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17 Episodes
Bullshi!t: 50 Fibs that Made South Africa by Jonathan Ancer
Bullshi!t: 50 Fibs that Made South Africa by Jonathan Ancer (Jonathan Ball) is an outrageous miscellany of lies, myths, untruths, fibs and fabrications that tell the woeful history of South Africa.
Additional recordings of SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane’s meetings with officials in March 2015
Clips of what appears to be a longer recording of conversations between former SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane and members of the so-called ‘rogue unit’ at the tax service, showing that a version handed to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane was incomplete.
Being bold and defeating imposter syndrome - leadership tips with a banking executive
Buli Ndlovu wears many hats. She is a corporate juggernaut, mom, wife, and superstar daughter. For the past 16 years, she's been outpacing her peers, and her excellence has cumulated in her holding an executive role at one of South Africa's most prominent financial institutions.
Stage 8 looming: News24's journalists dive into Eskom
South Africa is now the closest it has ever been to Stage 8 load shedding, which will mean no electricity for 12 to 14 hours a day. News24's Sheldon Morais, Ahmed Areff and Kyle Cowan dive into the state of Eskom, load shedding and the crumbling grid. LISTEN LIVE AT 13:00.
Food, tech center to be built at Sacred Heart College in honour of Tebello 'Tibz
Mzansi was still coming to terms with the death of Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes when they were dealt with another blow – the man who was shot and killed shortly after the famed rapper was celebrity entrepreneur and author Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane. His family held a memorial service to celebrate their…
Friend details moments leading up to Tebello and AKA’s death
Mzansi was still coming to terms with the death of Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes when they were dealt with another blow – the man who was shot and killed shortly after the famed rapper was celebrity entrepreneur and author Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane. His family will have a memorial service to celebrate…
Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane remembered at memorial service
Mzansi was still coming to terms with the death of Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes when they were dealt with another blow – the man who was shot and killed shortly after the famed rapper was celebrity entrepreneur and author Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane. His family held a memorial service to celebrate their…
‘We’ve failed as clinicians’: This HIV doctor is changing how he treat
HIV doctor Francois Venter explains why the treatment of obese people reminds him of the bad old days of the HIV epidemic.
The Station Strangler: the faceless serial killer who stalked Cape Town's boys
It started in 1986 - a faceless serial killer began stalking children on the Cape Flats. By 1994, the bodies of more than 20 boys who had been sodomised and then strangled to death had been found. The person responsible for the killings became known as the Station Strangler.
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Krugersdorp rape brings ‘haunted’ Motsoaledi to tears
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was overcome with emotion when he spoke about how the alleged rape of eight women shooting a music video at a mine dump in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, had awakened his traumatic memories.
LISTEN | Alleged SSA abuses laid bare in Mkhwebane 'SARS Rogue Unit' recording
The inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office has heard a recorded conversation between her and the Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) in which serious alleged State Security Agency (SSA) abuses were detailed.
LISTEN | Phala Phala: Audio of Imanuwela David
Imanuwela David is the man caught up in the centre of the theft of cash at Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm
CORRUPTION WATCH | Police betrayal
The South African police is staffed by people who come from the very communities where their friends and loved ones live yet they perpetrate acts of brutality and gross abuse of power against those same communities. Corruption Watch’s Melusi Ncala tackles the issue in a podcast
BHEKISISA | Money troubles: Why SA can’t afford Covid vaccines for children 5 to 11
SA missed all its Covid vaccination goals for 2021. So what’s happening to the roll-out now? The health department doesn’t have money to buy any more Covid vaccines this year. That includes Sinopharm, Sinovac and jabs for children. If the uptake of Covid vaccines doesn’t increase in time for looming…
-DELETED- BHEKISISA: Money troubles: Why SA can’t afford COVID vaccines for children 5 to 11
The health department doesn’t have money to buy any more Covid vaccines this year. That includes Sinopharm, Sinovac and jabs for children. If the uptake of Covid vaccines doesn’t increase in time for looming expiry dates in June, millions of doses will have to be destroyed. How many doses could…
LISTEN | 'He is stupid' - De Lille rips into DA's Geordin Hill Lewis over affordable housing
Minister of Public Works Patricia De Lille's bitter battle with the her former party, the DA, is seemingly far from over. De Lille branded the DA's Cape Town mayoral hopeful Geordin Hill-Lewis as ''stupid'' after he requested that her office release the Acacia Park parliamentary village for affordable housing.
How to pronounce Eastern Cape's newly renamed cities and airports
Arts and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa recognised the new names by publication in the Government Gazette, alongside a handful of registrations of existing geographic names, and some spelling corrections on Tuesday. Port Elizabeth airport, East London airport, Port Elizabeth itself, Uitenhage, King William’s Town, Maclear all have new names. News…