Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest: Prof Suzan Oelofse

A study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has found that almost half of food available for human consumption in South Africa is wasted.

While the country is a net exporter of food, the institute says that each year, 45%, or an estimated 10.3-million tonnes of food destined to be eaten locally, goes to waste.

The Council says this indicates a high level of inefficiency in the food value chain.

Sixty-eight per cent of losses and waste occurs in the early stages of production, of which 19% is during post-harvest handling and storage, and 49% during  processing and packaging

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Guest: Tshidi Madia | Senior politics journalist  at EWN

The hearings of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State has been hearing evidence from Cyril Ramaphosa. We will hear the latest developments from EWN Senior Political Analyst Tshidi Madia. 

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Guest: Rhys Evans

In an opinion piece on News24, the managing director of the company ALCO-safe says he does not believe that a proposed new rule effectively banning drinking and driving will resolve problems associated with the issue.

The amendments to the National Road Traffic Act include changing the legal blood alcohol content limit for drivers from 0.05 grams per 100 millilitres to zero.

Rhys Evans says that while he agrees with the reasons behind the proposed law, there is lots to take into consideration before it can come into effect. 

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Guest: Rebecca Davis | Journalist and Author at Daily Maverick

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Guest: Anena Burger

Netwerk24 journalist, Anena Burger, is very angry about an anti-vaccination voice note sent via whatsapp to her 71-year-old mother in June.

She blames the 14-minute monologue by a woman talking about the supposed dangers of the Covid-19 vaccine for her parent's decision to refuse the jab.

Despite Anena's attempts to point out the inaccuracies in the message, they would not change their minds, and a few weeks later, Hermine Burger, contracted Covid-19 and died in early July.

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Guest: Prof Keymanthri Moodley | Director of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at University Of Stellenbosch

The application for postponement of legal action against Zuma due to an undisclosed condition of ill health has created a great deal of uncertainty as to when and how the disclosure of confidential patient information held within medical records is justifiable in South Africa, both from a legal and an ethical perspective.

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Guest: Rumbi Elizabeth   Chidoori | Legal Fellow at Sonke Gender Justice

Cape Town Gender Rights Activist, Rumbi Elizabeth Chidoori, will bring insight to the case whereby New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned after an inquiry found that he sexually harassed multiple women. Andrew Cuomo said in his resignation speech that he takes "full responsibility" for his actions. Women's rights advocates have argued that many remarks that he made throughout the investigation seem to suggest the opposite ­- as well as to shed light on generational differences about what it means to ‘cross the line’.  

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Guest: Yatin Narsai  | CEO   at Bank Zero

Bank Zero launched to the public on Tuesday, three years after Michael Jordaan and other co-founders first announced that they would be adding another digital banking newcomer.

The bank's CEO, Yatin Narsai, has described the bank to be built to innovatively cater to all businesses - from those with small turnovers to large companies that generate billions of Rands. It wants to serve close corporations,  sole proprietorships and big companies. 

Narsai describes the bank's blueprint to have been created by the study of the needs of business customers and individual customers alike. 

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Guest: Jan Gerber

The hearings of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State has been hearing evidence from Cyril Ramaphosa from 09h00 am today. 

We speak to News24's parliamentary reporter, Jan Gerber, who has been following the story.

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Guest: David Frost | CEO at Satsa, the representative body of inbound tourism to South Africa

South Africa is still one of the countries on the United Kingdom's red list for travel to that country, which means that extra restrictions are in place to reduce the introduction and transmission of new Covid-19 variants.

The Southern Africa Tourism Services Association, SATSA, has been fighting to have the rules relaxed and enlisted a London-based PR firm to lobby on its behalf.

It set up a petition to get South Africa removed from  this 'red list' and by the early afternoon today, over 13,000 people had signed it. 

When a petition gains over 10,000 signatories, the British government is required to respond.

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