Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lotteries commission under attack and a look into the past with Lwandle Migrant Labout Museum.  Lester Kiewit speaks to GroundUp editor Nathan Geffen about the stories being featured this week.

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Introducing the first in a series of “Lester in the Lounge”, where Lester Kiewit takes his shows into the home of a CapeTalk listener. Today’s inaugural host is Zuki of Big Bay.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Luke De Kock, director of Camissa Heritage Tour, and Lucille Campbell of which retraces South Africa’s colonial past and its connection to the Netherlands, telling the story of the country’s Indigenous communities, the ‘San’ and ‘Khoi’, who inhabited South Africa’s landscape dating back thousands of years. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Jannie Strydom, CEO of Agri Western Cape, about the impact the unseasonal cold weather and snow is having on farms across the province.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Singabakho Nxumalo, Department of Corrections spokesperson about the Gang Combatting Strategy which has yielded positive results, with the number of gand-related incidents declining noticeably over the past ten years from 1035 cases in the 2014/2015 period down to 732 for 2021/2022, and down even further to 271 incidents over the 2023/2024 period.

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An Israeli ground offensive appears very close; melting glaciers change topography of border between Switzerland and Italy; the tourist who bumped into Nessie. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Nathalie Rosa Bucher, an author and researcher living in Beirut. Since the attacks by Israel, she has moved to Tripoli where she is currently trying to assist a project to feed scores of displaced people.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber about his five-year plan to digitise their services, allowing anyone with internet access to access services online.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Billy Claasen, director of the Rural and Farmworkers Development Organization, about the arrest of a farmer who is accused of running down a six-year-old child he accused of stealing orange from his property. I similar incident happened in Klawer in 2022 where a teen was also killed for taking fruit from a farm.

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OpenAI has started rolling out advanced voice mode for ChatGPT, but this will be for those with subscriptions (which start at US$20 per month). But how good is it, considering how robovoices on online videos are so awful on the ear? Lester Kiewit speaks to Nazareen Ebrahim, CEO of Naz Consulting International.

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