East Coast Drive with Bongani & Mags

East Coast Radio — Mi Casa celebrates their ten years in the music industry and a deal with the biggest label in the world.

East Coast Radio — G-dog shared his most embarrassing sports injury ever with KZN … it happened when he was much much younger… but it still haunts him today!

East Coast Radio — Today is day 56 of national lockdown and day 21 of level 4 and we are sure a lot of illegal things have been taking place.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive speaks to South African Democratic Teachers Union, Provincial Secretary Nomarashiya Caluza.

East Coast Radio — Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has announced that schools will officially reopen for Grade 7s and 12s on 1 June and most people are not happy about this.

East Coast Radio — Together in one house for 54 days... we're sure most families and couples have had their fair share of arguments and fights.

East Coast Radio — A German Bundesliga team fan has found a clever way to get fans into the stadium, without really being there.

East Coast Radio — After more than 50 days in lockdown, many South Africans are feeling the blues, and many of us are also looking a bit blue without our normal beauty treatments.

East Coast Radio — There's a good chance alcohol will be on sale again in some parts of the country from June - if President Cyril Ramaphosa’s expectations are met.

East Coast Radio — What would have been the 95th edition of the Comrades Marathon this year has been cancelled.

East Coast Radio — Tuesday is International Nurses Day and East Coast Drive thought it would be amazing to chat with one of our very own nurses.

East Coast Radio — Today is day 46 of the national lockdown and day 11 of level 4, but it feels like we have been in this a lot longer...

East Coast Radio — We all want what feels like a nightmare of a virus to come to an end - and any given opportunity to make that happen would be amazing.

East Coast Radio — Most people are suffering from the lockdown regulations that have been imposed on the country, especially since alcohol and cigarette sales have been prohibited.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive has come across an incredible story. The Beacon Isle KwikSpar in Plettenberg Bay has given space in its store to local businesses to sell their goods.

East Coast Radio — "My best friend of 15 years Joanne Stanley is an essential worker in a KZN hospital, she sacrifices her life daily in the fight to curve the Covid-19 pandemic."

East Coast Radio — A group of surfers protested earlier today against the lockdown regulations prohibiting surfing and South Africa has had a lot to say about this.

East Coast Radio — Pieter Beck is a nurse at St Augustine's hospital. He is a cancer survivor and is still going to work every day at the hospital to do his part.

East Coast Radio — It's our first week back since the country was moved to level 4 of lockdown, and most companies are reopen for business.

East Coast Radio — Sagie is a true Frontline Hero - he is a trucker from Durban to Johannesburg.

East Coast Radio — Manjoo Raghunandan has been working for 29 years in the same pharmacy.

East Coast Radio — Sister Jennifer Reed is working 12-hour shifts and taking it all in her stride as a professional member of Netcare.

East Coast Radio — Today on East Coast Drive is the first time Jason Mraz speaks to SA fans and media in 2020.

East Coast Radio — Dr A Reddy, a doctor that has been working at Provincial Hospitals during this lockdown period, day in and day out often working 30-hour shifts without sleep or rest.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive was able to have a chat with one of the most well known celebrities worldwide - Black Coffee.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive had asked the kids of KZN to get involved in sending a message to the country during this trying time.

East Coast Radio — Craig Howard says work is normal for them, masks and sanitizer are a way of everyday life.

East Coast Radio — Ava Max talks about her new single called Kings and Queens and how she is dealing with life in isolation during coronavirus.

East Coast Radio — Managing Director of Marshall Security, Tyron Powell and his team of officials are definitely South African Frontline Heroes.

East Coast Radio — Gordon spoke to one of the doctors who compiled the letter, Urologist at East London’s Life Beacon Bay Hospital, Dr Fred Tyler.

East Coast Radio — Courtney is a Frontline Hero and we were happy for her to share her story with us.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive talks to Lauren Martin who gives advice for Matrics who find themselves in limbo between two very different worlds.

East Coast Radio — During this tough time, there must be some serious cases that come through that even Trauma Specialized Nurses don't want to handle but have to.

East Coast Radio — From supermarket employees to police and healthcare workers, to those assisting their different communities, there are everyday heroes walking among us.

East Coast Radio — The Southern Sun Elangeni and Maharani Hotels in Durban are doing their bit towards flattening the curve. They recently did something magnificent which can only be seen! After seeing such a beautiful site on beachfront the Drive team had to talk to the General Manager of the Southern Sun Elangeni and Maharani. See photos

East Coast Radio — Today's Frontline Hero is Moulana, a priest in Phoenix who is going the extra mile for the community.

East Coast Radio — Paul’s wife Linda emailed has nominated her husband as a Frontline Hero. Paul Herbst leads a medical rescue team for IPSS Medical Rescue.

East Coast Radio — Irene and her husband are Frontline Heroes – she works in food retail and her husband is a police officer with SAPS, both of these fall under essential services. East Coast Drive was able to have a chat with Irene about her living situation at home with her husband and family, during this lockdown and quarantine period, especially working as an essential service employee. Read more here

East Coast Radio — Lunga Nombewu tested positive for COVID-19 on March 16 and beat it, testing negative two weeks later.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive spoke to Yusuf Abramjee, the founder of an organisation called Tax justice South Africa about the ban of the sale of alcohol and tobacco during the lockdown!

East Coast Radio — This lockdown has been difficult for the entire country, and the banning of the sale of a few vice items such as tobacco and liquor has put a damper on many people's daily lives.

East Coast Radio — In an emergency shout-out to all South Africans and corporate, SHOUT SA has created a new public service initiative to get surgical and N95 masks to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

East Coast Radio — We are into Day 13 of lockdown - and many of us are not used to having our partners around 24/7. DrD helps out and adds valuable advice for those couples that are struggling during lockdown.

East Coast Radio — Amidst the global COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown of South Africa, the Yusuf Islam Foundation has partnered with a local humanitarian organisation, Penny Appeal South Africa, to provide an emergency relief of hygiene and food packs to vulnerable communities across the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

East Coast Radio — Today we want to help the parents out there! According to Clinical Psychologist Dorianne Weil - aka 'DrD', it is a tightrope trying to tell our children not to panic but at the same time make them understand that this is really, really serious.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive played her husband Matt's voicenote this week all the way from Indonesia. On Thursday, we were able to speak to his wife in Durban to get the full story. The family managed to get back to Durban, but Matt is still there.

East Coast Radio — We are now one week into the 21-day lockdown enforced to curb the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and it is something we’re all becoming accustomed to, but for our government, it comes with a whole bunch of new, unprecedented challenges.

East Coast Radio — East Coast Drive decided to speak to DrD about people who are alone at home. We often speak of families together and we sometimes forget that some people are completely alone and that comes with a whole set of different challenges altogether.

East Coast Radio — Economic activity around the world is at its lowest point since the 2008 financial crises that brought about depressions in almost every major and minor economy around the world. South Africa has been downgraded to junk status, so the Drive team thought it would be great to speak to Chief Economist at Old Mutual Investment Group, Johann Els, to help us make sense of exactly what this all means.

East Coast Radio — Monica is the lucky person to have guessed what the ECRSecretSound worth R25,000 is!

East Coast Radio — The KwaZulu-Natal Doctors Healthcare Coalition (KZNDHC), in partnership with Usizo Advisory Solutions, have developed a not-for-profit program called, ‘Doctors on Call’.