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Welcome to The Lead, a new weekly podcast from News24, South Africa's most trusted news brand as awarded by the Reuters Institute, 2019 - 2024). Every week, journalists from our newsroom are interviewed, about a story that dominated headlines.
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The Daveyton Muti Murders Finale (opens the original)
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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 h
The Daveyton Muti Murders Part 2 (opens the original)
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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 l
The Daveyton Muti Murders Part 1 (opens the original)
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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 contribut
TRAILER: The Daveyton Muti Murders - a News24 narrative podcast investigation (opens the original)
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News24 this Sunday, 23 August, 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 Mdz
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