VOC Breakfast

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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…

13 Nov 2014 5 min

CPF elections - Landmark partnership signed

Before the break we spoke to Abie Isaacs about the Mitchells Plain CPF elections last night. Now it’s very interesting to note that a new partnership between the Department of Community Safety, SAPS and the IEC was signed yesterday to ensure that elections are done fairly and democratically. Our reporter…

13 Nov 2014 6 min

Mitchells Plain CPF elections

Recently, we’ve been speaking to many community police forums in the Western Cape with regards to crime. And this month, all CPF’s are holding elections. Mitchell’s Plain CPF, which is an every active crime fighting collective, held their elections last night. Abie Isaacs from the CPF is online to tell us more…

13 Nov 2014 7 min

Community Safety MEC visits Canal Walk

The alarming trend of retail store robberies has prompted shopping malls to boost their security ahead of the festive season. As we know, Canal Walk has been hardest hit. Western Cape Minister of Community Safety, Dan Plato, visited Canal Walk yesterday to inspect operations there. VOC news journalist Andriques Petersen…

12 Nov 2014 6 min

City launched its 100th FreeCall Line

Complaints from residents on municipal services are quite frequent and generally, we find that members of public have even more hassles lodging these complaints. Many people are not aware of the City of Cape Town’s free call line. I believe Heideveld got the 100th free call line yesterday, The City…

12 Nov 2014 7 min

Open letter to Woolies CEO

A group of pro-Palestinian activists have written a letter to Ian Moir, the CEO of the Woolworths group calling on the national retailer to stop marketing and retailing Israeli goods. As we know, the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign has lead a full boycott against the company, for its trade…

12 Nov 2014 10 min

MJC independent advisory panel

Earlier before the break we heard about this ground breaking move by the MJC to launch an independent advisory panel. Joining us online this morning is the convenor of the nominations committee, Abdul Waheed Patel. He is also the managing director of Ethicore consulting…

12 Nov 2014 5 min

MJC makes major announcement

There may be some major shake-ups with in the Muslim Judicial Council soon, after the announcement of an independent advisory panel yesterday. The announcement is quite significant for the 89 year old ulema body. Our reporter Ra’eesah Isaacs has this important story…

12 Nov 2014 8 min

RAF Amendment Bill up for public comment

The draft Road Accident Fund Amendment Bill, 2014 has been published for public comment this week. One of the amendments is the introduction of a "no-fault" 30-day period which would allow all accident victims to receive medical treatment. But let’s unpack it further with the Road Accident Fund’s Chris Willemse…

11 Nov 2014 6 min

Uitsig crime meeting

Uitsig residents are up in arms after a learner was hacked to death outside the Uitsig high school on Sunday. While we generally focus on other areas when it comes to daily gang violence, we tend to forget that the Uitsig community is one that has also been severely impacted…

11 Nov 2014 4 min

Masajid urged to get foreigners legalised 

With the demographic of South Africa’s Muslim community changing, we find that there are many foreign nationals employed at our local masajid. While that is a positive, the downside is that many of these foreigners do not have legal permits to work here. This poses a huge challenge to the…

11 Nov 2014 6 min

Innovative intervention to leverage almost 300 joint surgeries

Many people have had a long wait for joint replacement surgery, which causes great discomfort and pain on a daily basis. In addition, the backlog has been increasing faster than the Department of health can address, since more patients have been added weekly to the operating waiting list. The provincial…

10 Nov 2014 6 min

The fight against police corruption

The arrests of nine policemen from Parow and a former employee of the police station on corruption charges were welcomed on Friday. But still this case just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to police corruption. It is an endemic problem in the country…

8 Nov 2014 9 min

Hanover Park launches anti-crime campaign

Residents in Hanover Park held a mass demonstration yesterday following two weeks of gang violence in which 12 people were killed. It forms part of a new anti-crime campaign launched by the Hanover Park Community Police Forum. Anthony Daniels, the chairperson of the CPF joins us this morning…

8 Nov 2014 6 min

SPCA inundated with distressed calls

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA is still dealing with a flood of complaints of distressed animals affected by the fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day on Wednesday. The SPCA says this Guy Fawkes Day was the worst one ever. The Cape of Good Hope SPCA’s public relations officer Monica Davids…

7 Nov 2014 8 min

Maintenance amendment bill tabled

We know that single mothers in South Africa face an uphill battle in trying to get maintenance from their children’s fathers. But hopefully, the law will be a lot tougher now, after the Maintenance Amendment Bill was tabled on Wednesday. Some of the provisions of the Amendment Bill include preventing…

7 Nov 2014 4 min

City drops charges against councillor

The Speaker of the City of Cape Town Alderman Dirk Smit has rejected the complaint of the DA against Al Jama-ah Councillor Ganief Hendricks for reporting the Open Mosque to council authorities. Hendricks remarks landed him in hot water at the City as media quoted him as a City representative…

7 Nov 2014 10 min

COSAS pig head campaign

COSAS have made some bold statements with regards to their take on the Woolworths boycott, including starting the pig head campaign, which has not gone down well with Palestinian activists, particularly Muslims. Finally, there seems to have been some engagement between BDS South Africa and COSAS to end this form…

7 Nov 2014 8 min

ANC councillor calls for drastic measures against drug dealers

As we are well aware, South Africa faces a monumental challenge in terms of fighting the supply and demand for drugs. Almost every street on the Cape Flats is affected. One politician believes a more extreme approach is needed to deal with the matter. African National Congress (ANC) councillor Zain…

6 Nov 2014 8 min

Child murders in SA

A Cape Town woman is currently facing charges of assaulting and murdering her five-year-old stepson, who died of his injuries 10 years ago. Then this week a Ceres mother was arrested after she apparently confessed to killing and dumping her child. The toddler was recently found tied up and deserted…

6 Nov 2014 8 min