Drivetime

Medupi finally produces first power

The first power was produced out of Medupi’s unit 6 on Monday at 11:03, making it the first of the Medupi power station’s six units to be synchronised, according to Eskom. Synchronisation, or first power, is the process whereby the generator in the unit is electrically connected to the national…

3 Mar 2015 4AM 7 min

Cape Town Fire: what to expect after

Earlier today, Table Mountain National Park Integrated Fire Manager Phillip Prins said that the blaze spreading around Cape Town’s south peninsula is likely to continue for much of the week, depending on the weather conditions. The area under threat stretches from Hout Bay to Muizenberg and at least 3 000…

3 Mar 2015 4AM 7 min

Children of struggle stalwarts back IAW

Israeli Apartheid Week is a series of international events aimed at raising awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The children and relatives of anti-apartheid stalwarts, veterans and icons have come out in support of the…

2 Mar 2015 9AM 7 min

SA should expel all Israeli spies.

For the past week and years to come, people will always be talking about the Spy Cables. But as info trickles our from Al Jazeera and The Guardian, questions still remain. The mos important one is who jacked the docs? No one knows yet. We do know that they’re heavy…

2 Mar 2015 9AM 11 min

Spy cables

All this week and for weeks to come, people will be talking about the spy cables. As more and more information surfaces and exposes the underworld of espionage, we need to ask and assess what this means for SA as a whole and what to expect in the future.

27 Feb 2015 6AM 9 min

Design Indaba

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…

27 Feb 2015 5AM 8 min

Why did Zayn Adams die poor?

On Monday we paid tribute to the late Zayn Adams and many of the listeners shared their condolences with us as well. However, was these small gestures enough in respect to how much of his life Zayn contributed not only to his art, but to Cape Town as a whole?…

26 Feb 2015 6AM 9 min

Budget 2015 and state owned enterprises

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 Feb 2015 6AM 7 min

Budget clip 2

Before we analyze the budget speech, we now play you a clip of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's speech.

25 Feb 2015 8AM 4 min

Budget Speech

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene is facing his biggest baptism of fire yet as delivers his maiden National Budget speech today. As the country desperately needs him to plug the gap between national spending and revenue as well as South Africa’s unsustainable debt trend, we all wait to hear what he…

25 Feb 2015 8AM 19 min

What the spy cables leak could mean for SA

South Africa’s government is scrambling to deal with the fallout of the worst intelligence leak in its two-decade democratic history. The country is coming to terms with its new status as “the El Dorado of espionage”, in the words of an intelligence officer, after hundreds of dossiers, files and cables…

25 Feb 2015 8AM 9 min

Budget clip 1

Before we analyze the budget speech, we now play you a clip of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's speech.

25 Feb 2015 8AM 5 min

The first SA in ISIS?

As we see an influx of people joining ISIS, very rarely did we hear of any of them being from South Africa, until now. Daily Maverick Africa correspondent, Simon Allison has written an exclusive interview which he has conducted with an ISIS member who claims to be from South Africa…

24 Feb 2015 7AM 18 min

PE family sells house and moves to join ISIS

Yesterday, I had an in-depth analysis interview about the possibility of South Africans being in ISIS. Today media reports are surfacing alleging that members s of an Eastern Cape family recently sold their house to move to Iraq to fight for Islamic State. Online to help us discuss the probability…

24 Feb 2015 5AM 9 min

The first women-only mosque in the US is causing controversy among the American

-The first women-only mosque in the US is causing controversy among the American Muslim community and beyond. The Women's Mosque of America in Los Angeles holds prayers in a building that used to be a synagogue, but is now a multi-faith space. We discuss this now with…

24 Feb 2015 5AM 11 min

leaked classified documents from the State Security Agency and some foreign spy

South Africa is experiencing its own WikiLeaks moment as leaked classified documents from the State Security Agency and some foreign spy agencies published by Al Jazeera and The Guardian with more to follow over the next few day. The digital leak of hundreds of secret intelligence documents from the spy…

24 Feb 2015 3AM 18 min

Zayn Adams passes

We bid farewell to legendary Cape singer, Zayn Adams today. Adams reportedly suffered a heart on Wednesday and was in Groote Schuur Hospital after undergoing an operation. VOC journalist, Raeesah Isaacs, spoke to Take Note Band lead singer, Sean who once shared the stage with the iconic Adams. Here's more

23 Feb 2015 7AM 6 min

Sayed to lead Cape’s ANCYL

Six years in the making, the Western Cape ANC Youth League elected a new leadership on Sunday, with Muhammad Khalid Sayed at the helm. The elections were held on Saturday evening into early yesterday morning at a conference at the Oudtshoorn Town Hall. Six years ago the national leadership of…

23 Feb 2015 7AM 11 min

WC SOPA: ANC interrupts Helen Zille's address

The African National Congress (ANC) interrupted Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s State of the Province Address (Sopa) this morning. Zille was interrupted on a number of occasions by ANC Members of Parliament (MPs). Bonga Dlulane was at the court proceedings and joins us now online…

20 Feb 2015 4AM 7 min

Zuma kills with kindness in SONA debate

He was called a “broken man” and a “hooligan” this week, but President Jacob Zuma chose not to respond to the personal attacks, instead commending opposition MPs like Julius Malema for dealing with his State of the Nation Address (SONA) “with respect”. Going from sombre to funny to analytical –…

20 Feb 2015 4AM 13 min