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The Gareth Cliff Show

The Gareth Cliff Show

The Gareth Cliff Show is a leading, truly independent digital broadcast in South Africa, currently airing live on Fridays (formerly on The Real Network and CliffCentral), hosted by Gareth Cliff alongside regular and guest contributors. The aim is to entertain, inform, inspire and empower local and international audiences with powerful interviews, hot-takes on current affairs, talk about the things nobody else talks about and make people laugh, smile and think.

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    Today · 1 hr 6 min

    #GCSLIVE | MARKETS| AI SCAMS|THE COMMENTS SECTION |STORIES FROM ASS & WHAT’S THEMBA ROBIN UP TO? PART 3

    Part 3 In this show you get two hours on money, AI scams, the law and some of the strangest stories of the week. The lineup covered the markets, stablecoins, voice-cloning fraud, domestic worker rights and Themba Robin’s latest plans. Themba Robin closes the show with what he’s heading to China to do, and why he’s now training for a marathon. Also Part 1 of a 3 part series on Cohesion X and why you should be excited about what they are doing in the world of AI. Throughout the show, the Giving It Gas Award pays R500, or a R500 voucher from The Gas Company, to the best comment in the live chat. Its CEO, Brett Cohen, joins monthly as Commenter-in-Chief to crown the winners. Join the conversation on #GCSLIVE, live every Friday morning.

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    Today · 38 min

    #GCSLIVE | MARKETS| AI SCAMS|THE COMMENTS SECTION |STORIES FROM ASS & WHAT’S THEMBA ROBIN UP TO? PART 2

    Part 2 In this show you get two hours on money, AI scams, the law and some of the strangest stories of the week. The lineup covered the markets, stablecoins, voice-cloning fraud, domestic worker rights and Themba Robin’s latest plans. TD Markets trading educators Tshepo Makaodi and Ashley Reeve break down where the markets stand: The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates again on 16 September 2026. The rand has weakened from R15.92 to R16.60 against the US dollar. Oil has slipped back below $100 a barrel, and they explain why that doesn’t change the fuel price overnight. Bitcoin has strengthened through the second half of 2026. They also explain stablecoins and the future of money. You’ll hear what a stablecoin is, how USD-backed stablecoins give South Africans another way to hold and move dollar value, whether they could replace the rand or threaten the banks, and whether they protect you from inflation. @TDMarkets Instagram.com/tdmarkets TDMarkets Facebook.com/tdmarkets TDMarkets Linkedin.com/company/tdmarkets TDMarkets Youtube.com/@tdmarkets AskMandla CEO Peter Adolphs and Chief Legal Officer Janine Kane-Berman answer the questions every South African household should be asking about employing a domestic worker: Does UIF apply if she only works once a week? What happens if she is injured at home, and how do COIDA and the Compensation Fund protect her? Do you pay sick leave when she messages at 6:15am to say she’s ill? Does she really need a payslip if you pay by EFT? AskMandla is the WhatsApp-first platform that helps households manage contracts, payroll, payslips and UIF. Listeners put their own questions to Peter and Janine live in the chat. Also if you go to https://askmandla.com/garethcliff/ you get your first 6 months subscription FREE Throughout the show, the Giving It Gas Award pays R500, or a R500 voucher from The Gas Company, to the best comment in the live chat. Its CEO, Brett Cohen, joins monthly as Commenter-in-Chief to crown the winners. Join the conversation on #GCSLIVE, live every Friday morning.

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    Today · 50 min

    #GCSLIVE | MARKETS| AI SCAMS|THE COMMENTS SECTION |STORIES FROM ASS & WHAT’S THEMBA ROBIN UP TO? PART 1

    Part 1 In this show you get two hours on money, AI scams, the law and some of the strangest stories of the week. The lineup covered the markets, stablecoins, voice-cloning fraud, domestic worker rights and Themba Robin’s latest plans. ASS kicks off the morning with stories including Sweden’s “Introvert Travel Agency”, the most isolated place on Earth, and seven workplace solvents linked to Parkinson’s disease. Lloyd Matthews, founder of Untapped AI, returns to explain AI voice fraud and why a scam call can now sound exactly like your bank, your boss or your child. He covers: How little audio a criminal needs to clone a voice. His patented “Shazam for scam calls” technology, which recognises AI voices and flags them before anyone loses money. Why AI agents will soon need to verify each other’s identity. Why he built sovereign South African AI on local servers, under POPIA. What every family can do today: set a family safe word, hang up and call back on a saved number, and never share a PIN or OTP with a caller. https://www.untappedai.co.za/ +27 83 500 0847 Throughout the show, the Giving It Gas Award pays R500, or a R500 voucher from The Gas Company, to the best comment in the live chat. Its CEO, Brett Cohen, joins monthly as Commenter-in-Chief to crown the winners. Join the conversation on #GCSLIVE, live every Friday morning.

