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Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

Cape Town wakes up to the Ryan O' Connor Breakfast Show every weekday morning 6am - 9am with a chance to crack Ryan's R 50 000 Noise! Sucess Lekabe on traffic, Ricky Shroeder on sports, Merentia van der Vent on News and Producer Phil De Lange.
Daily English South Africa Comedy Interviews Narrated by Success Lekabe, Ricky Schroeder
444 Episodes
52 – 72

2 Unlimited bring No Limits to Cape Town

The world's biggest retro bash comes to Cape Town on 7 January 2024, featuring the best international artists and DJs from the 80`s and 90`s ever assembled in South Africa. 2 Unlimitd bring their iconic Eurodance hits to our shores for 100% Retro | The Party and we spoke to…
22 Dec 2023 2AM 4 min

Everybody's free to feel good to Rozalla in Cape Town

The world's biggest retro bash comes to Cape Town on 7 January 2024, featuring the best international artists and DJs from the 80`s and 90`s ever assembled in South Africa. One of the iconic artists on the line-up for 100% Retro: The Party is Rozalla who joined Ryan for a…
22 Dec 2023 2AM 4 min

Technotronic's Daisy Dee is on her way to Cape Town!

The world's biggest retro bash comes to Cape Town on 7 January 2024, featuring the best international artists and DJs from the 80`s and 90`s ever assembled in South Africa. Technotronic is one of the artists you can see on the day and Daisy Dee couldn't be more excited to…
21 Dec 2023 3AM 4 min

Pikkie die pikkewyn

After hearing about Donna and her pet turkey named 'Idiot', we decided to check if anyone in Cape Town had unusual pets growing up. We just had to share this adorable story about Pikkie the penguin.
14 Dec 2023 5AM 4 min

The pet turkey named 'Idiot'

Yesterday we got a call from Colin who wanted to wish his wife Donna a happy birthday and did it by revealing a secret she tried to keep for a while - the fact that she had a pet turkey in her childhood. So we called her up today to…
14 Dec 2023 5AM 5 min

What does the POPI act say about unwanted photographs of children

Ryan shared a story about his friend who went through a scary experience that developed into a dilemma – what do you do as a parent when someone is taking pictures of your children? Does the POPI Act come into play here. Louella Tindale is a legal expert in this…
12 Dec 2023 3AM 3 min

If someone takes pictures of your kids

Ryan shared a story about his friend who went through a scary experience. An incident on a public beach involving his friend's daughter and a stranger taking photos of her sparked the conversation that got a lot of parents involved on the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show.
12 Dec 2023 3AM 4 min

A scary experience and dilemma for any parent

Ryan shared a story about his friend who went through a scary experience that developed into a dilemma - what do you do as a parent when your child's innocence is being threatened? An incident on a public beach involving his friend's daughter and a stranger taking photos of her…
12 Dec 2023 2AM 5 min

Blitzboks legend Seabelo Senatla

What a wonderful morning having DHL Stormers speedster and former Blitzboks Olympian medalist Seabelo Senatla in studio talking all things Cape Town Sevens.
7 Dec 2023 3AM 10 min

Warren Vernon-Driscoll, aka Freddie Mercury

Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic returns to Cape Town this weekend. Do to high demand the internationally acclaimed tribute show to one of the most electric bands in history is on at Grand Arena again. Warren Vernon-Driscoll, who plays the role of Freddie Mercury, joined Ryan in studio to chat…
6 Dec 2023 4AM 8 min

Jules from GoodLuck chats to Ryan

There is nothing quite like a Cape Town Summer concert in December so we thought we'd be the first to kick them off with GoodLuck live in studio! Get Lucky Summer recently announced the return of GoodLuck’s annual Summer residency and concert series this much-needed holiday season. Jules joined Ryan…
1 Dec 2023 5AM 6 min

Brave city staff saved a family from a burning house

At a time when we see so much negativity on the front pages it's great when stories of local heroes come around. After a fire broke out at a double-storey residence in Heideveld, eight officials sprang into action as first responders, quickly evacuating the family from their home. Among those…
30 Nov 2023 6AM 10 min

The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children's Bernadine Bachar

The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children has a vision to create a safe and secure society and a human rights culture where women and children are empowered to exercise their full rights. We caught up with the organisation's director Bernadine Bachar to reflect on the 16 Days of…
29 Nov 2023 5AM 6 min

Kids told us why they're proud of their parents

The Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show is Cape Town's favourite destination for families travelling to school in the mornings. We love all our youngsters and the parents that drive them to school who are part of the show every morning. We gave parents the opportunity to tell us why they're proud…
29 Nov 2023 4AM 7 min

Coach Harold "Potz" Johnson hopes to get his team to Sweden

Tramway FC is a dynamic community-based soccer club situated in Southfield, Cape Town, competing in the CTTFA district. Coach Harold "Potz" Johnson started a girls soccer team with the club because his daughter wanted to play soccer. Seven years later they now have three girls teams and one ladies team,…
28 Nov 2023 6AM 8 min

Ard Matthews on the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

Renowned South African singer and songwriter Ard Matthews popped in to talk about his upcoming performance at Cape Open Air in Muizenberg and his new single "Tell Everyone." The song, featuring collaborations with Ross Learmonth and Jude Kenrick serves as a poignant call to action against ocean pollution and is…
27 Nov 2023 6AM 7 min

Happy anniversary, Ryan and Karen!

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs O'Connor on their 20th wedding anniversary! We really hope he wasn't serious about the Wacky Wednesday though!
22 Nov 2023 5AM 2 min
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