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VOC Breakfast

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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VOC launches Pink Hijab Day

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…
20 Oct 2014 6 min

An Orphan’s Tale by Zain Bhikha

It’s very rare that we have a celebrity on the breakfast show – and this morning, we have the honour of chatting to Mr Zain Bhikha, South Africa’s most popular nasheed artist. Zain is partnering with Islamic Relief South Africa (IRSA) for an exciting stage production, An Orphan’s Tale, which…
19 Oct 2014 8 min

Palestine Solidarity Alliance

Despite facing a number of logistical challenges in their attempts to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) remains determined to set sail with aid towards the embattled strip. As we know, Gaza was destroyed by a 50 day military bombardment which started during Ramadan. VOC journalist…
19 Oct 2014 8 min

Hanover Park Day Hospital facing overcrowding

Hanover Park Day Hospital is facing an overcrowding issue, as it deals with an influx of patients from the Dr Aburahman Community Health Centre in Kewtown, which is closed due to construction. Our regular caller Aunty Gigi brought up this issue last week, saying patients waited for hours on end…
19 Oct 2014 9 min

Sahabah Conference in Laudium, Pretoria

The United Muslim Movement of Africa will be hosting the Sahabah Conference in Laudium, Pretoria on Saturday. To tell us more is one of the coordinators, Moulana Obaydullah Boja
16 Oct 2014 5 min

New city crime awareness initiative

A novel Cape Town initiative has been launched to generate awareness of criminal tactics. It aims to encourage the public to be more proactive in taking precautions for their own safety. To tell us more about this initiative is Gil Lang from The Safety Lab. The Safety Lab is an innovation hub and…
16 Oct 2014 5 min

National Day of Action for the Right to Communicate

We as consumers have become frustrated with the cost of cellphone call and internet rates, not forgetting the low quality of programming we get from the public broadcaster. Organisations such as the Right2Know Campaign believe the state of our telecommunications and media landscape is in a bit of a mess…
16 Oct 2014 10 min

Beitul Amaan gives report back on AGM

The Beitul Aman Home for the Aged reopened its AGM on Wednesday night but this time for members only. This follows a tipping point last week when a verbal altercation broke out between management and the public regarding previous claims of mismanagement. Our reporter Ra'eesah Isaacs spoke to the facility's…
16 Oct 2014 8 min

International Day of Action on Al Aqsa

South Africans have been watching the violence unfolding at Masjidul Aqsa with shock and horror. Tension at the site has come to a head over the past few days as Jewish worshippers have been allowed to enter, while security forces are denying access to Palestinians under the age of 50.The…
16 Oct 2014 7 min

Land claims awareness campaign

Land restitution is a contentious issue for our community, and very often, people are confused as it to how a land claim works. So for the past few days, we have been conducting a series of interviews with the Department of Rural Development about the land claims process. This is…
15 Oct 2014 4 min

Matric exams looming

It’s a stressful time for matrics across the country, with just four days to go before the start of the 2014 National Senior Certificate Exams. Many schools and educators across the province have been offering extra lessons in the evening and over weekends to improve results.
15 Oct 2014 5 min

AGM explores relationship between business and govt

The Economic Development Partnership held its AGM this week to discuss new ways to build the relationship between business and government. Also up for discussion were the partnerships between business and government in science and technology. To tell us more is Andrew Boraine, the CEO for the Western Cape Economic…
15 Oct 2014 9 min

Crime stoppers conference

The 35th International Crime Stoppers Conference ended in Cape Town last night. Yesterday, Police major general Jeremy Veary, who coordinates Operation Combat, discussed the police’s anti-gang strategy.
15 Oct 2014 9 min

Land claims awareness campaign

In July, President Jacob Zuma signed into law the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act, which reopens the restitution claims process that closed at the end of 1998. The new process gives claimants five years - until 30 June 2019 - to lodge further claims.We are currently conducting a series…
14 Oct 2014 4 min

Lack of moral outrage on child murders

With crime on the agenda at the 35th Crime Stoppers conference in Cape Town this week, a UCT academic believes there is not enough focus on child murders. Dr Despina Learmonth, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at UCT, has criticized the lack of collective outrage against child murders…
14 Oct 2014 7 min

Father plans to take against Road Accident Fund

A father stricken with pain and suffering has turned to VOC as a last resort after his daughter suffered severe head injuries in a car accident by a drunk driver. VOC journalist Ra'eesah Isaacs filed this report…
14 Oct 2014 7 min

Women march for end to violence

With gender violence an endemic social problem in our communities, a number of local organisations have come together to demand access to justice for women. These organisations are mobilizing together for a march in Mitchell’s Plain this morning.To chat more about this is Dr Johanna Kehler, the Executive Director of…
14 Oct 2014 6 min

Maties students to launch Palestine solidarity group

With the Palestine-Israeli situation still firmly on the news agenda, a group of Stellenbosch university students are in the process of establishing a new society on campus, called the Palestine Solidarity Stellenbosch (PSS). However, it has come with some challenges for the students in terms of funding. To tell us…
13 Oct 2014 5 min

Off the rails

Kamal Salasa has this week’s OFF THE RAILS report…where he rants about everything from Oscar Pistorius, Jub-Jub and Malema to Shrien Dewani, the Arms Deal and Nkandla
13 Oct 2014 7 min

Masjidul Quds

With recent renewed Israeli aggression directed at Masjidul Quds,Islam's third holiest site, director of the Al-Quds Foundation, Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks joins us online to give us the latest…
13 Oct 2014 8 min
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