Drivetime

Middle East now home to world's largest number of refugees

Today, a new UN report found that the Middle East and North Africa now hosts the world’s largest number of refugees. The conflict in Syria meant the region edged ahead of Asia and the Pacific to become the world’s largest provider of sanctuary to displaced people. The report also found…

7 Jan 2015 5AM 21 min

Charlie Hebdo attack

At least 11 people have been killed and 5 injured in a shooting incident at the Paris office of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The attack is allegedly in response to the latest post sent by the Charlie Hebdo Twitter account was a picture of the Isis group leader, Abu…

7 Jan 2015 5AM 15 min

Bangladesh attack

Two activists from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have been shot dead in clashes with ruling party supporters after their leader called for protests on the first anniversary of elections her party boycotted. Monday's clashes came as BNP's leader Khaleda Zia remains confined to her office in the capital…

5 Jan 2015 5PM 18 min

Palestine joins ICC

Israel has begun implementing economic sanctions against the Palestinians and is looking at ways to prosecute senior Palestinians for war crimes in the United States and elsewhere in response to Palestinian steps to join the International Criminal Court. The Palestinians delivered to UN headquarters in New York on Friday documents…

5 Jan 2015 5PM 16 min

Islamia

VOC Journalist, Mubeen Banderker spoke to COO of Islamia College, Sheikh Sadullah Khan after the Islamia matric class of 2014 received a 99% pass rate. We now take a listen to what he had to say.

5 Jan 2015 5PM 5 min

James Fowley execution

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…

5 Jan 2015 9AM 6 min

Human rights clamp down in Bahrain

In October we spoke to Maryam Alkhawaja, the Co-Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights. She is the sister of Zainab al-Khawaja, Bahraini activist and participant in the Bahrain uprising, whose charges violate freedom of speech, including those that criminalize any criticism of the monarch or state institutions

5 Jan 2015 9AM 17 min

Pallo Jordan

Staying with fake qualifications now as we look at an interview Shafiq had with Gareth Van Onselen, the journalist who broke the story of Pallo Jordan's fake qualifications. With threats and bribes in the mix, it definitely made for front page news…

2 Jan 2015 9AM 16 min

ISIS members killed

Sami Ebrahim, spokesperson for Syrian network for Human Rights has been a frequent guest on Drivetime for all things related to Syria. Since ISIS expanded its authority into Syria, it was only appropriate to chat to Sami about the allegations of 70 ISIS members being killed…

1 Jan 2015 10AM 16 min

James Foley

One of the biggest stories of ISIS was the gruesome beheading of American journalist, James Foley. At the time, we spoke to

1 Jan 2015 5AM 6 min

UK votes on ISIS

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…

31 Dec 2014 5PM 11 min

Iraqi Ambassador on ISIS

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…

31 Dec 2014 5PM 19 min

Dianna Buttu

One of my favorite interviews was definitely when I spoke to Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and activist, Dianna Buttu upon her tour to SA. We caught up and chatted about her experiences as a Palestinian…

30 Dec 2014 7AM 17 min

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Another one of our favorite interviews was when we spoke to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach about whether there is place for religion in sport, specifically in the United States. This is what he had to say…

30 Dec 2014 5AM 8 min

Tom Grundy

Heading towards the end of our show now and we wrap up with another one of my favorite interviews. This is one I had with journalist Tom Grundy about the Hong Kong Protests…

30 Dec 2014 5AM 14 min

Russell Tribunal

Sticking with our theme “The best of DT” today we have a spin on things as I choose our favourite interviews for 2014. We kick off with an interview I done with Frank Barat about the Russell Tribunal

30 Dec 2014 5AM 7 min

DT BEST

As we know, the theme for December is the best of Drivetime. Today we play an interview Shafiq had with Andrew Feinstein about the arms of Israel.

29 Dec 2014 10AM 1 min

Anwar Dramat suspended

In 1988, Anwa Dramat was sentenced in an ­apartheid court for his role as an Umkhonto ­weSizwe operative. Later, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard evidence from a security branch police officer, Jeffrey Benzien, about how he had tortured activists – and Dramat was among them. Last week, Hawks boss…

29 Dec 2014 10AM 7 min

Top trends for 2014

Top trends for 2014

27 Dec 2014 5AM 16 min

Top SA news for 2014

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…

26 Dec 2014 5PM 12 min