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Daily briefing

Monday, 28 September 2026

The day across South African talk radio, cited to the broadcast minute.

locl.co.za / briefing / 2026-09-28

Daily briefing

Monday, 28 September 2026

The day across South African talk radio, cited to the broadcast minute.

Morning edition

Morning editionCovers Sun, 27 Sept 05:00 → Mon, 28 Sept 05:00 SAST

Morning edition · 5-minute listen

South African talk radio was dominated on Sunday by twin massacres — 17 dead at a tavern in Wedela near Carltonville and 10 more at a Lwandle entertainment venue — pushing gun control, border porosity and police capacity to the top of every bulletin. Alongside the bloodshed, stations tracked a mounting series of women's bodies in Ekurhuleni, Herman Mashaba's Action SA manifesto launch ahead of November's local government polls, and the SIU's R42.4m clawback in the Tembisa Hospital corruption case. Lighter texture came from Cape Talk's deep-dive on a South African hyperthermia breakthrough for cervical cancer and 702's property-market read on the Reserve Bank's rate hike.

  1. Mass shootings at Wedela tavern and Lwandle venue leave 27 dead

    Every talk station led with the weekend's twin massacres. In Wedela near Carltonville, eight gunmen armed with AK-47s and pistols opened fire inside and outside a tavern, killing 17 and wounding 15, with police now treating robbery as the motive and probing links to illegal mining and a shooting at the same venue last month. Hours later in Lwandle in the Western Cape, 10 were killed and 11 wounded at an entertainment venue. President Ramaphosa ordered security forces to work around the clock, while Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi visited Wedela and called for more soldiers on the West Rand.

    Heard on Power FM · 18:00 SASTAsk locl about this: Mass shootings at Wedela tavern and Lwandle venue leave 27 dead, heard on Power FM

  2. Ekurhuleni women's bodies: 11th victim found as GBV inquiry looms

    Stations tracked the discovery of an 11th woman's body in Springs, bringing to 12 the number of women's bodies found across Gauteng since July, with a suspect arrested while asleep at his room in Tembisa in connection with the murder of Ntombifuthi Khumalo. Presenters questioned whether a serial killer is at work and whether investigating stations are sharing intelligence. Three Chapter 9 institutions — the Commission for Gender Equality, the SAHRC and the CRL Rights Commission — announced a five-day national inquiry into how the justice system responds to GBV and femicide, framed as holding duty bearers to account.

    Heard on 702 · 02:02 SASTAsk locl about this: Ekurhuleni women's bodies: 11th victim found as GBV inquiry looms, heard on 702

  3. Mashaba's Action SA manifesto and the local government election battle

    Herman Mashaba's Jozi City Hall manifesto launch dominated political coverage ahead of the November municipal polls, with Action SA declaring war on broken promises, corruption and incompetence and pledging to base municipal appointments on qualifications rather than patronage. Power FM's panel pushed back hard, warning that any '90-day' turnaround promise runs into the reality that municipal budgets, human resources and authorised expenditure are already locked in, and that spending outside those frameworks would simply generate more unauthorised and fruitless expenditure. Analysts also flagged the plurality of parties contesting the many hung councils left over from 2021.

    Heard on Power FM · 04:54 SASTAsk locl about this: Mashaba's Action SA manifesto and the local government election battle, heard on Power FM

  4. Springboks reshuffle for Wallabies Test as Esterhuizen takes captaincy

    Cape Talk's EWN Sport bulletin carried the Springbok team news ahead of the international showdown against the Wallabies in Australia, with Rassie Erasmus making 13 changes to the side that last faced the All Blacks. Versatile back Andre Esterhuizen was handed the captaincy for the Test, signalling a wholesale experiment in combinations from the coaching group. The reshuffle framed the day's rugby chatter across weekend breakfast, alongside a lighter panel moment on 702 where listeners tried to name which Springbok legend — ultimately Chester Williams — was being celebrated as a Cape Town classic.

    Heard on Cape Talk · 09:33 SASTAsk locl about this: Springboks reshuffle for Wallabies Test as Esterhuizen takes captaincy, heard on Cape Talk

  5. South African hyperthermia trial doubles cervical cancer survival

    Cape Talk devoted an extended segment to Dr Carrie Minnaar of the HEAT Foundation on a local clinical trial using modulated electro-hyperthermia — gently heating tumour tissue to make cancer cells more responsive to chemo and radiation. In a study of 210 women, adding hyperthermia to standard treatment more than doubled five-year disease-free survival, and importantly proved safe in both HIV-positive and negative patients. With cervical cancer diagnosing 11–12,000 South African women a year and killing around 6,000, presenters framed it as a disease of inequity where an affordable local technique could shift outcomes inside the public health system.

    Heard on Cape Talk · 02:34 SASTAsk locl about this: South African hyperthermia trial doubles cervical cancer survival, heard on Cape Talk

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