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Survivor South Africa winner Rob Bentele lost 16kg in 39 days on a TV island. Now he’s the DA’s mayoral candidate for uMhlathuze, the Richards Bay municipality, fighting in what he calls Zuma’s backyard with security around him at all times.
Can a Zulu-speaking, half-Austrian outsider who has never sat as a councillor take the city from MK and the IFP? What does he say he’ll do if he loses?
Bentele tells us how his mother was jailed for loving his father under apartheid, and how his grandmother died still waiting for the road and water she was promised in 1994. He describes how he says tenders really get won behind closed doors. He also explains how he beat councillors with 15 years’ experience on points to become the mayoral candidate.
He also explains why he calls the Richards Bay port the main economic artery of South Africa. He holds nothing back on MK, the IFP or the ANC.
Chapters
00:00 Cold open: “I will risk my life” for this city
01:33 Zulu, Austrian, and not a politician
02:24 A marriage apartheid made illegal
05:24 Grandmother’s 1994 promise, still a gravel road
07:09 How tenders really work, according to Rob
07:56 Why he signed up for Survivor
12:04 16kg gone in 39 days: was it real?
14:37 Winning Survivor and fan favourite
16:45 Always DA, and the education sabotage claim
19:06 From food parcels to fighting the cause
21:38 A mentor’s death opens the mayoral race
23:46 Beating veteran councillors on points
24:51 Richards Bay: Africa’s deepest natural port
27:20 The R85bn gas and power plan
28:44 43% of SA’s commodities through one port
30:24 Mayor or nothing: the deputy mayor question
31:07 MK, state capture and the Austrian passport
32:16 The 42-vote win he wants to copy
33:43 Months to approve a building plan
34:43 Assassination risk in Zuma’s backyard
36:16 Fix your home before you fix the country
38:06 How a Zulu-speaking DA candidate plans to win
40:59 The Zulu war cry
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