Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit is joined by Alderman Xanthea Limberg, Mayco Member for Energy, to discuss Cape Town’s policy of collecting municipal debt via prepaid electricity purchases. This policy, part of Cape Town’s Credit Control and Debt Collection Policy, allows the city to recover outstanding debts for property rates and services through deductions from prepaid electricity purchases, a process often referred to as 'piggy backing.'

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber who has announced he will be working in partnership with the City of Cape Town to ensure the rule of law is revived and carry out legal evictions at key sites across the city.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to relieved mom, Siba, whose son Lifalethu, 11, walked from his Simon’s Town school to his Makhaza Khayelitsha home, covering nearly 40km. And all this because a Golden Arrow bus driver would not allow him on the bus because the learner had lost his ticket. The driver has since been suspended.

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We continue highlighting the 2024 cohort of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation’s Leading for Humanity Programme. This week we are speaking to   Sanelisiwe Sibiya, who is a Legal Advisor at Nedbank, where she is also an active participant in the National Contributor business strategic pillar programme which is run under the bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking division, as well as involved in initiatives aimed at higher education advocacy, transformation, and DEI (diversity, equity, and Inclusion).

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Lester Kiewit and Vincent Lilane, Business Development Representative at the international ride-hailing service, inDrive, explore the rapid expansion of the e-hailing industry in South Africa, which Lilane says has a current penetration of over 21% of the population. They discuss key trends driving growth, the increasing demand for alternative transport options, and the impact of new technologies on market dynamics.

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Peak traffic flow into Cape Town has been heavily delayed due to flooding of the lanes opposite Century City, and this has been caused by recent rains and the adjacent wetlands being overfull, so drainage has been compromised. Lester Kiewit speaks to Tertius Simmers, Western Cape MEC for Infrastructure.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Bernadette “Burny” Enever, who has finally won her case against former employer Barloworld, for her unfair dismissal in 2022, after she had tested positive for Cannabis, despite the employers not being able to prove that her work was impaired. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to journalist and editor, Andrew Trench, about the case of Louis van Schoor, who was known as the “Apartheid Killer” after he shot and killed 39 black people, while operating as a security guard. A BCC documentary is shedding new light on van Schoor’s reign of terror in the Eastern Cape. 

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Hard questions for US Secret Service boss over Trump shooting; UAE protestors arrested despite it being about Bangladesh; an Italian journalist in trouble for being “heightist”. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Ricardo Gressel, a member of Democrats Abroad South Africa, about President Joe Biden pulling out of the presidential race, and the backing for his VP, Kamala Harris, who will now take on Donald Trump for the White House. 

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