Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Bertha Spaces is a program of the Bertha Foundation aimed at growing a global network of spaces in which activists come together to create, collaborate, and celebrate, and they have a presence in South Africa, Turkey, and the USA. Lester Kiewit speaks to Lerato Sitole, Director of Bertha Retreat.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Quinton Jacobs of Escape, an ultra-relay series that originated in Toronto, where runners would run non-stop from Toronto to cities such as New York, Boston, and Chicago, and then participate in the respective cities’ marathon as a victory lap. They are planning their longest-ever route for April 2025, running a 950km route along the Southern Cape and culminating in the Two Oceans Marathon.  

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Anja du Plessis, Associate Professor and Water Management Expert at the University of South Africa, to discuss critical strategies to address escalating water interruptions, including burst pipes, leaks, and water losses.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Michael Marchant, head of investigations at OpenSecrets, about what happens now that former Eskom bosses Matshela Koko and Brian Molefe have had the cases against them dropped by the NPA. 

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Controversial whale-hunting permit granted in Iceland; a longshot message for help written on beach. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Lester Kiewit. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Lawson Naidoo, the executive secretary of Casac, about the MK Party’s Constitutional Court bid to have Friday’s first sitting of the new parliament derailed, and the call for election results to be scrapped, and for a new election date.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Democratic Alliance spokesperson Solly Malatsi about the party’s federal council deciding to forge ahead with talks to form a new government with the ANC.

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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 Zuko Gqadavama, a community development practitioner, published author, research fanatic.

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Adventure tour operator Explore Worldwide has conducted research to find which popular hikes around the globe are the most congested, by analysing the length of popular walking routes and the number of associated Instagram posts. They concluded that Cape Town’s Table Mountain is South Africa’s busiest hiking venue, and 7th busiest in the world. Lester Kiewit speaks to Kosta Papageorgiou, the Chairperson of the Friends of Lions Head, do discuss whether visitor numbers might need to be introduced at some point in the future to preserve the beauty and tranquillity of the mountain. 

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We are joined in the studio this morning by Crystal Orderson to discuss the role of banks such as RMB when it comes to Sustainable Finance in Africa and growth opportunities on the African continent.  This week we’re talking about trade in Africa and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement. 

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