Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest: Anusha Nana

The Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Kliptown, which is currently playing an important as part of the national and international Covid-19 response team, was badly damaged in the recent unrest. 

Looters broke into the facility and stole all its electronic equipments, stethoscopes, blood pressure machines and space heaters, as well as causing damage which has required water to the building to be shut off. 

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Guest: Rebecca Davis

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Guest: Lukas Muntingh | Project Head  at Africa Criminal Justice Reform 

Former president, Jacob Zuma, has been granted compassionate leave from prison to attend his brother's funeral in Nkandla on Thursday.

 

The Department of Correctional Services says that as a short-term, low-risk classified inmate, his application was processed and approved following the correctional services prescripts.

Zuma's brother, Michael, died last week at the age of 77 shortly after Zuma started his prison sentence at the Estcourt Correctional Centre. 

To find out how the application process works, we speak to Prof Lukas Muntingh, who heads up the Africa Criminal Justice Reform project at UWC's Dullah Omar Institute.

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Guest: Luke Daniel

In a move to safely reopen the country's embattled tourism sector, France has announced that it will allow all fully vaccinated travellers to visit the country.

  This effectively means that South Africans with both their jabs are now free to travel to that country without having to self-isolate for at least seven days.

But a contentious new law restricting access to bars, restaurants, cafés, museums, and cinemas to people with a valid health pass could complicate matters as Luke Daniel writes in Business Insider.

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Guest: Mikhail Manuel | 

Following a week of taxi violence in Cape Town, we speak to Mikhail Manuel, a researcher who holds a Masters in Philosophy in Civil Engineering from UCT's Centre for Transport Studies and is now a councillor at the City of Cape Town, about what needs to be done to improve mobility in the metro.

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Guest: Paul Berkowitz

Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and his panel yesterday found that "it is not reasonably possible or likely" that the October local government elections will be held in a free and fair manner.

The panel recommended the elections be held by the end of February 2022.

We speak to political analyst Paul Berkowitzabout which parties might benefit of suffer if the polls are delayed.

  He is a director of the NPO, The Third Republic,  which works towards strengthening municipal government

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Guest: Lawson Naidoo

In the wake of the Pretoria High Court ruling yesterday saying President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “CR17” campaign bank records should remain sealed, we speak to Lawson Naidoo, executive secretary at the Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution about whether intra-party funding should be legislated. The CR17 campaign preceded Ramaphosa's election as president of the ANC in 2017

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Guest: Tony Carnie

Residents in Cornubia, north of Durban, are still dealing with the aftermath of a fire at a massive chemicals warehouse which was attacked by arsonists and looters amid the recent unrest in parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

Five days after the events, the Indian multinational pesticide company United Phosphorus Limited, which owns the warehouse, has now advised neighbouring residents exposed to toxic fumes from the still smouldering site to consider wearing two damp surgical masks over their mouths and noses.

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Guest: Dr Paula Kahumbu

Prominent Kenyan environment activist, Joanna Stutchbury, has been shot dead near her home on the outskirts of Nairobi, after receiving several death threats.

 The 67-year-old was campaigning against developers encroaching on the nearby Kiambu forest.

Friends say she'd stopped her car to clear branches blocking her driveway when she was shot several times. in what appears to be a gangster-style attack.

Though Kenya’s natural heritage is a main source of tourist revenue, it is threatened by encroachment, squatters and developers.

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Guest: Michael Holding

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