Views and News with Clarence Ford

Clarence Ford speaks to Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about stories trending online.

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Former world boxing champion Dingaan Thobela was found dead in Johannesburg on Monday aged 57 after suffering ill health, a family member told AFP. Known as the 'Rose of Soweto', he boxed professionally for 16 years from 1990 and claimed three world titles in two weight divisions.Thobela won the World Boxing Organization lightweight title in 1990, the World Boxing Association lightweight crown three years later and the World Boxing Council super-middleweight title in 2000. 

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Clarence Ford speaks to Mandy-Lee Myerson.

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Daily Maverick Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee has been touring the country in the run up to the 2024 elections, one of the sites she visited was the Estina dairy farm where the Gupta family first got involved in State Capture.

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Clarence Ford speaks to Reverend June Dolley Major, a GBV activist and proponent of the movement.

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Clarence Ford speaks to Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about stories trending online.

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Chocolate lovers, I have some bad news for you this morning. The world of chocolate is facing immense cocoa shortages and now supply is in crisis.

According to a recent Bloomberg report, a shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana (the two countries responsible for 60% of global production) and with chocolate makers around the world reliant on West Africa for cocoa, there is significant concern about the impact on the prices of chocolate and the livelihood of farmers

Anthony Gird, Co-Founder of Honest Chocolate shares more now on this may impact on capetonians 

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Clarence Ford speaks to Pete Ross Broadcast Journalist at BBC World Service.

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Lighting strikes over the weekend resulted in several fires in multiple areas, reported Table Mountain National Park . According to South African National Parks (SANParks), firefighting crews from the Cape of Good Hope main road have been redeployed to the fire currently situated above Skeleton Gorge and the Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir along the Back Table within the park.

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Whistleblower living in exile Athol Williams joined Clarence Ford live from the UK. Athol was crucial in bringing Bain to book for their part in State Capture.

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