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Power FM show recaps — locl
Every show on Power FM, recapped daily by locl: what each episode actually covered, minutes after it ends. Generated from the broadcast transcript and cited to the minute at https://locl.co.za/shows.
Episodes
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Friday, 6 November 2026
With over 80 percent counted, the DA surged in the metros, the ANC still led nationally but slipped, and more than 80 hung councils point to coalition talks.
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Friday, 6 November 2026
Day-two counting was dominated by the DA's strong showing and the ANC's likely loss of control in key metros, with coalition talks starting and Zuma-Sambudla's…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Friday, 6 November 2026
Friday's coverage centred on local government election results, with the ANC's national share sliding to around 31 percent and coalition negotiations looming…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Up — Friday, 6 November 2026
Local government election results dominated Power Up's Friday show, with the SACP's surprise early Eastern Cape showing, calls for caution on preliminary…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Zone — Friday, 6 November 2026
Election-night talk centred on the ANC's sliding vote share, with analysts weighing coalitions and the party's future, alongside Dangote's regional fuel…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Live from the Results Operations Centre, the episode tracked early local government results, a slipping ANC, DA gains in the metros, and coalition talks ahead…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Business — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Election results dominated the evening, with the IEC warning that partial counts remain provisional and collation should finish by the weekend, alongside…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Drive — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Local government results night from Midrand, dominated by the ANC's sliding vote share, a disrupted Northern Cape count, and early talk of coalitions across…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Vote counting dominated the hour as the ANC led nationally on about 32 percent, while callers and host Kwena Moabelo debated voter education and his 'stupid'…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Early results and party projections dominated, led by the DA's claim of a first-ever million black voters, a 14.5 million turnout, and a slow count with final…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Election-count day dominated this Power Breakfast, with early metro leads and a 14.5 million turnout, alongside a fuel levy cut that offers little relief at…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Up — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Local government election fallout dominated this episode, with IEC ballot-theft concerns, US midterm results and Bafana's disputed World Cup payouts also…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Zone — Thursday, 5 November 2026
Election-night episode of Power Zone tracked the first local government results, a listeners' roundtable on service delivery, and what a Democratic US midterm…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Local government polls closed with about 12 million ballots cast, while the show also tracked South Africa's AGOA exclusion and billions of rand spent on…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Business — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election-day coverage dominated Power Business, with IEC turnout and counting details, then a panel on how weak municipal services and governance hold back…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Drive — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election day dominated the afternoon, with early turnout figures, queue and ballot problems at voting stations, and South Africa's looming loss of US trade…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election-day coverage on Power Lunch focused on early turnout figures, confusion over ballot papers, and an IEC response to an incident at a voting station…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Local government election day dominated the show, with the US midterm rebuke for Trump and Tshwane's fragile water recovery as the other main stories.
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election day on Power Breakfast, shaped by voting-station hiccups, special-vote arrests, a court setback for the national lottery licence, and a warning about…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Up — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election day coverage was dominated by the US decision to end South Africa's AGOA trade access from January 2027, alongside a Human Rights Commission report on…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Zone — Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election-day morning on Power Zone, with security and IEC assurances, Cosatu blaming lobby groups for the US trade fallout, and a debate over spoiling ballots…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Election eve on Power Perspective: campaign-deadline warnings, a slow special-vote turnout, and a court ruling against the Sizekaya lottery licence dominated…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Business — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Election-eve edition dominated by special voting closing and South Africa's loss of preferential US trade access under AGOA, with local government polls set…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Drive — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Election-eve episode dominated by the US move to drop South Africa from AGOA, a Rand Water pumping failure threatening six municipalities, and a sharp rise in…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Election-eve episode of POWER Lunch, dominated by voter-apathy debate and fallout from the US move to end AGOA trade preferences, with Joburg and…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Election-eve episode dominated by the US decision to remove South Africa from AGOA, with callers split on the fallout and debate over MK party governance and…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Special voting ran ahead of Wednesday's local elections, while the US moved to cut South Africa from AGOA and a Pretoria court invalidated the Sizekaya lottery…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Up — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Election-eve episode on the youth vote and education quality, with the Electoral Commission's readiness and a looming US trade cut-off for South Africa also in…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Zone — Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Local-election talk dominated Power Zone, with the US move to remove South Africa from AGOA and two special-voting incidents standing out alongside a…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Monday, 2 November 2026
The show was dominated by the US decision to remove South Africa from AGOA, ICASA's proposed biometric SIM rules, and the start of special voting before the…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Business — Monday, 2 November 2026
Trade and fuel dominated the evening, with the US moving to suspend South Africa from AGOA and motorists due for petrol and diesel relief from Wednesday.
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Drive — Monday, 2 November 2026
Special voting dominated the episode, with a presiding officer's death in Mahikeng, Cape Town station delays, and Johannesburg's slow water recovery.
