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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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4,577 Episodes
2852 – 2872

Protection orders

The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children has raised concern about the disregard for protection orders, and the fact that many law enforcement officers have no knowledge on how to deal with these protection orders. We chat now to social workers at the Centre, Dorothea Gertse about protection orders…
25 Jun 2015 5 min

Parliamentary debate on Omar-al Bashir

Opposition parties took on the ANC over the escaoe if Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir. The ruling party has denounced the manner in which the International Criminal Court is “applying double standards” when it comes to the prosecution of those who have committed war crimes. The DA, ACDP, Cope and various…
24 Jun 2015 6 min

Substance abuse awareness week

The Western Cape government has identified substance abuse as one of the key areas of concern. This week sees the launch of the substance abuse awareness week. On the line to tell us more, we have the Western Cape Minister of Social development, Albert Fritz to give us feedback about…
24 Jun 2015 7 min

Xenophobia

While parts of South Africa saw a flare up of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in recent months, few reports seem to be stemming from the Cape Town community. VOC News reporter Raeesah Isaacs ventured to find out whether or not Cape Town is a more welcoming city to foreign…
24 Jun 2015 6 min

Accessible prayer spaces

The Muslim Judicial Council has formed a ground-breaking initiative with the City of Cape Town to improve the accessibility of prayer spaces in Cape Town. To tell us more is MJC public relations officer, Nabeweya Malick…
24 Jun 2015 10 min

Refugee children's project

World refugee day which is a commemoration of the strength, resilience and courage of millions of refugees around the world was held on Saturday. This morning we find out more about the refugee children's project which is a charity organisation with a mission of peacefully integrating refugees into South African…
23 Jun 2015 9 min

Political analyses about the 2016 municipal elections

The ANC plans to win back the Western Cape by all means necessary. The ruling party has now considering to rope in its veterans such as former Finance Minister, Trevor Manuel as well as the party's former former deputy secretary general, Cheryl Carolus. We chat now to political and communications…
23 Jun 2015 6 min

Daily Ramadan Dramedy (comedy-drama)EP3

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…
22 Jun 2015 8 min

Medical aid benefits capped

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…
22 Jun 2015 7 min

Iqaluit Islamic centre

Home to just over 8000 people the city of Iqaluit(ee-qa-lu-wait/pronounce quickly) falls in one of the most inhospitable regions in Canada, practically bordering the arctic circle far to the country's north-east. Despite being situated in such a far-flung region of the planet, the city does have a small but growing…
22 Jun 2015 11 min

Launch of Ramadan Breakfast Competition

This morning, we launch our Ramadan competition It basically entails you the VOC listener consuming some of the important morning advice in the Fajr lecture delivered daily by Maulana Abdul Fataag Carr Maulana. The competition work as follows : 2 participants will come on air at the same time to…
22 Jun 2015 2 min

Eskom new revised schedule

A new revised Eskom schedule will see the light on the 1st of July. We chat now to Eskom provincial head, Alwie Lester…
22 Jun 2015 6 min

Inclusive City campaign

In recent months there have been a series of alleged racism complaints stemming from incidents in the hospitality industry. On Human Rights day, the City of Cape Town's executive mayor, Patricia de Lille launched the Inclusive City campaign which is committed to fighting racism. We chat now to the chairperson…
19 Jun 2015 5 min

Energy crisis

According to acting CEO, Brian Molefe, the focus on maintenance drive is to ensure long-term reliability and sustainability of the power-generating plants. We chat now to energy expert, Chris Yelland about whether this makes any sense…
19 Jun 2015 7 min

Daily Ramadan Dramedy (comedy-drama) E2

This year for Ramadan our staff decided to do something different and test their acting chops in a radio drama series. So today we launch the second episode of our daily dramedy called Keeping up with the Kassiems, which is a first-hand look into the life of a Muslim family…
19 Jun 2015 6 min

Economic impact of electricity tariff hikes and load shedding

According to a Deutsche Bank analysts, the 25% tariff increase proposed by Eskom could cost the national economy around R16 billion. The unstable energy supply could further impact negatively on productivity and foreign investment. We unpack this issue now with the Minister of Economic opportunities, Alan Winde…
19 Jun 2015 6 min

Umrah in Ramadan

The holy cities of Makkah and Madina are usually flooded with pilgrims during Ramadan, many Muslims determined to use this time to attain the most rewards for their spiritual efforts during the month of fasting. To chat about this umrah season is Sedick Steenkamp, the chairperson of the SA Travel…
18 Jun 2015 5 min

Maintenance defaulters tackled in Mplain

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development addressed the community of Mitchells Plain yesterday on its new changes in tackling maintenance defaulters. VOC journalist Ra'eesah Isaacs was there and filed this report…
18 Jun 2015 5 min

Launch of Ramadan Breakfast Competition

With today being the first of Ramadan, we also launch our Ramadan competition being run in the morning show. It basically entails you the VOC listener consuming some of the important morning advice in the Fajr lecture delivered daily by Maulana Abdul Fataag Carr from the Addison road masjid. Maulana…
17 Jun 2015 2 min

Daily Ramadan Dramedy (comedy-drama)EP1

This year for Ramadan our staff decided to do something different and test their acting chops in a radio drama series. So today we launch the 1STepisode of our daily dramedy called Keeping up with the Kassiems, which is a first-hand look into the life of a Muslim family in…
17 Jun 2015 5 min
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