In this short podcast series, we follow Sunday Times top investigative journalists as they cover the real stories that make-up SA’s national headlines.
Boots on the ground is a true piece of mobile journalism — all interviews, voices and sound effects have been gathered using nothing but smartphones.
Boots on the ground is a production of MultimediaLIVE, a division of Arena Holdings.
PLEASE NOTE: This podcast may contain explicit and sensitive content. Listener discretion is advised.
#Investigation, #Police, #SocialJustice, #Crime, #ServiceDelivery
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In this short podcast series, we follow Sunday Times top investigative journalists as they cover the real stories that make-up SA’s national headlines.
Boots on the ground is a true piece of mobile journalism — all interviews, voices and sound effects have been gathered using nothing but smartphones.
Boots on the ground is a production of MultimediaLIVE, a division of Arena Holdings.
PLEASE NOTE: This podcast may contain explicit and sensitive content. Listener discretion is advised.
#Investigation, #Police, #SocialJustice, #Crime, #ServiceDelivery
Grace Rohan cannot understand why at seven years old she no longer has a daddy while her mother, who is in her 40s, still has hers.The grade 2 pupil from Durban and her 18-year-old brother, Daniel, are mourning their father, José, who died of Covid-19 in February, a month after he turned 51.About 1,600km away in Langa, Cape Town, Sindiswa Lugulwana, 70, asks God to grant her a long life. She cares for three orphaned grandchildren whose single-parent mothers - twin sisters Phumla and Phumeza - both died of Covid-19 in January at the age of 45.And in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, Dewald Badenhorst, 14, is mourning the death of his father and his stepmother, who died days apart in January. He is being cared for by his brother, Billy, 24.Today on Boot’s on the Ground: behind South Africa’s national headlines, we are going to listen to the stories of those who the pandemic has left orphaned. We are going to take a moment to remember the person they have lost and to mourn with them.
Boots on the ground
In this short podcast series, we follow Sunday Times top investigative journalists as they cover the real stories that make-up SA’s national headlines.
Boots on the ground is a true piece of mobile journalism — all interviews, voices and sound effects have been gathered using nothing but smartphones.
Boots on the ground is a production of MultimediaLIVE, a division of Arena Holdings.
PLEASE NOTE: This podcast may contain explicit and sensitive content. Listener discretion is advised.
#Investigation, #Police, #SocialJustice, #Crime, #ServiceDelivery
