Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

A number of museums in Cape Town will be offering free entry to the public on Heritage Day (24 September). Lester Kiewit speaks to Melody Kleinsmith, Marketing and Communications Manager: Department of Advancement at Iziko Museums of South Africa.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Liam Del Carme, Sunday Times senior sportswriter on why we’re unfairly placing all the blame on Manie Libbok.

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Remembering Alberto Fujimori, former Peruvian president; deepening drought across South America; entrepreneurs betting big on carbon markets in the Amazon. Prof. Lyal White of GIBS and also the Brenthurst Foundation shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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The City of Cape Town has collated its first Waste Strategy to navigate the significant challenges it faces in managing waste due to rapid urbanisation, population growth, and increasing consumption patterns, and they are inviting comments from the public. Lester Kiewit speaks to City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Waste Management, Alderman Grant Twigg.

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Escalating cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah; another mass shooting in the U.S.A., this time in Alabama; 80 years since the events of A Bridge Too Far a.k.a Operation Market Garden. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Michael Bagraim, DA MP and member of the Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour, about the suspension of Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Commissioner,Teboho Maruping, after a forensic investigation by an independent law firm found that Maruping had failed to ensure effective, efficient and transparent systems of financial and risk management were adhered to at the UIF, for an untested job creation programme that was to be run at a cost of R5billion.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Ndabezinhle Sibiya, spokesperson for the Kwazulu-Natal MEC for Transport and Human Settlements, to get an update on the impact of heavy snowfalls in the province, especially along the N3 where motorists were trapped.

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Lester Kiewit spoke to Karam Singh, Executive director from Corruption Watch for a recap on the arrest by the NPA of Eskom fraud-accused Michael Lomas

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The braai is the quintessential South African dining experience, but with the cost of living constantly on the rise, are we having to sacrifice some menu items and replace them with others? Lester Kiewit speaks to Mervyn Abrahams, Programme coordinator at the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group and he joins us now.

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Should Apartheid-era statues and monuments be moved away from their prominent areas of display and if so, where should they be relocated to? Lester Kiewit speaks to Thabo Manetsi, Acting CEO of the National heritage Council of South Africa.

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