Muizenberg Beach is a world famous as a blue flag beach and beginner surfers paradise. It's a family beach and draws huge crowds on public holidays and surfers throughout the year. It's an alcohol free zone yet hundreds of people try to smuggle huge quantities of liquor past the law enforcement agencies on these holidays. This creates massive problems of drunkenness, drownings and various forms of alcohol related crime.
This past festive season the community of Muizenberg decided enough was enough and joined all the various law enforcement agencies and neighbourhood watches to try put a stop to the problem. We had an amazingly successful season with more than 1000 units of alcohol being confiscated just on New Years day.
Despite these successes alcohol was still being purchased after the confiscation from local liquor outlets and making its way on to the beach. Catherine Dillon of the Muizenberg/Lakeside Ratepayers Association was tasked with finding a solution. Joined with Dr John Cartwright on this podcast they share how a very positive solution was found with the support of local business.

What is gentrification and how is this global phenomenon affecting our local community in Muizenberg?
In this episode we chat about our Muizenberg water task team and developments taking place specifically in identifying people at risk who would need water if Day Zero arrives.
We also chat to Etienne who is from France, about the worldwide phenomenon of gentrification and its impact on Muizenberg. With the renewal and rejuvenation of a suburb property prices and rentals skyrocket forcing out residents who don't have the means to pay higher prices. This marginalisation pushes people to the fringes of a community. Unfortunately it's a fact of life but we look at ways to stop the break up of a community through prosperity and renewal.
We also take a look at some of the political changes that have taken place over the last week and discuss how it affects us at a local level.

This week we have regular Whats Happening in the hood and water task team update with Fergus Turner and then we get an update from Kevin Rack about another potential plastics disaster. With the water crisis we are experiencing and the kindheartedness of people from around South Africa, we are having an influx of millions of plastic bottles. This is potentially another massive disaster as there is a great possibility that hundreds of thousands of these will reach our water canals and vleis. Kevin discusses this issue and tries to come up with solutions.
We also chat with Kaylee Benkenstein a young architect who shares her experiences about moving from Gauteng to Muizenberg and how our local community impacted.
Finally Wayne gives an update on public safety happenings in the hood.

In this episode we have a regular update as to what is happening in Muizenberg at the beginning of the show. Then we chat with an interesting lady who has just moved into an entrepreneirual space at the Hive. Her venture is called the Little Red Bike and she provides quality vegan food to the community. Perhaps not my style of cooking, but, she gives an interesting take on what veganism is all about.
We also interview a trio of volunteers, two from Holland and one from Japan, about the Knowledge to Share Foundation. They're in South Africa to help train entrepreneurs in all aspects of business in order to make them successful small business owners.
There is also an update on the water task team from our community talking about how we in Muizenberg are going to deal with the issues arising from the crisis e.g. how will the vulnerable get their water after day zero.

In this episode we meet Claire, Serge and Andile and hear their story that takes us from Muizenberg to Masiphumulele and from Hip Hop to graffiti. In 2014 they had the idea of creating a mobile studio out of a refrigeration container. Four years later, situated in the suburb of Masi, we find a creative space that is being used as a small business and a creative space for community collaboration.
They also chat about Hip Hop and how it influences their creativity in both art and music. We end the podcast with a track of hip hop music created by Andile in his shipping container studio.

In this episode we chat to an intern from Boston, Massachusetts in the USA and he shares some of his journey to the village of Muizenberg. Many people don't realise that the diversity of Muizenberg includes many foreign volunteers and interns who serve the people in our community.
We have an update on the water crisis and plans to get the community more involved in taking control of the water shortages.
Then finally we chat to Darren who has just moved his coffee business to a space within the Hive. He share some interesting coffee facts.

Although the title of this episode may sound ominously dramatic it highlights the major problem we have in Muizenberg along our beautiful waterfronts at the beach and vlei.
we chat with Kevin Rack and Calvin two plastic activists who highlight the problem of styrofoam and degraded plastics at the beach and vlei. Although the problem may seem huge and past the tipping point, there is always something we can do.
So we encourage you to get involved at whatever level you are able to. Let's be a part of the solution and not the problem.

In this episode we chat with Abongile a member of the Vrygrond community, and originally from the Eastern Cape, who joined the Brazilian team on a weekend away of getting back to nature in the Cape Point Nature Reserve. We take for granted many things that people from different communities have never experienced. He dived into the icy ocean clothes and all. This was a first time experience for him. He was amazed by the "dogs" he saw swimming in the sea that didn't have regular feet, The first time he saw seals.
We also chat about the water crisis and how communities need to collaborate to make it through the potential post "Day Zero" crisis.
Fergus also updates us on some of the events happening in the community of Muizenberg.

In this episode we chat to a group of Brazilian girls who have come to experience the community of Muizenberg and learn how the projects and community building works. We chat with a few of the young ladies about their experiences here in Muizenberg and what they are taking back with them to Sao Paulo in Brazil. The facilitator of the group, is Roberta who spent a year here in Muizenberg back in 2015. She loved the experience so much she now is bringing teams to Muizenberg to learn and experience community building. One of the common experiences they've had is that people talk to each other.