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    Today · 2 hr 35 min

    #GCSLIVE | MARKETS| AI SCAMS|THE COMMENTS SECTION |STORIES FROM ASS & WHAT’S THEMBA ROBIN UP TO?

    In this show you get two hours on money, AI scams, the law and some of the strangest stories of the week. The lineup covered the markets, stablecoins, voice-cloning fraud, domestic worker rights and Themba Robin’s latest plans. ASS kicks off the morning with stories including Sweden’s “Introvert Travel Agency”, the most isolated place on Earth, and seven workplace solvents linked to Parkinson’s disease. Lloyd Matthews, founder of Untapped AI, returns to explain AI voice fraud and why a scam call can now sound exactly like your bank, your boss or your child. He covers: How little audio a criminal needs to clone a voice. His patented “Shazam for scam calls” technology, which recognises AI voices and flags them before anyone loses money. Why AI agents will soon need to verify each other’s identity. Why he built sovereign South African AI on local servers, under POPIA. What every family can do today: set a family safe word, hang up and call back on a saved number, and never share a PIN or OTP with a caller. https://www.untappedai.co.za/ +27 83 500 0847 TD Markets trading educators Tshepo Makaodi and Ashley Reeve break down where the markets stand: The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates again on 16 September 2026. The rand has weakened from R15.92 to R16.60 against the US dollar. Oil has slipped back below $100 a barrel, and they explain why that doesn’t change the fuel price overnight. Bitcoin has strengthened through the second half of 2026. They also explain stablecoins and the future of money. You’ll hear what a stablecoin is, how USD-backed stablecoins give South Africans another way to hold and move dollar value, whether they could replace the rand or threaten the banks, and whether they protect you from inflation. @TDMarkets Instagram.com/tdmarkets TDMarkets Facebook.com/tdmarkets TDMarkets Linkedin.com/company/tdmarkets TDMarkets Youtube.com/@tdmarkets AskMandla CEO Peter Adolphs and Chief Legal Officer Janine Kane-Berman answer the questions every South African household should be asking about employing a domestic worker: Does UIF apply if she only works once a week? What happens if she is injured at home, and how do COIDA and the Compensation Fund protect her? Do you pay sick leave when she messages at 6:15am to say she’s ill? Does she really need a payslip if you pay by EFT? AskMandla is the WhatsApp-first platform that helps households manage contracts, payroll, payslips and UIF. Listeners put their own questions to Peter and Janine live in the chat. Also if you go to https://askmandla.com/garethcliff/ you get your first 6 months subscription FREE Themba Robin closes the show with what he’s heading to China to do, and why he’s now training for a marathon. Throughout the show, the Giving It Gas Award pays R500, or a R500 voucher from The Gas Company, to the best comment in the live chat. Its CEO, Brett Cohen, joins monthly as Commenter-in-Chief to crown the winners. Join the conversation on #GCSLIVE, live every Friday morning.

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    October 2 · 2 hr 11 min

    #GCSLIVE | Penny Balfour: Bad People Come In Every Gender | Africa's First Micro-Drama App | Cohesion X

    Gareth Cliff and Ben Karpinski dig into the latest in news and sport, including the bizarre story of Christa Pike, the woman who survived execution twice. Penny Balfour joins the show to tackle one of South Africa's hottest topics, GBV, and why bad people aren't confined to one gender. Andre Strauss from CohesionX jumps on to talk all things AI, including some new developments he and his team are working on. And actor and app owner Hlomla Dandala explains how he's changing broadcasting with an app, and why he believes traditional media has lost its way.

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    September 25 · 1 hr 15 min

    #GCSLIVE| AFTER THE BRAAI, BEFORE THE HANDSHAKE| MASH IS BACK| KANTHAN PILLAY JOINS THE CONVERSATION Part 2

    Part 2 On today's Gareth Cliff Show, political commentator and Capitalist Party founder Kanthan Pillay joins Gareth for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from global politics to home turf — alternate views on South Africa's political landscape and what's really at stake as the country heads toward its local government elections. Honest, wide-ranging and typically GCS — this one's worth your time.

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    September 25 · 2 hr 16 min

    #GCSLIVE| AFTER THE BRAAI, BEFORE THE HANDSHAKE| MASH IS BACK| KANTHAN PILLAY JOINS THE CONVERSATION

    On today's Gareth Cliff Show, we catch up with Masheane "Mash" Sefuthi on life, love and the little things that matter — from saving hedgehogs and decluttering your space, to breaking old habits and the honest state of everyday life in South Africa right now. Then political commentator and Capitalist Party founder Kanthan Pillay joins Gareth for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from global politics to home turf — alternate views on South Africa's political landscape and what's really at stake as the country heads toward its local government elections. Honest, wide-ranging and typically GCS — this one's worth your time.

