News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: From Iran’s navy with love. What’s next? With Carol Paton

Iranian Bayandor-class corvette IRIS Naghdi (Hull 82) leaves Simonstown harbour during the Will for Peace naval exercise hosted by South Africa on Tuesday, 13 January.

From Iran with love…

Who, in South Africa’s signal of command, didn’t get the memo or ignore the president’s order to tell the Iranian navy to pull out of the recent BRICS war games off the False Bay coastline?

The defence minister hopes a board of inquiry will provide answers soon, but News24’s specialist journalist, Carol Paton, says that ship hasn’t left the dock yet.

Later, in our trending topic, the Reserve Bank Governor has revealed that he thinks that pesky prime lending rate should be scrapped.

Finally, we recall the country’s worst mining disaster, with On This Day in SA History, heard later.
BONUS: Try to crack Rauby’s Pointless Braai Quiz!

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