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Manifesto test: The revolution promised, the record questioned
Episode 108
The EFF is consistent on municipalities having to focus on serving the people. Good intentions, all the right words, but what does its track record r…
9 hours ago
SA’s sports funding crisis exposed as athletes pay the price
Episode 107
South Africa’s athletes are winning on the world stage, but they’re paying for it out of their own pockets. From R120,000 tournament fees to covering…
2 days, 10 hours ago
India’s Mandrax master to Big Five bosses – exposing the who’s who of South Africa’s illicit drug trade
Episode 106
In 2025 a senior policeman made striking accusations that a drug cartel had infiltrated South Africa’s criminal justice system, politics and private …
6 days, 1 hour ago
Over 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg buckling
Episode 105
Crumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking…
1 week ago
The DA MP, Tony Leon’s lobbying firm and the SIM card law
Episode 104
Kabelo Kgobisa-Ngcaba was the COO of Tony Leon’s Resolve Communications until she entered Parliament as a DA MP. Then she spent more than six months …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
‘Spies in America’ – from South African freedom fighter to foreign agent
Episode 103
In June 2026 a retired South African Air Force brigadier general, Portia “Posh” Anyamba, was fined and sentenced in the United States to six months i…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Did SAPS Crime Intelligence burgle Marianne Thamm's home?
Episode 102
The possible targeting of journalist Marianne Thamm by state intelligence highlights a serious threat to press freedom and democratic accountability …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Roads, shops, factories and homes threatened by sinkholes as illegal mining hollows out Joburg
Episode 101
Sinkholes are collapsing major arterial roads, opening inside upmarket residential estates and even beneath shops and factories as illegal miners tun…
1 month ago
The invisible children: South Africa’s late birth registration backlog
Episode 100
Imagine growing up in South Africa without any legal proof that you exist. Thousands of children are trapped in a backlog of birth registration appli…
1 month ago
Is Kirstenbosch Dying From the Inside?
Episode 99
Cape Town’s iconic Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens remain a breathtaking sight, but experts warn the institution behind the beauty is in quie…
1 month, 1 week ago