RC 261008702Aubrey Masango
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Anti-immigration protests turned violent in Soweto and Durban after a Constitutional Court asylum ruling, with torched cars and looted spaza shops dominating the broadcast.
- 20:01
Violent protests against illegal immigration left at least 14 cars torched and several shops looted in Durban's CBD, and no arrests had been made by the time of reporting.
- 21:02
The Constitutional Court ruled that lacking a transit visa does not, on its own, stop an asylum seeker accessing the asylum determination process; residents blame this ruling for the protests.
- 21:04
Judge President Ledwaba has convened a full bench to settle whether undocumented asylum seekers can be detained at Lindela, and has imposed a moratorium on related applications until 29 October.
- 20:04
Police arrested five South African men aged 25 to 45 at a multi-million rand Mandrax lab in Krugersdorp, part of 30 arrests across 11 drug labs, though analysts say kingpins are harder to pin down.