Today with Kieno Kammies

Today with Kieno Kammies

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  • The unique, private, not for profit business school
    Kieno Kammies speaks to Leigh Meinert Co-founder of Tsiba
    TSiBA is a unique, private, not for profit business school that helps people who cannot access opportunities to jump ahead in life. TSiBA does this by providing emerging leaders with full-tuition scholarships to study towards high quality, accredited academic courses that are focused on developing entrepreneurship and leadership.
    8 min
  • SAICE parts ways with Manglin Pillay following sexist article
    Kieno Kammies speaks to Naadiya Moosajee Co-founder Women in Engineering
    The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) last night announced that it has terminated Manglin Pillay’s position as CEO with immediate effect, following public outrage over his comments questioning whether women are suited to high-powered careers. SAICE president Errol Kerst said in a statement that the board has spent many hours “carefully deliberating the matter” after receiving “numerous responses” from concerned members about Pillay. Pillay’s column “Out on a rib”, featured in the July issue of the group's civil engineering industry magazine, asked if there should be an investment in attracting women to the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields as women are better suited to people or caring industries
    4 min
  • Accumulated rainfall as we see the back of winter
    Kieno Kammies speaks to Piotr Wolski Hydro-Climatologist at Climate System Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town
    At 67.4% full, our dams are looking a lot better now than at the same time last year when they had a combined level of only 35.2%. You will remember that July was one of the drier months this year especially when compared to May and June, but did things improve somewhat in August and how are things shaping up for September?
    10 min
  • Fighting fire with education
    Kieno Kammies speaks to Dr Richard Walls Head of Stellenbosch University's FireSUN team
    In a country where millions are crushed together in sprawling townships, it is perhaps not surprising that South Africa has one of the world’s highest fire related death rates per capita. We only have to recall the devastation of the Imizamo Yethu and Knysna
    fires of 2017 to know it can destroy lives in the blink of an eye and displace thousands.
    5 min
  • Why won't priests divulge crimes learnt of in the confessional?
    Kieno Kammies speaks to Archbishop Stephen Breslin Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cape Town
    The Catholic Church in Australia said last week that it would be opposing laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country's biggest religion and the Australian government.
    11 min

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From 9 am to 12 pm every weekday, veteran radio personality Kieno Kammies will champion the issues facing individual Capetonians by using the station’s vast network of contacts for good, while also courting controversy by holding governmental ministers to account and seeking the truth within the politics.

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