RC 260930702Joanne Joseph
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
The episode focused on South Africa’s gender-based violence crisis, exposing forensic DNA backlogs while examining policing, social attitudes and President Ramaphosa’s proposed interventions.
- 17:22
DNA for Africa’s Vanessa Lynch said forensic backlogs are largely avoidable: laboratories lack awarded tenders for consumables and maintenance, forcing short-term contracts capped at R1 million every 12 weeks.
- 17:19
President Ramaphosa directed police and forensic authorities to produce a funded plan within 60 days, ring-fencing rape and murder cases and publishing quarterly progress on turnaround standards.
- 16:22
The Madlanga Commission heard allegations that taxi boss Joe Sibanyoni sought a 30% stake in Putco, shared an internal police document and benefited from police-linked relationships; he denied wrongdoing.
- 15:57
Wits University is investing R341 million over five years in a Bramfontein cultural precinct combining theatres, music, fine arts, film, digital arts and public pedestrian spaces.
- 15:29
A demarche to US ambassador Leo Brent Bozil III was explained as a formal diplomatic complaint, signalling deteriorating relations but not an imminent expulsion or break in ties.