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Monday, 5 October 2026
Early Breakfast focused on South Africa’s public safety crisis, accountability failures, rising living costs and proposed regulation of Cape Town’s short-term rentals.
- 05:55
Criminologist Chris Kanyani blamed mass shootings on weak intelligence, illegal firearms, organised crime and corruption within the criminal justice system, calling for ethics, lifestyle audits and stronger accountability.
- 05:23
The Special Tribunal rejected Pule Mabe’s bid to delay civil recovery proceedings, allowing the SIU to pursue assets linked to an allegedly irregular R27-million waste-vehicle tender.
- 04:54
Cape Town’s proposed Airbnb bylaw would require registration and availability data, with commercial property rates applying above 50% annual availability; owners could face rates around 2.5 times higher.
- 04:40
Sandiso Shalapi’s Revive Shoe Drive aims to collect 500 clean, usable running-shoe pairs for township communities and mental-health activities across five Cape Town townships on 10 October.
- 05:30
Residents of Poane village in Limpopo reportedly walk almost two kilometres to collect discoloured water from a puddle because communal taps have been dry for more than a decade.