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VOC Breakfast

High-energy, informative and hard-hitting, Breakfast Beat packs a mean punch. This show is a current affairs and actuality show, which focuses mainly on issues that are of concern to the community that Voice of the Cape serves. The show feature interviews with prominent politicians, community activists, religious leaders, academic experts and ordinary people. Presenters Sabera, Goolam and producer Loushe make up this dynamic team – all very different personalities that make for interesting conversation, heated debates and plenty of laughs and tears. This show is listener driven and the team loves engaging with callers – no topic is off-bounds! We serve you breakfast every morning Monday to Friday from 6.30am to 9am.
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SA broiler farms feel the pinch as chicken imports sore

Chicken lovers take a listen to this! ''Chicken imports reached a new record high in 2018, according to an imports report drawn up by the South African Poultry Association (SAPA) and based on official SA Revenue Service statistics. Imports in 2018 totalled 538 434 tons, an increase on the previous…
22 Feb 2019 12 min

ASRI unpacks the 2019 National Budget Speech

So Finance minister Tito Mboweni's first National Budget came with no real surprises or shocks. Given the pressure-cooker that is state finances, especially those of struggling power utility Eskom, it appears to be a well-balanced act. To help us unpack the budget speech, with a particular focos on the South…
21 Feb 2019 19 min

CoCT Draft Water Strategy open for public participation

Should we still be saving water in Cape Town or not…can we still expect Day Zero… im not sure. But there is a City of Cape Town Draft Water Strategy being opened for public comments and recommendations to ensure that the city will be more resilient to future droughts. What…
20 Feb 2019 12 min

Whatsapp bullying leads to teenage girl taking her own life

Another incidence of bullying is believed to be at the centre of what has led a 13-year-old Doornpoort Primary School pupil in Pretoria to commit suicide. The parents of the Grade 7 pupil found her body in her bedroom on Monday. The Sinoville Crisis Centre, which deals with matters affecting…
20 Feb 2019 7 min

Soni Art wows with Surah Al Alaq public artwork at IPAF

Well theres an awe-inspiring piece of public artwork, right here in our hood! It’s the work of creative art duo Shaheen Soni and Tasneem Chilwan-Soni and its emblazoned on a wall in Tennyson Street in Salt River, as part of the International Public Art Festival. The theme for this year…
20 Feb 2019 12 min

Commuter recalls scary MyCiti bus stoning incident

What started as a peaceful commute for passengers yesterday morning soon descended into chaos when a pedestrian stoned at least two MyCiti buses in Cape Town's City Bowl. The buses were travelling in opposite directions on the Civic Centre-Camps Bay route along Kloof Nek Road. Lets hear more about this…
20 Feb 2019 9 min

Capetonians lose almost a week in traffic each year

Listen guys, so traffic I don’t need to tell you what a nightmare traffic is in Cape Town – and I feel its far worse since the start of the year. On most week days, traffic starts picking up from 2.30 pm in the afternoon already, which previously was unheard…
19 Feb 2019 11 min

Western Cape festive season road stats released

Yesterday, the Minister of Transport and Public Works, Donald Grant, and Provincial Traffic Chief, Kenny Africa,briefed the media on the successful Festive Season joint enforcement and road safety efforts, as well as the road death toll for that period. Is it anything to be concerned about? Lets find from MEC…
19 Feb 2019 9 min

SATHOA cautions hujaaj on haj packages

So we have heard that its very likely that South Africans who will perform this year will see a substanstial increase in haj packages. So we decided to chat to the South African Haj Travel Association this morning, to get more info on this and to hear about their discussions…
18 Feb 2019 9 min

DA MP Yusuf Cassim responds to ''pig remarks'' saga

So on Friday, we saw a huge ruckus on social media with regards to purported comments made by the DA’s Yusuf Cassim while Minister Naledi Pandor had been giving her SONA response. So the accusation is that Cassim mimicked pig noises while she delivered her address. And when one particular…
18 Feb 2019 14 min

Home Affairs Western Cape Q&A

So much to chat about this morning as we welcome two officials from the provincial department of Home Affairs instudio. And the reason why we have invited them is because we received such an overwhelming amount of questions and complaints following last week’s interview on the duplicate ID story. Also…
15 Feb 2019 44 min

Is your electricity supplied by CoCT or Eskom?

Well loadshedding remains the biggest topic of conversation in the country and of course we have received a lot of comments and questions on loadshedding in our local areas. We have the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy and Climate Change, Councillor Phindile Maxiti to talk to us on some…
14 Feb 2019 10 min

Energy expert predicted Eskom bankruptcy five years ago

One of the major talking points yesterday was the news that the power utility Eskom is technically insolvent. A document released by the department of public enterprises states that Eskom is now technically insolvent, and will “cease to exist at [the] current trajectory by April 2019”. Its likely only a…
14 Feb 2019 10 min

CRE outbreak at Tygerberg Hospital

Yesterday, we reported that the Neonatal Service at Tygerberg Hospital (TBH) is currently in the midst of a significant outbreak of Carba-penem-resistant entero-bacteria-ceae (CRE) with a number of babies affected. What exactly is CRE and what measures are being put in place to deal with the spread of this ourbreak?…
12 Feb 2019 7 min

Baby rescued from drain pipe

This story really warms my heart! A newborn baby girl was rescued from a storm drain pipe in Durban yesterday morning, after emergency services conducted a three hour mammoth rescue. Thank goodness that the baby was in good health and was treated immediately by paramedics We want to hear what…
12 Feb 2019 7 min

Portfolio committee discusses polices anti gang strategy

The Portfolio Committee on Police will today evaluate the current anti-gang strategy of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in its first meeting of 2019. The committee has invited civil society groups and community leaders from four provinces to the meeting to give testimony on their experiences and concerns about…
12 Feb 2019 8 min
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