The Lead

NOTE: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. “That’s how cruel people are,” says Ndeni Mntungwa, surveying the littered wetland of Yende Park in central Daveyton, where he found his son Jabulani’s mutilated body nine years ago. And then, about a year after this murder, the body of Wandile Jasop was found as well. Both were killed for their private parts in the same dark park, just metres from each other, and nearly one year apart. Yet to this day, not a single person is convicted for these heinous crimes. No witnesses. No DNA evidence. No accepted admissions. Only a state patient. An acquittal. And the spectre known as ‘Pinto’, a shadowy businessman, looms large over this dark chapter. Reported in pockets over six years by News24 broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, with crucial 2025 contributions by video journalists Yolanda Mdzeke and Rosetta Msimango, this limited series draws on exclusive family testimony, on-record whistleblower accounts, National Prosecuting Authority case details, official police correspondence, and key security sources to piece together what happened, and what didn’t, in this intriguing, dark puzzle.News24’s Sharlene Rood has also crafted timelines and character cards for you to follow while you listen. The complete series is out now on all of your favourite streaming platforms: YouTube, Spotify, IONO, and Apple. Comment below and send a voice note to broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer: 072 562 3179. This podcast utilises licensed Epidemic Sound tracks and Creative Commons audio, with special thanks to Shane Ivers for Zebra Township (via Silverman Sound Studios), ScovinieBeatz for various sampled tracks via Pixabay, and limited fair-use audio clips pulled from the archived productions Bopha! and YizoYizo. This series has been rigorously quality-checked by News24's editors.

"Only your money can go to jail [in South Africa]," says Ndeni Mntungwa, Jabulani's father. The exclusive finale in the Daveyton Muti Murders, out this Sunday, 6 September, wherever you get your podcasts. #News24Video #News24 For this story and more, visit News24: https://www.news24.com/multimedia/video

NOTE: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. In Part 2 of News24’s narrative podcast investigation, The Daveyton Muti Murders, we honour the memory of budding Wits University student, Wandile Jasop, and detail a deeply disturbing cycle of extreme violence unfolding in the historic Ekurhuleni town in the late 2010s. Reported over nearly six years by News24 broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, with crucial 2025 contributions by video journalists Yolanda Mdzeke and Rosetta Msimango, this limited series draws on exclusive family testimony, on-record whistleblower accounts, National Prosecuting Authority case details, official police correspondence, and key security sources to piece together what happened, and what didn’t, in this intriguing, dark puzzle.News24’s Sharlene Rood has also crafted a handy timeline for you to follow while you listen. Part 3 – Covenant: Pinto lands on Sunday, 6 September, on all of your favourite streaming platforms: YouTube, Spotify, IONO, and Apple. Comment below and send a voice note to broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer: 072 562 3179.  This podcast utilises licensed Epidemic Sound tracks and Creative Commons audio, with special thanks to Shane Ivers for Zebra Township (via Silverman Sound Studios), ScovinieBeatz for various sampled tracks via Pixabay, and limited fair-use audio clips pulled from the archived productions Bopha! and YizoYizo. This series has been rigorously quality-checked by News24's editors.

Wandile Jasop’s father circled the body in Yende Park three times. He didn’t recognise his own son. Part 2: Shoes is out this Sunday, wherever you get your podcasts. #News24Video #News24 For this story and more, visit News24: https://www.news24.com/multimedia/video

Please note: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. News24 this Sunday brings you The Daveyton Muti Murders, a three-part narrative podcast investigation into the historical Ekurhuleni town’s disturbing history of ritual killings. The saga begins with Jabulani Mntungwa, a 20-year-old aspiring young man who leaves his sleepy hometown of eMkhondo for the bright lights of Gauteng’s East Rand. Reported over nearly six years by News24 broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, with crucial 2025 contributions by video journalists Yolanda Mdzeke and Rosetta Msimango, this limited series draws on exclusive family testimony, on-record whistleblower accounts, National Prosecuting Authority case details, official SAPS correspondence, key security sources and more to piece together what happened, and what didn’t, in this intriguing, dark puzzle. Part 2 ‘Shoes’ comes out Sunday, 30 August, and part 3 ‘Covenant: Pinto’ lands Sunday, 6 September on all of your favourite streaming platforms, YouTube, Spotify, IONO, and Apple. Comment below and send a voice note to broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer: 072 562 3179. This podcast utilises licensed Epidemic Sound tracks, and Creative Commons audio, with special thanks to Shane Ivers for ‘Zebra Township’, via Silverman Sound Studios, ScovinieBeatz for various sampled tracks via Pixabay, and limited fair-use audio clips pulled from the archived productions Bopha! and YizoYizo. This series has been vigorously quality-checked by News24's editors.

