Drive with John Perlman

John chats to Lindsay Dentlinger, EWN Reporter, about the Constitutional Court's decision to reject multiple parties' appeals for a Phala Phala interdict.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Jacques Jordaan, CEO of the Canning Fruit Producers Association, on Premier Foods' fruit and the start of a Section 189 consultation procedure over Fruit Products Western Cape's impending shutdown.
The corporation claims that growing production costs and dwindling worldwide demand have rendered the enterprise commercially unsustainable.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Dr. Mzwanele Ntshwanti, an IEJ Senior Researcher, on how South Africa's official unemployment rate rose from 32.7% in the first quarter of 2026 to 33.6% in the second.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Dr. Charlene Janion-Scheepers, Senior Lecturer in the UCT Department of Biological Sciences, about Mzansi's Insect of the Year nomination process and more on the value of insects.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Lorraine Govendor, National Manager for health programmes at CANSA, about Colon Cancer awareness. This comes with the announcement that Danny K's wife passed away from Colorectal Cancer. In a statement they wished to bring awareness to the disease and for early detection.  

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Alpha Ramushwana, EWN Reporter, about Drushantha Ramsamy, The Prosecutor for the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), and clarifies her allegations that DA MP Ian Cameron might have been involved in an attempt to harm national police commissioner Fannie Masemola.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Nkosikhona Malinga-Mnisi, EWN Reporter, about the fourteen alleged illegal miners who were discovered dead at an abandoned mine in Nkaneng, close to Rustenburg in the North West.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Basil Manuel, Executive Director of NAPTOSA on Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile cautioning municipalities that if schools are disconnected due to unpaid power bills, they must be reconnected right once or the provincial government will take legal action.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats Ali Gule, Babita Deokaran Family Spokesperson on Babita Deokoran’s memorial monument unveiled, her name is permanently engraved on a memorial at the Shri Mariammen Temple Heritage Site at Mount Edgecombe, north of Durban, five years after she was shot and killed outside her Johannesburg house.

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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John chats to Charné Steyn, She is a First Officer on Global Airways' Airbus A320 fleet and pilot for LIFT on sharing some insight for those who are looking to become pilots.

 

 

702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. 
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