Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Megan Lessing, the Media Advocacy officer at SWEAT, about their legal case to force the state to acknowledge that the current laws relating to sex work are unconstitutional and discriminatory. The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce is determined to see sex work decriminalised.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Acting DG, in the Department of Labour, Viwe Mlenzana, about how a number of recent raids have shown the poor state of labour law compliance, especially in the restaurant sector. This has sparked a call by the Minister of Labour to increase the number of inspectors from 2000 to 20 000.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Lucinda Evans, founder of Philisa Abafazi Bethu, who are in need of assistance in completing an emergency safe house for children. They need about R150 000 and are appealing to the public for donations.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on Trendspotting Thursday, Brett Rogers takes a look at some of the alternative forms of packaging which are being tried out by companies. From animal-edible six pack rings to paper bottles for booze, he shares a number of innovations with Lester Kiewit.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

54 nations are converging in Kigali, Rwanda, for the 2nd African Continental Free Trade Area Business Forum – Biashara Afrika. Standard Bank is the key sponsor because it recognises the role that Trade plays in the development of the African continent, its societies, firms and individuals. Lester Kiewit speaks to Tunde Macaulay, Standard Bank Head for Business and Commercial Banking Africa Regions and Offshore. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Andrew Ingram, the NSRI’s drowning prevention manager, about how their pink buoys played a part in a daring rescue at Table View beach at the weekend.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah escalate, and with the Israeli Defence Force advancing into southern Lebanon, the IDF has requested that peacekeeping forces be removed from the area. Ireland, alongside the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), has rejected this request, stating that troop deployment decisions are made by the United Nations. Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Iain Overton, Executive Director of Action on Armed Violence.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to GroundUp editor Nathan Geffen about the stories being featured this week, with quite a bit of attention on the issue of social housing in the Western Cape and Cape Town, and also a story on an owl orphanage which has rescued thousands of birds.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hurricane Milton is being anticipated to be especially severe; Russia’s chaos plan according to MI5 boss; Dutch beery art ended up in the trash. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today (October 9th) is World Post Day and we were wondering what careers are currently available within the postal service and do postman/persons still play a significant role in the service? Lester Kiewit speaks to Sipho Levy Zwane, General Secretary of the Democratic Postal and Communications Union (DEPACU)

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.