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What are your thoughts on KZN? The president is in Etaquini today campaigning.

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12 to 1 p.m. Now, we followed quite closely the impeachment inquiry into the Eastern Cape Judge President Mbenenge, Solbi Mbenenge.

Now, the judge who replaced him is also facing an impeachment probe because of comments he made about another judge.

Now, we followed quite closely the impeachment inquiry into the Eastern Cape judge, President Mbenenge, Solbi Mbenenge.

Now, the judge who replaced him is also facing an impeachment probe because of comments he made about another judge, Mbekezeli Benjamin.

is the Research and Advocacy Officer at Judges Matter.

What a bizarre story.

Okay, so what does this mean now for stability at the court?

Look, it does pose a risk to the stability of the Eastern Cape High Court.

As you mentioned earlier, the judge president is basically undergoing an impeachment process.

There is a vacancy for the second deputy judge president.

So that's one of the reasons.

In the previous years, we saw an improvement in, for example, the school feeding schemes in the Eastern Cape, which also improved the level of food security.

So we need to unpack then what's going on in the Northern Cape and in the Northwest provinces to really understand what's driving food insecurity and hunger in those provinces.

If I'm not mistaken, the index is in its third year.

Thank you for having me.

Zolani, you are obviously originally from the Eastern Cape.

Does that play into your mindset and your thinking when it comes to politics and voting? I

think, I mean, yes, I mean, to the extent that where you come from always makes a difference in terms of what you think and why.

The only place where anyone else is making any inroads out of those solidly ANC ones is Bumalanga.

NKP is making inroads there and that might bring the ANC back But I think if you look at provinces like the Eastern Cape, it's a vote-rich province.

So it will keep the ANC on balance even going into 2029.

So

And there is not so much about liberation loyalty so much.

I think you find a lot of that in Limpopo.

You find a lot of that in the Eastern Cape.

And coupled, obviously, with what people are saying that the ANC brought us this, the ANC brought us that.

Can you comment on coalition chaos? Yes.

You know, I'm not really like versed in a lot of like coalition because I'm just new to Johannesburg and I didn't know how it turns out to be on the ground because I'm from the Eastern Cape and in the Eastern Cape, I'm from Buffalo City, metropolitan municipality.

Buffalo City, we have a huge issue where, you know, just what's going to happen in advance when it comes to elections.

The ANC has been sure that they have a stronghold in Buffalo City for such a long time.

Where do you like to go? Yes.

Our go-to is St. Francis in the Eastern Cape, where we do a lot of water sports, jet skiing, rubber ducks, canoeing, paddling, canal cruises.

tubing and water skiing and deep sea fishing so anything to do with water i'm a water baby and an air baby which i guess is unusual

yes i suppose i suppose it would be any particular place that you've traveled to that really struck you a place you want to go again and again or maybe a place that just had an impact on you for some reason whether it was for work or for pleasure

And at the same time, I mean, this year, there were a couple of things that were difficult for the industry.

I mean, you will recall you and I talked about the floods in the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape that did weigh on some of the regions.

But now, at least, we are at a place where the folks are beginning with their harvesting looking to export.

But of course, South Africans will also be having some high quality grapes available in the market because those rains also made sure that we have a lot of water to irrigate.

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