Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest: Professor Talita Greyling, Wellbeing Economists

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Guest: Boikanyo Moloto from The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation to discuss the need for a joint effort between all stakeholders to address the corruption that affects the taxi industry.

 

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Guest: Adriaan  Basson | editor-in-chief. at News24

 

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Guest: Miriam Margolyes to discuss her long-awaited memoirs that have just been published. Miriam is a National Treasure in the UK and Australia (she has duel citizenship for both) and is loved globally for literally hundreds of performances on stage, screen and television.  You might know her as Professor Sprout from the Harry Potter movies, or Mother Mildred in Call The Midwife, or as Lady Whiteadder in the Blackadder series.    Or you might have seen her on The Graham Norton Show in which she’s often left the other guests speechless with her outrageous stories

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John Maytham interviews Energy Sector Specialist Hilton Trollip.

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Guest: Professor David Julius

John is joined by Professor David Julius. Alongside fellow scientist, Ardem Patapoutian, he has been honoured by the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discoveries in heat and touch. 

Their work has helped show how humans convert the physical impact from heat or touch into nerve impulses that allow us to 'perceive and adapt to the world around us'.

 A biochemist and molecular biologist, Julius’s work has focused on how our bodies sense heat, cold, and chemical irritants, leading to new insights about the fundamental nature of pain and new targets for pain therapy.

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Guest: Cas Coovadia, CEO of Business Unity South Africa 

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Guest: Advocacy and Research Officer, Edward Mopoti, to discuss the groundbreaking Constitutional judgment that has struck down a section of the police act which allows for warrantless searches in cordoned off areas.

The case arises after police conducted “cruel, degrading and invasive” raids on people living in 15 high-rise blocks in downtown Johannesburg.

The police seemed to think that because people were not citizens their rights could be violated at any hour of the day or night, the court said.

 

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Guest: Adriaan Basson | Editor at News24

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Guest: Adrian Collins

John is joined by the independent candidate from the ward 77, where he has lived and grown up. 

The ward stretches from BoKaap across the entire city bowl to high cape. It includes most of District Six and surrounding mountains. 

He will discuss his opinion that party officials and staff members who have never lived in 

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