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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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Madrassa Taliya calls on CoCT to renew lease agreement

As you may know the parents, learners and educator of Madrassa Taliya held a picket outside the premises earlier this week against the possible closure of the madrassa. This comes after the City of Cape Town informed the organisation that their lease agreement would not be renewed. The madrassa has…
1 Mar 2019 14 min

Department of Rural Development and Land Reform on D6 restitution plan

We continue the discussion on the District claimants plans to reject the department of Rural Development and Land Reform proposal on restitution which was submitted earlier this week This following The Western Cape High Court ruling in November last ordering the department of Rural Development and Land Reform to submit…
28 Feb 2019 9 min

D6WC to reject government proposal on the restitution process plan

While the the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform met the deadline for the submission of governments plans to speed up the restitution process for district six claimaints. The group of claimaints waiting to return to the area they were forcebly removed from plan to reject the proposal submitted…
28 Feb 2019 13 min

Competition Commission reaches settlement with schools on high cost of uniforms

The Competition Commission has announced its reached a settlement with several schools found guilty of anti-competitive behaviour. This follows the commission launching an investigation in 2018 after parents complained about the price of school uniforms and schools forcing them to buy from certain suppliers. For more on this VOC's Sabera…
27 Feb 2019 10 min

WC Govt launches multi-million rand social housing project

More than 1000 rental housing opportunities will be provided to previously disadvantaged low-income earners in Goodwood, Ruytewacht and surrounding areas. This following the launch of the multi-million rand social housing project earlier this week. The initiative is a collaborative project between the national and provincial Departments of Human Settlements, the…
26 Feb 2019 8 min

"Bo-Kaap 9" weigh their options in opposing Blok interdict

The Bo-Kaap Community were back in the High Court yesterday as an interdict brought by the development company BLOK was heard. As we know, Blok is trying to stop Bo Kaap residents from blocking its cranes from entering the area as well as to curb protesting at its building site…
26 Feb 2019 16 min

Calls for budget friendly hajj accommodation at WC SAHUC Roadshow

As you know, we’ve been talking a lot about hajj lately because preparations for hajj 2019 are in full swing following the release of the first accreditation list. And yesterday, Sahuc held its roadshow in the Western Cape at the Athlone Civic Centre. Sahuc Western Cape chairperson Shaykh Riad Fataar…
25 Feb 2019 6 min

CoCT's property evaluation process commences

The public inspection and objection period for registered property values in Cape Town has commenced. Individual notices will be posted to property owners and the GV2018 Roll will be available on the City’s website from February 21 and will also be displayed at 32 venues across the city. Deputy mayor…
24 Feb 2019 11 min

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
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