VOC Breakfast

World Diabetes Day

Today marks World Diabetes Day. The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes diabetes as a pandemic responsible for more deaths worldwide than road injuries and nearly as many as HIV/AIDS. In 2012 alone nearly 5 million people in the world died due to diabetes and its complications. Currently there are more…

14 Nov 2013 5 min

Service Delivery March - MP

The community of Mitchell's Plain will embark on a service delivery march led by official opposition in the province the ANC. Among the issues the march aims to address is crime and gangsterism, violence against women and children drug abuse and drug houses. The march will commence at 09h00am at…

14 Nov 2013 8 min

Charity In Motion/VOC Bursary Fund

Earlier we linked up with Teddy Govender from Auric Auto in Claremont, who is on his second week of the running campaign in support of the VOC bursary fund. Teddy ran here from Auric Auto’s premises in Claremont to the VOC studios from Monday to Thursday over the next six…

14 Nov 2013 8 min

Automatic warranty on goods sold

With the holiday season coming up, consumers will be shopping up a storm for their loved ones. But what are your rights when you find that the tablet, earings or toy you bought doesn’t even last six months? Consumer Goods and Services Ombudsman, Advocate Neville Melville says the Consumer Protection…

13 Nov 2013 6 min

Males + Females sharing a prison cell

Following media reports alleging that a woman and her one year old child were made to share a police cell with two men, I will be asking the Western Cape Police Commissioner, General Arno Lamoer, to investigate the matter and take the necessary disciplinary action. According to MEC Dan Plato…

13 Nov 2013 5 min

Strike action - farms

Strikes in the agricultural sector are set to continue as unions have warned that this is just the “tip of the iceberg” - with widespread strike action just around the corner. Last week, workers on four farms owned by the Le Roux group, one of the Boland’s largest fruit producers,…

13 Nov 2013 6 min

The Issue of Adoption

VOC reporter Imogen Vollenhoven chats to Linda Fugard, the manager of Sister's Incorporated, on why adoption is the better alternative to abortion.

12 Nov 2013 20 min

District 6 Working Committee Launch

The District Six Working Committee will be holding a mass march on the 20th of November. This forms part of the organisations plans to protest against grievances they have with the land redistribution process. Online is chairperson of the working committee Shahied Ajam to give us an idea of what…

11 Nov 2013 9 min

Teddy Govender - starts 110km for VOC Bursary Fund

Earlier we linked up with Teddy Govender from Auric Auto in Claremont, who is on his third week of the running campaign in support of the VOC bursary fund. Teddy has for the past two weeks running here from Auric Auto’s premises in Claremont to the VOC studios from Monday…

11 Nov 2013 9 min

Sahuc on Haj complaints and upcoming Umrah Season

With Haj 1434 done and dusted, the South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc) now looks to its haj plans for next year. But before that can be done, Sahuc needs to deal with any complaints that may have arisen from this year’s haj. To tell us more, is Sahuc…

11 Nov 2013 6 min

Thandi Maqubela verdict

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…

8 Nov 2013 9 min

Discussion that Guy Fawkes being banned

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…

8 Nov 2013 6 min

Delft taxi violence

Delft residents say they are sick and tired of taxi violence in the area. This after Dozens of people marched to the local police station where they handed over a memorandum on Wednesday to make their voices heard. The community says it has been at the centre of a war…

7 Nov 2013 6 min

Crime stats - wrong figures

The SA Police Service used the wrong population figures to work out crime ratios for the 2012/2013 crime statistics. Thats the view of the Institute for Security Studies. The crime stats were released by the National Police minister Nathi Mthethwa in recent months under a cloud of suspicion from the…

7 Nov 2013 7 min

D6 Consultation process with Dept of Rural Dev. & land reform

have the chair of the District Six Redevelopment and Beneficiary Trust Dr Anwar Nagia to look at his views on the consultation process the Department of Rural Development and Land reform is embarking on. Dr Nagia has been dealing with some of the aspects as head of the trust. He…

6 Nov 2013 7 min

consultation process on Land restitution bill

The Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform with this week embark on a countrywide public consultation process on the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill to obtain the views of the South Africans at large on the content of the proposed legislation. The consultation aims to get interested…

6 Nov 2013 6 min

Children learn violence from videos

Videos of violence and murder among children are so graphic, causing uproar on social sites, which saw the removal of a violent panga murder at a Kwazulu Natal school last month. VOC journalist Imogen Vollenhoven spoke to Janine Jantjies at the Centre for justice and crime prevention in order to…

5 Nov 2013 4 min

WC schools the best in the country - Aslam Fataar

Schools in the Western Cape are the best run in the country. That is according to findings released by the National School Monitoring Survey by the Department of Basic Education. The survey has found that schools in the DA-run Western Cape are by far the best in South Africa. The…

5 Nov 2013 7 min

Voting Registration update by Courtney Sampson

If you haven’t made a note of it yet, remember to diarise next weekend the 9th and 10th of November to register for the 2014 general elections. The Independent Electoral Commission is on an intense drive to ensure that all South Africans over the age of 18 are registered to…

1 Nov 2013 7 min

Why the violent City protest and what do they mean?

The City of Cape Town was rocked by a violent service delivery protest on Wednesday after a griou of informal settlment dwellers marched to the provincial legislature. Leaders of these demonstrations, including the recent faeces attacks, have said the Provincial government's roll out of portable flushed toilets are at the…

1 Nov 2013 8 min