{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Maverick","slug":"daily-maverick-7095670","podcast_index_feed_id":7095670,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/v9bQiEYF","website_url":"https://dailymaverick.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3bec838f-f991-4931-b05e-5de58c21103e/e9da61b8-6a21-4980-9681-d37797013724/3000x3000/podcast-20tile-20-20daily-20maverick-20v4.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Daily Maverick","episode_count":89,"summary":"Know more. Know better.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T04:20:52.396142+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670"},"episode":{"title":"From Real Housewives fame to real ‘shoplifting’ arrest infamy","slug":"from-real-housewives-fame-to-real-shoplifting-arrest-infamy","published_at":"2026-03-30T10:41:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670/from-real-housewives-fame-to-real-shoplifting-arrest-infamy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670","url":"https://dailymaverick.simplecast.com/episodes/from-real-housewives-fame-to-real-shoplifting-arrest-infamy-UCjbYVxw","audio_url":"https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/c001af6d-0aa9-4451-ac6a-f1c4cf6202e2/episodes/533c31e2-e836-4cf7-9e98-1b65c0c62e89/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=c001af6d-0aa9-4451-ac6a-f1c4cf6202e2&awEpisodeId=533c31e2-e836-4cf7-9e98-1b65c0c62e89&feed=v9bQiEYF","summary":"South African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen revelled in the limelight. Melany featured on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Pretoria. And Viljoen styled himself as a legal eagle. But all wasn’t as it seemed. The couple perpetuated the lie that there is a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, with Afrikaners being violently targeted. So they moved to the US, where they were arrested on shoplifting charges. Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley explains.","meta_description":"South African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen revelled in the limelight. Melany featured on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Pretoria. And Viljoe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":265,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-maverick-7095670/episodes/from-real-housewives-fame-to-real-shoplifting-arrest-infamy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670/from-real-housewives-fame-to-real-shoplifting-arrest-infamy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}