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Seasoned broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer brings you The Lead, News24's definitive podcast for in-depth reporting. Join us every Monday and Wednesday at 19:00 SAST for candid conversations with our top journalists, and discover what they saw, heard, and uncovered in their relentless pursuit of the big story. Episodes drop on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube like clockwork. WhatsApp: 072 562 3179 or email: thelead@24.com. This is The Lead, and this is the South African story.

  1. 15h ago

    The Daveyton Muti Murders — Part 1: ‘Socks’

    Please note: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. News24 this Sunday brings you The Daveyton Muti Murders, a three-part narrative podcast investigation into the historical Ekurhuleni town’s disturbing history of ritual killings. The saga begins with Jabulani Mntungwa, a 20-year-old aspiring young man who leaves his sleepy hometown of eMkhondo for the bright lights of Gauteng’s East Rand. Reported over nearly six years by News24 broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, with crucial 2025 contributions by video journalists Yolanda Mdzeke and Rosetta Msimango, this limited series draws on exclusive family testimony, on-record whistleblower accounts, National Prosecuting Authority case details, official SAPS correspondence, key security sources and more to piece together what happened, and what didn’t, in this intriguing, dark puzzle. Part 2 ‘Shoes’ comes out Sunday, 30 August, and part 3 ‘Covenant: Pinto’ lands Sunday, 6 September on all of your favourite streaming platforms, YouTube, Spotify, IONO, and Apple. Comment below and send a voice note to broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer: 072 562 3179. This podcast utilises licensed Epidemic Sound tracks, and Creative Commons audio, with special thanks to Shane Ivers for ‘Zebra Township’, via Silverman Sound Studios, ScovinieBeatz for various sampled tracks via Pixabay, and limited fair-use audio clips pulled from the archived productions Bopha! and YizoYizo. This series has been vigorously quality-checked by News24's editors.

    The Daveyton Muti Murders — Part 1: ‘Socks’

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    TRAILER: The Daveyton Muti Murders - a News24 narrative podcast investigation

    News24 this Sunday launches The Daveyton Muti Murders, a three-part narrative podcast investigation into Daveyton's disturbing but brief history of ritual killings. The saga begins with Jabulani Mntungwa, who was 20 years old when his mutilated body was found in Yende Park on 28 August 2017. Reported over five years by News24 broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, with crucial contributions by Yolanda Mdzeke and Rosetta Msimango in 2025, the series draws on exclusive family testimony, on-the-record whistleblower accounts, National Prosecuting Authority case details, and official SAPS correspondence to piece together what happened and what didn't. Episode one, 'Socks', drops this Sunday. Episodes two and three follow on consecutive Sundays. The Daveyton Muti Murders is available on all major podcast platforms. #News24Video #News24 For this story and more, visit News24: https://www.news24.com/multimedia/video

    TRAILER: The Daveyton Muti Murders - a News24 narrative podcast investigation

  3. Jul 1

    Digesting the anti-immigrant marches, with Bongekile Macupe, Sakhiseni Nxumalo

    In this edition of The Lead with Graeme Raubenheimer, we assess the immediate aftermath of the June 30th anti-immigration marches with News24’s deputy politics editor, Bongekile Macupe, and Durban journalist, Sakhiseni Nxumalo. Macupe witnessed firsthand how pockets of violence took over the mass demonstration in Johannesburg, while Nxumalo observed a largely peaceful “March and March” led through Durban city centre. National police report this Wednesday that while the vast majority of the around 300 gatherings across Mzansi went off without a hitch, criminals took chances at a handful of places, with 900 people arrested, most of whom undocumented immigrants, and many others cuffed for looting shops. We end off with On This Day in SA History, our regular segment, and it’s the late Botswana president, Sir Seretse Khama’s birthday. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: thelead@24.com. Full editions drop every week @ 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

