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In the turbulent years of apartheid South Africa, as the country stood at a crossroads between conflict and reconciliation, a British-born mining executive emerged as an unlikely catalyst for change. Clem Sunter, through his pioneering work in scenario planning, would help frame one of the most remarkable political transitions in modern history and continue to influence thinking about South Africa’s future decades later. News24 Podcasts
Former Kaizer Chiefs' striker Katlego Mphela offers advice to the club's forwards ahead of the Soweto derby against Orlando Pirates and shares why some of those attackers might not be Amakhosi material. News24 Podcasts
In this week’s episode, we talk about how to charge EVs, even in loadshedding, and how more South Africans are sparking up to electric mobility. News24 Podcasts
MotoGP rider Brad Binder talks to News24 Motoring editor Janine van der Post about his challengers in 2024, like breaking a bone in his foot and still having to race, their KTM bike struggles, a better grippy Michelin tyre and what challenges it brought, Checkers fans, becoming a dad, and closing the Ducati gap in 2025. News24 Podcasts
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. News24 Podcasts
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. News24 Podcasts
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. News24 Podcasts
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.
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 son at Sacred Heart College on Thursday.
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 their son at Sacred Heart College on Thursday.
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 son at Sacred Heart College on Thursday.
HIV doctor Francois Venter explains why the treatment of obese people reminds him of the bad old days of the HIV epidemic.
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.
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.
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.
Imanuwela David is the man caught up in the centre of the theft of cash at Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm
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
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 expiry dates in June, millions of doses will have to be destroyed.
How many doses could South Africa lose? 7 million. That’s more than the United States donated to us in 2021. Bhekisisa editor-in-chief Mia Malan speaks to Nicholas Crisp, who heads up South Africa's vaccine roll-out
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 South Africa lose? 7 million. That’s more than the United States donated to us in 2021.
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. www.news24.com
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 24's Eastern Cape correspondent Malibongwe Dayimani is on the line to talk you through just how to say each one.