The Daveyton Muti Murders — Part 1: ‘Socks’
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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.
Chapters
- 00:00 Content Warning & Cold Open
- 00:50 Introducing The Daveyton Muti Murders
- 01:45 Jabulani — The Young Man Who Loved to Dance
- 02:30 Excelling at School in Piet Retief
- 03:20 The Loss of His Mother
- 04:40 Green Pastures — The Move to Daveyton
- 06:00 Daveyton — A Community with History
- 08:30 Brian Dubazana — A Local Tour Guide
- 09:30 At Home with Ndeni
- 10:30 Jabulani Finds His Feet — and His Friends
- 11:45 The Last Weekend — August 2017
- 13:00 Ronni's Account
- 14:10 Monday Morning
- 15:10 'Something Happened in the Park'
- 16:00 The Discovery in Yende Park
- 17:20 The Socks
- 18:10 What the NPA Found
- 19:10 The Community Reacts — Sydney Jasop
- 19:55 Understanding Muti — Mpho Mpedi
- 20:40 At the Police Station — 'Go to the Sangoma'
- 21:20 John's Account
- 21:55 The Men of Interest
- 22:40 The Alleged Confession — Mthwakazi
- 23:10 The Investigation Goes Cold
