Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

John Maytham serves a round-up of local and international news, coupled with the latest in business, sport, traffic and weather.

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Salt River Market development

21 January 2021 | 5 Minute Listen

Guest: Malusi Booi | Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements at City of Cape Town We speak to Malusi Booi, the City of Cape Town's Mayco member for Human Settlements about an article in today's Daily Maverick which suggests that officials are dragging their feet over a proposed affordable housing development on the site of the old Salt River Market. Nick Budlender writes that the market could be the most well-located and socially mixed affordable housing development in South Africa, but that no-one at the City of Cape Town is driving the development forward.

Funding of SA's energy transition

21 January 2021 | 9 Minute Listen

Guest: Joanne Yawitch | Ceo at The National Business Initiative A new initiative was officially launched on Tuesday which aims to define the role that finance should play in supporting South Africa and India’s transition to more climate-resilient economies. The ‘Just Transition Finance Roadmaps in South Africa and India Project’ is a multi-partner project with backers including South Africa's National Business Initiative, which is a coalition working towards sustainable growth and development in the country. Initiative partners say funding could play a key role in supporting just energy transitions and that the development of finance roadmaps can help guide banks and other financiers as to where future investment was required. This could also lay out how funding could be mobilised to maximise the social and economic benefits of these investments.

Insurgency in northern Mozambique

21 January 2021 | 7 Minute Listen

Guest: Peter Fabricius

Plan B with Rebecca Davis

21 January 2021 | 12 Minute Listen

Guest: Rebecca Davis | Journalist and Author at Daily Maverick

Taxes to fund vaccines

21 January 2021 | 11 Minute Listen

Guest: Khaya Sithole National Treasury has said that raising taxes is one of the options it is looking at as a way to raise what the department of health estimates is 20 billion rand South Africa will need to vaccinate the entire country. It is also reportedly looking into several other possible funding mechanisms including widening the budget deficit and reprioritising government spending. We speak to independent analyst and columnist, Khaya Sithole, about whether raising taxes is the best way to go about this.

Fedhasa's Leon Traut explains court action over extension of Bargaining Council Collective Agreement

20 January 2021 | 3 Minute Listen

Guest: Leon Traut, Labour consultant at the Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa (Fedhasa)

Biden's inauguration

20 January 2021 | 8 Minute Listen

Guest: Bill Schneider It's inauguration day for Joe Biden, with many across the United States and the world watching as he is sworn in as the country's 46th president at noon Washington time. He will take the helm of what is a a deeply divided nation following outgoing president, Donald Trump's years in office, and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.