If you missed the Mail & Guardian Newsroom show on 2oceansvibe Radio, don’t dispair.

We have the podcast of this week’s Mail & Guardian Newsroom show for your analytical pleasure. Feel free to listen on the page, or download for later listening.

In this week’s show, Nickolaus Bauer and Verashni Pillay talked about the fifth Brics (Brazil, Russia, India and China and South Africa) Summit that takes place in Durban this week, and we look at the importance of the event for South Africa’s economic and diplomatic future.

Elsewhere, there have been renewed calls for the axing of Communications Minister Dina Pule over allegations that her boyfriend Phosane Mnqibisa runs her ministry from his offices in Sandton where he dishes out tenders and high-level positions in state institutions.

We look into what it will take for Pule to lose her job.

Other hot topics this week included top cop General Riah Phiyega’s evasive testimony about the Marikana massacre, and Julius Malema losing his Polokwane farm to pay off his R16-million tax bill.

In arts and culture news, there is a tribute to deceased Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe and the latest in tech news, courtesy of our resident nerd, Faranaaz Parker.