Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to retired SA Navy officer Arne Soderlund about the visit to Cape Town by a squadron of Japanese maritime training vessels, the visit to our waters by the Japanese navy since 1918.

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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 StocklogCC, a leading supplier of German-engineered high-pressure systems and solutions to the maritime and offshore, naval, merchant shipping and food and beverage and other industrial sectors.

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Lester Kiewit is joined by Susan Brokensha, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of the Free State, to discuss the findings of studies on ChatGPT's effectiveness as an information source in South Africa, focusing on truthfulness and bias, and its future potential in shaping information accessibility and quality.

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The deadline to switch off analogue television broadcasts in South Africa has been moved so many times that the digital parameters agreed to are becoming outdated and should therefore be scrapped. This was the argument presented eMedia CEO, Khalik Sherrif, to a panel of ICASA councillors recently. Lester Kiewit speaks to Sherrif to find out why he believes this to be the case, and also gets a viewpoint from Michael Markowitz.

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Donald Trump’s former advisor reports to prison; King Charles opens Balmoral Castle to the public. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Ben Graham Jones, an elections analyst based in the UK and who has advised many governments in this field. He shares his view on South Africa’s GNU and expanded cabinet.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to political analyst, Dr Ongama Mtimka, about what is now expected of the country’s new block of opposition parties, as the government of national unity prepares to start its term. It can no longer be purely about disruption and grandstanding and has to be more critical in holding the state accountable.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Conroy Herandien, a founding member of the Presidential Protection Unit, about the importance of ministers having security detail, and why they simply cannot get rid of their “blue light brigade”.

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Many brands and companies make use of social media platforms to be more accessible to customers, but it also opens them up to abuse from haters. How does one strike the balance? Lester Kiewit speaks to Nazareen Ebrahim of Naz Consulting International. 

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Do you want your children to expend some of their pent-up energy this school holiday? Iziko Museums of South Africa in partnership with Zip Zap Social Circus is inviting you to join their Tumbling Workshops between 2-5 July at Iziko South African Museum, Old Mind Space. Lester Kiewit speaks to Vanessa Curnow-Fortune, Programmes Manager at Zip Zap Circus.

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