Tonight with Lester Podcast

By Tonight with Lester

Get the best of both worlds with Lester Kiewit, a writer for the Mail & Guardian by day and presenter by night. Rather than looking back at the news of the day, explore new subjects and new per

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September 15, 2019 Stop COCT vs Council
Guest : Sandra Dickson
Activist group Stop City of Cape Town is planning to take the City to court over
electricity tariffs.
Earlier this year, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa gave the City the green
light to increase electricity tariffs to R1,52 a unit.
The group’s founder Sandra Dickson said the city was charging an additional 24 cents
unlike other municipalities.
‘We found that most metro municipalities implemented the approved tariffs by Nersa,
whereas the city added more across all the blocks.”
The City’s Kadri Nassiep said there was nothing illegal or irregular about the electricity
tariffs.
He said the additional 24 cents is used, in part, to power street lights. He maintained the
city did not generate any profit from the tariffs.
Dickson said the group is seeking advice from various legal entities before heading to
court.
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12min
September 12, 2019 Anti Xenphobia and Anti GBV Music
Guest : Sylvestre Kabassidi
Tremaine Barnes
Whether he’s singing in French, English, Spanish or Lari and Lingala (local languages
from his homeland of the Congo Republic), Sylvestre is raising issues and making
people more conscious of the world around them. Tonight Sylvester will be playing us
his new song that was inspired by the latest outbreak of Xenophobic violence
Also Joining us later is Tremaine Barnes, a women's rights activist from Kimberley, Also
known as the Kaalvoet Prinses her song 41,000 Sisters from the forthcoming album,
State of the Nation is inspired from the battles that women in South Africa face every
day.
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15min
September 12, 2019 CHARLES MAISEL
Guest : Charles Maisel
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17min
September 12, 2019 Tech Talk with Nazareen
Guest : Nazareen Ebrahim | CEO of Socially Acceptable
www.sociallyacceptable.co.za
Side effects of social media
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8min
September 12, 2019 Hiking with Tim Lundy
Guest : Tim Lundy
Joshua Weiss
Alex Weiss
Forge walking app
Rescue recap
Safety recap
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21min
September 12, 2019 2019 Crime Stats
Guest : Eldred De Klerk | Senior Policing and Community Conflict Specialist at Africa
Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis |
Three of the country's policing precincts which recorded the most murders this financial
year are in Cape Town.
If the figures are anything to go by, Nyanga, Delft and Khayelitsha can be considered the
most dangerous areas in the country.
Nyanga detectives investigated 289 murder cases between April 2018 and March this
year; 19 fewer murders were recorded compared to the previous financial year.
In Delft, 247 people were murdered. That's 52 more than in 2018.
Khayelitsha recorded 221 murders; in the previous financial year, detectives in the area
investigated 192 murder cases.
The Philippi East police station is ranked fourth of the top 30 stations where the most
murders were reported.
Other Cape Town stations where more than 140 killings were probed include Harare,
Gugulethu, Mitchells Plain, Kraaifontein, Bishop Lavis and Mfuleni.
Most murders of the more than 21,000 killings were committed over weekends.
Cash-in-transit heists were down by just over 23%.
The number of drug crimes had also dropped.
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11min
September 11, 2019 #BeautifulNews
Guest : Nduny Funda
The year was 1989. South Africa was in the throes of apartheid. Women in townships
were the most oppressed on account of their gender, race, and class. Subjected to
atrocities at the hands of men, they had nowhere to turn. When Mandisa Monakali’s
husband assaulted her, there were no crisis centres nearby, counsellors who spoke her
language, or anyone to stand up for her.
The year was 1989. South Africa was in the throes of apartheid. Women in townships
were the most oppressed on account of their gender, race, and class. Subjected to
atrocities at the hands of men, they had nowhere to turn. When Mandisa Monakali’s
husband assaulted her, there were no crisis centres nearby, counsellors who spoke her
language, or anyone to stand up for her.
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10min
September 11, 2019 Food and Trees for Africa
Guest : Robyn Hills
Food and Trees for Africa is a Section 21 Non-Profit Organisation that addresses food
security, environmental sustainability, and greening. They initiate food gardens at
schools such as Mokone Primary School’s food garden provides fresh vegetables
including beetroot, cabbage, spinach, onion and cauliflower, all of which are used in the
school’s nutrition programme with any surplus sold to community members.
Another initative sees retailers like Shoprite & Checkers buying produce from
community food gardens where their customers can directly support the community
food gardens .
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8min
September 11, 2019 Nigerians leaving SA voluntarily
Guest : Marc Gbaffou
Hundreds of Nigerians have taken up the offer from the Nigerian Government to be
repatriated home due to the latest outbreak of xenophobic violence in SA. Private
Nigerian airline Air Peace volunteered to fly people for free back to the commercial
capital Lagos.
The repatriation came after riots in Pretoria and Johannesburg killed at least 12 people
as 1,000 foreign-owned businesses were targeted.
The nationalities of those killed have not been announced but Nigerians, Ethiopians,
Congolese, and Zimbabweans were attacked
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16min
September 11, 2019 National GBV and Femicide Plan
Guest : Bernadine Bachar
Government is working an on draft plan to combat Gender based Violence called THE
NATIONAL GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE & FEMICIDE STRATEGIC PLAN 2020 – 2030 it
outlines various strategies to combat the scourge of GBV violence in SA.
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10min

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