Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit

Sports have always been played at a competitive level at schools, especially when it comes to the more popular sports where we have fierce inter-school rivalries. Lester Kiewit speaks to Tony-Lynne Monger, physiotherapist and clinical director at The Balance Group, about school sport-related injuries. 

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Murray Ingram who has been appointed as Ghana’s head rugby coach. Ingram, from Cape Town, is the founder of Connect Academy and Connect Performance.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Dr Anthony Turton of the Center for Environmental Management at the University of Free State, about why South Africa is on the brink of a water crisis if we do not devote enough resources and experts to solve the core issues.

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Stark stories of hostages and fireworks from Gaza and East Jerusalem as a Palestinian boy is shot dead after setting off fireworks; a former ally of Alexei Navalny attacked with hammer; the man who spent over 70 years in an iron lung has passed away. Lester Kiewit gets all the details from Adam Gilchrist.

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Lester Kiewit speaks to Marshall Nelson of the Mitchells Plain Integrated Development Forum, about accusations from the City of Cape Town, that groups like theirs are adding to the threats posed by extortion rackets, putting the brakes on projects like the AZ Berman MyCITI development.

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After almost three years of negotiations, government’s talks with the Takatso Consortium as a private equity partner for South African Airways (SAA) are off. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan made the announcement yesterday. Lester Kiewit speaks to aviation analyst, Phutego Mojapele.

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 In order for our democracy to thrive and for our elections to be free and fair, independent election observers are needed on the ground on election day. Groundwork Collective (GWC) has just launched their Independent Election Observation registration portal, calling on all registered South Africans to sign up to be independent election observers at the polls on 29 May when South Africans will cast their votes in the 2024 National and Provincial Elections. Lester Kiewit speaks to Mbali Ntuli, founder and CEO of Groundwork Collective. 

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Lester Kiewits speaks to HaveYouHeard’s Kirsty Bisset about the growth of connected TVs (CTV) and particularly CTV advertising. Essentially, a CTV is any TV set connected to the internet, most commonly used to stream videos, but it also covers gaming consoles and set-top boxes which are similarly connected to the Internet. 

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A lot of importance is placed on a person’s academic qualifications when hiring or promoting them. But there are those who will take their chance and lie about their qualifications in order to improve their odds of landing a position, and it has become vital to ensure that credentials are verified. On this panel discussion, Lester Kiewit speaks to Martin Hall, non-executive director in South Africa for UK-based Advanced Secure Technologies, and Allan Pike, CEO of Key Recruitment. 

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AirBnB acts to stop owners from snooping on guests; toxic cat on the loose in Japan. Lester Kiewit gets the details from Adam Gilchrist. 

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