Future Cities Africa podcast

Lisa Johansson is Green Economy Investment & Finance Liaison at Wesgro & GreenCape. Jarrod Lyon is Business Development Executive at Atlantis Special Economic Zone for Green Technologies. In episode 3 of the 10 episode Wesgro Series on Future Cities Africa we discuss: Attracting Investment Into the Green Economy and the Atlantis SEZ. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Wesgro Listen...

Janet Channing is Managing Director and Ayanda Ngcobo is Director at MetGovis. In episode 1 of the MetGovis series on Future Cities Africa we discuss how MetGovis is partnering with local government towards sustainability. This episode is brought to you in partnership with MetGovis Listen or watch to understand: Who and what MetGovis is. How and why MetGovis was started. Their personal journey. Ho...

Monika Iuel is Chief Destination Marketing Officer at Wesgro, the Official Tourism, Trade, Investment and Film Agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape. In episode 2 of the 10 episode Wesgro Series on Future Cities Africa we discuss: Tourism After The Great Disruption. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Wesgro Listen or watch to understand: How leisure tourism can affect a local e...

Karen Bosman is Strategic Advisor: Office of the CEO at Wesgro. In episode 1 of the 10 episode Wesgro Series on Future Cities Africa we discuss: Harnessing the benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI), exports and tourism. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Wesgro Listen or watch to understand: The context of what Wesgro does and why it is important. Wesgro's different functions...

Frank Cumming is Director for Urban Catalytic Investments at the City of Cape Town. We discuss city mega projects, the Bellville Future City and Local Spatial Development Framework masterplan, the role of partnerships, and more. This episode is brought to you in partnership with The Greater Tygerberg Partnership Listen or watch to understand: How mega projects like the Bellville Future City vision...

Maurietta Stewart is Head of Environmental & Heritage Management for District A+D (Table Bay and Tygerberg) at The City of Cape Town and Guy Briggs is Partner and Head of Urban Design at dhk Architects. We discuss successful placemaking to build inclusive African places. This episode is brought to you in partnership with The Greater Tygerberg Partnership Listen or watch to understand: The unique o...

Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, the Mayor of Cape Town, is our first guest on the Visionary City Leader Show. We discuss what is means to be a visionary city leader, his 1st 100 days in office, how he'll define success over his 5 year term, the importance of partnerships in solving complex problems, future-proofing cape town, how the role of the mayor has changed in recent times, and much more...

Episode 6 of the Series focussing on urban governance and how to get it right in managing urban growth in towns and cities in Kenya. Show guest: Dennis Abuya is a Registered Physical Planner currently working with the County Government of Kiambu. He holds a   Master's Degree in Urban Management and a degree in Urban and Regional Planning - both from the University of Nairobi. Listen or watch to un...

Episode 5 of the Series focussing on urban governance and how to get it right in managing urban growth in towns and cities in Kenya. Show guest: Engineer Geche Karanja is Chairman of Kiambu Residents and Neighbourhood Association (AKiRNA). He has worked in various locations worldwide including Germany; Brazil; South Africa; USA; Egypt and Japan. Listen or watch to understand: The role of residents...

Episode 4 of the Series focussing on urban governance and how to get it right in managing urban growth in towns and cities in Kenya. Show guest: Grace Kamweru is a Landscape Architect, Environmental Planner & Assistant Lecturer at The Technical University of Kenya. Listen or watch to understand: The status of climate change and associated crises in this post-pandemic era at the City level. How the...

Episode 3 of the Series focussing on urban governance and how to get it right in managing urban growth in towns and cities in Kenya. Show guest: Mary Chege, Founding Partner of EMSI & Associates. She has over seventeen years' experience in advising on a broad range of transactions across Sub-Saharan Africa. Listen or watch to understand: The current state of infrastructure financing in Kenya's tow...

Bronwyn Williams is back and she shares 3 key trends for cities: Haha Cities, DIY Cities and Charter Cities. We also talk about private cities, the Metaverse, crypto trends affecting cities, strategies local governments can implement to do more with less for its people, book recommendations to help us navigate what lies ahead, and much more. Listen or watch to understand: HaHa cities: Invisibly wa...

