RC 261110702Azania Mosaka
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Unemployment rose to 33.7% in the third quarter, while alleged crime boss Vusumuzi Matlala's Madlanga Commission testimony about money paid to a former police official dominated the afternoon.
- 13:02
Unemployment rose 0.1 points to 33.7% in the third quarter, with 97,000 more people out of work, bringing the total to 8.6 million. Discouraged job seekers rose 70,000 to 3.7 million.
- 13:32
Alleged crime kingpin Vusumuzi Matlala told the Madlanga Commission he handed R500,000 to former deputy police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya in the basement of the State Theatre in Pretoria, allegedly toward a wedding.
- 13:03
Matlala alleges investigators pushed him to accept an eight-year plea deal in the R228 million Medicare24 contract case, a deal the court rejected, and that the proposed sentence later rose to 12 years.
- 13:04
The NPA confirmed suspended IDAC investigator Dylan Perimal fell ill and is in hospital, denying reports he attempted suicide and warning against false information. He was also hospitalised in July.
- 13:05
A High Court employee has accused Judge Belinda Hartle of repeatedly swearing at him and using the K-word during a 2020 incident at her office, and concluded his evidence before the Sandton tribunal.