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    September 18 · 1 hr 50 min

    #GCSLIVE| SCAMMERS BEWARE! AND THE FIGHT FOR THE CAPITAL| LEIGH ANN AND CILLIERS BRINK

    Gareth and Leigh Ann kick off with stories about Damon and Leigh Ann's first meeting with Sam Cowan — plus the comments section weighs in, as always. Then, Jarrett Booysen, founder of SEQFLO, joins the show to talk about how getting scammed out of thousands of rands led him to build a secure digital trust platform for private online transactions. Finally, Cilliers Brink of the DA returns to the show, sharing his advice for voters ahead of the November 2026 local government elections and his campaign to become Tshwane's mayor again.

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    September 11 · 1 hr 6 min

    #GCSLIVE| ISLAND LIFE, BABOONS & 91 YEARS OF STORIES| BEN’S BACK FROM PARADISE | WE CELEBRATE KATE TURKINGTON Part 1

    Part 1 Ben and Gareth kick off with travel talk about the world's most beautiful places — including Mauritius — before Ben gets hilariously specific about saving South Africa's baboons, sparking a comments section pile-on. Anine and Hanna join the conversation to challenge Gareth and the comments section on baboon conservation, landing on an uncomfortable but fair conclusion: maybe people are the real problem, not the baboons.

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    September 11 · 2 hr 4 min

    #GCSLIVE| ISLAND LIFE, BABOONS & 91 YEARS OF STORIES| BEN’S BACK FROM PARADISE | WE CELEBRATE KATE TURKINGTON

    Ben and Gareth kick off with travel talk about the world's most beautiful places — including Mauritius — before Ben gets hilariously specific about saving South Africa's baboons, sparking a comments section pile-on. Anine and Hanna join the conversation to challenge Gareth and the comments section on baboon conservation, landing on an uncomfortable but fair conclusion: maybe people are the real problem, not the baboons. Then, South African travel broadcasting legend Kate Turkington joins the show to celebrate her 92nd birthday — sharing a lifetime of stories about travel, men, dogs, and everything in between.

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    September 8 · 2 hr 11 min

    Gareth Cliff & Gord Laws | Ayahuasca, Near-Death Stories & Fixing Democracy

    Gareth tells Gord about the time he did ayahuasca, which naturally spirals into a full swap-meet of near-death experiences and "was that God or just my brain running out of oxygen" moments. Somewhere in there, Gord casually mentions he's sitting on a voting system that could fix democracy, as one does. Then it gets properly philosophical: what happiness actually is, why intelligence and love make being alive so unnecessarily complicated, and the one piece of advice that might actually save your attention span, keep your eyes on what you're building, not on your phone. Heavy stuff, delivered the way only these two can.

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    September 4 · 1 hr 58 min

    #GCSLIVE| FLYOVERS, PAYWALLS & TUPAC| GARETH FROM MALTA AND BEN FROM HIS COUCH

    Gareth live from Malta with the incredible Team from Tourvest. He talks to Ben about Flyovers and why Fortune favours the Brave and the conversation gets interesting. We talk to a few of the Tourvest Team and all their exciting plans and what they have been doing in Malta And of course the comments section is on fire.

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    August 28 · 1 hr 6 min

    #GCSLIVE |SA POLITICS, LOYAL FANS & DOMESTIC WORKERS| LEIGH ANN MOL | ANDRE FARO | ASK MANDLA Part 3

    Part 3 Also joining the conversation is radio host Andre Faro—find him at @commonsense-SA and @therealandrefaro—for an open, entertaining discussion about South African politics, becoming better people, and everything in between. Expect honest perspectives, big laughs, practical insights, and meaningful conversations on current affairs, community, personal growth, and life in South Africa.

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    August 28 · 2 hr 23 min

    #GCSLIVE |SA POLITICS, LOYAL FANS & DOMESTIC WORKERS| LEIGH ANN MOL | ANDRE FARO | ASK MANDLA

    In this episode, Gareth and Leigh Ann unpack the Lunar Eclipse, play a lively round of Would You Rather, and pay tribute to the legendary Dolly Parton. They’re joined by Peter Adolphs, Co-founder and CEO of AskMandla, to discuss how the platform connects domestic workers and households, why it matters, and how both employers and domestic professionals can benefit. Learn more at askmandla.com. Also joining the conversation is radio host Andre Faro—find him at @commonsense-SA and @therealandrefaro—for an open, entertaining discussion about South African politics, becoming better people, and everything in between. Expect honest perspectives, big laughs, practical insights, and meaningful conversations on current affairs, community, personal growth, and life in South Africa.

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