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The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and wit. The show has its own distinct local and global flavour and was nominated for the MTN Awards in 2014 and the Liberty Life Awards in 2016. The 5.10pm interview on Drivetime is its in-depth highlight and has covered stories in over 100 countries. During the show listener participation is encouraged via WhatsApp and SMS.
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1932 – 1952

Uncertainty in the region and the US election year effects on Africa

Thus far 2016 has definitely been seen as a contraversial election year as they all usually are but what significance does a 2016 election year have not only for South Africa but also in Zimbabwe and even more so in America. John Mattison looks at the election in context and…
2 Jun 2016 11AM 16 min

Internet accessibility should be a right

When most people think or speak about internet freedom, they are often concerned with the right, for example, to say what you want online without censorship and without being subject to the chilling effects of surveillance. Today we discuss why access to internet and affording the cost of internet is…
2 Jun 2016 10AM 9 min

Update on Bahrain – Sheikh Al Salim sentenced to nine years in Prison while Zain

On 28 December 2015, a group of activists, human rights defenders and opposition leaders gathered to observe the first anniversary of Sheikh Ali Salman's arrest and detention in Bahrain. Just seven months earlier, a court sentenced Sheikh Salman, the secretary general of Bahrain’s largest opposition bloc, al-Wefaq, to four years…
1 Jun 2016 11AM 16 min

Parlaiment meets to iron out the details of appointing new public protector

Parliament's ad hoc committee to nominate a new Public Protector will meet today to among others, discuss how the advertisement for this position should be constructed. The committee was established to do interviews for the position that will be vacant at the end of October. The ad hoc committee would…
31 May 2016 6PM 8 min

Media watchdogs lodge complaint to ICASA over SABC decision

Today Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition (SOSA) and the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) lodged papers with the Complaints Compliance Committee of ICASA over the SABC’s decision to ban coverage of violent protests/destruction of public property. To tell us more about their stance against the…
31 May 2016 6PM 8 min

Hissene Hibre sentenced to life in prison

On 30 May, the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal found Hissène Habré guilty of crimes against humanity. Habré, a former president of Chad, was charged with murder, torture, kidnapping and forced disappearances. The judgment is landmark one. It is the first prosecution of its kind in Africa – of a former…
31 May 2016 6PM 8 min

How can Cleanliness and Punctuality can help develop Africa

There is plenty of discussion on macro and micro economics and the big theories of economic development, but it seems the African worldview is a primary problem. Other countries and continents have managed to make serious advances in dramatically improving cleanliness as well as timeliness, which has resulted in accelerated…
31 May 2016 10AM 6 min

Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane's interview with Jane Dutton receives he

South Africa’s international relations minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane appeared on Al Jazeera’s Talk to Al Jazeera over the weekend and gave an interview that the Daily Vox described as “cringeworthy”. Nkoana-Mashabane sat down with Jane Dutton – a South African journalist based at Al Jazeera in Doha – and made a…
31 May 2016 10AM 9 min

Lessons from the Kunduz Hospital Airstrike in Afghanistan

Last year on On 3 October 2015, a United States Air Force gunship attacked the Kunduz Trauma Centre operated by  Doctors Without Borders in the city of Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan. MSF condemned the incident, saying all warring parties had been notified of the hospital's location ahead of time, and that the airstrike was…
30 May 2016 6PM 10 min

Decolonising economics

Earlier in the year Ihsaan Bassier, a graduate student in economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was on our Breakfast show to discuss the need to “decolonize” the teaching of undergraduate economics at UCT. Economics in South African universities is currently taught in the manner and methods of…
30 May 2016 10AM 9 min

SA's UN vote against Press Freedom

Last week, South Africa was one of eight countries in the United Nations Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations that voted to deny the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) observer status at the United Nations (UN). South Africa voted against accreditation along with countries like China and Russia who are not known…
29 May 2016 10PM 8 min

National Public Broadcaster in USA downplaying the war in Yemen

National Public Radio or NPR as you may or may not know is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States of America. Liberals and left-leaning individuals in the U.S. trust…
29 May 2016 6PM 14 min

The SAIRR files a petition to halt Zuma from signing the Land Expropriation Bill

Parlaiment approved the Expropriation Bill once again yesterday after it was amended. The bill would allow state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership. The bill, in the works since 2008, will enable the state to pay for land at a value determined by a government adjudicator…
27 May 2016 10AM 8 min

South Africa's Foetal Alcohol Syndrome problem

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD) - the umbrella term used to describe a spectrum of conditions of which FAS is the most extreme - prevalence rate of 6.42 percent (64 per 1,000) among children in Grade 1. We are now joined by Aisha Vadwalla to tell us more about this…
27 May 2016 10AM 11 min

The life and times of Cissie Gool

Cissie (Zainunnisa) Goal was for many years a street name in Hatton Estate, an 'Indian' suburb on the Cape Flats. It was only in 1994, when Nelson Mandela, in a pre-election speech paid tribute to her, that she jumped off the street sign and assumed life. It has however, remained…
26 May 2016 11AM 14 min

An Introduction to Black's First, Land First movement

Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) member Andile Mngxitama’s Blacks First Land First (BFL) movement has made their “revolutionary call” after the party’s founding last year. The ‘blacks only’ party has called for all black people who want freedom when they launched on May 14 in Orlando West, Soweto. Two of…
26 May 2016 10AM 11 min

Kumi Naidoo on the Five biggest challenges facing Africa

Africa Day celebrates the day when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the precursor to the African Union (AU), was formed in 1963. It acknowledges the progress that we, as Africans, have made, while reflecting upon the common challenges we face in a global environment. To help us understand some…
25 May 2016 10AM 15 min

Mahmood Abbas in South Africa

According to information released by South African Presidency Jacob Zuma hosted Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas today as he arrives in the country on a working visit. In a statement issued by the Presidency Zuma is meeting Abbas to hold bilateral discussions. The two presidents would be expected to “discuss a…
25 May 2016 10AM 8 min

Removal of Borders Across Africa

During the outbreak of xenophobic violence across KwaZulu Natal, some of the activists who tried to stop the attacks were threatened with violence or attacked online. Today we speak to Bandile Mdlalosi about her experiences and why she is part of a movement to remove borders across Africa... Guest: Bandile…
25 May 2016 10AM 11 min
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