Today with Kieno Kammies

Today with Kieno Kammies

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  • The World View

    Guest: Adam Gilchrist looks at the world stories

    (1)The Barcelona Gang Targets (the Terrorist cell was planning major
    attacks). (2) Carnival Arrests (a police swoop across London before the Notting Hill
    Carnival

    6 min
  • Urban Safety report highlights crime hot spots in Cape Town

    Guest: Guy Lamb Co-director of the Institute of Safety Governance and Criminology at UCT

    The SAPS annual performance plan, shows the intent to gradually decrease officer numbers. This plan is currently being tabled in parliament but there is already great
    concern about the impact that this would have on safety in our communities. The State of Urban Safety Report is a recearch document which looks intocrime hotspots and the causes behind why these areas are crime hotspots.

    12 min
  • Guptas sell ANN7 and The New Age to Mzwanele Manyi

    Guests: Sikhonathi Mantshantsha Deputy editor financial mail and Sam Sole
    Senior Investigative Journalist at amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism.

    A R450m vendor financing deal is what it took for A firm owned by Mzwanele
    Manyi to purchase ANN7 and The New Age Newspaper from the Gupta's.
    Here is some of what he said in an interview with Koketso Sachane last
    night.

    9 min
  • What happens to drugs that are seized by the police

    Guest: Robbie Robberts Director of Law Enforcement at City of Cape Town.

    Yesterday morning we got chatting regarding what happens to abalone that
    is siezed by the police this morning we touch on narcotics and what the police do with drugs that are confiscated by SAPS.

     

    4 min
  • Major banks in SA prepare for class action lawsuit

    Guest: Advocate Douglas Shaw legal expert and advocate.

    South Africa’s largest banks could be facing a R60 billion claim related to
    their conduct in attaching and selling the homes of defaulting debtors at
    prices below market value. According to BusinessTech - About 100 000 homes have been repossessed by banks and sold in execution since 1994. It is estimated that 10% of these homes were sold for close to market value, with the remaining 90% sold
    below prevailing market values.

    8 min
  • Is Gentrification in the Mother City a necessary evil?

    Guest: Rob Kane Chairman at Central City Improvement District

    On yesterday's show, we heard from California-based producer Ethan Lader
    how gentrification is also affecting those living in Venice Beach.
    It is an issue that also affects many of you here in Cape Town, as
    professionals are willing to pay quite a bit to live closer to the city centre.

    11 min
  • Are snakes coming out of hibernation early in 2017?

    Guest: Shaun Macleod Co-Ordinator at Western Cape Snake Rescue.

    Most of the usual water sources have dried up due to the drought, so snakes
    will smell their way around and find themselves coming into our neighbourhoods - as that's also where the mice will have gone to in search of food.

    4 min

About Today with Kieno Kammies

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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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