ABOUT ME
Welcome to my website, dear reader. My name is Gavin Tucker, and I’m a South African radio presenter, author, voice artist, emcee, and podcaster. I am originally from a small town an hour south of Johannesburg. For the last two decades I have made a career in radio broadcasting. My on-air experience comprises commercial radio, community radio, satellite radio, and online radio.
Growing up, I gained the moniker “sh*t stirrer”. This isn’t because I was an upstart – though there are some who rather fervently would support that statement – but because I have always been opinionated.
The advent of podcasts and the ease with which they are made was an invitation I could not refuse. I began editing podcast programs in 2019 and started my own show in 2022 called ‘The Gavin Tucker Show’, which is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google.
This website is intended to be a space where freethought and opinion flourishes, and I created it for two reasons. Chiefly, because it made sense to have an all-encompassing website that brings together the things about which I am passionate.
Secondly, I am an ardent supporter of free speech. Even when I do not agree with your sentiments, I believe you should have the right to express your views. In long-gone years reverence was paid to freethinking pioneers and defenders of those who speak a truth, not for the sake of offense but to keep the ability to do so sacred. The great George Orwell said, “if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.
I look forward to interacting with you through my blog and on the podcast. Additionally, you’re welcome to email suggestions and topics you’d like me to discuss on the show.
PODCAST
The Gavin Tucker Show is a show hosted by Gavin Tucker, in Johannesburg, South Africa. On the podcast Gavin tackles stories headlining around the world in a no-nonsense fashion. Slaying holy cows along the way, he unpacks issues often too sensitive for mainstream radio. It’s fun, hard-hitting, opinionated and interactive! Join the debate so long by emailing the show with suggestive topics of discussion: gavin@gavintucker.com
The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and more.
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LATEST UNPOPULAR OPINIONS
- Just Say That You Want to See the Country BurnYou have heard it said that a vote for anyone other than the ANC is a vote well spent. Well-intentioned as it may be, that isn’t technically true. For example, a vote for the Economic Freedom Fighters is worse than voting for the ANC, in spite of all the damage the ruling party has done …
- ANC’s ties to RussiaNary a day goes by where the African National Congress, Africa’s oldest and most corrupt liberation movement, isn’t embroiled in one scandal or another. The latest smirch involves its possible, or likely – almost certain – involvement in sending arms to Russia in December 2022 to further its attack on Ukraine. On the 11th of May …
- 2024 ElectionsThe South African General Elections are roughly two years away and indubitably the ANC are etching ala prison-style on Luthuli House walls the remaining days till they will have to magnanimously accept defeat for the first time since South Africa attained democracy. The chasm between the pro Zuma faction, whose snouts have been firmly wedged …
- Salman RushdieLast week when I heard that the international best-selling author Salman Rushdie had been stabbed in Western New York shortly after signing up to support writers living in mortal peril, it was the timing rather than the event that came as a surprise, if only for my acute appreciation of irony.The Indian-born British American novelist …
- The Real Zuma LegacyWhat state would South Africa be in today if Cyril Ramaphosa had succeeded Thabo Mbeki and not that delinquent from Nkandla who, as it stands, is still unpunished? I think it would be fair to say that our country would not parity the South Africa so close to the brink of collapse. A reasonable argument …
- A Fool Learns Her Fate on April FoolsIf current proceedings are anything to go by, then 2022 isn’t shaping out to be Bathabile Dlamini’s year. On 9 March, The former Minister of Social Development listened as Magistrate Betty Khumalo elaborated on how the guilty Dlamini perjured herself, lying under oath in 2017 about her role in the SASSA grant payment crises, overstepping …
- Helping Hand for a DictatorshipThe ANC has a long history of poor decision-making, and giving R50-million to their friends in that commie nest Cuba is the latest addition to that endless list. We are told the reason we gifted Cuba funds is to alleviate poverty in that country. Being a marxist state run by dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel, the more …
- A New Friend for North KoreaHearing the word censorship is enough to make most people stop what they’re doing for just a moment and take note. There’s a good reason for that too. Throughout the ages history’s greatest villains have used censorship in one form or another to achieve control over its people and the dissemination of information. And while …
- An Open Letter to the Jihadists:Dear Jihadists It has come to my attention that you are planning an attack on our country. Now, I am not sure when was the last time you picked up a newspaper, but I think it’s a little late for an ambush. 27 years late, to be precise. You see, a quarter of a century …
- Jail: to be or not to beIn 1993 civilized Britain experienced one of the most heinous crimes on record, also by the youngest offenders, to date. Little James Bulger was only two years old when he was abducted from New Strand Shopping center by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson, and Jon Venables. Forty-eight hours later children playing near a railway line …