Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

The trial of the three accused in the disappearance case of Joshlin Smith will commence at the Saldanha Bay Multipurpose Centre.  Steveno van Ryhn, Jacquen Apollis, and the child’s mother, Kelly Smith, are facing charges of kidnapping and trafficking in persons for exploitation. Lester Kiewit speaks to EWN reporter Carlo Petersen.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof Daniel Bradlow, a G20 Senior Fellow with SA Institute of International Affairs, about what we can learn after President Donald Trump insulted Ukrainian leader Voldomyr Zelensky at a press briefing. This came a day before Zelensky jetted to London for a defence summit with European leaders.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Petronell Kruger, HEALA Programmes Manager, about the growing debate around food labelling and its impact on consumer choices. With the FDA's delayed "healthy" food label initiative in the U.S. and South Africa's proposed labelling overhaul, they discuss whether labelling products as "healthy" can truly influence our decision-making. Petronell also shares insightful examples from Chile, Brazil, and Mexico, and tackles the question of whether pricing strategies, like the sugar tax, are effectively guiding us towards healthier choices.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Rob Mackay, Mesh.trade investor management lead to find out how you can invest in a fractional co-ownership of a Krugerrand coin on the Mesh.trade platform. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Tiaan Strydom, acting Executive Director: Space Operations at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) about the critical role it is playing in the Intuitive Machines (IM) Athena lunar lander mission, which launched into space on February 26th on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to GroundUp Editor Nathan Geffen about how the US cutting their funding to beneficiaries across the globe will come back to hurt them on home soil.

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Ukraine’s President Zelensky will visit the White House today, after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s own visit to Washington DC; hostages and prisoners released as part of Gaza ceasefire deal; R.I.P Gene Hackman. Adam Gilchrist shares details on these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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The Western Cape Department of Social Development received over 7000 reports of child abuse during the course of the last financial year. Lester Kiewit speaks to Jaco Londt, the Western Cape MEC for Social Development, about the need to offer these children a safe and protected environment through the province’s foster parent programme, and how one can become a safety parent.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Sanusha Naidu, Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Global Dialogue, about the reaction by the US to an op-ed piece penned by President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling out the US for its support of Israel and sanctioning the International Criminal Court.

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The US and Ukraine have to a preliminary agreement, where the US gets access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals in exchange for military aid. But what are these rare earth minerals and why does Trump want them? Lester Kiewit speaks to mining analyst, Peter Major to learn more. 

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