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Turnaround: Education Minister Angie Motshekga expresses her delight at the Eastern Cape’s improved matric results. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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PODCAST: De Bijbel

In this Sound Africa podcast, Candice Nolan tries to find the answers she is looking for by looking in an old bible

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PODCAST: Examining Dr Death

How did a man who headed the apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare program Project Coast manage to stay in business in post-apartheid SA?

This Sound Africa podcast investigates the persistent rumour that a black man named Hamilton Naki played a much bigger role in the first heart transplant surgery than he is given credit for. (Image: Sound Africa)

PODCAST: The heart problem

The first ever heart transplant in the world was performed in South Africa in 1967. But did Dr Christiaan Barnard deserve all the credit?

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PODCAST: He ran all the way

This is the story of a man and his mother, set in the transition years between the old and the new South Africa

Although critics accuse private schools of perpetuating inequality
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PODCAST: Bad blood in Graceland

In this Sound Africa podcast Lungile Sojini revisits the story of the Graceland album

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PODCAST: Bowie the poet

I​n this episode we meet Anthero Bowie, a former gang member who is out of prison and trying to reinvent himself as a poet

Bongani Dyalivana’s is a story of loss
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PODCAST: Brother, this is Cape Town

Bongani Dyalivana’s is a story of loss, of growing up in a gang and then in jail. Of finding oneself and trying to break a new path.

This story is about the small town of Matjiesfontein in the Karoo. It is a story where the desert wind blows
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PODCAST: The Ghost

In this series SoundAfrica takes another look at stories from the past that linger in the back of our minds, continuing to effect us

​When apartheid ended
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PODCAST: Freedom for sale

This is the second episode in the new Sound Africa series “Re-visits.”

Third force: President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid to run for a third term in defiance of the country’s Constitution has provoked widespread anger and protests in Burundi and uncertainty in the region.
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PODCAST: Aunty Patty’s garden

When the coloured population of Simon’s Town was forcibly removed, Aunty Patty’s family remained