Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

The concept of an analogue life refers to a lifestyle that emphasises physical, tangible experiences and interactions over digital or virtual ones. This approach seeks to balance or counteract the pervasive influence of technology and digital media in everyday life. Lester Kiewit speaks to Brett Rogers, Influence Lead at HaveYouHeard Marketing. 

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Paul Kahanowitz joins Lester Kiewit to pay tribute to John Williams, the long-time guardian of Dalebrook Pool, a family favourite located between St James and Kalk Bay. John's contract with the city has ended. Despite being unable to read or write, John is known for his enthusiasm and skills in carpentry, mechanics, electrics, plumbing, and safety.

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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 Greenway Africa, a social enterprise that provides professional advisory services and technology solutions.  

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Professor Nyasha Mboti joins Lester Kiewit to introduce Apartheid Studies (AS), a new academic discipline addressing ongoing historical and socio-cultural issues and advocating for reversing the traditional flow of knowledge from the global North to the South.

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Panic and a stampede at a religious gathering; a clever plan from the European Space Agency inspired by Lego; America’s celebrity stingray has died. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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What does it take to hold government to account by being an opposition party? Lester Kiewit speaks to Athol Trollip,  Action SA’s caucus leader, who was the leader of the opposition in Parliament for a few years (2009 – 2011) when he was with the Democratic Alliance, about running an efficient and effective opposition movement, and whether either the EFF or MP Party is ready to take the mantle from the DA. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Chris Yelland, EE Business Intelligence MD, and energy analyst, about two developments on South Africa’s energy landscape. Firstly, the Minister of Electricity will now also be responsible for energy, and the unbundling of Eskom has taken its first steps as the National Transmission Company of SA.

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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   Saa Michel Tolno, a youth advocate and policy advisor focused on Sustainable Development Goals, mentorship, and gender equality.

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Did you know there are coffee growers in South Africa? Although plantations here are not as vast as in other countries, they do supply the market with fine coffee beans. Lester Kiewit speaks to Dylan Cumming, managing director of Redberry & Beaver Creek Coffee Estate, to learn more about this industry.

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The Democratic Alliance’s Solly Malatsi has been announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa as the new Minister of Communications. Lester Kiewit speaks to Michael Markovitz, Head of GIBS Media Leadership Think Tank (and a former SABC board member) about the future of the SABC and the funding of the broadcaster given the DA’s stance on the state broadcaster. The conversation then shifts to Khalik Sherrif, eMedia CEO, on the state of South Africa’s migration to Digital Terrestrial Television, and whether it should be scrapped given the many delays in completing the switchover and advances in broadcasting technology.

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