Drive with John Perlman

John chats to Professor Mike Sathekge, Chair of the National Cancer Research and Innovation strategy, President and CEO of the nuclear medicine research infrastructure, 
and Head of the department of nuclear medicine at the university of Pretoria and Steve Biko academic hospital, about how the nation's innovative approach to advanced precision treatment for aggressive breast cancer has won a R3 million grant to perfect a diagnosis-and-treatment combination that promises to make deadly disease manageable.

 

 

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 Lebohang Pita, A sport journalist for Caxton East Rand and The Top Runner, one of the country’s leading athletics websites on the country's athletes doing extremely well in the World Athletics under-20 championships.

 

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 Conrad Koch, Comedian and an Internationally acclaimed South African comedy ventriloquist in this instalment of A Song, A Book and A Dish. 
Koch, who began his career at the College of Magic in Cape Town, combines world class puppetry with hilarious comedy. He has won multiple awards, including the 2026 Comic's Choice Innovation in Comedy Award, the Times Comic's Pen Award, Entertainer of the Year, and two International EMMY nominations.

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
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John chats to Peter Duncun, Head Chef at La Petite Colombe on this week’s MasterChef South Africa Episode. They are officially in the semifinal, and the Top 3 are cooking for a place in the final. It’s an emotional episode, with the contestants reflecting on how far they’ve come, what they’re fighting for, and how close they are to the title of MasterChef South Africa. This week, internationally recognised chef Peter Duncan, Head Chef at La Petite Colombe, joins the kitchen with a deeply personal fine dining dish. The contestants then face a serious pressure test where they need to recreate his dish with precision, focus and finesse.

 

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 (SA Time) to the Drive with John Perlman broadcast on 702  https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj 
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John chats to Fran Hilton Smith, Former Banyana Banyana Coach on previewing the next Banyana Banyana game at the 2026 WAFCON.

 

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 (SA Time) to the Drive with John Perlman broadcast on 702  https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj 
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John chats to Randall Abrahams who is a walking encyclopaedia when it comes to music knowledge. In this feature Randall selects a song and unpacks something significant about the singer/band, the lyrics, the instruments, the arrangements, or simply tells us why we should enjoy the song. Today’s song is Suffer, by Boy Golden.

 

 

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 (SA Time) to the Drive with John Perlman broadcast on 702  https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj 
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John speaks with Monja Boonzier, founder of Hamba Bamba Funda, a non-profit organization specializing in early childhood development from birth to age two in disadvantaged communities, about the start of the school year in 2027. Along with this, a familiar announcement was made. Children entering Grade R must be 4 years old and children entering Grade 1 must be 5 years old by June 30th.

 

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 (SA Time) to the Drive with John Perlman broadcast on 702  https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj 
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John chats to Judge Dhaya Pillay, Commissioner at the IEC about the proclamation of the election date of the 2026 Local Government Elections.  

 

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
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John chats to Professor Eric Buch, CEO of The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, on how specialists affect the nation's healthcare system and how the next generation of South African specialists is being developed.

 

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 (SA Time) to the Drive with John Perlman broadcast on 702  https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj 
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John chats to Thabiso Goba, EWN Reporter, on the arrest of 28 foreign people by Durban immigration officers on suspicion of working in the nation without the proper licenses.

 

 

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. 
Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Drive with John Perlman.  
Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 to 18:00 (SA Time) to the Drive with John Perlman broadcast on 702  https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj 
For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/G5olsbR or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/75M9Chd 
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