News24 this Sunday launches The Daveyton Muti Murders, a three-part narrative podcast investigation into Daveyton's disturbing but brief history of ritual killings. The saga begins with Jabulani Mntungwa, who was 20 years old when his mutilated body was found in Yende Park on 28 August 2017. Reported over five years by News24 broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, with crucial contributions by Yolanda Mdzeke and Rosetta Msimango in 2025, the series draws on exclusive family testimony, on-the-record whistleblower accounts, National Prosecuting Authority case details, and official SAPS correspondence to piece together what happened and what didn't. Episode one, 'Socks', drops this Sunday. Episodes two and three follow on consecutive Sundays. The Daveyton Muti Murders is available on all major podcast platforms. #News24Video #News24 For this story and more, visit News24: https://www.news24.com/multimedia/video

In this edition of The Lead with Graeme Raubenheimer, we assess the immediate aftermath of the June 30th anti-immigration marches with News24’s deputy politics editor, Bongekile Macupe, and Durban journalist, Sakhiseni Nxumalo. Macupe witnessed firsthand how pockets of violence took over the mass demonstration in Johannesburg, while Nxumalo observed a largely peaceful “March and March” led through Durban city centre. National police report this Wednesday that while the vast majority of the around 300 gatherings across Mzansi went off without a hitch, criminals took chances at a handful of places, with 900 people arrested, most of whom undocumented immigrants, and many others cuffed for looting shops. We end off with On This Day in SA History, our regular segment, and it’s the late Botswana president, Sir Seretse Khama’s birthday. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: [email protected]. Full editions drop every week @ 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

With the clock ticking on the 30 June “deadline” set by anti-migrant groups, will peace prevail as marchers take to the streets this Tuesday? With so many foreigners queuing up in Durban and other parts of the country, to somehow find a way home, what happens then when this cutoff comes and goes? We try to make sense of it all with our KwaZulu-Natal-based journalist, Sakhiseni Nxumalo, who witnessed chaos unfold in Pietermaritzburg following a recent anti-migrant march in the city. Later, senior Crime Intelligence official, Feroz Khan, survives an apparent attempt on his life. Finally, on this day in SA history, our regular segment, an apartheid-era opposition coalition was formed in 1977, only to turn out to be an election flop. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: [email protected]. Full editions drop every week @ 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

In a preview for the November municipal polls, the people of Beverly Hills in Evaton in the Vaal municipal district of Emfuleni are voting for a new ward councillor this Wednesday. This outcome may not change much, though, argues roving journalist Ntwagaae Seleka, because the service delivery crisis throughout Emfuleni has only worsened in recent months. Rubbish piles are only getting higher, sewage flooding is only getting deeper, and residents are only getting more fed up. Later in the show, Joburg and Cape Town’s budget rates increases are both firmly in the spotlight. Plus; Madiba arrived on Robben Island for the very first time, with On This Day in SA History. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: [email protected]. Full editions drop on Monday and Wednesday nights at 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.

In this edition, The Lead returns to the Bellville South house of horrors with News24 court and crime journalist, Lisalee Solomons. She reports that 63-year-old Aletta Rose, the murder convict accused of decapitating her Cape Town sister in March, has been giving court and remand prison authorities a headache. Rose, who now wants bail, doesn't like the media's cameras snapping pictures of her, and insists on an Afrikaans-speaking Legal Aid attorney. Later in the show, we recall the late Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's legacy during the Mbeki era, in our regular segment On This Day in SA History. Comment below and send our host, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, a voice note: 072 562 3179. To advertise: [email protected]. Full editions drop on Monday and Wednesday nights at 19:00 on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24's editors.