Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

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 Palesa Motaung,  an Agri-fintech co-founder who aims to be a key player in Africa’s agricultural revolution by building sustainable food systems through her start-up and building her network to collaborate more with other like-minded individuals.

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Recently, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned a judgement from the Gauteng High Court, in which law firm Edward Nathan Sonnenberg (ENS) was found liable for a property buyer losing R5.5 million to cyber fraud. The victim’s email account had been hacked and criminals then make contact pretending to be from the law firm, providing the victim with banking details of a fraudulent account. Lester Kiewit speaks to Zaakir Mohamed, Director, Head of Corporate Investigations and Forensics, CMS South Africa, who says the court ruling should be welcomed as it reflects well-established common law.

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We conclude our conversations with Crystal Orderson as we discuss the role of banks such as RMB when it comes to Sustainable Finance in Africa and growth opportunities on the African continent. In this final segment, we look at emerging markets. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to City of Cape Town executive mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, to discuss the implications of constructing without obtaining authorisations, especially when the building far exceeds what the erf is zoned for. 

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Sir Rod Steward booed in Germany over his support for Ukraine; bad news for news as people are increasingly turning off current affairs. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Ute Kuhlmann, of Woodstock Residents' Association, and heritage and planning subcommittee chair, to discuss the new layout of the cycling lane on Albert Road in Woodstock, which appears to be quite narrow and on the right-hand side of parking bays. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Gustavo de Carvalho, Senior Researcher on Africa's relations with global powers, BRICS and multilateralism at the South African Institute of International Affairs, on how the changing stance on bringing peace to Ukraine in its two-year war with Russia.

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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 GUDGU, producers of healthy, sugar-free drinks and snacks, which was founded by Pieter du Plessis after his own successful weight loss journey.

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We tend to live in a throwaway society, where appliances are deemed uneconomical (or impossible) to repair because manufacturers don’t keep replacement parts around for very long after a product has been on the market. Patricia Schröder is the CEO of Circular Energy, a not-for-profit, Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO), and she is calling for legislation which would give us the right-to-repair such items.

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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 askOsca, a call-centre business in Grassy Park.

https://igniteyourbusiness.co.za/ 

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