    Digesting the anti-immigrant marches, with Bongekile Macupe, Sakhiseni Nxumalo

  4. Jun 29

    What happens after 30 June’s anti-migrant marches? With Sakhiseni Nxumalo

    With the clock ticking on the 30 June “deadline” set by anti-migrant groups, will peace prevail as marchers take to the streets this Tuesday? With so many foreigners queuing up in Durban and other parts of the country, to somehow find a way home, what happens then when this cutoff comes and goes? We try to make sense of it all with our KwaZulu-Natal-based journalist, Sakhiseni Nxumalo, who witnessed chaos unfold in Pietermaritzburg following a recent anti-migrant march in the city. Later, senior Crime Intelligence official, Feroz Khan, survives an apparent attempt on his life. Finally, on this day in SA history, our regular segment, an apartheid-era opposition coalition was formed in 1977, only to turn out to be an election flop. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: thelead@24.com. Full editions drop every week @ 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

    What happens after 30 June’s anti-migrant marches? With Sakhiseni Nxumalo

  5. May 27

    Emfuleni’s by-election won’t fix its worsening service delivery crisis

    In a preview for the November municipal polls, the people of Beverly Hills in Evaton in the Vaal municipal district of Emfuleni are voting for a new ward councillor this Wednesday. This outcome may not change much, though, argues roving journalist Ntwagaae Seleka, because the service delivery crisis throughout Emfuleni has only worsened in recent months. Rubbish piles are only getting higher, sewage flooding is only getting deeper, and residents are only getting more fed up. Later in the show, Joburg and Cape Town’s budget rates increases are both firmly in the spotlight. Plus; Madiba arrived on Robben Island for the very first time, with On This Day in SA History. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: thelead@24.com. Full editions drop on Monday and Wednesday nights at 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

    Emfuleni’s by-election won’t fix its worsening service delivery crisis

  6. May 20

    Return to the Bellville South house of horrors

    In this edition, The Lead returns to the Bellville South house of horrors with News24 court and crime journalist, Lisalee Solomons. She reports that 63-year-old Aletta Rose, the murder convict accused of decapitating her Cape Town sister in March, has been giving court and remand prison authorities a headache. Rose, who now wants bail, doesn't like the media's cameras snapping pictures of her, and insists on an Afrikaans-speaking Legal Aid attorney. Later in the show, we recall the late Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's legacy during the Mbeki era, in our regular segment On This Day in SA History. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: thelead@24.com. Full editions drop on Monday and Wednesday nights at 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

    Return to the Bellville South house of horrors

  7. May 18

    PowerBall? The lotto king’s curious business ties

    The licence to operate the Lotto is about to change hands to Sizekhaya Holdings, not without claims of alleged misconduct by those left out of the ultra-lucrative tender. The man steering that outfit is Moses Tembe, a figure who's in business with at least three others precariously close to Deputy President Paul Mashatile. So much so that Tembe got a personal invite to this year's opening of Parliament, reports News24 investigative journalist Azarrah Karrim.In our trending topic, we ask: which SA retailer is streaks ahead so far with its self-checkout tills? News24's William Brederode tested them! Finally, later in the show, the early '90s SA democracy negotiations looked grim, as we discussed in our regular segment, On This Day in SA History. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: thelead@24.com. Full editions drop on Monday and Wednesday nights at 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

    PowerBall? The lotto king’s curious business ties

  8. May 13

    Your ultimate Phala Phala couch catch-up

    President Cyril Ramaphosa reckons he's got a fair chance of challenging an independent panel's findings that he may have broken the law in relation to the 2020 theft of a large sum of money from a couch based at his Phala Phala game lodge. But this “Section 89” report, overseen by retired chief justice Sandile Ngcobo, is not the only one Ramaphosa should be worried about. In this edition of The Lead, investigative journalist Kyle Cowan explains the critical importance of police watchdog IPID's revelations. And we rewind it all, to give you a much clearer sense of the entire Phala Phala saga up until now. Finally, later in the show, the Mayor of Welkom was tarred and feathered. On This Day in SA History is our regular segment. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: thelead@24.com. Full editions drop on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

    Your ultimate Phala Phala couch catch-up
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Seasoned broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer brings you The Lead, News24's definitive podcast for in-depth reporting. Join us every Monday and Wednesday at 19:00 SAST for candid conversations with our top journalists, and discover what they saw, heard, and uncovered in their relentless pursuit of the big story. Episodes drop on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube like clockwork. WhatsApp: 072 562 3179 or email: thelead@24.com. This is The Lead, and this is the South African story.

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  • Creator
    News24
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    228
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © News24
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