Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

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Guest: Prof Kelly Chibale | Founder and director at Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) - UCT

The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission. The recommendation is based on results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has reached more than 800 000 children since 2019.

  Kelly Chibale (PhD, FRSSAf, FRSC) is professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cape Town, and the founder and director of The H3D research center will discuss the value of the breakthrough. 

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Guest:  Chef Coo Pillay founding partner and board member and chef 

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Guest: Lizz Meiring |  at South African actress and writer

Lizz Meiring joins the Afternoon Drive to discuss the launch of her show  “Tour de Forces/Forced to Tour”. In 2021 actress, director, writer, voice artist, producer and television presenter Lizz Meiring celebrates 50 years in the entertainment industry.

Playing everything from Lady Macbeth to a “pop-up” toaster, Lizz has done it all. Almost 2000 productions later, she is still utterly in love with her industry, and the Arts profession in all its facets.

In “Tour de Forces/Forced to Tour” - Lizz relates anecdotes about her 50 years as a showbiz professional. A host of colourful characters form part of this witty, clever and entertaining production.

“Tour de Forces/Forced to Tour” is not strictly and autobiographical show. The content and themes are universal, reflecting the wonder, the chaos, the brittle beauty of the human spirit in all its facets. 

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Guest: Stefan Terblanche

In 2015, rugby unions from South Africa, France and Ireland jointly conducted a research project on life after rugby for professional rugby players. The project was the first of its kind in the world and spearheaded by former professional footballer for France and the Netherlands and Professor Vincent Gouttebarge from the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, who is also affiliated to the University of Pretoria.

The research was conducted in four areas to gain an accurate representation of the general wellbeing of ex-professional players following the end of their professional sporting careers. The areas of research were depression, alcohol abuse, eating disorders and anxiety, and the study compared ex-professional rugby players to their peers in the general population. 

  

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Guest: Iain Buchanan

Iain Buchanan is the founder of Apex Glamping and Mount Camdeboo Private Game Reserve. He will join John to discuss the innovative glamping project that proves that camping in small spaces can be glamorous and portable. 

Apex pods come in two designs - the dome and the cabin. Both have been engineered to the highest standards of luxury and sustainability; providing every comfort while leaving a light environmental footprint. 

The Pods can be customized to suit any need, and can be installed just about anywhere- from the top of a mountain to your back garden.

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Guest: Pieter du Toit | Assistant Editor of In-depth News at News24

The DA has apologized for controversial elections posters that were put up in KwaZulu-Natal and has removed them.

Thirty-six people were killed in Phoenix during the riots which President Cyril Ramaphosa called an attempt at an insurrection. 

The DA posters read “The ANC called you racists” and “The DA calls you heroes”, went up on Monday in Phoenix, northwest of Durban, where tensions flared after Indian residents were accused of racially profiling black people as potential looters in their defence of the area.

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Guest: Alan Winde | Premier at Western Cape Government

 

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Guest: Gareth Newham

National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole is hanging on to his job by a thread, this week filing representations with President Cyril Ramaphosa on why he should not be suspended from the top job. 

Whatever the outcome, it will bring a denouement to four years of political infighting, criminality and gross mismanagement, particularly with regard to personal protective equipment procurement by the SA Police Service (SAPS). 

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Guest: Paul Hardman

The time for talk is over, shippers are demanding action from Transnet after endless frustration. In a hard-hitting opinion piece on the Citrus Growers’ Association website, logistics development manager Mitchell Brooke raises the question: is the state-run logistics entity the biggest threat to the fruit export industry? 

Paul Hardman is the Acting CEO of the association and he joins John to discuss the way forward that they demand. The CGA was established by citrus growers in the wake of deregulation in 1997.  Growers were concerned that certain functions previously carried out by the Citrus Board could be discontinued or downsized.  With the demise of a single channel marketing  system there are often questions about “who represents the citrus grower?”  The CGA believes that it is their role to fill this void.  Growers interests are furthered through representation to citrus industry stakeholders – including government, exporters, research institutions and suppliers to the citrus industry.  The levy paid by all growers of export citrus has been a statutory levy since 2002. The CGA administers this levy and the growers have the mandate to advise the priorities and expenditure, under the guidance of the NAMC.

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