Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Brief brings you the stories setting the agenda at the Sunday Times.

This week, Sunday Times editor Makhadu Sefara, senior investigations journalist Sipho Masondo, digital politics editor Lizeka Tandwa and sports editor Bareng-Batho Kortjaas (BBK) unpack the big stories making headlines.

In this episode:

• Free State housing disaster: How three troubled housing projects have seen costs soar by more than R700 million, with unfinished and vandalised developments still leaving communities waiting for homes.

• ANC’s Gauteng ‘megacity’ plan: Lizeka Tandwa discusses the ANC’s proposal to rethink local government, including the possibility of bringing Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into a more integrated Gauteng city region.

• Springboks vs All Blacks: BBK breaks down South Africa’s 33-16 defeat to New Zealand at Ellis Park and what went wrong for the Boks after dominating much of the opening 55 minutes.

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