Episode 2 of the Series focussing on urban governance and how to get it right in managing urban growth in towns and cities in Kenya. Show guest: David Gatimu, Corporate Member of the Architectural Association of Kenya Town Planners Chapter. He has over 25 years' experience in Public Service and holds a MSc in Urban Planning from Oxford Brookes University. Listen or watch to understand: Key trends...

Episode 1 of the Series focussing on urban governance and how to get it right in managing urban growth in towns and cities in Kenya. Show guest: Cyrus Mbisi, a Town Planner and Chairperson of the Town Planners Chapter of The Architectural Association of Kenya. Listen or watch to understand: Why the management of urbanization and growth is so important in the Kenyan context. The place of technology...

GreenCape's Alternative Service Delivery Unit (ASDU) is working with different informal settlements to improve their access to basic services. This episode explores the ASDU, principles of co-design in asset based community development, and the impact of this and other ASDU project partnerships. This episode is presented in partnership with GreenCape in collaboration with the Friedrich Naumann Fou...

GreenCape and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom are running a series of Green Economy decision-makers courses that have a reach into African cities. This episode explores the decision-makers courses, the planned Symposium, and the impact that this initiative is seeing by equipping decision-makers to understand and align their strategies with green economy principles. This episode is pre...

Abdullahi Ali Hassan has a Master's in Urban Studies and is very active in the Bellville Somalian community. We explore the importance of multiculturalism in urban centres, narratives and perceptions, the importance of strong leadership, how city governments can better support multicultural populations, and more. Listen or watch to understand: This episode is presented in partnership with The Grea...

The Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) directly responds to the urgency and scale of the climate crisis by supporting highly promising climate projects to become more bankable and appealing to investors, so that they can secure funding more readily. The CFA is part of the UK Government's efforts to help South Africa tackle climate change and support a just transition. This episode is presented in p...

A free and fair media is critical in a healthy democracy, though while the data age has dramatically enhanced our ability to generate and share news, it has similarly enabled the rise of fake news, programmatic agendas, and media echo-chambers. The Dexter project seeks to leverage modern computational paradigms to monitor and analyze Southern Africa's digital media. Listen or watch to understand:...

Zukiswa Mandlana is Director for Organisational Effectiveness and Innovation at the City of Cape Town. We discuss the latest innovations at the City of Cape Town, the innovation process they adopted, how they measure success, key milestones reached, overcoming challenges and how the Pandemic has influenced how they innovate. This episode is presented in partnership with the City of Cape Town See a...

Miriam Maina is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a particular focus on the role of policy in shaping urban futures in Africa. Listen or watch to understand: This episode is presented in partnership with 1map ( Visit them ) Organic growth vs proactive town planning/city management. If organic growth is a good idea for African countries. What happens to town...

Warren Hewitt is Chief Executive Officer at The Greater Tygerberg Partnership (GTP). We discuss the role of the GTP in unlocking Bellville's potential as a sustainable and prosperous leading African city, Bellville's culture and combined intellectual capital, attracting investment, working closely with the public sector, and many facts about Bellville. This episode is presented in partnership with...

We explore: This episode is presented in partnership with the City of Cape Town Major challenges faced and impacts of the pandemic and how the City is managing it. Scope and the key elements of the City's Transport Strategy for growth and recovery. Barriers that exist to the implementation of the strategy. How the City is responding to the crisis involving the Minibus Taxi industry. The City's res...

Monica Rolo is an Industrial Engineer at Curro Holdings, an independent school network in South Africa. We discuss the societal needs addressed by Curro, the value in spatial representation of information for a school and how it enables them to identify and overcome key challenges, and much more. This episode is presented in partnership with 1map ( Visit them )   See all FCA episodes: https://futu...

Carlo Barnard is Business Intelligence Specialist at Munsoft and a past municipal CFO at Victor Khanye Local Municipality. We discuss the value in spatial representation of information for a municipality, major challenges that can be visualised and solved, why collaboration between departments are important in the context of using technology, and much more. Presented in Partnership with 1map, visi...