EPISODE · Mar 3, 2026 · 22 MIN
Arrests as HIV funds wasted on probing health ministry whistleblower
from The Lead · host News24
Senior health department officials are facing the music for allegedly siphoning off around R1 million from the Global Fund, which is meant to assist in fighting HIV, TB and malaria, all to pay a so-called independent investigator to try and discipline an internal corruption whistleblower. Let our investigative journalist, Azarrah Karrim, fill in the blanks for you in this edition.In our trending topic, the so-called Facebook Rapist, Thabo Bester, will stay put in a supermax prison in KwaZulu-Natal. Finally, the apartheid SABC unbanned The Beatles, as part of 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 Spotify, Apple, and YouTube Monday through Thursday at 19:00. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24’s editors.
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Senior health department officials are facing the music for allegedly siphoning off around R1 million from the Global Fund, which is meant to assist in fighting HIV, TB and malaria, all to pay a so-called independent investigator to try and discipline an internal corruption whistleblower. Let our investigative journalist, Azarrah Karrim, fill in the blanks for you in this edition.In our trending topic, the so-called Facebook Rapist, Thabo Bester, will stay put in a supermax prison in KwaZulu-Natal. Finally, the apartheid SABC unbanned The Beatles, as part of 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 Spotify, Apple, and YouTube Monday through Thursday at 19:00. The show is fully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer and quality-checked by News24’s editors.
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