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Sunday, 11 October 2026
Mostly music on Soulful Sundays with Pushaza Sibiya, but the news bulletins carried a gang shooting in Athlone, a court push over the asylum ruling, and a withdrawn state enterprises bill.
- 17:00
Government will ask the courts for a supervisory order on implementing the Constitutional Court asylum ruling, the Justice Minister says, after violent protests in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
- 14:00
Two people were shot dead and another wounded in Belgravia, Athlone, after police found a man and a 65-year-old woman with fatal gunshot wounds. Police believe the attack is gang-related and no arrests have been made.
- 16:01
Government has withdrawn the National State Enterprises Bill, which would have created a central holding company for Eskom, Transnet and SAA, after resistance from the DA and IFP.
- 14:01
More than 200 shacks were destroyed by fire in an informal settlement, the sixth fire this year, firefighters estimate, with double-storey shacks blamed for the rapid spread.
- 17:02
Parliament's health committee wants proof the NHI advertising tender followed the law, after media reports that HIV, TB and GP contracting funds were diverted; the department says that's inaccurate.