Chris Gibbons joins Algoa FM team



Well-known broadcaster Chris Gibbons has joined the Algoa FM line-up to present a daily business round-up.

“Chris brings with him the ideal mix,” says Algoa FM programme director Alfie Jay.

Firstly, he anchors the Mid-Day Report on Gauteng's Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk in the Western Cape, and secondly – importantly for us – he does it from his home in Knysna.

“That is in the heart of our new Garden Route footprint, and also means that he is exposed to what is happening through the rest of Algoa Country,” he says.

Algoa FM’s Morning Show team will be crossing live to Gibbons in his Knysna studio at around quarter past seven every week day morning.

He will be updating Algoa FM listeners on the latest international and local financial and business news. “We will be giving listeners economic updates that could impact on their business or investments in the next 24 hours,” says Jay.  

Gibbons has been presenting his “hard-hitting news, current affairs and business show” since 2001, and has been with 702 since June 1980, when he anchored the station's first sportscast. He has also worked for the BBC, ABC, NBC and Australia's Maquarie Network.

Ayanda Kota is a new brand of anti-poverty activist. He lives in a shack, he is on the frontline of every government service delivery protest, from lighting tyres to throwing buckets of kak into City Hall in protest against the foul and inhuman bucket system still prevailing in Grahamstown’s townships.

He is far from saintly.

Pessimism reigns around the UN’s Climate Change conference. But it’s a mistake. Last night rain belted down. Crazy rain.

Would we rather dismiss the negotiations among world leaders as a lot of hot air and do no more, or do you take the best of the event and see it in context with the frustrations.

Well duh man, I just answered that one, but no ja, since I’m here, may as well give you the er, lowdown.

The Tax House is deepening its business service offering to the Grahamstown area and the Sunshine Coast.

The Tax House is gearing up for a big launch into the world of online business early next year.

The complicated and costly global carbon trade system is starting to work in the Eastern Cape.

Carbon projects, which see carbon polluters paying carbon capturers - via a highly-regulated new market system of “carbon credits” - have been working around the globe for some time, says Mike Powell, who is leader of the Rhodes Restoration Research Group based in the university’s Environmental Science department.

But, he says, Africa lags.

Nineteen senior journalists from around Africa will be covering the United Nation’s  COP17 conference on climate change in Durban from 29 November to 9 December.

Your Makana Moon hack will be among them.

The team was put together by Chris Kabwato, director of the Highway Africa project of the Rhodes School of Journalism and Media Studies.