RC 261025702Gugs Mhlungu
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Tshwane's water crisis and the DA's surge in internal polling dominated the Sunday papers on this Weekend Breakfast, with fresh questions about SAA's cash position also raised.
- 07:14
Tshwane's mayor conceded the city failed to implement its own remedial plan for the troubled water plant, as the department opened a criminal complaint and the Public Protector and Human Rights Commission launched probes.
- 09:10
Parliament's finance committee has demanded an urgent report by 30 October on SAA's financial and cash position, after staff were told salaries would be staggered this month.
- 07:20
A News24 report on the DA's internal polling, which the party would not confirm, puts it at 28.4% nationally against the ANC's 29.4%, its closest showing yet.
- 07:16
ANC veteran Frank Chikane has barely campaigned in Johannesburg because the party has not confirmed his mayoral candidacy in writing or given him an undertaking.