Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Peter shares his frustrating ordeal with Lester Kiewit after discovering his number plate had been cloned. He received multiple speeding fines, each with photographic evidence, only to realize the car in the images wasn’t his. Despite following every possible channel to clear his name, he has found no resolution. Peter shares his experience and the challenges of fighting a cloned number plate case.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Songezo Zibi, leader of Rise Mzansi and chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts about we should not be distracted by fears of a VAT increase and lose sight of other critical aspects of the Budget to be presented on Wednesday by the Finance Minister.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to immigration law specialist at DSD Immigration Attorneys, Stafanie De Saude Darbandi, about the implications of the US now giving the green light to Afrikaners who want to resettle there because of race based laws in South Africa. What will it mean for those who want to resettle?

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Around 30 people have been living in an abandoned building in central Cape Town for over two decades; a look at how a disability grant recipient spends monthly grant; veteran cartoonist Mogorosi Motshumi to move to Cape Town to finish his life’s work. Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, Deputy Editor at GroundUp.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Evangelos Morris, the head of Foodstops at Woolworths about their new after-hours delivery partnership with Uber Eats and Engen Quickshops.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Kiri Rupiah, Communities Editor at the Continent for this week’s Africa Report. They discuss a strange deal made by Kenya’s leader, the prospect of conflict in South Sudan, and Samuel Eto’o’s chances of getting a job with CAF having improved.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Joel Stevens from the student activist group Dismantling the Ivory Tower about their opposition to Digital Nomad Week. Stevens argues that the event fuels gentrification, pricing locals out while benefiting wealthy remote workers. He also criticizes platforms like Airbnb and performative charity efforts by digital nomads.

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New Canadian Prime Minister lays it on the line with US President; an election in Greenland; North Korea hunting for hackers. Adam Gilchrist shares details on these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks with Yacub, a history teacher and student of Imam Muhsin Hendricks about the controversy surrounding the murder of the openly gay Imam. Yacub joined Lester to chat from the perspective of a Muslim reverted.

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Lester speaks to Zimbali Mncube, Tax and Budget policy researcher at Institute for Economic Justice, about why they want the Minister of Finance to step down ahead of the delivery of his Budget speech which was delayed in from February. The IEJ says Minister Enoch Godongwana is misleading the nation when he says a VAT hike is needed to fund the Social Relief of Distress grant.

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