Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Sanusha Naidu, senior research fellow at the Institute for Global Dialogue, about what the current BRICS 2024 Summit in Kazan, Russia means for South Africa, and for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Abdikadir Mohamed, National Director of Somali Association Of South Africa, about the xenophobic tone emerging from certain government leaders blaming foreign owned shops for a spate of food poisoning cases, mainly amongst children.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, Deputy Editor at GroundUp, about the big stories being featured, including how new research has found that rates of HIV and Hepatitis C are “extremely high” among people who inject illicit drugs; how floods and heavy rains has impacted the small berg Cederberg village of Heuningvlei; and then a look at life in another Cederberg town, Wupperthal.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Karen Lowe, Director of 4 Day Week South Africa, about the need to achieve a positive work-life balance. According to Forbes Advisor, Copenhagen is the city with the best work-life balance for workers. This was after they looked at a range of indices such as the World Happiness Index, sunlight hours, average working hours, minimum legal annual leave, and others. They then did a comparison of 128 major cities and compiled their list, and surprisingly Cape Town did not come up in the top 25. 

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Lester Kiewit spoke with Jane Ward, Deputy Director of the South African Bone Marrow Registry, about the 14th International Donor Registry Conference (IDRC) held in Cape Town. The event, hosted by SABMR, gathered over 300 global experts to address donor matching challenges, particularly among under-represented ethnic groups. A key outcome was exploring AI's potential to accelerate the matching process for over 41 million registered donors. Ward discussed how this technology could transform donor matching, though a global rollout is still on the horizon.

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Lester Kiewit spoke with Guy Chennells, Chief Commercial Officer at Discovery Corporate and Employee Benefits, about the latest findings from Discovery’s data on the ‘two-pot’ retirement system. Two out of every ten claimants are now using their retirement savings to cover education-related expenses. What are the implications of this trend for long-term financial security? Listen as Lester and Guy unpack the details and discuss what this means for South Africans.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Travis Tygart, the CEO of the US Anti-Doping Agency. Tygart recently spoke at the SA Sports Medicine Association conference where he discussed challenges facing clean sport, including AI in sport, and sport betting.

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Moldova votes “yes” to pro-EU changes; Indian bomb hoaxes becoming a real problem for Indian airlines; King Charles heckled at in the Australian parliament. Adam Gilchrist shares details on these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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It’s estimated that there are 6.5 million U.S. citizens living abroad who can vote but less than 14% actually do. Charles Belk is an American citizen who has been to over 80 countries and is currently living in South Africa. He speaks to Lester Kiewit about why he feels that those living abroad should still care enough to vote in any elections taking place back at home. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Outa’s Wayne Duvenage about the Road Accident Fund’s battle to prevent millions in claims from being paid to foreign nationals in the country illegally. The law requires the RAF to pay claimants whether here legally or not.

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