Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest: John Dobson | Western Province Coach 

On Friday night the Stormers secured their first win of the United Rugby Championship by beating Gwent Dragons 24-10 in Newport. 

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Guest: Mike Walwyn | Director for Maritime Affairs at South African Association of Freight Forwarders (SAAFF)

South Africa's monopoly port operator Transnet late Friday declared a force majeure at its Richards Bay Bulk Terminal.

The Richards Bay port is one of seven commercial ports that Transnet operates along South Africa’s coastline.

Transnet did not say whether or to what extent exports of commodities such as coal, steel and other minerals would be impacted.

 

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Guest: Professor Mignon McCulloch joins John to discuss the valuable progress that opens vaccination to South African children from tomorrow onwards; and the crucial support that it will bring to the country's fight against COVID. 

Professor McCulloch is a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Consultant and Nephrologist at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.

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Guest: Experienced journalist Jan Gerber joins John to asses the results of The elaborate Media 24 Study - The Out of Order Index. 

The results of the study suggest that the crisis in the frontline of South African of service delivery is likely to deepen.

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Guest: Don Pinnock

Don Pinnock joins John to retell the curious story of 'the absent dead Englishman'. 

He describes a stranger-than-fiction story that he has told in collaboration with Peter Slingsby, an adventurer heralded  for the creation of detailed maps of the unchartered parts of the Cederberg. 

Carved on a stone beneath a Celtic cross are the words “In sacred memory of Graham Vinicombe Winchester Clowes, Lieutenant, First Batt., Gordon …'

Next to an ancient and now deceased gum tree on a lonely road over the Pakhuis Pass in the Cederberg is a Boer War grave beside which a sister mourned her brother for 30 years without knowing it was empty. 

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Guest: Ben Winks - Independent legal counsel - media, constitutional and international law

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Guest: Brandon Topham | Divisional Executive for Investigations and Enforcement at Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA)

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Guest: Juliet McGuire

Juliet Maguire is South Africa's leading motor journalist and she joins John to discuss the long anticipated launch of The Ford Mustang Mach 1.

In the track of the 1969 original, the Mustang Mach 1 aims to bridge the gap between the standard Mustang GT and the high-performance Shelby models, delivering V8 power, unique functional aerodynamic enhancements, competition-capable suspension upgrades and a driver-focused cockpit

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Guest: Jonny  Myers | Former Emeritus Professor  at School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town

John speaks to Jonny Myer, Emeritus Professor in Public Health Medicine, University of Cape Town about his piece in the Daily Maverick on how Covid-19 vaccination can prevent South Africa’s fourth wave.

He says that data from the Western Cape show that 30% of the recorded Covid-19 cases were aged over 50 and these cases were responsible for 60% of hospitalizations.

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Guest: Phumzile van Damme |  Project Co-ordinator - Local Government Election Anti-Disinformation Project

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