Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Pension Fund Adjudicator, Muvhango Lukhaimane, about the red flag being raised as Two-Pot system reveals how employers have failed to make payments to administrators.

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US Presidential hopefuls face each other in Philadelphia; British tourist arrested on false charges in Tunisia; Apple ordered by EU to pay billions in taxes. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Justice Edwin Cameron, the Inspecting Judge of Correctional Services, who gave a presentation yesterday to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services, on the performance of the department for quarter 1 of 2024/25.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Minister for Public Service and Administration Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi, about the launch of Ethics Week, and the move to ensure that state employees suspended on a full salary are put to work in other departments where their skills can still be utilised.

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The City of Cape Town has started cleaning up dump sites and streets littered with waste in the overcrowded community of Dunoon; PRASA found to have unlawfully removed the belongings of a group of people living on land owned by the rail agency on the Foreshore; uncertainty and lack of organisation in build-up to Basketball tournament. Lester Kiewit speaks to GroundUp deputy editor Barbara October about the stories being featured this week. 

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US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met in Philadelphia for the first time in this year’s presidential campaign for a love television debate. Lester Kiewit speaks to Kamy Akhavan, Executive director of the University of Southern California (USC) Dornsife Center for the Political Future, to discuss the main issues addressed in the debate. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Gideon Mann, COO of SunBet, about the variances between opinion polls and betting patterns when it comes to global events such as the US Presidential elections.

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Semigration, the informal term used to describe the movement of people from one city to another within the same country, is not a uniquely South African occurrence, as it has also been noticed in countries such as Australia and the USA. Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Thomas Sigler, an economic and urban geographer at the University of Queensland. 

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Lester Kiewit and Dr. Cedric Sihlangu, the Secretary General of the South African Medical Association Trade Union (SAMATU), tackle concerns from Cape Talk listeners about whether public officials should be required to rely solely on state healthcare. They consider the legal and ethical issues surrounding The Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Act.

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Destructive super typhoon collapses bridge in Vietnam; the death of James Earl Jones, a.k.a the voice of Darth Vader; United Nations cracks down on “gendered” language. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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