A workforce on site at Oya – now at the centre of claims of visa violations, worker deaths and serious misconduct.

A global Chinese construction giant and its staff overseeing a gargantuan wind and solar farm in the Karoo are facing mounting allegations of not only breaches of health and safety regulations, but also environmental violations and even sexual harassment.

Specialist climate journalist Ethan van Diemen has spent many months investigating the tsunami of claims swirling around Sinohydro's Oya Hybrid Energy Project outside Sutherland in the Northern Cape.

This is not a conversation to miss.

First, though, let broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer bring you the news that President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed the police's chief financial officer, Puleng Dimpane, as acting national commissioner, in charge of our men and women in blue.

Later, in our regular segment, On This Day in SA History, the late former AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche was sentenced to prison for trying to kill a black worker.

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