Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

In recent weeks, Hezbollah has been featured more and more in the news due to an escalation of strikes and counterstrikes with Israel. But what do we know about Hezbollah? Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Quraysha Ismail Sooliman, Programme Director for Public Engagement and Science at the Centre for Mediation in Africa.

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Key talks in the U.S.  for Ukraine’s President Zelensky; big claims against P Diddy and Mohammed al Fayed; romance in adversity for two ship passengers marooned in Belfast. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Anroux Marais, the Western Cape Minister for Police Oversight and Community Safety, about a shootout between SAPS and a suspected extortion gang who had targeted Du Noon business owners. This comes weeks after all levels of government – local and national – signed a MOU with SAPS on a united way forward to reducing crime and crushing extortion rackets.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Basic Education Minister, Siviwe Gwarube, about her announcement that South Africa’s education system is under severe strain and budget cuts are now starting to impact education outcomes.

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With summer on the way, many Capetonians will be looking to some activities to get them out in the open again, but knowing that some people will be bored by traditional activities, Brett Rogers, Influence Lead at HaveYouHeard Marketing, shares with Lester Kiewit some of the “new” exercises that are trending, including: rucking, animal flow, sandbag training, and plyometric training. 

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Rugby is a physical sport that sees a lot of impact between players, and despite the implementation of safety rules to ensure the wellbeing of players, serious injuries do still occur. Following the sad death of Western Cape rugby player Ashwill Sauls from an apparent punctured lung, Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Nic Kruger, Head of the Acute Spinal Cord Injury Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital, to discuss if we need additional safety measures out in place. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Michael Tembo, the father of 6-year-old Eva who has been missing since 1 July, and to Susanna Kennedy, a transitional facilitator, whose biological father is alleged to have kidnapped the child.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to investigative journalist Caryn Dolley about her upcoming book, “Man Alone: Mandela’s top cop – exposing South Africa’s ceaseless sabotage”, which tells the story of how Apartheid-era policing structures lay the foundations for police-gangster collusion and how these have endured into democracy, from the vantage point of retired policeman  André Lincoln. 

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Chaos in Lebanon as israel continues cross-border attacks; a Swiss suicide-pod is used for first time, prompting arrests; Meryl Streep says cats have more freedom than women under Taliban rule. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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As the world tries to balance out the increase in atmospheric carbon through mechanisms such as carbon-offsets and green hydrogen schemes as well as land being converted for industrial-scale agriculture, we’re seeing a worrying trend that’s directly impacting the African continent. Lester Kiewit speaks to Professor Ruth Hall of the University of the Western Cape’s Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) about the worrying trend of green-grabbing and how it is impacting on indigenous people. 

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