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
Unravelling Brown Mogotsi’s conspiracies with Karyn Maughan (19.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 78-year-old District Six resident beats 2023 eviction order
- How the DA axed its own minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment
- Lawless lawmen? Inside the AmaPanyaza saga, with Khaya Koko
- Adriaan Basson calls out SA’s Trump collaborators
- The MKP’s puzzling Russia deployment. PLUS: How to spot AI slop
- Cat clairvoyance? Matlala bagged clinic lease months before SAPS tender
- Jozi leaders out of office ahead of G20. PLUS: DA, ANC, PA duel for WC
- BEE makeover - Is Tau’s Transformation Fund glow-up enough?
- All aboard? Not quite, as Gautrain stuck in search for new operator
- SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile’s sons. PLUS: Murray murders case restarts
- Rassie’s suprise year-end rookie. PLUS: Black Coffee’s R157m CT villa
- Poor Economic Empowerment - DA’s answer to BEE. PLUS: Slain auditor update
- Is this why Ekurhuleni auditor Mpho Mafole was assassinated?
- Mchunu defends decision to disband PKTT, with Jan Gerber
- The real costs of the police’s PKTT. PLUS: Bafana’s last chance
- Mkhwanazi in Parly. Maumela, Sibiya raids. PLUS: Bafana FIFA preview
- More Jozi coalition chaos on the cards? PLUS: Mkhwanazi latest
- ANC considers changing tack against DA’s Zille in Jozi
- Meet the monster John Harris (with Jacques Pauw)
- Morgan Maumela’s North West hospital hustle, with Jeff Wicks
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