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SA's media agency ranked among the top 5 in the World.

Ted Keenan talks to Merissa Himraj, CEO of Wavemaker, a South African media network agency ranked among the top 5 in the world. In this episode, Himraj shares the importance of having mentorship for aspiring leaders and gives a glimpse of her leadership style.

16 Apr 2023 22 min

Gift of the Givers on negotiator sent to Mali for safe return of SA citizen held hostage

On That Weekend Feeling with Daron Mann this week, Gift of the Givers founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman takes us through the foundation’s mission to negotiate the release of South African Paramedic, Gerco van Deventer, who was kidnapped in Libya in 2017 and later sold to al-Qaeda terrorists in Mali.

14 Apr 2023 12 min

Joy, tears in a Nahoon home filled with wild birds

Daron Mann talks to Nahoon’s bridal specialist and bird rescuer, Mandy Seymour about how she found herself sharing her bedroom with four rescued wild birds. Seymour, 33, and her husband Dean Knox, an environmental activist, are on a new journey across the urban frontier into the world of BCM wildlife…

13 Apr 2023 12 min

High On Pie

Ted Keenan talks to East London Businesswoman and Owner of Shamrock Pies, Grazia Linden.

11 Apr 2023 14 min

A Local Paradise

In this Podcast, The Daily Dispatch's Ted Keenan chats to Developer of Coral Beach Estate in Winterstrand, Donavan Gray. They unpack the journey that he has travelled in making this spectacular Estate come alive and the plans they have for it.

6 Apr 2023 14 min

Patients face agonising 10-year wait for orthopaedic surgery at Frere Hospital

Daron Mann speaks to Jane Cowley, Democratic Alliance's health spokesperson and shadow MEC for Health as they unpack the devastating 10-year wait patients requiring orthopaedic surgery such as joint replacements at East London’s Frere Hospital face. This follows after Health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth revealed that there are 1,600 patients on…

6 Apr 2023 13 min

AWAKENED: Conversations with SA's first black woman chartered accountant

Daron Mann talks to South Africa’s first black woman chartered accountant, Nonkululeko Gobodo, whose new book, AWAKENED, has just been launched in partnership with Daily Dispatch Dialogues.

30 Mar 2023 11 min

Multichoice Hands Over Multipurpose Centres in the Eastern Cape

Multichoice, over the past week, handed over multipurpose centers in the Eastern Cape. Schools in Butterworth and East London were the fortunate recipients of these facilities.

11 Mar 2023 16 min

Presidential hopeful

Songezo Zibi has one simple message to SA’s people who are “gatvol“ with the government. “If you want to change the country, get off the side-lines.” Ted Keenan speaks to Zibi, who reckons “we get what deserve”, in terms of leaders. While happy to blow his own trumpet, he is…

20 Feb 2023 26 min

Eastern Cape floods: What now?

Daron Mann speaks to Bulelwa Ganyaza, spokesperson for Chris Hani District Municipality, about the devastating recent devastating floods in the country, the flood damage, now estimated at R4.5bn for the Eastern Cape alone, and the declaration by President Cyril Ramaphosa of a state of disaster to deal with the aftermath.

17 Feb 2023 10 min

No wealth for department of health victims

In a landmark decision handed down by the Bhisho High Court this past week Judge Rob Griffiths ruled that the Eastern Eastern Cape Health Department must care a patient they injured. The precedent-setting decision could free the EC Health Department from making crippling cash payouts to settle negligence claims in…

9 Feb 2023 8 min

Komani in Chaos

Ken Clark Enoch Mgijima Municipality councillor and owner of Twizza soft drinks and Crickley Dairy speaks to Daron Mann about the "advanced collapse" in Komani, where fed-up residents took to the streets to protest the lack of service delivery, water shortages, load-shedding, and additional electricity cuts due to money owed…

8 Feb 2023 16 min

Cybercrime surging

Ted Keenan talks to online forensics expert Jason Jordaan on how cybercrime is now the fastest growing ‘business’ in the world.

15 Jan 2023 29 min

Yoliswa Balfour: Empowerment Magician

Ted Keenan interviews Energy Extraordinaire, Yoliswa Balfour as they discuss her new business ventures and strides in the fuel and energy sector.

15 Dec 2022 21 min

A great clucking journey

Ted Interviews the CEO of ANCA Foods, Devin Isemonger, after their recent drive to go off the grid.

14 Dec 2022 23 min

Down in the Pitts

Daron talks to Sizwe Kupelo about his foundation's calls to ban Pit Bulls after the recent spate of attacks.

1 Dec 2022 9 min

Hello December

With the 2022 festive season around the corner, Daron talks to BCM spokesperson Samkelo Ngwenya about the state of readiness of the city.

17 Nov 2022 8 min

Reality or Perception

In yet another thought-provoking discussion, Ted Keenan and Liam Graham of NVest Securities unpack the recently held 91 Conference in East London, questioning the state SA today.

14 Nov 2022 17 min

Go Ahead... Call The Cops

With news surfacing of over 100 000 calls to the 10111 number going unanswered in East London over the past 3 years, Daron Mann speaks to DA's Bobby Stevenson.

10 Nov 2022 9 min

Trail Blazer

After the release of his book, Blazing a Trail, business banking extraordinaire Lincoln Mali shares his thoughts and tells the story behind the pages in an interview with Ted Keenan.

7 Nov 2022 27 min