Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) transport systems and operations impact area manager Dr Mathetha Mokonyama, about the soon to be tabled Fuel Price Intervention Plan, which government hopes will lower the cost of living. Dr Mokonyama discusses the options open to government.

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Tyre fitment and repair centres have observed an increase in vehicles with damaged wheels as a result of hitting potholes in Cape Town. The higher-then-usual rainfall of 2024 has led to an increase in potholes, as well as those which are larger and deeper. Lester Kiewit speaks to Malcolm Paul, owner of Point S Century City, which specialises in tyre fittings and wheel alignment. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Marco Botha, CEO of the Open Play Foundation, about an innovative water harvesting and storage system which was been constructed at Kayamandi Primary School.  Under a newly built artificial playing field you’ll find a custom-built water reservoir which has been constructed out of interlocking palettes, and it will store harvested rain water and also connected to a nearby borehole, and in turn fed into a four-phase water-purification system.

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According to a study by researchers in the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU), children in poorer communities are having to sit through lessons in classrooms with poor insulation and as a result experience unbearably high temperatures in summer and extreme cold in winters, with the added issue of elevated carbon dioxide levels due to efforts to stay warm by closing-off ventilation. Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Thinus Booysen from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Department of Industrial Engineering – University of Stellenbosch.

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According to a study by researchers in the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU), children in poorer communities are having to sit through lessons in classrooms with poor insulation and as a result experience unbearably high temperatures in summer and extreme cold in winters, with the added issue of elevated carbon dioxide levels due to efforts to stay warm by closing-off ventilation. Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Thinus Booysen from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Department of Industrial Engineering – University of Stellenbosch.

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Lester Kiewit gets the Africa Report from Jean Jacques Cornish who this week looks at Botswana’s giant gem find; Ghana’s oil refinery venture, and how the war in Gaza is keeping Africans stuck in Lebanon from getting home.

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Reactions to US Vice-President Kamala Harris’s speech at Democratic National Convention; the miracle of a 6-year-old boy who survived 5 days in Vietnam jungle; one of Australia’s famous gay penguins has died. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Online sports betting is undermining household budgets, especially among the more vulnerable.  This is the finding from a study in the USA where researchers, using financial data from 230,000 US households, found that the introduction of online sports gambling does not displace other spending but instead leads to new overspending and “significantly reduces households’ savings allocations.” Lester Kiewit speaks to Justin Balthrop, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Kansas, and one of the researchers involved in the study. 

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The Democratic National Convention has just concluded in Chicago, a month after the Republican Party held theirs in Milwaukee. Lester Kiewit speaks to Professor Christian Grose, Academic Director of the University of Southern California’s Schwarzenegger Institute, and also Professor of Political Science and International Relations, as well as Professor of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.

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Australians will soon have the legal right to ignore all work communications out of working hours; New Zealand’s White Island volcano has erupted again; Perth car park labelled sexist over bigger bays for women. Katie Macdonald shares all the details with Lester Kiewit.

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