The Lead
The Lead is News24's definitive daily audio podcast for in-depth reporting. Join broadcaster Graeme Raubenheimer every week as he engages in candid conversations with our top journalists, and discover what they saw, heard, and uncovered in their relentless pursuit of the big story. A new edition drops every night, Monday to Thursday at 19:00 SAST on News24, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Share your views, news tips, and voice notes: WhatsApp: 072 562 3179 or email: thelead@24.com. Let’s chat all this and more, right here on The Lead on News24.
Latest Episode
‘Day Zero’ looms large for drought-stricken Knysna (20.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- More tough questions for Ekhuruleni mayor over DJ’s murder
- ‘Cat’ Matlala tried to open an ultra-lux OR Tambo airport terminal
- Is the ‘prime lending rate’ just a load of BS?
- Everything you need to know about the 2025 matric results
- Is KZN’s paper-thin coalition on the rocks?
- Should SA get involved in the US-Venezuela crisis?
- From SIU head to NPA boss, Andy Mothibi’s surprise leap raises eyebrows
- Why are SA shoppers still using savings stamps? With Maya Fisher-French
- Analysing Bafana’s Afcon exit
- The government of national unity (barely) survives 2025, with Jan Gerber
- Are we turning into an assassination nation? With Sikonathi Mantshantsha
- Jeff Wicks tells us how Vusimusi Matlala became the ‘Cat’
- Woolies cash bags and info peddlers: Madlanga musings with Karyn Maughan
- Revealing ‘Twatterbaas’, the X Boer who hasn’t posted since April
- Protea fire blazes bright, the Boks’ amazing year and Afcon loading
- The toll of Cape Town’s unending gang war
- Who killed DJ Warras and why? PLUS, meat prices soar
- Pierre de Vos judges the judiciary in 2025. PLUS, KZN legislature chaos
- Can the black middle class save the ANC from collapse?
- Inside the ANC’s soul-searching NGC – vote buying, step-asides and succession
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