South Africa has stories. Strange ones. Dark ones. The kind where the facts are stranger than anything you'd make up. Every episode, one of us researches and narrates a tale of true crime, conspiracy, or mystery, while the other hears it for the very first time. Then next episode, we switch. No sugar-coating. No victim-blaming. Just the full story, told honestly, with the occasional South African "eish."
Eish, That's Dark
Claim This Podcastby Jessica Bawden and Lizanne De Lange
12 episodes
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Podcast Overview
South Africa has stories. Strange ones. Dark ones. The kind where the facts are stranger than anything you'd make up. Every episode, one of us researches and narrates a tale of true crime, conspiracy, or mystery, while the other hears it for the very first time. Then next episode, we switch. No sugar-coating. No victim-blaming. Just the full story, told honestly, with the occasional South African "eish."
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July 6, 2026
Daisy de Melker - Part 1
<p>Daisy de Melker was a Johannesburg nurse who married three times between 1909 and 1931. Two of her husbands died years apart, and so did her own son, all in circumstances nobody thought to question until it was far too late. </p><p><br /></p><p>The case unravelled over a fake cat, a poison register signed under a dead man's surname, and a Turffontein pharmacist who recognised her face in the newspaper. What followed was a thirty-day trial that packed the Johannesburg Supreme Court, made headlines as far away as London and Shanghai, and ended with one of the most talked-about verdicts in South African legal history. </p><p><br /></p><p>In Part One, Jess and Liz cover Daisy's upbringing, all three marriages, the deaths, the exhumations, and the trial itself, start to finish. Part Two picks up with what happened after she was gone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Stay safe and stay skeptical.</p>
June 29, 2026
Law & Order: Specific Definitions Unit
<p>How does crime and punishment actually work in South Africa? This is the episode that decodes it.</p><p><br /></p><p>We walk through the criminal landscape from the ground up: the difference between common-law and statutory crimes, why there are no jury trials, how the death penalty was abolished in 1995, and what "life imprisonment" genuinely means. Then some curveballs, like being convicted of murder without intending anyone's death.</p><p><br /></p><p>We tie it to the cases that defined the headlines and the legal facts that'll stick with you long after the episode ends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Content note: this episode discusses violent crime, sexual offences and gender-based violence. </p><p><br /></p><p>GBV resources: @womenforchange.sa</p>
June 22, 2026
The Tokoloshe and Friends
<p>Every culture has monster stories, but the best ones are never just monster stories.</p><p><br /></p><p>This week we go deep into five of South Africa's most feared mythological creatures: the Tokoloshe, Pinky Pinky, the Grootslang, the Aigamuxa, and the Inkanyamba. We cover the full mythology of each one, what they look like, what they're said to do, and where the legends actually come from. But the real question we're chasing is why. Why does a creature that attacks sleeping people coincide almost exactly with the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Why did a monster in the girls' toilets spread through South African schools faster than almost any urban legend on record. Why does a giant serpent guard diamonds in a desert that colonial prospectors spent decades trying to strip bare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these stories were warning systems. Some were the only language available for things that couldn't otherwise be said. All of them are still being told.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stay safe and stay skeptical.</p>
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