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
Jeff Wicks tells us how Vusimusi Matlala became the ‘Cat’ (29.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 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
- ANC and DA succession races – Didiza rising, Hill-Lewis waiting?
- ‘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
Other podcasts
-
Sense by Meg Faure
-
Cannonball - Explosive Talk On The Saints
-
Ideas That Matter Podcast by Vusi Thembekwayo
-
The Moth
-
Maskandi Mixes
-
Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud
-
Proof
-
Calm Parenting Podcast
-
Slay Girl Slay
-
Single Mother Survival Guide
-
Toni and Ryan
-
Le rapport du légiste
-
Beyond the Scoreboard: from the Iowa City Press-Citizen
-
WSFI Catholic Radio: 88.5FM and 750AM
-
PHM Durban SA
-
In The Know
-
Twenty Thousand Hertz
-
The Rock Church Durban Podcast
