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Cyril Ramaphosa delivers first speech as ANC president

Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his first speech as ANC president at the close of the ANC's 54th National Elective Conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg on Wednesday night.

20 Dec 2017 6PM 46 min

Ray Hartley talks Ramaphosa as ANC leader

It wasn't a landslide and it wasn't without contestation but the former deputy president of the ANC and South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa was narrowly voted into the leadership position on Monday at the 54th ANC conference at Nasrec. While many members of the public and the markets breathed a sigh…

20 Dec 2017 10AM 13 min

Gwede Mantashe's last presser as ANC secretary general

Outgoing ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe, in his last address to the media on Monday said "dirty tricks" plagued the run-up to the party's elective conference‚ currently under way near Soweto. Listen to the full press conference. Mantashe likened the ANC leadership race to the succession battle in the Nationalist…

18 Dec 2017 6AM 50 min

Jacob Zuma's speech - ANC Elective Conference

ANC president Jacob Zuma addressed delegates at the party's 54th national conference taking place at Nasrec, Johannesburg, Saturday 16th December, 2017.

16 Dec 2017 12PM 1 hr 57 min

Shebeens are at the root of crime in Marikana, says community member

Vigilantes are believed to be behind the 11 killings that rocked a Cape Town community on Friday night, 29 September. Police said they were investigating whether the killings in Marikana‚ east of Cape Town International Airport‚ were linked to seven murders— also being treated as the work of vigilantes —…

30 Sep 2017 6AM 1 min

STOLEN #3: Moving the #GuptaEmails story from darkness to light

In the third episode of our Stolen podcast, we talk to senior investigative journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika along with deputy Sunday Times editor Sthembiso Msomi about what it takes to be an investigative journalist and why it’s better to bring a knife to a fight with a lion, rather than…

20 Aug 2017 8AM 21 min

Dr Taryn Kong - bringing social learning to the area

“Can we bring social learning to the rest of the Olifants River Catchment?” – Dr Taryn Kong Part of an Oxpeckers & ScienceLink investigation for #ClimaTracker

18 Aug 2017 4AM 1 min

Prof Agnes Musyoki - developing flood risk indicators

How we developed flood risk indicators for Maruleng Part of an Oxpeckers & ScienceLink investigation for #ClimaTracker

18 Aug 2017 4AM 1 min

Prof Agnes Musyoki - addressing climate change vulnerability

“Bottom up is best to address climate change vulnerability” – Prof Agnes Musyoki Part of an Oxpeckers & ScienceLink investigation for #ClimaTracker

18 Aug 2017 4AM 1 min

STOLEN #2: Journalists take you inside their #GuptaEmails story

In this second episode of Stolen, journalists share their concerns and fears that despite all their hard work in uncovering proof of political influence, tax evasion, and corruption that the tentacles of state capture reach so far and are so strong that those implicated will still get away with it.

14 Aug 2017 2AM 22 min

STOLEN #1: Editors go inside the #GuptaEmails story

In our first episode of our three-part podcast, Stolen, we take the listener inside our newsroom and talk to the editors of the Sunday Times and The Times about how they approached the roughly 200,000 emails detailing the underpinnings of a national disaster.

7 Aug 2017 1AM 26 min