Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Ben Graham Jones, an elections consultant who has done work with many governments internationally. This time he takes a look at the general elections which have taken place in his own backyard, the United Kingdom, where voters went to the polls yesterday after six weeks of intense campaigning by the participating political parties.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to former Scopa chair Themba Godi about why there is a need to create a special oversight committee for the presidency as Cyril Ramaphosa draws more critical functions like public enterprises, into his office.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Jane Meyer, co-ordinator of the Mouille Point Ratepayers' Association on the 60-year-old dilapidated building on Bay Road which is a concern to residents in the area. 

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South-East Asian countries seek BRICS membership; Vape sales limited to pharmacies in Australia; no more hugs with Koalas at popular Queensland sanctuary.  Katie Macdonald shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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In this year’s Nedbank Business Ignite with CapeTalk, we’re recognising and rewarding small businesses that have dared to scale-up. We’re talking about businesses that have expanded their clientele, innovated their offerings, or transformed their operations and, in doing so, seen remarkable growth. We’ve been asking these businesses to enter. Today’s featured business is redAcademy, an organisation committed to building a sustainable pipeline of skilled software developers.      

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Following a recommendation from the World Bank, four formerly- separate industry ombud schemes have now been merged under the National Financial Ombud Scheme (NFO). They were the Ombudsman for Banking Services South Africa (OBS); the Credit Ombud (CO); Ombudsman for Long-Term Insurance (OLTI) and Ombudsman for Short-Term Insurance (OSTI). To find out how this impacts on operations, as well as to discuss the role of their services, Lester Kiewit speaks to Denise Gabriels, Lead Ombud for the Life Insurance Division at the National Financial Ombud Scheme.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that former US President Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions that were within his constitutional powers as president in a landmark decision recognising for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution. To get an understanding of what this ruling entails, Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. henry Brady, the Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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A devastating storm as Hurricane Beryl barrels across Jamaica and nears Cayman Islands; bogus stories from Russia are flooding American media; and the “French Excalibur” has been stolen. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Farai Mtero, a senior researcher from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, to discuss the recent separation of the Ministry of Agriculture from the Ministry of Land Reform and Rural Development.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Yashna Singh about a pioneering study which shows that a six-monthly injection of a new prophylaxis drug gives young women complete protection from HIV infection. Dr Singh is the principal investigator at the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at Groote Schuur which was part of the study.

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