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Monday, 2 November 2026
Special voting for the local government elections dominated Power Lunch on Monday, 2 November, alongside a water crisis in Hammanskraal and a new poll showing…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Monday, 2 November 2026
Election-week edition dominated by the start of special voting, election-related crime figures and a looming US trade decision, with Tshwane's water-linked…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Monday, 2 November 2026
Monday's Power Breakfast centred on a planned Gauteng school bus shutdown over unpaid invoices, alongside election-eve coverage and a crackdown on liquor…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Up — Monday, 2 November 2026
Election week dominated this Power Up episode, covering special voting, the IEC's reprinted ballot papers after a court ruling, a new Ipsos poll showing ANC…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Zone — Monday, 2 November 2026
Election-week politics dominated this Monday Power Zone, with Bronkhorstspruit water contamination, a contested Hawks appointment and Gauteng's gender-based…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Sunday — Sunday, 1 November 2026
Sunday's Power Perspective guest spoke about leaving the priesthood, the value of education and staying hopeful, before the show's Zambia feature on Roots…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Week — Sunday, 1 November 2026
Ahead of next week's local government elections, the show focused on rising cost of living, MKP turmoil, a major asset freeze, and Gauteng's gender-based…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Friday, 30 October 2026
A music-heavy Power Weekend Friday that also covered a Zoe restaurant booking scam warning, a listener debate over when adults become older adults, and a…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Drive — Friday, 30 October 2026
Court drama dominated this Power Drive episode, from Johnson and Khan's bail to Suliman Carrim's bail breach and new March and March marching limits, ahead of…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Friday, 30 October 2026
Power Lunch on Friday was dominated by the March and March protest interdict fight in the Durban High Court and the court appearances of former IDAC head…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Friday, 30 October 2026
Friday's show centred on the proposed appointment of KwaZulu-Natal's police commissioner to head the Hawks, with callers weighing in on the Madlanga fallout…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Friday, 30 October 2026
Friday's POWER Breakfast was dominated by the Hawks leadership recommendation and a court interdict on March and March protests, with an SSA trial involving…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Up — Friday, 30 October 2026
Friday's show covered a R99 million asset freeze linked to a Mpumalanga taxi boss, taxi violence in Cape Town, SAA's government-backed funding route, and the…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Zone — Friday, 30 October 2026
Friday's POWER Zone led with a deadly surge in Cape Town taxi violence, then covered court cases in Gauteng and Johannesburg and US sanctions on Rwanda, with…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Thursday, 29 October 2026
Election-week episode dominated by an open-line and expert debate on township overcrowding, alongside a SARS raid on Tshwane's chief financial officer and a…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Business — Thursday, 29 October 2026
Unrest and a Durban court interdict dominated, alongside a 5.3% upward GDP revision and stalling efforts to reform public transport and the taxi industry.
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Drive — Thursday, 29 October 2026
A R99 million asset restraint against a taxi boss, US sanctions on Rwanda's defence ministry and a Durban protest interdict dominated Thursday's Power Drive.
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Thursday, 29 October 2026
A bid to remove the suspended police minister, SAA's February deadline for a strategic partner, and a Soweto teacher's rape case dominated Power Lunch…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Thursday, 29 October 2026
Unrest over anti-migrant marches in Durban and a Soweto teacher's rape case dominated, with a Junior Mining Council warning that illegal mining networks remain…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Thursday, 29 October 2026
Power Breakfast on Thursday 29 October centred on the suspended police minister's paid leave costs, a looming NSFAS funding deadline, and a water polo…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Up — Thursday, 29 October 2026
Thursday's Power Up leaned into economics, from a construction-contractor blacklisting crackdown and shrinking maize plantings to fuel relief and rising child…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Zone — Thursday, 29 October 2026
Five days before the local elections, the show focused on the killings of candidates, the IEC's new results centre, and a debate over whether South Africans…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Perspective — Wednesday, 28 October 2026
A panel-heavy episode weighing the Khampepe Commission's apartheid-era prosecutions probe, a near R70 billion contract-extension controversy, and a teacher…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Business — Wednesday, 28 October 2026
A week before the local government elections, the IEC readied its results centre and police tightened security, while SAA's staggered salaries and Russia's…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Drive — Wednesday, 28 October 2026
Water shortages dominated the afternoon, with Melville and other Johannesburg suburbs going about 10 days without reliable supply, alongside election-related…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Lunch — Wednesday, 28 October 2026
Suliman Carrim's R100,000 bail dominated the afternoon, alongside a Cape Town land-sale interdict, SARS garnishee rules and a drowning warning, with listener…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Talk — Wednesday, 28 October 2026
Mondli Makhanya's Wednesday show, seven days before the local elections, covered a Johannesburg wage dispute, Morocco overtaking South Africa on investment, a…
Power FM show recaps — loclPOWER Breakfast — Wednesday, 28 October 2026
Wednesday's POWER Breakfast covered Israel's too-close-to-call election, a crackdown that blacklisted 75 contractors, new SARS garnishee rules, and disruption…