Early Breakfast with Africa Melane
Oct 19, 2026 · 6 min · 5 segments
A national shutdown has been called for today, 19 October, by Concerned Citizens of South Africa, with organisers urging workers and learners to stay home in protest against rising fuel prices. The…
Africa MelaneHost
What sort of response are you anticipating today from your call for a national shutdown?
And also to hear the government response to the memorandum that we have already sent to him and to various other officials that we sent on the 10th of October.
There are a lot of things that we detailed there as our demands, but if I can maybe highlight one or two of those things.
We were demanding that the fuel price should be cut at least by 50% and also to make sure that levels like RAF and others that we see that it is only or they are only sponsoring corruption in this country, the way in which they are handled We are saying those taxes or levies should be cut from the petrol price that we are paying in different fuel stations.
And also we are calling for government and other leaders in Africa to ensure that they must take the Intercontinental Energy Corporation.
Because as ordinary citizens, we do not understand how are we affected by what is happening in Iran, whereas we have a number of countries in Africa who are producing oil.
Why are we not trading with those countries? Maybe, at a certain stage, we can pay 600 per litre in fuel.

What sort of response are you anticipating today from your call for a national shutdown?
And also to hear the government response to the memorandum that we have already sent to him and to various other officials that we sent on the 10th of October.
There are a lot of things that we detailed there as our demands, but if I can maybe highlight one or two of those things.
We were demanding that the fuel price should be cut at least by 50% and also to make sure that levels like RAF and others that we see that it is only or they are only sponsoring corruption in this country, the way in which they are handled We are saying those taxes or levies should be cut from the petrol price that we are paying in different fuel stations.
And also we are calling for government and other leaders in Africa to ensure that they must take the Intercontinental Energy Corporation.
Because as ordinary citizens, we do not understand how are we affected by what is happening in Iran, whereas we have a number of countries in Africa who are producing oil.
Why are we not trading with those countries? Maybe, at a certain stage, we can pay 600 per litre in fuel.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.