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
ANC and DA succession races – Didiza rising, Hill-Lewis waiting? (09.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- ‘Vlam’ extinguished - why was crimefighter Marius van der Merwe killed?
- Dlomo in the dock cracks open SSA looting legacy of the Zuma years
- Families desperate as 17 SA men remain stuck in Russian conflict
- Gqeberha’s governance crisis: Who can fix the Windy City?
- Mayoral misleadings in Mafole murder?
- The Cat, the Hat and the Woolies shopping bags of money
- Indian fake news farm fuels Sassa lies. PLUS, probing ‘cheap flights’
- Power surge, Carol Paton on Mzansi’s new electricity revolution
- Ubuntu diplomacy lands at Jozi G20 as US stays away
- SA’s high stakes G20 and whiplash from Washington
- Unravelling Brown Mogotsi’s conspiracies with Karyn Maughan
- 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
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