Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

The Remote Gambling Bill aims to regulate South Africa's booming online gambling industry, where nearly R1.1 trillion was gambled in the past year, including R418 billion on sports betting. Despite the National Gambling Amendment Act of 2008, which has yet to be implemented, the sector remains largely unregulated, prompting public submissions on the new bill, including a detailed submission by Koshiek Karan, Founder and CEO of financial education platform BankerX, to parliament's Trade and Industry Committee.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to McIntosh Polela of the Road Accident Fund, about their concerns that people are purposefully flinging themselves in front of vehicles, and getting injured, so they can claim from the fund. Lester also speaks to Craig Proctor-Parker, the founder of Accident Specialist about how realistic the Road Accident Fund’s concerns are that more South Africans are deliberately injuring themselves to claim from the fund.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Alderman JP Smith, the City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, about a concerning smash and grab case on the N1 highway.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Steve Kretzmann of GroundUp News to discuss some of their big stories this week, including:

After twelve years, a rail theft case to continue after a court victory for the state.

The addictive, powerful lab-made painkiller Fentanyl has made its way to South Africa.

A high school teacher has started a mobile library for learners in Cape Town.

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Some parents have the means to send their children to the most sought-after schools in the country, because they see it as an investment for their child’s future. Lester Kiewit speaks to freelance journalist Andrew Thompson about which schools in South Africa are the most expensive, as well as what they offer for those prices.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Anna Collard,  SVP of Content Strategy and Evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa, about the  risk that unsupervised internet access poses to children’s mental health, safety, and even family cybersecurity.

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Some suburbs are provided with municipal bins for recyclables, which are then collected by contracted companies who rely on the recyclable waste to generate revenue. But informal waste collectors are now arriving before the trucks and taking their pick of the more valuable items. Lester Kiewit speaks to Alderman Grant Twigg, Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Waste Management for the City of Cape Town, to find out if this is causing any problems or whether there is enough to go around.

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Despairing Syrians search under notorious Sednaya prison for missing relatives, Haiti’s witchcraft deaths, a record sports fee for baseball star.  Adam Gilchrist shares details on these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to former head of the NSRI, and the director of Underwater Africa, Dr Cleeve Robertson, about concerns that sewage being pumped into the ocean by the City of Cape Town is finding its way onto the pristine and popular Camps Bay beach.

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Businesses are experiencing the limits of password-based authentication as many people are still using passwords that are far too easy to guess AND reusing them on 40% of all their accounts - creating a field day for fraudsters and hackers. Lester Kiewit speaks to Lance Fanaroff, iiDENTIFii co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, to discuss the various ways in which we’re trying to stay ahead of the criminals.

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