Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest:Rebecca Davis

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Guest: Karyn Maughan

The Con Court has ruled that that Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane had no evidence that President Cyril Ramaphosa personally benefitted from the donations made to the CR17 campaign. 

The court also ruled that the Public Protector did not have the authority to investigate the matter as political parties are private entities. 

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Guest: Craig Ray, Daily Maverick sports editor

We speak to the Daily Maverick's sports editor, Craig Ray, about two big sporting events currently in the news. The first is the Tour de France, which yesterday saw riders halt the race for about a minute at one kilometre into the fourth stage in a silent protest calling for safer racing conditions after several crashes. They then rode the next 10 kilometres at a snail's pace. The first three days of racing have seen massive pile-ups, and the numerous incidents have left riders bruised and angry, and team officials fuming.  

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Guest: Jan Vermeulen | Editor-at-large at MyBroadband.co.

The long-anticipated Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is set to come into effect from tomorrow.

It aims to provide citizens with comprehensive data protection through legislation and is designed to give effect to the constitutional right to privacy in South Africa. 

It mirrors similar legislation elsewhere, including Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.

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Guest: EWN's Nkosikhona Duma 

Following yesterday's Constitutional Court judgment sentencing former president Jacob Zuma to 15 months’ in prison for, there were widespread reports that his supporters were on their way to his homestead at Nkandla to plan a so-called “resistance campaign”.

Zuma was found guilty of contempt of court after defying an order to appear before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.

There are conflicting reports as to whether the former president is at his home in Nkandla at the moment.

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Guest: Pam Jackson

The City of Cape Town yesterday announced the winners of the Mayor’s Community Service Awards in 12 different categories including youth empowerment, social support, safety awareness, and community.

 Unfortunately they were not very well publicised and many communities never even heard about the option of nominating residents or local organisations who have been working at grassroots level to make a positive impact on their communities.

Ons Plek Projects were one of the winners.  It was recognised in the category for the empowerment of young women.

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Guest: James Stent

Not-for-profit news agency, Ground Up, decided to do some research into how risky it is to take public transport in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It used a carbon dioxide meter as a proxy to measure how much of one another’s air we breath in while travelling in minibus taxis, trains and buses

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Guest: Dr Mark Cotton | Head Of The Children'S Infecti at Tygerberg Hospital

New data from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases has show that some 400 children died in hospitals of Covid-19 related illnesses in the period March to May of this year.

It said that among the deaths, about  36% were adolescents aged 15 to 19 years, while 31% were under a year old.

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Guest: Bronagh Hammond | Director of Communications at Western Cape Education Department

On Monday, when we got our first look at the new lockdown regulations, we heard several people bemoaning the impact on the education sector and specifically the loss of the winter vacation school programme.

Well, the rules governing Alert Level 4 were updated on Tuesday and included a provision for the "learner support program for grade 11 and 12 learners" to go ahead, despite schools being closed. 

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Guest: Gregory Whittaker

Research commissioned by the Actuarial Society of South Africa has found that medical negligence claims have cost the country’s nine provincial Health Departments close to R10 billion over the past seven years.

It lists compromised record keeping at provincial hospitals, a legal system ill-equipped to deal with medical negligence claims, and the absence of legislation that regulates legal claims in the medical field amongst the key problem areas

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