Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Lester Kiewit speaks to Anton van der Bijl, Solidarity’s Deputy Chief Executive of legal matters, about the legal action they are taking against the newly adopted National Health Insurance, and why they believe it is unconstitutional.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Craig Lambinon, spokesperson for the National Sea Rescue Institute, about a rescue that saw 9 men plucked from the sea, while 11 others were lost at sea after their fishing trawler sank, about 30 nautical miles off the coast of Cape Town.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Shaun Meintjes, a Financial Adviser at Consult by Momentum, about why you should not cancel your medical aid membership now that the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has been signed by the President.

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Lindi is a South African currently living in Dubai, and she cast her ballot for the 2024 elections on Saturday 18 May. She related her experience to Lester Kiewit.

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The colder weather means more time to spend indoors and catch up on some binge-watching sessions. Matthew Jantjies-Green chats to Africa Melane about: season 3 of Bridgerton, which has just dropped; Fellow Travellers (American historical romance political thriller television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon); and Baby Reindeer (British dark comedy drama-thriller miniseries created by and starring Richard Gadd, adapted from his autobiographical one-man show of the same name.

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Illicit trade with China is fuelling  insurgency in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province. The endangered material is wild rosewood which, in value, outprices trade in rhino horn and ivory; Senegal has bought back from France the library of their poet Presifent Léopold Sengor. The book will go on display in s museum on Senghor's life. Jean-Jacques Cornish speaks to Africa Melane.

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Gaza’s new harbour as America’s instant aid port arrives; and Europe holds annual mullet festival. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Africa Melane.

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Africa Melane speaks to Deon van Zyl, chair of the Western Cape Property Development Forum, about some of the lessons we need to learn from the tragic collapse of a building under construction in George, while being mindful that there will still need to be a formal investigation on the cause of the tragedy. 

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Africa Melane speaks to Panji Winston Chirwa, Deputy High Commissioner at the Malawi High Commission in South Africa, to discuss the assistance being provided to the victims and families of the recent building collapse in George, as a number of the construction workers were foreign nationals. 

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Franco Camerena will be voting in the 2024 Elections today as a South African living abroad in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He joins Africa Melane to describe the atmosphere, the execution of election preparations, and the level of efficiency at the venue assigned to serve nationals abroad.

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