News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Families desperate as 17 SA men remain stuck in Russian conflict

Conned into combat: 17 men’s families are disappointed with the MK Party.

A resignation from Parliament.

Charges and counter-charges filed.

Denials and disappointment.

And still, nothing right now can return 17 men to South Africa who were unknowingly deployed to the frontlines of the Russia-Ukraine war.

We get the latest from the man who broke the MK Party and Russian military saga, Iavan Pijoos, in our latest edition of The Lead.

Later, in our trending topic, the Boks have been thrown in a fairly easy pool for the 2027 Rugby World Cup.

Finally, Dr Christiaan Barnard made human heart transplant history on this day in 1967 at the end of the show.

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