Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Bianca van Wyk, who has been making a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) by using court verdicts to debunk the narrative that there is an orchestrated and systemic move to murder white Afrikaners in South Africa. The matter was recently brought back into the spotlight by US President Donald Trump. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brazilian Authorities indict former President Jair Bolsonaro; Argentine President Javier Milei promotes a short-lived memecoin, Chilean programmers build a Latin American AI model. Lester Kiewit gets details on these stories from Prof. Lyal White, Faculty at GIBS and research associate with the Brenthurst Foundation.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ukraine’s President Zelensky offers to step down; BWW’s Mini change; a French scratchcard conundrum. Adam Gilchrist shares details on these stories with Lester Kiewit.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Megan Taplin, Table Mountain National Park Manager, to discuss the overnight flare-up of the fire on the mountain above Newlands, which is starting to spread in the direction of Devil’s Peak.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof Vally Padayachee, a power and energy expert and the former executive manager of Eskom. They discuss the multiple failures of units at three power stations that plunged South Africa into stage six loadshedding.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Mervyn Abrahams, programme coordinator for the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group, to discuss the impact that a two percentage point increase in South Africa’s Value Added Tax (VAT) will have on poorer households, as well as other sectors of the economy.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Toni Tresthorn about the brutal murder of a friend and colleague as he was trying to get his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. He was robbed and killed by thugs leaving his wife to give birth in the road.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In need of some binge-watching options? Lester Kiewit chats to Matthew Jantjies-Green about some of the series you can spend some time watching this weekend, including:

- Recipes for Love & Murder (DSTV)

- ⁠Paradise (Disney+)

- ⁠Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix)

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof John Stremlau Honorary Professsor of Interntional Relations at Wits University, about his view that US President Donald Trump boycotting the G20 to show his unhappiness with South Africa for “doing very bad things” is an “affront to SA’s national sovereignty and a challenge to the G20’s long-standing norms.”

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof John Stremlau Honorary Professor of International Relations at Wits University, about his view that US President Donald Trump boycotting the G20 to show his unhappiness with South Africa for “doing very bad things” is an “affront to SA’s national sovereignty and a challenge to the G20’s long-standing norms

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.