04 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds
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Where are the young Leaders of Today?
Published: Sept. 13, 2016, 7:49 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 54 seconds
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What are we waiting for?
Published: Sept. 12, 2016, 7:50 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
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There are no good Reasons
Published: Sept. 9, 2016, 7:47 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds
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When theres a Will, Theres a Wade
Published: Sept. 8, 2016, 8:33 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds
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First Impressions Matter but so Second and Third Ones
Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 7:47 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
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Its All Coming Together now
Published: Sept. 5, 2016, 8:52 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds
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The bland flavour of Cyril Ramaphosa....
Published: Sept. 2, 2016, 8:57 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
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We need a way to deal with efficiency
Published: Sept. 1, 2016, 9:16 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes
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We need a hairvolution
Published: Aug. 31, 2016, 9:06 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
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How your CEO can help create more jobs for youth
Published: Aug. 29, 2016, 9:04 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds
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Good Luck Mkhwebane
Published: Aug. 25, 2016, 8:16 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 3 seconds
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What are the Boks doing wrong?
Published: Aug. 22, 2016, 8:57 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds
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Bertelsmann leaves Bench after 16 years
Published: Aug. 19, 2016, 8:16 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
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Road Trip for all!
Published: Aug. 18, 2016, 8:11 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds
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Race Relations in SA
Published: Aug. 17, 2016, 8:17 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
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Marikana...4 years on
Published: Aug. 16, 2016, 8:13 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds
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Wayde did us proud!
Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 8:01 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
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South Africa is still a democracy
Published: Aug. 12, 2016, 8:29 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
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What the Commission Can Achieve
Published: Aug. 11, 2016, 7:57 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds
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Leadership being questioned
Published: Aug. 10, 2016, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
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Gender parity still a struggle for many women in the workplace
Published: Aug. 9, 2016, 8:41 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds
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Lest we forget Khwezi...
Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 9:12 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 3 seconds
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The people have spoken!!
Published: Aug. 5, 2016, 8:19 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
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Putting our difference aside
Published: Aug. 4, 2016, 8:56 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
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Symbolism of the 1994 vote
Published: Aug. 3, 2016, 8:45 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
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The reform of Khuboni
Published: Aug. 2, 2016, 8:49 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds
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Why the youth must go out and cast their vote...
Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 8:17 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
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