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  • The Daveyton Muti Murders Finale

    September 6, 2026 · 40 min

    NOTE: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. “That’s how cruel people are,” says Ndeni Mntungwa, surveying the littered wetland of Yende Park in central Daveyton, where he found his son Jabulani’s mutilated body nine years ago. And…

  • TRAILER | The Daveyton Muti Murders Finale

    September 3, 2026 · 1 min

    "Only your money can go to jail [in South Africa]," says Ndeni Mntungwa, Jabulani's father. The exclusive finale in the Daveyton Muti Murders, out this Sunday, 6 September, wherever you get your podcasts. #News24Video #News24 For this…

  • The Daveyton Muti Murders Part 2

    August 30, 2026 · 23 min

    NOTE: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. In Part 2 of News24’s narrative podcast investigation, The Daveyton Muti Murders, we honour the memory of budding Wits University student, Wandile Jasop, and detail a deeply disturbing cycle…

  • TRAILER | The Daveyton Muti Murders Part 2

    August 27, 2026 · 1 min

    Wandile Jasop’s father circled the body in Yende Park three times. He didn’t recognise his own son. Part 2: Shoes is out this Sunday, wherever you get your podcasts. #News24Video #News24 For this story and more, visit News24…

  • The Daveyton Muti Murders Part 1

    August 23, 2026 · 24 min

    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…

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  • TRAILER | The Daveyton Muti Murders - a News24 narrative podcast investigation

    August 22, 2026 · 2 min

    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…

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

    July 1, 2026 · 40 min

    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…

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

    June 29, 2026 · 31 min

    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…

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

    May 27, 2026 · 34 min

    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…

  • Return to the Bellville South house of horrors

    May 20, 2026 · 27 min

    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…

  • PowerBall? The lotto king’s curious business ties

    May 18, 2026 · 40 min

    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…

  • Your ultimate Phala Phala couch catch-up

    May 13, 2026 · 34 min

    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…

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About the show

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.