RC 260920702Kenny Maistry
Sunday, 20 September 2026
A music-led Sunday was overshadowed by grief and outrage over women and children killed in South Africa, with listeners calling for justice, action and hope.
- 13:00
Nine women’s bodies were discovered in Ekurhuleni; Elizabeth Tonso Musilakomu’s family remembered how she raised her siblings, while her eight-year-old daughter mourned her mother.
- 12:01
Octavia Swart, 10, was found dead near a Cape Town dam; her 14-year-old cousin faces murder charges and is due back in court for bail.
- 12:02
A South African man arriving from Ghana was arrested at OR Tambo with heroin worth more than R2 million, the third suspected drug mule intercepted there in 21 days.
- 13:01
South Africans were urged to move beyond sympathy over gender-based violence, with Cape Town solidarity runs and memorial events planned to demand safer communities and collective action.
- 13:04
Mamelodi Sundowns won the FIFA African-Asian-Pacific Cup, beating Al Ahly 2-1 at Loftus, while South Africa’s women completed a historic 5-0 T20 series whitewash in Zimbabwe.