Top Society & Culture Podcasts in South Africa

The latest Apple Podcasts Society & Culture chart for South Africa, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked November 7, 2026.

1

Because We Said So

Zama Marubelela; Landiwe Gama

2

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah

3

The Gareth Cliff Show

The Gareth Cliff Show

4

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

5

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

6

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

7

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

8

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

9

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan

10

The Oprah Podcast

Harpo

11

Shameless

Shameless Media

12

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

13

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

14

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

15

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

16

Khloé in Wonder Land

Khloé Kardashian

17

This American Life

This American Life

18

World of Secrets

BBC

19

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

20

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

21

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Spotify Studios

22

TED Talks Daily

TED

23

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

24

Mamamia Out Loud

Mamamia Podcasts

25

Desert Island Discs

BBC Radio 4

26

On with Kara Swisher

Vox Media

27

Scamfluencers

Audible Original

28

Radio Rental

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

29

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah and Eckhart Tolle

30

That Husband Podcast

That Husband Podcast

31

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

32

So Supernatural

Audiochuck | Crime House

33

I've Had It

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan

34

Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories

Mark B

35

Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast

TMG Studios

36

The Girls Bathroom

Sophia & Cinzia

37

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

38

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

39

Dear Hank & John

Complexly

40

Woman's Hour

BBC Radio 4

41

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

42

What It Was Like

Superreal

43

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

44

Life Uncut

LiSTNR

45

Alan Watts Being in the Way

Be Here Now Network / Love Serve Remember Foundation

46

No Filter

Mamamia Podcasts

47

Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts

Woman Evolve | Daylight Media

48

Wartime Stories

Unknown

49

Unexplained Encounters

Eeriecast Network

50

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

51

Modern Love

The New York Times

52

Against The Odds

Audible Original

53

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

54

Cults to Consciousness

Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales

55

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

MK Media

56

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

57

Front Row

BBC Radio 4

58

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

59

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby | Daylight Media

60

The Viall Files

Nick Viall

61

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

62

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

CNN Podcasts

63

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

64

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

65

People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

66

To My Sisters

Courtney Daniella Jesse & Renée Imafidon

67

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

68

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.

69

SWEET NOTHINGS POD

Armani and Landi

70

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

71

Two Girls One Ghost

Sony Music Entertainment

72

The LRB Podcast

The London Review of Books

73

The Spill

Mamamia Podcasts

74

Pretty Basic with Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz

Dear Media

75

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

76

Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC

Andy Stumpf

77

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

78

Family Secrets

Family Secrets

79

Conversations

ABC Australia

80

The Feeling Station

The Feeling Station

81

The Receipts Podcast

The Receipts Media LTD

82

What We Said

Dear Media

83

I Said What I Said

The Carousel Network

84

KLETS

Afrikaans.Radio

85

Origin Story

Podmasters

86

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

87

Artists at Work

BBC World Service

88

I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?

BBC Sounds

89

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

90

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

91

Seated With Lebo and Thato Rampedi

Africa Podcast Network

92

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Daily Wire

93

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

94

The Jamie & Donna Winship Podcast

Identity Exchange

95

CreepCast

Wendigoon & MeatCanyon

96

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service

97

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

98

The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant

Vox Media Podcast Network

99

That's The Point

Jon Volk and Kristin Johns

100

Casey Zander

Casey Zander

101

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment

102

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

103

Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

Headgum & Nicole Byer

104

Things Fell Apart

BBC Radio 4

105

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.

