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 Bridget Hannah, an Innovation Director at the DG Murray Trust, leading the portfolio, 'All young people on pathways to productivity.

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Jacqui Uys is the Mayco Member for Finance in the City of Tshwane and joins Lester to speak on some of the entities in the city that owe sums of debt to the city for unpaid electricity.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Michael Hendrickse, the head of the IEC in the Western Cape, about exactly how special votes will work, ahead of the May 29 elections.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Ebrahim Fakir, consultant election analyst at EISA (Electoral Institute For Sustainable Democracy In Africa), about why we should be ignoring opinion polls which predict election results.

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Concerns over security at the Olympics opening ceremony; a race inquiry in China; and a hairy event in Florida. Lester Kiewit gets all the details from Adam Gilchrist.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Samuel H. Kennedy, leader of the political party Conservatives in Action (CIA SA), which was renamed in 2022 from the People’s Alliance, and their main aim is to be South Africa’s moral compass. 

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Mbekezeli Benjamin is a researcher at Judges Matter, and joins Lester to speak on his views surrounding the Electoral Court ruling on the eligibility of candidates.

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Due to the trend of online gaming and the streaming of television shows and movies, many households are opting for faster and faster internet connections – but do they really need the bandwidth? Lester Kiewit speaks to Paul Colmer, executive committee member at the Wireless Access Providers Association.

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Mike Finch is the Editor of Runner’s World and joins Lester now to unpack the idea that some runner's that competed in the Two-Oceans Marathon feel they were cut-off prematurely.

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Abdullah Ibrahim took Cape Town by Storm on Friday night with a performance at the City Hall on the same stage where he made his musical debut at 16 - more than 70 years ago. Lester Kiewit spoke to Abdullah Ebrahim about his legacy, the meanings of some of his iconic songs and folktales.

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