Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Billboard falls in India killing 14; manhunt after a prison van ambush in France,  a medal for sister who saved her twin from a crocodile. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Africa Melane. 

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Africa Melane speaks to Kristal Duncan-Williams, Project Lead at Youth Capital, a campaign advocating for policy change to solve unemployment. They discuss the number of unemployed persons increasing by 330,000 to 8.2 million during the first quarter of 2024, impact on the youth, and how this crisis is being ignored by campaigning parties.

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Africa Melane speaks to Professor Laetitia Rispel, Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand, to discuss the NHI Bill, which is due to be signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa (15 May 2024) and aims to provide universal access to quality healthcare in South Africa, as mandated by the Constitution.

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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 Kimberly Rodgers, who describes herself as a “narrative shifter, community builder, and equity champion. Kimberly hails from Washington DC and was in Cape Town for 10 days to take part in the programme. 

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Jimmy Golele is the Snr Education and Communication officer at The National Credit Regulator, and he joins Africa Melane to clarify that lenders can require credit life insurance for certain loans, though it isn't universally mandatory. He stresses the importance of understanding policy details, particularly exclusions and premium caps, to ensure affordable and fair coverage for borrowers.

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RMB is committed to investing in growth on the African continent, and they will be sharing their deep insights through the Africa Focus series on CapeTalk, hosted by Crystal Orderson. This week’s focus is on sustainable finance and why it is important for Africa, as well as the role of the African Development Bank in assisting African governments in accessing sustainable finance.

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Africa Melane, standing in for Lester Kiewit, speaks to journalist and concerned parent Liezel De Lange about a school project on clean water supply that was pulled by education bosses because it could negatively impact young people’s voting patterns.

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Cross-border co-operation leads to arrest of a people smuggler; Russian threat levels have out military conscription on the agenda. Adam Gilchrist shares details on all these stories with Africa Melane, standing in for Lester Kiewit. 

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A massive solar storm, the largest in twenty years, has been resulting in some spectacular nighttime light shows in the northern and southern skies.  Carl Lindemann is a former board member of Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, Cape section, and he has been fortunate enough to have seen two spectacular Aurora Borealis in his lifetime, but still hoping for his first Aurora Australis. He spoke to Africa Melane, standing in for Lester Kiewit, about how these phenomena occur.

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Africa Melane, standing in for Lester Kiewit, speaks to Colin Deiner, Head of Disaster Management in the Western Cape, to find out how the rescue operations in George is going, just over a week since a five-storey building collapsed with a 81 workers inside. 

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