106

Wednesdays

JamPot Productions

107

Poetic With Reneilwe

Reneilwe Moeng

108

Klankgolwe: Weg! Stories

Netwerk24 Klankgolwe

109

The Lila Rose Show

Lila Rose

110

The Anele Podcast

Anele Mdoda

111

We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson

WNTT

112

The Art of Manliness

The Art of Manliness

113

947 Drive with Thando

Primedia Broadcasting

114

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

115

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

116

ReThinking

TED

117

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

118

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

119

The Winston Marshall Show

Winston Marshall

120

Data Over Dogma

Daniel McClellan and Daniel Beecher

121

More or Less

BBC Radio 4

122

So This Is Love

Julia Gaitho

123

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

124

Focus on the Family Daily

Focus on the Family Africa

125

Women of Impact

Impact Theory

126

Naked Lunch

Phil Rosenthal, David Wild, and Straw Hut Media

127

Dear Future Wifey

Laterras R. Whitfield

128

Stories From The Stage

GBH

129

True Crime News: The Podcast

True Crime News

130

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

131

Jaxx Of All Trades

Jaxx Amahle

132

Otherworld

Otherworld

133

Witness History

BBC World Service

134

The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster

Dear Media | Wishbone Production

135

Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

iHeartPodcasts

136

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

137

Not Loveline

Tana Mongeau and Trish Paytas

138

Dear Future Husband

Christian Bevere

139

The Affair…with Anna Williamson

The Affair…with Anna Williamson

140

Ratchet & Respectable

Demetria L. Lucas

141

The Sneak Diss Sneaker Podcast

Sneaker Discussion, Bleav

142

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

143

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe

144

The Next Level Living Podcast With Jeremy Anderson

The Resonance Network

145

Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen

Network One Digital

146

The Dating Detectives

Dear Media

147

Happy Hour with Lucy & Nikki

Lucy & Nikki

148

The Delingpod: The James Delingpole Podcast

James Delingpole

149

Brand Safe

Tana Mongeau

150

Meditative Story

WaitWhat

151

Against the Rules: Blockers Companion Podcast

Pushkin Industries

152

Heart of Dating

That Sounds Fun Network

153

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

154

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

155

Love Life With Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

156

Free The Rabbits

Joel Thomas

157

Timcast IRL

Timcast Media

158

Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

Dr. Juli Slattery and Authentic Intimacy®

159

Listen & Laugh with Ice Cube and Mike Epps

BlueJay Partners

160

Letter from America: The Clinton Years (1993-1996)

BBC Radio 4

161

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

162

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

163

It’s a Girl Thing

Ebony and Lucie

164

Citation Needed

Citation Needed Media

165

THE MORNING SHIFT

THE PEOPLES MEDIA CO.

166

everybody has a secret

Shameless Media

167

AfterDark Reddits

AfterDark reddits

168

Pretty Lonesome with Madeline Argy

Unwell

169

Vogue & Amber

Global

170

Uncut and Uncensored with Caroline Stanbury

Caroline Stanbury

171

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

172

Ghosteas

Ghosteas

173

Get a Grip Podcast

Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes

174

It's Me, Tinx

Tinx

175

It's Been a Minute

NPR

176

The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud

Do Good Crew

177

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

178

Redditor

Redditor

179

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

180

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

181

Women and Mythology

Maria Souza

182

Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast

Audacy

183

Critics at Large | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

184

Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage

Focus on the Family

185

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

186

Girls Next Level

Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt

187

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

188

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

189

It Aint for Sissies

itaintforsissies

190

The Builders

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

191

Lemme Say This

Higher Ground

192

Humans

Hank Green

193

Directed Life with Kap Chatfield

Kap Chatfield

194

The Jack Carr Channel

Jack Carr

195

Dear Shandy

Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine

196

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

197

A Slight Change of Plans

Pushkin Industries

198

The Sam Sanders Show

KCRW & Sam Sanders

199

African Photography Safaris Podcast

African Photography Safaris

200

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

201

Big Feelings with Brooke Schofield

Brooke Schofield

202

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

203

Vibe Check

Zach Stafford, Saeed Jones

204

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura

205

The Relebogile Mabotja Podcast

Relebogile Mabotja

206

40ish | The Funny Podcast on Perimenopause, Menopause & Midlife

Lauren Mishcon & Nicole Goodman - Menopause Humor & Midlife Conversations

207

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

208

Code Switch

NPR

209

U Up?

Betches Media

210

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

211

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

212

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox

213

Deux U

Deuxmoi | Daylight Media

214

The Travel Diaries

Holly Rubenstein

215

Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

216

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

217

The Dark Paranormal

The Dark Paranormal

218

LYSS

Lyss Boss

219

The Brett Cooper Show

Brett Cooper

220

Rise Above with Kevin Lanning

Kevin Lanning

221

Gypsy Tales

Jase Macalpine

222

Jerm Warfare

Jerm

223

Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley

PodcastOne

224

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

225

Ideas

CBC

226

Happy Hour with Ina Garten

Vox Media

227

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

228

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Persephonica

229

rSpace Cheating Stories

rSpace

230

Forbidden Knowledge News

Forbidden Knowledge Network

231

The Mishal Husain Show

Bloomberg

232

The Jeremy Boreing Show

Boreing Media

233

Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Prufrock LLC

234

Match Made in Manhattan

Katy Bellotte, Colbie Cassidy & Adam Harrison

235

What's the Reality?

And Love Media

236

Inheritance

BBC World Service

237

Keep it Positive, Sweetie

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

238

Mad About You

Nova Podcasts

239

Rattled & Shook

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

240

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010

BBC Radio 4

241

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

242

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

243

Comments by Celebs

Dear Media

244

Good Grief with Amanda Kloots

Dear Media

245

Emotionally Online

Maddie Dragsbaek

246

Pop Apologists

PodcastOne

247

Dusty Thunder

Dusty Thunder

248

The Biblical Mind

Center For Hebraic Thought

249

Diabolical Lies

Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke

250

The TLS Podcast

The TLS

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