Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

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Guest: Dr Joachim Vermooten | Aviation Economist  

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Guest: Paul du Toit 

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Guest: John Dobson | Western Province Coach  

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Guest: Dr Keith Cloete | Head of Health at Western Cape Department Of Health 

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We speak to author, Ivan Johnson, about his memoir, "But he speaks so well".

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Former president, Jacob Zuma, is asking the Pietermaritzburg High Court to acquit him on the basis that the state has lost the “constitutional legitimacy” to present evidence against him.

 This argument was contained in his response to arguments by Advocate Billy Downer over his special plea application.

 He lodged the application to demand the removal of the lead state prosecutor in the case against him.

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We speak to Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde, about the state of vaccinations in the province.

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New research has found that a gray whale has swum the longest distance ever recorded in a marine vertebrate, over 25,000 kilometres, from the North Pacific to Walvis Bay in the southern hemisphere.

The lone male cetacean was spotted off the coast of Namibia in 2013 but it took several years of genetic research to confirm its origins much further north near Sakhalin island in Russia.

The paper was published earlier this week in the journal Biology Letters.

We speak to Dr Simon Elwen, co-director of the Namibia Dolphin Project/Sea Search and research associate in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University, who was one of the team that first sighted the whale.

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Business interest group, Sakeliga, has applied to the North West High Court to ring fence municipal rates in Ditsobotla in Lichtenburg.

 It says the local municipality has no money for water, its sewerage system is in disarray, and it has even faltered in its payments to Eskom, resulting in residents and businesses experiencing extended power cuts.

So it wants the court to appoint a special master to make payments to Eskom and water and repair services before giving "what is left" to the municipality.

We speak to Sakeliga's legal analyst, Daniel du Plessis.

 

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