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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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Analysis: International condemnation of Saudi Arabia's plans to execute three well-known scholars

The recent news of Saudi Arabia execution plans of three well-known Salafi scholars has sparked International condemnation. With the United Nations, several prominent rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International criticizing the oil-rich country. The three individuals include Sheikh Salman al-Awdah an internationally known Islamic scholar, Awad al-Qarni…
23 May 2019 17 min

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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…
22 May 2019 11 min

Shocking torture report reveals human rights abuses in Indian occupied Kashmir

One of the world's most pressing geo-political problems is Kashmir, a state that straddles the southern Himalayas and India and Pakistan. The people of Kashmir have wanted self-determination for decades, but an unwelcome occupation by India in one half of the country , and a more benign one by Pakistan…
22 May 2019 12 min

Social housing confusion dispelled

If your household income is between low to moderate, renting a house in the open market is probably costing you a Arm and a Leg. Something the social housing sector seeks to address through the provision of affordable rental housing. Now while the alternative might sound promising there seems to…
22 May 2019 10 min

Feedback on VOC's Ahlan Wa Sahlan in Bonteheuvel

VOC’s Ahlan Wa Sahlan team with partners Gift of the Givers, Community Projects, Ottomans Sport, MJC Youth Desk and Pick n Pay visited the Al Jaamia Uthmania Masjied in Bonteheuvel . It’s the one event we all look forward too because it means we can connect with people in the…
20 May 2019 5 min

ANC COMMITS TO IMPLEMENTING PALESTINIAN RESOLUTION

In the wake of utterances attributed to Zev Krengel in the Jewish Report directed at South Africa’s Minister of International Relations Lindiwe Sisulu, the ANC is doubling down on advancing its progressive stance in line with the 54th National Conference Resolution on the Palestinian question in downgrading the South African…
20 May 2019 9 min

Patricia de Lille to take up seat in National Assembly

Despite only having four months to campaign in the 2019 elections the Good Party scored a 3% win of votes in the Western Cape and garnered enough support nationally for a least one in the Parliament. But joining us online is the Good Party Leader, Patricia De Lille
17 May 2019 7 min

Gift of the Givers withdraws water relief operations in Makhanda

Now Gift of the Givers has withdrawn its water relief operations in Makhanda Grahamstown. This following a lack of promised compensation for their drought efforts in the the area currently faced with a water crisis. Sabera Sheikh Essop spoke to Dr Imtiaz Sooliman founder of the Gift of the Givers…
17 May 2019 10 min

WhatsApp hacked and bugs: what you need to know

Now if you are one of WhatsApp’s 1,500,000,000 users you need to update to the latest verson of the popular messaging app to protect yourself from hackers. This after Facebook revealed that an “advanced cyber actor” has been spying on some of its users with the installation of spyware, silently,…
16 May 2019 10 min

CoCT and QFS in legal battle over V&A desalination plant

Now the desalination plant on the Waterfront that was developed as part of the City of Cape Town’s plans to avert Day Zero is no longer producing any water. This as a result of a legal dispute between Quality Filter Systems (QFS) and the City of Cape Town over money…
16 May 2019 16 min

Cape Town commemorates Nakba Day

May the 15th is NAKBA Day known as the day of catastrophe when 750,000 Palestinian where driven from their homes by the Zionist occupation. This war led to the establishment of the Zionist state of Israel in 1948. There are many still waiting for the right to return. In Cape…
15 May 2019 5 min

Donate to the Al Quds Foundation on the VOC Wallet

The Al Quds Foundation can also be found on the VOC Wallet. If you would like to donate to the Palestinian cause, donate via the app! Shaykh Gabriels is online to tell us more as well as alert us to the pledge line happening this Sunday.
15 May 2019 7 min

Download your VOC Wallet today!

After many months of planning, Voice of the Cape’s new initiative to help give back to the community and small businesses is finally here. The VOC Wallet App is now avalible on Google play store or Apple App store and there is no subscription fee attached. To explain how this…
15 May 2019 13 min

Opinion: The politics of race won in the Western Cape

While the Democratic Alliance (DA) managed to secure a win of the Western Cape in the 2019 elections a Bishop Lavis community activist is attributing the DA’s success in the province to the support of liberal Whites. This is despite the ANC campaigning attempts to try and win over votes…
15 May 2019 9 min
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