Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Even though he has only been in Cabinet for less than a week, Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has released a  Covid-19 beneficiary list for artists and those in the entertainment industry, citing that he is doing this for complete transparency and to root out corruption. Lester Kiewit speaks to Jack Devnarain, Chairman of the South African Guild of Actors, over concerns that some of those on the list might be assumed to be undeserving of the grants.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Bishop Brian Abrahams of the Moravian Church, after the town of Wupperthal was cut off from the outside world due to the recent storms. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Sobantu Tilayi, Chief Operating Officer of the South African Maritime Safety Authority, as operations are underway to prevent a listing ship from running aground on the Cape west coast.

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US Officials say they have uncovered Russian ‘bot farm’; South Korean politician under fire for linking rising male suicides to women; wedding crashers kicked out of a reception in Virginia. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Sasha Stevenson, the executive director of Section27 who have been representing some of the families of victims in the Life Esidimeni case. A court has now found that former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu and the former head of the Mental Health Directorate, Makgabo Manamela are responsible for the deaths of at least nine of the 144 victims.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Bronagh Hammond, spokesperson for the Western Cape Department of Education about school closures due to a devastating storm causing flooding and dangerous conditions for learners and staff.

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“Going green” is becoming far more systematised and regulated for organisations and carbon accounting measures and tracks how much greenhouse gas an organisation emits. Lester Kiewit speaks to Kirsty Bissett, MD of HaveYouHeard Marketing, about the concept of “Carbon Accounting”.

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Lester Kiewit is joined by Mervyn Abrahams, The Programme Coordinator for The Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity (PMBEJD) to consider the 8.5% bump in the National Minimum Wage to R27.58 per hour. They argue that it does not cover basic expenses, especially for domestic workers. They believe that a living wage could improve productivity without causing more unemployment.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to internationally renowned composer, pianist and academic Jeanne Zaidel Rudolph, about her role in the re-working of South Africa’s national anthem back in the mid-1990s. She was primarily responsible for the rewording of the final (English) stanza of the anthem.

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Is tennis seeing a decline in popularity as a result of restrictive barriers to entry? Are we seeing more and more tennis courts making way to Padel and Pickleball? Lester Kiewit speaks to Riad Davids, Vice President of Tennis SA.

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