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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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4,577 Episodes
3220 – 3240

Teacher’s helping Copycats

Teachers helped 46 matric pupils at Athlone Campus Stonefountain college during 2014 Exams. Teachers were implicated helping students to cheat. To unbundle this controversial issue we speaking to College Director Shaheed Shaik
18 Feb 2015 6 min

Denouncing Cheating to celebrating Top Achiever

Top Students Awarded Rylands High School in Gatesville in Athlone has been rewarded with accolades, having Western Cape EMSS (Engen Maths & Science Schools) top achiever as national student of the Year Awards. Early we heard that Faatimah Jada holds this position.
18 Feb 2015 6 min

Kensington CPF to host community meeting

The Kensington CPF is hosting a public meeting this evening to discuss pertinent issues in the area. To chat more about this is CPF chairperson Bertram Bartlett…
17 Feb 2015 7 min

Sahuc haj accreditation

South African Muslims who have made niyah to perform haj this year are awaiting the accreditation list for haj 1436. This morning we chat to the South African Haj and Umrah Council president Shaheen Essop
17 Feb 2015 8 min

Dismal unemployment rates

According to the upcoming Africa survey, South Africa is saddled with the third-highest unemployment rate and the highest youth unemployment rate in 2014. To tell us more, we have researcher at Good Governance Africa, Karen Hasse on the line…
17 Feb 2015 8 min

City seeks probe into Minstrel Lotto funding

A formal complaint about Lotto funding spent by the Cape Minstrel Carnival Association was handed to the public protector's office yesterday. The City of cape town wants the Public Protector to investigate how exactly the association spent the nearly R40,64 million paid out by the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund…
17 Feb 2015 6 min

Turn disability into a possibility

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…
16 Feb 2015 7 min

CBD student safety campaign

The Central City Improvement district (CCID) is embarking on a comprehensive Student safety campaign to keep school children and students safe in the CBD. To tell us more, we have Safety and security manager at CCID, Muneeb Hendricks on the line…
16 Feb 2015 7 min

Land reform

Apart from the chaos that happened in Parliament on Thursday, President Jacob Zuma's speech focussed mainly on the energy crisis and land reform with special emphasis on the issue of foreign nationals will not be allowed to own land in the country. To tell us more, we have chairperson of…
16 Feb 2015 10 min

Fifty shades of grey

The movie, Fifty shades of Grey opened this weekend, and many flocked to the cinema in eager anticipation, especially after reading the book. This book tells the story of a male character who uses manipulation and violence masked as BDSM sex, which stands for Bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism and…
16 Feb 2015 8 min

Somali killings

Killings on Somali nationals increased recently. According to the of the Somali Association of South Africa it seems this could be part of a religious dispute. To tell us more, we have the Western Cape co-ordinator of the Somali association of South Africa, Mohammed Aden Osman on the line…
16 Feb 2015 8 min

Black Sash and SONA

Poverty and inequality remain a huge problem in South Africa, next up we find out from social rights group, Black Sash whether the needs of the most vulnerable and needy was on the agenda at the State of the Nation address. We chat now to national advocacy manager at Black…
13 Feb 2015 7 min

Crime issues and SONA

President Jacob Zuma's SONA speech was slammed last year for being uninspiring. Did he have a 'good story to tell'. We take a look at We take a look on whether President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address was everything it was hyped up to be. Last year, academics…
13 Feb 2015 6 min

VOC journalist Andrique Recaps on SONA choas

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…
13 Feb 2015 8 min

Institutute for Justice and Reconcilliation on SONA

This morning we get feedback from various organisations about the State of the Nation address. We chat now to the head of policy and analyses at the Institute for Justice and reconcilliation, Jan Hofmeyer about whether President Jacob Zuma covered the essentials…
13 Feb 2015 8 min

Alcohol abuse costing South Africa billions

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…
12 Feb 2015 5 min

Pay back your student loan

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…
12 Feb 2015 4 min

Vox pops on SONA

We got a pre-analyses from various experts, but now we get to hear what South African citizens have to say about their expectations and hopes for this year. VOC intern Nabeelah Mohedeen took to the streets to find out what you want the President to focus on tonight.
12 Feb 2015 7 min

Cape Malay Choir Board

The City of Cape Town plans to evolve the Good Hope Centre from a community events based venue into a film studio. VOC intern, Nabeelah Mohedeen, spoke to the president of the Cape Malay Choir Board, Shafiek April about the City's plans and the future of the Good Hope Centre…
12 Feb 2015 7 min
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