Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Councillor Zahid Badroodien about Cape Town’s world-class beach water quality results and the new "Summer Dashboard," providing weekly updates on 30 key beaches. They also discuss the environmental impact of marine outfalls and the City’s ongoing public engagement on water quality management.

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Studies have come out that show how social media is designed like casinos, tricking us into using them continually rather than “choosing” to put down the phone. Brett Rogers of HaveYouHeard Marketing reveals to Lester Kiewit some of the methods which they use, and shares tips on how you can avoid falling into their trap.

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Bothasig has become synonymous with having homes brightly adorned with festive lights each December, and these days one can find a concentration of them along Amstel Street. Lester Kiewit speaks to Jesse Campbell, who has taken things a bit further by also arranging for a minstrel troupe to march down the street each year.

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Today’s edition of “Lester in your lounge” is from the Cloete household in Bothasig, a suburb  which was established to accommodate tradesmen and tradeswomen who earned less than R140 a month back in the 1960s, and originally named Bosmansdam after the farm which was located there, and subsequently renamed Bothasig (Botha’s Vision) after P W Botha, then the Minister of Community Development and Coloured Affairs. Lester Kiewit finds out more about the community of Bothasig from Mario Borchards, chairman of the Bothasig Residents Association.

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The world’s biggest fraudster now trying to avoid Vietnam’s death penalty; man to face charges in Australia’s 47-year old cold case; mega crime gang has been jailed in the UK. Adam Gilchrist shares details on these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Sansia Blackmore, tax policy expert at the African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, about how in South Africa, our tax money is not being used to improve standards of living, but rather to make up for government failing the poor.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to independent child rights and child protection consultant, Dr Joan van Niekerk about the recent push by Bosa to have the Sex Offenders Registry made public in the interest of keeping children safe. There is however the fear that this could lead to citizens taking the law into their own hands by targeting offenders.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Nathan Geffen, editor of GroundUp, about some of the big stories they have been covering this week, including the failure of the SASSA investigation into SRD grant application system in answering crucial questions, and how the City of Cape Town intends to manage the passenger rail network.

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Lester Kiewit is presenting his third instalment of “Lester in your lounge” from the home of Douglas and Vanessa Cloete, who have been settled nicely in Bothasig for a number of years. They live in a street that has now become known for their annual Christmas light decorations.

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The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, Bridget Masango, has been listening to Lester Kiewit's broadcast from outside the Bellville office of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to see firsthand their experience, and called into the show to say that these accounts and experiences are nothing new, as they have been raised previously.

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