Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

We speak to an international motivational speaker, Zelda le Grange, who was the long-term private secretary to Nelson Mandela.

She will be sharing her favourite feel-good songs from the 80s and 90s on #AnHourWith on Cape Talk on Sunday morning.

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The books reviewed

Light Seekers by Femi Kayode

Correspondents by Tim Murphy

Scott Weidensaul's book - A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

 

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Tomorrow is International Emoji Day and the small pictographs have come a long way since they first appeared on the internet in 1999.

Thanks to their recognition by Unicode, an international computer encoding standard that assigns letters, digits and symbols a unique numerical code, they can now be enjoyed across different platforms and devices worldwide.

We speak to World Wide Worx data analyst, Bryan Turner, about them

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The Stormers face off against the British & Irish Lions at Cape Town Stadium at 18h on Saturday.

We speak to the home team's coach, John Dobson.  

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The World Health Organisation yesterday warned South Africa to be prepared for a surge in Covid-19 cases after the week's unrest and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Images on TV showed huge crowds, many without masks, stealing items, and trashing shops in the two provinces, with both continuing to have large numbers of active cases of the virus.

The country's vaccination program has been disrupted by unrest with the government halting inoculations in both KZN and Gauteng.

For an update on the Covid situation, we speak to Dr. Francois Venter, professor of medicine at Wits University.

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In an opinion piece in Business Day yesterday, Nicole Fritz, the CEO of Freedom Under Law and a public interest lawyer, wrote that all the gloomy talk this week may have left us blind to how to hear we are to the light.

She says we must recognise what we stand to lose and what we need to fight for in our constitutional democracy, and above all, not be undone by hopelessness.

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Next year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, will be spending six weeks in the Western Cape flying over the greater Cape floristic kingdom in order to map marine, freshwater and terrestrial species and ecosystems.

It's planes will carry equipment to measure the height and structure of vegetation and collect imagery from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. 

A team from NASA will work together with scientists from South Africa to gather data which will be used to map the south-western Cape's biodiversity.

To find out more, we speak to Dr Jasper Slingsby, a senior lecturer in biological sciences at UCT and the SA lead on the fynbos project with NASA.

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The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, CASAC, has applied to the Johannesburg high court to declare unlawful interviews held by the Judicial Service Commission for candidates for the Constitutional Court.

 It says that after obtaining a transcript of the JSC's confidential deliberations when it shortlisted the candidates in April, it became clear that they were a 'sham'.

 CASAC says it showed there were "no deliberations at all” and it has also asked the court to have the list of recommended appointments set aside.

We speak to the executive secretary of the organisation, Lawson Naidoo.

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We speak to Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde, for an update on the situation in the province with regards to Covid-19, vaccinations and other stories.

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Over the past few days of looting and rioting, 4 community radio stations were trashed -  Alex FM, in Alexandra, Mams Radio, in Mamelodi, West Side FM, in Kagiso, and Intokozo FM, in Durban.

We speak to William Bird, the director of Media Monitoring Africa, about the significance of the attack station which he has described as "an act of destruction of the community itself".

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