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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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City prepares for expected rise in COVID-19 fatalities

Following a rapid spread of the covid 19 virus and more than 200 deaths, a Fatalities Management Plan has been implemented in preparation for increased demand in burial space. But what does this plan entail? Let us chat to Zahid Badroodien, Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Health, City…
21 May 2020 11 min

Maintenance payments during lock-down

Does the national lock-down afford parents with a child maintenance payment holiday? The same as offered by some loan banks that allows you to miss the occasional monthly payments. We have received queries from parents where the other parent is not paying child support during the National Lock-down period. This…
21 May 2020 7 min

SA to begin phased reopening of schools from June 1

Schools are set to open as of June the 1st, allowing students to return in a phased approach in a continuing effort to contain the spread of the corona-virus. Classes will start nationally for students from grades seven and 12 – the final years of junior and senior school respectively,…
21 May 2020 14 min

Labour lowdown: All your questions answered

If you working for a company you might have come across clauses in your employment contract you did not understand. Then there is also the issue of unfair dismissals or retrenchment . For more on this we chat to labour law expert Shaheed Abader, He holds a Masters in Labour…
20 May 2020 15 min

WCED on reopening of schools

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has announced that the National Command Council (NCC) and Cabinet have approved the phased reopening of schools on 1 June. The first group of pupils to return to school are grades 7s and 12s, while other grades would follow in due course. All teachers are…
20 May 2020 21 min

Feel good- Students distribute food parcels to the less fortunate

Many people are feeling the pitch of the covid 19 pandemic which has caused many countries to go on lock down and many families unable to make ends meet. Now a 19-year-old Psychology student and a few others have done their bit by providing much needed food parcels to those…
19 May 2020 6 min

Crime in CBD drops during level four lock-down

Crime in the Cape Town city centre during Level 4 of the nationwide lock-down has dropped by 73% across all crime categories, compared with the number of incidents recorded this time last year, according to statistics released by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District’s (CCID) Safety and Security department…
19 May 2020 8 min

Children's Commissioner officially appointed and to take office in June

Christina Nomdo has formally accepted the Children's Commissioner post in the Western Cape. She will take up office on June 1. Her recommendation had been forwarded to Premier Alan Winde on March 19, which he accepted, by the standing committee on social development. Joining us online Christina Nombo
19 May 2020 6 min

Feel good - Dear Mr President

VOC News took a trip to Heinz Park last week to get a feel of how the community is dealing with the lock-down and the challenges that they live under. Tashreeq Perry and various community members allowed Journalist Aneeqa Du Plessis to video a little message titled dear Mr President…
18 May 2020 10 min

Stranded during covid 19 lock-down

As many South Africans find themselves stuck abroad as the covid 19 pandemic took the world by storm, government has tried their utmost best to have them returned to SA, but what about those who visited SA and are now stuck in this side during the lock-down imposed to curve…
18 May 2020 8 min

Covid 19 in Witzenberg

Witzenberg has been identified as one of the hotspot areas in the Western Cape as the covid 19 figures continues to rise. South Africa yesterday saw the highest spike of new coronavirus cases in one day, with one-thousand-160 new infections recorded. Seventy-six percent of the new cases, or 890, are…
18 May 2020 7 min

Reflecting on Nakba Day

The 72nd anniversary of Nakba Day coincides with the last ten days of Ramadan this year. Every year on the 15th May, Palestinians mark the anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, when the Israeli occupation dispossessed almost 1 million Palestinians from their homes and lands. In the West Bank, Palestinians…
15 May 2020 8 min

Nurses at private hospital fear for their health

It has been brought to our attention that nurses at the private Melomed Gatesville Hospital have accused the management of putting their lives in danger by keeping mum on patients who have tested positive for covid-19. Now according to reports, nurses claimed they have been threatened with dismissal if they…
15 May 2020 13 min

Heath Department provide covid 19 update

A total of 38 people has tested positive in an old-age home in Cape Town. Management of Highlands House in Vredehoek says it was confirmed that 12 residents and 26 staff members contracted the disease after almost 500 tests were done after one of the residents died almost two weeks…
15 May 2020 15 min

Covid-19: Who should go back to school first?

As South Africa considers reopening schools amid the covid-19 crisis, a policy brief released by the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University (SU) argues that by allowing the youngest children to go back first teachers and parents will be at lower risk. The policy brief authored by Dr Nic Spaull…
14 May 2020 13 min

Analysis of president’s speech

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the biggest part of the country should revert to level 3 of lock-down regulations at the end of the month, but that certain areas with a big concentration of the corona-virus will stay on level 4. He addressed the country for the first time in…
14 May 2020 9 min

Workers union calls on temporally shutdown of factory ahead of covid 19 cases

Following the announcement of some positive covid-19 cases at the blue-Ribbon bread manufacturer in Salt River, The Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) has demanded that bread manufacturer Blue Ribbon be temporarily shut down until it is declared safe. Joining us online is Fawu provincial secretary Meshack Ntechane
13 May 2020 8 min
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