Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest: Dr Marc Mendelson

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Guest: Gerard De Kamper | Museum Curator at University of Pretoria

A small oil painting on a wood panel depicting the profile of an old man in a hat and cloak – made its way to South Africa in the late 1950s. It was part of an extensive collection belonging to a Dutch businessman, JA van Tilburg, who emigrated to the country. In 1976 the work was donated to the University of Pretoria.

Professors Gerard de Kamper and Isabelle McGinn from The University of Pretoria began a detailed and intricate technical study of the artwork to come to a startling conclusion. 

The creation date of the artwork is only possible after 1850 when barium sulphate was introduced. 

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Guest: Sarah Howie | The Director at the Africa Centre for Scholarship

Professor Sarah Howie, director of the Africa Centre for Scholarship at Stellenbosch University, has researched the effect that COVID has had on South African children and the contexts framed by political, cultural, economic and systemic histories and current realities. 

She strongly emphasizes the necessity for drive to bring children back to school premises. 

Education is a complex challenge during Covid-19 and According to Howie, in the worst-case scenario, adult literacy rates could plummet to where they were around 40 years ago.

Pandemic-related closures of Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres across South Africa - some temporary and some permanent because of financial struggles -  have taken a toll on learner literacy and have caused many children to fall out of the system entirely. 

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Guest: Rebone Tau

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Guest: Marc Nicholson

Marc Nicholson will describe his project alongside other community organisations. Together they have secured R10 million to transform a gang battleground into an inspiring youth centre to offer a better alternative to young people in the gang-ridden neighbourhood.

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Guest: Andrew Whitfield

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of Police Bheki Cele have been given 30 days to fix a legislative blunder that saw the release of more than 96,000 convicted offenders on parole without their DNA being added to a national database set up to improve crime-fighting – and specifically to assist in solving gender-based violence cases and cold cases.

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Guest: Louis Wilson

A representative of The Global Witness will describe the shocking study conducted by the organization to record the number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights that were murdered last year. The report shows that 227 people were killed around the world in 2020, the highest number recorded for a second consecutive year.

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Guest: Adriaan Basson

  On Thursday, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) released its first quarterly report on political parties' donations and funds. 

The EFF is amongst political parties that have not disclosed their funders as per the requirement of the new Political Party Funding Act. 

News 24 Editor in Chief, Adriaan Basson,  will discuss the degree to which this can be seen as a glaring absence. 

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Guest: Hendrik Verwoed | F1 Correspondent

Max Verstappen will take a three-place grid drop for Formula 1’s Russian Grand Prix after stewards said he was to blame for the crash with Lewis Hamilton at Monza.

Renowned car journalist Hendrik Verwoed will discuss the degree to which this accident will become a game changer.  

He has competed in, written about and commentated on motoring and motor racing events for more than 20 years, and is regarded as one of South Africa's leading authorities on Formula 1 racing

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Guest: Zahid Badroodien | Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Health at City of Cape Town

Traffic officials at the weekend stopped a truck transporting 106 corpses to the Eastern Cape.  

The refrigerated truck was stopped at a weighbridge outside Somerset West on the N2 in the Western Cape on Saturday to confirm a valid permit to transport the bodies out of the province

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