Views and News with Clarence Ford

Clarence Ford speaks to Lindsay Dentlinger, EWN Parliamentary correspondent.

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Clarence Ford speaks to Alicia English, author Artists Nativ Solaris and Oz Martian.

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Clarence Ford speaks to Prof Jonny Peter Head of the Allergy and Immunology unit at the UCT Lung Institute.

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Every Thursday we try & honour someone who tries to make the world a better place.In today’s Everyday Heroes slot, we will be celebrating, cherishing and thanking the tireless search and rescue volunteers across Cape Town.SARZA seeks to provide competent, efficient volunteer emergency search and rescue services dedicated to saving human life and able to operate in rough and difficult terrain conditions alongside other search and rescue services in times of natural or man-made, civil disaster or national emergencies Sarza chairman Mike Muller shares more now  

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The phrase “to play billiards well is a sign of a misspent youth,” is often credited to the philosopher Herbert Spencer, who meant it as an insult upon losing a game of English Billiards at his Club to a young man who, indeed, had grown up in a pool hall.The phrase stuck, as did the connotation of pool parlours being a dodgy dive.However, when Craig Bouwer returned to SA after decades of social and professional billiards playing, touring five continents, he set out to change the offering, ditch the stereotype and open the sport to a new generation of athletes.  Hence Sessions Billiards Club in Tyger Valley, Cape Town was formed. An upmarket, internationally recognised, (the first in Africa), billiards club that provides a safe, clean, accessible and family friendly environment. 

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Clarence Ford speaks to Sertan Sanderson Journalist/Editor Programming Directorate General at Deutsche Welle.

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A study by University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) scientists, to be published in an upcoming issue of Women’s Health journal, has found a clear relationship between maternal heat exposure during the month preceding conception and miscarriage in a sub-Saharan African setting. The scientists believe that it is likely that progressive climate change leading to increased temperatures will exacerbate existing challenges for women’s reproductive health in this region resulting in increased pregnancy loss. Dr Yoshan Moodley, Public Health researcher and epidemiologist explains more now 

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What’s trending on socials? Barbara Friedman joins us in studio to give us the scoop

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Tomorrow, civil society organisation, Stop Live Export SA (SLESA) will be joining citizens and activists around the world to commemorate this year’s Ban Live Exports International Awareness Day (Friday 14 June) in the form of a public protest against the barbaric pain-for-profit trade that inflicts unnecessary cruelty on thousands of sentient animals in Cape Town’s CBD commencing at 3.30pm.Carli Costa, Protest Coordinator 

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Clarence Ford speaks to Christie Stanbridge Brand and campaign marketing's manager for Hyprop.

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