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In this week’s show, Nickolaus Bauer and Verashni Pillay were joined by M&G online news editor Adrian Ephraim to talknabout the tragic SANDF deployment to the CAR – one of the biggest stories on the national agenda at the moment. They looked at the politics of withdrawing our soldiers, as well as defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s disastrous statements in parliament last week.

M&G editor in chief Nic Dawes was invited on to the show, and had some choice words for journalists covering the story.

In arts news our correspondent at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, Mpho Matheolane, told us about the best and worst of this premier music event, and what it was like meeting his hip hop hero, MF Doom.

In Silicone Alley with Alistair Fairweather the team chatted through Facebook’s latest trojan horse, Facebook Home.

And in this week’s Weekly Choon, Kanye West’s Heartless was dedicated to our Defence Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for her comments that SA troops under attack from child soldiers had to defend themselves and couldn’t “give sweeties and blow kisses.”

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